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Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 663 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (97.18)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (99.04)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (98)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (97)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (98.69)
- Advanced: @drand (97.72)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf f (95.99)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @attaboy (97)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.47)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf f (99.79)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night (2.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Bryan Adams - This Time (4) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Advanced: Boston - Something About You (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Haken - Insomnia (8.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Electric Guest - Back For Me (3*) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate: Bryan Adams - This Time (4) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Advanced: Blackberry Smoke - Dig A Hole (6.5) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by RoboLechuga
Masterclass: Haken - Insomnia (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson

Bass Path:
Beginner: Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night (2.5) (Eb Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Bryan Adams - This Time (5*) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Intermediate Bonus: Electric Guest - Back For Me (4) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Boston - Something About You (6.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Haken - Insomnia (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson

(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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Guitar scores

@robolechuga Thanks for the week! This looks like my suggestion week 😄

Lead

I had already played all 4 songs in the past for testing, but it turned out that I didn't have a screenshot of the Boston song, so I waited with the scores until I played it again.

Rhythm

The solo here surprised me. Is it a bit unusual that lead is used as the rhythm here. It's definitely a lead guitar chart, while the rhythm path is unused. I tested rhythm and it's also fun to play, but a little easier.

The tuning here is B Standard, not E Standard as stated in the title post.

i ama dwarf and im digging a hole diggy diggy hole diggy diggy hole

wya @LuZifeR @behemoth8888 it's shredding time

16 hours ago, ALSRC said:

... I reckon it will be between France and Argentina (or maybe Norway if Haaland keeps on scoring)

5 hours ago, Mikson said:

@robolechuga Thanks for the week! This looks like my suggestion week 😄

Yep, it was an unintentional theme week, all good songs and I can trust the ratings, so they rise to the top of my list.

Hello everyone new here, staff sorry for all the edits on the post, figuring it out, got it now!

99.0% - great song from Boston, never played or heard it before!

97.5 % - Good grief what a difficult song, tons of fun to play, definitely cant just sight read this one! gunna have to practice more!

20 minutes ago, WillMurdersBass said:

Hello everyone new here, staff sorry for all the edits on the post, figuring it out, got it now!

99.0% - great song from Boston, never played or heard it before!

97.5 % - Good grief what a difficult song, tons of fun to play, definitely cant just sight read this one! gunna have to practice more!

Very cool to have a new participant that records themselves playing, fingered bass and knows how to remove background from web cam. Respect and welcome to the championship!

4 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

Very cool to have a new participant that records themselves playing, fingered bass and knows how to remove background from web cam. Respect and welcome to the championship!

Thank you very much, just starting out on youtube, did alot of research to try and make it decent starting out uploading. no expectations, just the love of bass to share with fellow musicians, appreciate the welcome!

Haken lead was soooo hardShredding done :D @drand

23 minutes ago, LuZifeR said:

Shredding done :D @drand

Awesome job!!! Made me regret the callout real quick 😅🤣

16 hours ago, Rodman said:

@Rodman is that a new guitar?? Sick

6 minutes ago, drand said:

Awesome job!!! Made me regret the callout real quick 😅🤣

@Rodman is that a new guitar?? Sick

You did awesome job aswell!! Dont even think about it! :D

I'm done this week.

Dig a hole with hard and fast solo for me. I can't play it. My best result before solo part was 98.?%.

At the beginning I had a fight with bends. And I don't think I won the battle. I cut all my fingers.

I got no mood anymore. Will not play this week.

21 hours ago, Rodman said:

i really was hoping for a BEADGB or alike tuning...

to try that one :D

Surprinsingly it´s not odd to have 7 strings nor do you even recognise playing on a fanfret board... feels all natural. Love it.

Gorgeous!

6 hours ago, drand said:

@Rodman is that a new guitar?? Sick

Jaaap! It was displayed for me on the website of a 2nd hand warehouse to be collected in Vienna when i was getting ready to drive to Vienna.... and it was marked "defective" what makes my luthierheart 💓 beat faster - so i bought it and the fix was a loose screw on the volume pot that led to the "very low output on both pickups"....

Expected nothing... been given a beast! Story of my life.

Rod.

1 hour ago, Vodka said:

I'm done this week.

...

I got no mood anymore. Will not play this week.

1 hour ago, Vodka said:

Gorgeous!

2) thx m8

1) don't you forget - your heart and your soul, brother!!!

Rod.

23 hours ago, Rodman said:

i really was hoping for a BEADGB or alike tuning...

to try that one :D

Surprinsingly it´s not odd to have 7 strings nor do you even recognise playing on a fanfret board... feels all natural. Love it.

so that means we will be getting weeks with drop F now right? :v
really cool guitar nice find :)
btw i was mathing around and your 12 years of being in the championship was like 2or1 weeks ago congrats!!
heres some virtual donuts for each year:

Improvements

2 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

so that means we will be getting weeks with drop F now right? :v
really cool guitar nice find :)
btw i was mathing around and your 12 years of being in the championship was like 2or1 weeks ago congrats!!
heres some virtual donuts for each year:

Absolutely. A-Std and below only from now on. No pitch shifting or drop-devices allowed no more. Mc win - here i come.

Hah! Was looking for a midnight snack anyway - yummy. 12 years, yes. No week missed.

I put in too much effort trying to play Dig a Hole on guitar, now it feels weird to pick up the bass....

Yello fellas !



Might have another go tomorrow... wasn't really feeling like playing these more than i did lmao.

On 7/8/2026 at 5:10 AM, WillMurdersBass said:

Hello everyone new here, staff sorry for all the edits on the post, figuring it out, got it now!

99.0% - great song from Boston, never played or heard it before!

97.5 % - Good grief what a difficult song, tons of fun to play, definitely cant just sight read this one! gunna have to practice more!

Welcome fellow bassist, the 1 instrument that rules them all !

On 7/8/2026 at 5:07 PM, Rodman said:

12 years, yes. No week missed.

Absolutely insane record!! Hell yeah 🤘pillar of the community right there

One more time til they say dig a hole... wya @robolechuga show me how it's done

@Nomgoose @JobwanMojo @pedropmf lords of 🅱️🅰️🐍🐍 any challenging bass songs y'all wanna see on future weeks??

8 hours ago, drand said:

Absolutely insane record!! Hell yeah 🤘pillar of the community right there

One more time til they say dig a hole... wya @robolechuga show me how it's done

@Nomgoose @JobwanMojo @pedropmf lords of 🅱️🅰️🐍🐍 any challenging bass songs y'all wanna see on future weeks??

I would love to see anything from Between the Buried and Me's discography, they're such a wildly technical band.