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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

= Week 648 =--

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=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous’ week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (81)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (92)
- Advanced: @Mikson (91.46)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (95.25)
- Masterclass Bonus: @Emmy-Dell l (93)
- God of Guitar: @veggs95 (96.71)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (90)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (85)
- Advanced: @Vodka (92)
- Masterclass: @veggs95 (95.54)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Vodka (87)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (99.72)
- God of Bass: @Emmy-Dell (92)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week’s songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Nickelback - Holding on to Heaven (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Tesla - What a Shame (4) (E Standard) selected by Hameron
Advanced: Chris Stapleton - I Was Wrong (6.5) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Masterclass: Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed (8.5) (Drop D) selected by drand

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Nickelback - Holding on to Heaven (2) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Tesla - What a Shame (4) (E Standard) selected by Hameron
Advanced: Dokken - Just Got Lucky (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed (8) (Drop D) selected by drand

Bass Path:
Beginner: Nickelback - Holding on to Heaven (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Dokken - Just Got Lucky (4) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Advanced: Chris Stapleton - I Was Wrong (7*) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius
Masterclass: Vulfpeck - Matter of Time (8) (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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You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here
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Song Suggestions List available to view here: Google Sheets Spreadsheet

Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

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The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman.

Testing Scores

@Satinuke has posted a clip of his playthrough of the intervals song on discord. I suggest everyone on here to check it out!🔥

Thank you @robolechuga! & Thanks for choosing some of my requests 😄

I have played this one below on rhythm a couple of times 😅 I loved the cute music video with the coffee art but I can't find it anywhere, maybe I'm crazy

I didn't screenshot my abysmal first tries on this a while back, still boot 💩 but since I have been in my feeling playing A7X and BFMV all week it felt at least a little doable 🤪

I got a bass run screenshot but I see it didn't make the cut 😆

Nice to see Dokken again & love me some Tennessee Whiskey, gotta check out Tesla!

Since next week seems to be open ill host it.
I will let the winner of this week choose the song that will be picked for next week in their class. So please leave a comment of the cdlc when posting scores :) (aka winners choice/selection)

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hopefully this will make more people participate this week, hope you all have a good week

1 hour ago, drand said:

Thank you @robolechuga! & Thanks for choosing some of my requests 😄!

@drand - thanks for all the submissions for songs - made things easier this go around. If you are into Chris Stapleton, also peruse through his previous band The Steeldrivers.

The Steeldrivers on Spotify

More bluegrass feel and solid music. Adele famously covered their songs If It Hadn't Been For Love.

Thanks for the week @robolechuga ! Really enjoying Chris Stapleton and Vulfpeck.

Bass scores

Found this slighty harder than the intermediate

Have a nice musweek everyone! Thanks for hosting @robolechuga !

Nickelback - Holding on to Heaven. Nice song, nice to play. Not a photo of a photograph but ok.

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Tesla - What a Shame. I can't change my hands on chords so fast. I think there were a lot of false positive detection of my terrible chords so I think the results must be much lower...

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Dokken - Just Got Lucky. Hard. I forgot my thoughts about this song.

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Chris Stapleton - I Was Wrong. I've got a trash instead of a song...

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Avenged Sevenfold - Betrayed. I (am) was bad.

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Vulfpeck - Matter of Time. Hard.

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First time share my screamshots via Steam... I made them with ShareX so I had to "slip" them to Steam and convert. Bad experience.

it´s so unfair...... but again NB song starts and every cell of my body goes ... "argh!!! shut up and start making real music" :)

There are so many bands doing music in a more commercial way, and there are so many bands i dislike TO LISTEN TO more... but that guy pushes the button in me lol - it feels like they are milking the cow way too hard and totally betray true metal ..... nonsense absolutely but i love that music can raise those emotions.

(3)

so much cooler than NB ;)

(5)

good one, very smooth (except my playing)

(6.5)ish

A7x, yeah!

(8)

+

lead

(8.5)

bass

(8)

plus

On 3/21/2026 at 11:34 PM, cacahuate51 said:

Since next week seems to be open ill host it.
I will let the winner of this week choose the song that will be picked for next week in their class. So please leave a comment of the cdlc when posting scores :) (aka winners choice/selection)

CLICK HERE FOR TIME REMAINING

hopefully this will make more people participate this week, hope you all have a good week

Do you mean that the winner of each class can pick a song for next week (so if I win the beginner class, I get to choose song next week for beginner class) or have I completely misunderstood you?

I might have misremembered and/or misunderstood what was mentioned in a post in a previous week but I think you said that CDLC should be from 2025 or 2026. But I guess you are allowed to choose CDLC created earlier than that?

Maybe you want to have the CDLC chosen before a certain time so you have time to see it’s in the right class and choose to pick another song (either by you or by the winner of the class)? I haven’t had any real competition in the beginner class since I started playing in the championship so I might win by default. Well, unless there is someone else who starts playing in the beginner class this week.

6 hours ago, EmbraceTheAbsurd said:

Do you mean that the winner of each class can pick a song for next week (so if I win the beginner class, I get to choose song next week for beginner class) or have I completely misunderstood you?

I might have misremembered and/or misunderstood what was mentioned in a post in a previous week but I think you said that CDLC should be from 2025 or 2026. But I guess you are allowed to choose CDLC created earlier than that?

Maybe you want to have the CDLC chosen before a certain time so you have time to see it’s in the right class and choose to pick another song (either by you or by the winner of the class)? I haven’t had any real competition in the beginner class since I started playing in the championship so I might win by default. Well, unless there is someone else who starts playing in the beginner class this week.

1 Yup, if no one else in the beginner category plays, i guess you would win (just participate) and get to pick a song for beginner class 😅
If you have no preference, you could always just say "random selection from the suggested list" or wtver.

2 Right, so ideally the songs you guys choose would be after 2025. BUT since i dont want it to be too much of a chore for you guys, and want it to be a reward rather than a punishment, you can choose whatever you wish. aka it can be pre 2025 ( like some of the songs this week are pre2025) .

If its pre2025 you can always hit up the creator with a " any chance they could update it to 2025 standards this week to use in the championship?" but thats up to you guys and the creator might not have time, not be active, or want to.

3 I dont think difficulties should be too much of an issue as long as its a close enough guestimation. Just dont suggest joe satriani for beginner...or maybe do? and have a wacky week xD idk we'll see, nothing is written in stone.

hope everyone leaves a suggestion after placing a score

13 hours ago, Rodman said:

it´s so unfair...... but again NB song starts and every cell of my body goes ... "argh!!! shut up and start making real music" :)

There are so many bands doing music in a more commercial way, and there are so many bands i dislike TO LISTEN TO more... but that guy pushes the button in me lol - it feels like they are milking the cow way too hard and totally betray true metal ..... nonsense absolutely but i love that music can raise those emotions.

(3)

number 10 is just for you :)

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First scores

Together with @Rodman I join the Nickelback antifans club 😆

On 11/8/2016 at 8:32 PM, Vodka said:

I hated Royal Republic Nickelback prev. time. I hate it this time too.

UPD: OK. I hate every song. I guess I need to stop.

I played this about a year ago.

I was surprised to find out I played this over three years ago! I found a screenshot in the archives, but I don't remember the song at all. I'll play this again.

Not as cool as some of A7x other songs, but still ok.

Thanks for the new week!

I don't get what you guys are complaining about, this is obviously very trve, kvlt and grim metal:


Glam, on the other hand 😋


I don't think I'll score higher than Vodka this week, but just in case you need a song: Blind Guardian - Banish From Sanctuary

Improvements

In the off chance that I win, I nominate https://ignition4.customsforge.com/cdlc/97757