-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 638 =-

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Previous’ week Winners are:Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (95)
- Intermediate: @Daz40 (85)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Daz40 (95)
- Advanced: @Mikson (89)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (94.85)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (92)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (84)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (96)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (98.65)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (98)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Vodka (94)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99.72)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (88.8)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!
This week’s songs are:
Lead Path:
Beginner: Lasso/Sebastián Yatra - Ojos Marrones (3*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Maná - Si no te hubieras ido (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Advanced: Cristian Castro - Azul (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: Oscar Maydon - Tu Boda (6.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Eslabon Armado - Ella Baila Sola (ft. Peso Pluma) (8.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
God of Guitar: Mago de Oz - Al Abordaje (10) (D Standard) selected by drand [Week 1 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Natalia Lafourcade - Hasta la Raíz (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by aNDESmASAMUNE
Intermediate: Maná - Si no te hubieras ido (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Cristian Castro - Azul (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Eslabon Armado - Ella Baila Sola (ft. Peso Pluma) (8.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Mago de Oz - Al Abordaje (8) (D Standard) selected by drand

Bass Path:
Beginner: Lasso/Sebastián Yatra - Ojos Marrones (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Maná - Si no te hubieras ido (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Selena - No Me Queda Más (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Oscar Maydon - Tu Boda (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Eslabon Armado - Ella Baila Sola (ft. Peso Pluma) (6.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: Cristian Castro - Azul (6.5) (B Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Mago de Oz - Al Abordaje (8.5) (D Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Aserejé) (6) (E Standard) selected by drand

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

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On 1/15/2026 at 1:12 AM, EmbraceTheAbsurd said:

Not the best I can do but at least it's a start, just going to need more time.

I didn’t know it would be so easy to win beginner class, do most people go straight to intermediate class or get there quickly?...

Hmmm... how was that for me? Let´s go back in time
starting week was 38 (i found out about the CS that week stumbling over the leaderboardsheet, not knowing that customsforge or even CDLCs existed :) )

Fought hard

... especially Black Sunshine, baah - i really wanted the uplevel there, couldn´t make it after 100+ tries, funny those three songs are still among my 10 most played songs, love em - praise the CS

Then week 12 of mine, aniv. week also was a good one to level up, win was stolen by damn masterclasser Nev, but nm

Then it was having fun in INT until

and from there 485 weeks in adv so far

Rod.

hi, new update...

Making sure I make the deadline this week. Didn't get a lot of time this week but safe to say these songs definitely took me out of my comfort zone which is always good!

This one was my favourite, something about the notes and chord changes reminded me of Ghost which is always a good thing in my books!

All the best with your scores everyone!

I was really hoping I could get at least 90% when I was so close to that goal.

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Steam Community: Rocksmith® 2014 Edition - Remastered.

I do wonder how long I will stay in beginner class. I don't think it's helpful to compare myself to others so I will try to play at my own pace and go up to intermediate class when the time comes.

The screw on the A string key is broken on my bass, so I can't participate in bass path until I fix it 😢

So guitar improvements

Played after the CDLC update. Still similar difficulty, more like 6 than 5.5.

It's even easier for me to achieve a high score here. Aside from the short solo, this is quite easy.

I'm still really struggling to get back up with my shoulder but still enjoying myself :)

Hi! this is my attempt

Alright - closing out the week and a new week is coming in shortly.

Nice 100 on Ella Baila Sola bass @pedropmf! 🙌

Sorry I snubbed you last week @jimbobmccecil, glad to see you were able to get your scores in this time! 😅

Thanks for playing everyone! See you in the next one 🏃‍♀️

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1 hour ago, tunier said:

Hi! this is my attempt

Hey! welcome to the championship! Any chance you give the beginner ones a go aswell? also as i mentioned to embrace some posts back, it is perferable to post only the url link of the image, heres a guide you can most likely skip Steam or Imggbb https://customsforge.com/topic/80900-how-to-post-scores-participate-in-the-championship/#comment-410415

12 hours ago, Rodman said:

- React (in case of initial (7) and then 2 incoming (6)votes
In Flames Jotun 7/7/6/6 = 6.5

I think that would keep it simple enough to be implemented, motivate everyone to post his feel of the song more and move things to a broader based diffratingsystem...

@avastreg - we come crawling again there doable or not a chance for you?

This would be a great solution if it could be done!

@drand I think you raised the rating for Natalia Lafourcade's song, which is fine, but I think it's unnecessary for Oscar Maydon's song, as a 7 is too high. The Int and both Adv songs are quite similar in difficulty, in my opinion.

I would perhaps give the beginner lead a 3.5, as the masterclass song is very difficult to rate. It doesn't have a difficult solo, but it's very difficult to achieve a good score, so it might be more of a 9, but I don't know.

22 hours ago, Mikson said:

The screw on the A string key is broken on my bass, so I can't participate in bass path until I fix it

You can always play bass on the guitar, We wont judge
When you say the screw do you mean at the bridge or the tuning peg ??

On 1/18/2026 at 4:29 PM, Daz40 said:

You can always play bass on the guitar, We wont judge
When you say the screw do you mean at the bridge or the tuning peg ??

I didn't notice earlier that you were replying in this topic.

So, I know I can play guitar as an emulated bass, but for me it defeats the purpose because it doesn't improve my bass playing skills in almost any way.

The roller in the tuning peg that holds the tension stopped working. This happened when the bass was not being used. Later, when I tried to play Rocksmith, the tuner showed about -70 on the A string, and I couldn't tune it anymore...