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“Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 650 =-
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=> How and Why join the Championships?
=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous’ week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @jusdebaobab (100)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (95)
- Intermediate Bonus: @jimmy655 (97.13)
- Advanced: @jamminguitarallnigjht1 (95)
- Masterclass: LOST TROPHY
- Masterclass Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @veggs95 (96.4), 1 week left… KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (97)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (90)
- Advanced: @pedropmf (99.68)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (80)

Bass:
- Beginner: @attaboy (100)
- Beginner Bonus: @attaboy (98)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (99)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Vodka (97)
- Advanced: @Mikson (98.17)
- Advanced Bonus: @ALSRC (98)
- Masterclass: @JobwanMojo (96.76)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week’s songs are:
Lead Path:
Beginner: Central Cee - Doja (3) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Ted Poley & Tony Harnell - Escape From The City (4) (E Standard) selected by rachel826
Advanced: Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (7*) (E Standard) selected by 2groggy
Masterclass: McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself (8.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Zoutje
God of Guitar: Buckethead - Soothsayer (10) (Eb Standard) selected by phantasy/Emmy-Dell [Week 2 of 2]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Central Cee - Doja (1) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Ted Poley & Tony Harnell - Escape From The City (3.5) (E Standard) selected by rachel826
Advanced: McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself (6) (Eb Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself (6) (Eb Standard) selected by Zoutje

Bass Path:
Beginner: Central Cee - Doja (2) (Drop D) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Dire Straits - Twisting By The Pool (4) (E Standard) selected by 2groggy
Advanced: Ted Poley & Tony Harnell - Escape From The City (6) (E Standard) selected by rachel826
Masterclass: McAuley Schenker Group - Save Yourself (6.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Zoutje

(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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5 hours ago, pedropmf said:

Seriously @pedropmf just pushing me every week now. 😅

Since I’m part of the advanced players now, I’ve got to live up to it... I’m managing to play a tiny bit cleaner, but it’s still not quite there. I’ll probably have to use Riff Repeater to really nail it I’m at 70% speed for now, and it’s going pretty well.

Tomorrow I’ll also post my rhythm scores, just to carve out a spot for myself in that ranking.

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I'm coming @robolechuga 😝

Well there's nothing extraordinary here but I just can't place my fingers absolutely right in the chord.

Lead scores - I played most of these songs before during testing

This is an old score, but I recently played this again because I couldn't remember the chart and it's really difficult to achieve a high score. The chart is a bit hard to read.

Rhythm

Someone once asked me what chart I'd rate a 1. Now I can tell you that I just played that chart! I don't know why this is rated 2, because this is probably the easiest guitar chart I've seen here, with green and purple 4s hitting at the same slow tempo. @Rodman Give it a 1 and let's make history! 😄

Some little improvements for today


Lead

RHYTHM

11 hours ago, jusdebaobab said:

I'm coming @robolechuga 😝

@jusdebaobab More like waved as you walked by. Then @Mikson squared up later in the day with a 98% also.

18 hours ago, Mikson said:

Rhythm

Someone once asked me what chart I'd rate a 1. Now I can tell you that I just played that chart! I don't know why this is rated 2, because this is probably the easiest guitar chart I've seen here, with green and purple 4s hitting at the same slow tempo. @Rodman Give it a 1 and let's make history! 😄

Done, m8! History is made.

It´s becoming the only 4th rhythm track rated 1, and we should probably check the other 3 if they deserve that medal :)

see here (sorting is enabled for everyone)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HzgY90kLwyGqzJ-R64v8lmpeQMMhhxwGwUlenepIgms/edit?pli=1&gid=714157890#gid=714157890

Hi, some improvement...

1 hour ago, pedropmf said:

Hi, some improvement...

@jusdebaobab now you know my pain.

A 2 on bass might be overrating this one too

🫡

thanks for thee week Rodman !

i agree with job and atta that this is rated a bit too high and could pass as a 1 for bass or is it possible even lower lol

i think the cdlc could use a revisit. dont think those bends are right. to me it sounds more like it should bend 16 to 18 rather than 18 to 19 and the rhythm path could be hords instead of single notes but 🤷‍♂️



i liked this one, made me want to play crazy taxi for somereason

If we keep going, we’ll have to hit 100% on "Save Yourself".

As for @cacahuate51 it’s going to be hard to beat him on Dire Straits, considering he did that in just one try and I can’t even manage to get back to 90%. 🥲

bass mc easy.... (6.5)

better

Seeking advice on bass setup:

Hey all, it's great to be back after not having touched a bass for almost a year. But I think I need some adjustments to my setup, and I'd like to ask the bass players for advice. I've got a super high action on my Fender Jazz, and I'd like to lower the action quite a bit since my left hand has still not recovered full strength after rehabbing for many months for some frustrating yet unexplained neuromuscular ailment. I was hoping some of the bassists could comment on the their setup, experiences, and recommendations. I've never played with anything but a really high action, avoiding fret buzz at the cost of requiring a lot of hand strength and endurance - which is not so easy to maintain now. But I don't really know how much lower I should be aiming for. I'd welcome any recommendations or comments about bass setups, string heights at the 12th fret, string gauges, that have worked well for you for playing fast across the entire neck. I'm more interested in straight up clean fast playing without fret buzz than in slapping & popping or other special techniques.

Thanks in advance.

1 hour ago, jimmy655 said:

Seeking advice on bass setup:

Hey all, it's great to be back after not having touched a bass for almost a year. But I think I need some adjustments to my setup, and I'd like to ask the bass players for advice. I've got a super high action on my Fender Jazz, and I'd like to lower the action quite a bit since my left hand has still not recovered full strength after rehabbing for many months for some frustrating yet unexplained neuromuscular ailment. I was hoping some of the bassists could comment on the their setup, experiences, and recommendations. I've never played with anything but a really high action, avoiding fret buzz at the cost of requiring a lot of hand strength and endurance - which is not so easy to maintain now. But I don't really know how much lower I should be aiming for. I'd welcome any recommendations or comments about bass setups, string heights at the 12th fret, string gauges, that have worked well for you for playing fast across the entire neck. I'm more interested in straight up clean fast playing without fret buzz than in slapping & popping or other special techniques.

Thanks in advance.

I'm not really a bass player, and I can't slap. But my usual advice is to try lighter strings first.
Other than that, start changing the height in small increments and play-test extensively. Once you discover you went too far, back up a bit and there's your sweet spot.
No numbers, since it's different for everybody.

Small improvement on the no guitar version 😀

Tough act to follow....

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