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-= Week 642 =-

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Previous’ week Winners are:Lead:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (89)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (99.25)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Vodka (99)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (98.88)
- Advanced Bonus: @cacahuate51 (95.14)
- Masterclass: @johnal (99.06)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @veggs95 (97.56), 1 week left… KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (88)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (98.85)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (98.2)
- Advanced: @robolechuga (97.81)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (98.79)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (100)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Vodka (99)
- Advanced: @Mikson (100)
- Advanced Bonus: @ALSRC (98)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (98.17)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!
This week’s songs are:
Lead Path:
Beginner: The Birthday Massacre - Nevermind (2) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Kiss - Black Diamond (5*) (Eb Standard) selected by shotfirer
Advanced: Icon - Naked Eyes (7*) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Winger - Poison Angel (8) (Eb Standard)
God of Guitar: Galneryus - Voice In Sadness (9) (Eb Standard) selected by Mikson [Week 2 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Birthday Massacre - Nevermind (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Kiss - Black Diamond (5*) (Eb Standard) selected by shotfirer
Advanced: Icon - Naked Eyes (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Winger - Poison Angel (7.5) (Eb Standard)

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Birthday Massacre - Nevermind (2) (Drop D) selected by drand
Intermediate: Kiss - Black Diamond (5*) (Eb Standard) selected by shotfirer
Advanced: Icon - Naked Eyes (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Eri Ohno - Skyfire (8) (E Standard)

(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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Hey, i'm back

So many things happened in my time out, but i still suck playing guitar, at least i got a little better in music theory lmao

Thanks for the new week!

Fun song!

Argh, only just behind @Vodka D:
I spent at least half an hour practising, but I can't do any better than this, it's a hard song.

Gave this one a quick try as well. It felt easier than Kiss, only the speed is weird, as in that I never was quite sure how fast to play. Does it have a lot of triplets or something like that?

good to have you back! 🥳 you know what they say...the best way to keep the stuff you learnt in your head is by teaching it...guess youll have to give us some classes 😄

2 hours ago, Satinuke said:

Hey, i'm back

So many things happened in my time out, but i still suck playing guitar, at least i got a little better in music theory lmao

Excited to play Black Diamond later this week, the Replacements' cover of it is one of my favorite covers ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnZlnMi99o

16 minutes ago, JobwanMojo said:

Excited to play Black Diamond later this week, the Replacements' cover of it is one of my favorite covers ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnZlnMi99o

yea, that cover sounded nice thanks for sharing. Good to see they also cut out the unessecary ending/2mins although their cover also ends kinda weird xD

51 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

good to have you back! 🥳 you know what they say...the best way to keep the stuff you learnt in your head is by teaching it...guess youll have to give us some classes 😄

Yeah, it's a shame that i'm a history teacher and not a music teacher, but who knows what the future brings to me

Glad to see you back @Satinuke! I was just reminiscing on the fight for P1 on Die With A Smile when I saw Lady Gaga perform it yesterday so naturally 🔒👇

back to It this week back of the hand twinge stopped me playing last week.

Final acoustic part is very hard. And it's a nightmare to RR it on slow speed with a screaming solo in the background. Monkey results:

Here is my attempt

@Hikikomori Thanks for the week!

I generally agree with the ratings, except for Black Diamond, which definitely seems harder than a 5, due to the arpeggios and solos. Look at the scores; most of them are below 90%. I'd give this 6/6.5.

rhythm scores

Nice song

Right this is the worst ending to a song ever Gene Simmons Idea no doubt
Oh this is harder than the Advanced song this week

Don't know what i have done to mess up my note detection this bad...
Rhythm felt like it could have been 100%
Worst offender is apparently missing the second of two identical chords 😖

I will try but I doubt I will get acceptable result

I need to use this as a slapping warm up, this is my favorite slapping song from the championship so far!

Bass advanced maybe a 4 seems easy for advanced I don't know

Rhythm

I think everyone agrees this is much harder than Icon. I've raised difficulty rating on the spreadsheet to 6, but week is too advanced to switch songs in classes. From what I can see, ratings were copied from initial tester suggesting the songs, which usually leads to inaccuracies.

On 2/9/2026 at 2:05 AM, cacahuate51 said:

solid song, those arpeggios on both tracks got me. Only thing that will probably stop me from playing this song multiple times is the ending, just feels like the equivalent of using filler words in essays to reach the word limit.

On 2/11/2026 at 2:36 AM, Daz40 said:

Right this is the worst ending to a song ever Gene Simmons Idea no doubt

Yes, the ending is weird and doesn't fit with the rest of the song. The only thing I can think of is that they created it for live performances, to do something on stage while the notes gradually drop.

That's it.