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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 660 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (98.30)
- Advanced: @Foo4311 (96.33)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (99)
- God of Guitar: @TrevyMetal (95)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (87)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (95.69)
- Advanced: @Vodka (95)
- Masterclass: @LuZifeR (98)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @attaboy (97)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.23)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (99.39)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (2.5) (E Standard) selected by @Vodka
Intermediate: Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray (4) (E Standard) selected by @Daz40
Advanced: Danko Jones - I'm I A Band (6) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Advanced Bonus: Uriah Heep - Free 'n' Easy (6) (E Standard)selected by @Zoutje
Masterclass: Pat Travers Band - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) (8.5) (E Standard)selected by @jimmy655

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Volbeat - Wait A Minute My Girl (2.5) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by @jimbobmccecil
Beginner Bonus: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (2) (E Standard) selected by Vodka
Intermediate: Danko Jones - I'm I A Band (3.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Advanced: Uriah Heep - Free 'n' Easy (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Pat Travers Band - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) (8) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655

Bass Path:
Beginner: Volbeat - Wait A Minute My Girl (2.5) (E Standard) selected by jimbobmccecil
Beginner Bonus: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (2) (E Standard) selected by Vodka
Intermediate: Alice Cooper - Hello Hooray (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate Bonus: Danko Jones - I'm I A Band (4) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Advanced: Uriah Heep - Free 'n' Easy (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Pat Travers Band - Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) (7.5) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655

(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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ouch, it could, yeah! (8)

On 6/15/2026 at 9:42 PM, Rodman said:

Soo... back from NOVAROCK 26

4 Days of pure joy with about 26 full shows and 2 partly (the textmarked were the ones i was at, the green ones stood out).
So much good music all around....
....insane 2:15h show of Maiden with all you would wish to hear and see incl. Eddie walking around.... cool visuals too (not of any importance for me at IM though).
...Sabaton having a tank flying in the air with the drumkit mounted on top, every song a slingalong for 100000ppl
... master Tom Morello with his 15 y/o son jamming the fxx out of those RATM tunes, man can he play!!!!!!!
... Sepultura making me Circlepit all Roots long
... really unexpected very very cool live performances from PapaRoach, oh yeah - @Vodka - Royal Republic, The Plot In You (who knows those guys!!), Vinegar Hill (austrian metal as i learned there) and the insane guys from Slay Squad.

How can that already be ending after 4 days always, i´d like to go on for 2 weeks .... Fun times!

Go and see some liveperformances of the bands you love and the once you don´t know!

Rod.

What a massive lineup! So many great bands to see in one place. Out of curiosity, I checked where this festival is taking place and it turns out that it's not even that far from me, but I don't know if I could endure such a marathon 😄 Generally, I definitely prefer concerts at night or in arenas to those during the day. But with a lineup like that, I'd sometimes be confused about who to go see, as some concerts overlap.

Scores from testing

Lead

Screenshot from past testing, I'll try to play this again.

This is a cool song that was frequently played on the radio I listened to a few years ago, so I wanted to play it. @cacahuate51 I saw you wrote that it could be improved, but I haven't had much time lately, and I think it's more of a cosmetic improvement, because I didn't notice any bugs when I played it now after a long break.

This is not very difficult but I have a problem with the speed of these riffs. That's why I hesitated to rate diff and I'm not sure about it.

What a nice song and fun chart. I didn't know this before, so @jimmy655 thanks for the suggestion!

Rhythm

Well, this is a classic. Who remembers the movie 8 Mile? I watched it ages ago...

I rated rhythm chart a 4 when I added song suggestion, which was probably over 3 years ago. Now, compared to the current ratings, I think it's more like a 3/3.5.

Rhythm with a solo, it can't be easy 😉

Bass

This can be played more easily by not moving to the yellow (A string) frets 7-8 but staying on the blue 2-3.

4 hours ago, Mikson said:

What a nice song and fun chart. I didn't know this before, so @jimmy655 thanks for the suggestion!

I saw Pat Travers open for Kenny Wayne Shepherd back in about 2012. He said he was surprised to get the call, said his band had been away from touring for so long they had to hustle just to relearn the songs. This was the most memorable song, really fun to sing along with the crowd. I think the bass line is fabulous, I've slowed it down a number of times to steal some really usable bass riffs - at full speed you don't get a lot of time to appreciate how good it is. I hadn't tried the guitar parts before, not sure I'm going to post my guitar scores unless they improve quite a bit...

Maybe it'll improve if I post it.... don't have any other ideas...

Oralee !!
here's my runs:

i think i notice on this Danko Jones song at least one slide (not charted) ? also there's a typo "i'm in a band"
cheers.

9 hours ago, Mikson said:

What a massive lineup! So many great bands to see in one place. Out of curiosity, I checked where this festival is taking place and it turns out that it's not even that far from me, but I don't know if I could endure such a marathon 😄 Generally, I definitely prefer concerts at night or in arenas to those during the day. But with a lineup like that, I'd sometimes be confused about who to go see, as some concerts overlap.

Life is full of choices, yeah!

That´s where a strict planning routine is needed - see that blue rectangle - like pen markings - that´s the plan, then the textmarkers yield the final result, pretty close that year. But to be honest - it doesn´t matter so much, they are all giving their heart and their souls up on stage there - so the others i didn´t see would have deserved it also. I enjoy the shows on festivals even more cause the audience is way more relaxed as they are not there to see only that performance - you can always walk into the very front of stage wavebreaker and have a really good view. Marathon - jaaap - nobody said it´s easy, but also nobody said we are here for fun, are we? ;) Also and so important to me - i get to see phenomenal liveshows of bands i even did not know they exist.

Plus it´s damn damn damn cheap - 200 bucks ticket for that all.

If you ever make it there a lot of beers are on me!

Rock,

Rod.

19 minutes ago, Rodman said:

Life is full of choices, yeah!

That´s where a strict planning routine is needed - see that blue rectangle - like pen markings - that´s the plan, then the textmarkers yield the final result, pretty close that year. But to be honest - it doesn´t matter so much, they are all giving their heart and their souls up on stage there - so the others i didn´t see would have deserved it also. I enjoy the shows on festivals even more cause the audience is way more relaxed as they are not there to see only that performance - you can always walk into the very front of stage wavebreaker and have a really good view. Marathon - jaaap - nobody said it´s easy, but also nobody said we are here for fun, are we? ;) Also and so important to me - i get to see phenomenal liveshows of bands i even did not know they exist.

Plus it´s damn damn damn cheap - 200 bucks ticket for that all.

If you ever make it there a lot of beers are on me!

Rock,

Rod.

Agree really cool amount of bands in there, surprised to see lots of them we've played in the championship and even more surprised you circled threedays grace! maybe one day ill see you circle nickelback.😎
Would be fun to have a championship week with some of the bands you watched or even one with the bands you missed.
You have the heart and energy of a teenager, i would be exhausted from just a couple hours of the first day, much respect /m/

Cool Mc Bass (8)

plus, lead

and way better

really a hard one, ay

Not sure if the week is long enough to get up to 98%....

Improvement

15 hours ago, attaboy said:

also there's a typo "i'm in a band"

It's almost unreal that I've played and tested this so many times and never noticed it! But no one has mentioned it until now. Human eyes can be deceiving 😵

I'm not changing it now because I suspect changing the title would affect OCR recognition. Besides, the files from creating CDLC are on my old computer, or they've disappeared somewhere 😕

6 hours ago, Mikson said:

It's almost unreal that I've played and tested this so many times and never noticed it! But no one has mentioned it until now. Human eyes can be deceiving 😵

I'm not changing it now because I suspect changing the title would affect OCR recognition. Besides, the files from creating CDLC are on my old computer, or they've disappeared somewhere 😕

the typo is fine... that type of thing doesn't bother me at all. just thought i should mention it.
but what do you think about the slide i mentioned ? (bass) i think, iirc, it's about half way through the song ?

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!

YEEAAHHH!!! ✌😎✌🤩✌😎✌🤩

Happy to join the party again! 🍻

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As usual, Rocksmith doesn't approve my bendings!!! 🤣

This song makes me think... I miss being in a band!!! (26 years ago...)

Not the kind of music we used to play though! 🤣

Hey everyone, happy the weekend is finally here! Which means time for some jammin :)

Great tune

Also a great tune! Hadn't heard this one in a while though