-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 665 =-

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

Previous' week Winners are not final.... will have to them manually, so have a lil patience:

Lead:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (99)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (97.11)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (95)
- Masterclass Bonus: @shaggy_malagy (94)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (97.5)
- Advanced: @drand (96)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (97)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @attaboy (96)
- Intermediate Bonus: @attaboy (99)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.07)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (99.93)
- Masterclass Bonus: @Nomgoose (99.07)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Ramones - I Dont Want To Grow Up (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Seiler und Speer - Servas Baba (5*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Icon - The Whites Of Their Eyes (7*) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell (9*) (C Standard) selected by Mikson

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Ramones - I Dont Want To Grow Up (3*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Seiler und Speer - Servas Baba (5*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Icon - The Whites Of Their Eyes (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Masterclass: Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell (8) (C Standard) selected by Mikson

Bass Path:
Beginner: Ramones - I Dont Want To Grow Up (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate: Seiler und Speer - Servas Baba (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Advanced: Icon - The Whites Of Their Eyes (6) (E Standard) selected by Zoutje
Advanced Bonus: Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell (6) (C Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Blu DeTiger - Toast With The Butter (8) (E Standard) selected by jellisjenius

(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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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.

Jiiiii....

New week we got.

Only really fun to play songs we got from random selection. Really cool.
Hit me with your diff ratings so we can average our thought over the week.

Rock hard and have a lot of fun!!!

Rod.

I just wanna say that one of the ratings mentioned in the bass winners intermediate is wrongfully displayed. I did a 97.6% on it not 96 😁 (i did post 2 of it, one was 96.6% and right next to it in same post there's a 97.6%).

Cheers.
And thanks for hosting this week's.

Thanks for the new week @Rodman!

TOP GAINS OF LAST WEEK

@drand achieved the highest improvement on Lead with a gain of 11.00% on "Killswitch Engage - I Believe".

@Vodka achieved the highest improvement on Rhythm with a gain of 18.00% on "Killswitch Engage - I Believe".

@ALSRC achieved the highest improvement on Bass with a gain of 4.07% on "Klone - Grim Dance".

Well done everyone 👏 Keep shredding!!

Has anyone tried the Rocksmith with that Donner Hush Guitar? My body is giving up with the my Ibanez it's too heavy and I've considering something lighter and wondering if anyone from the Championship has tried?

Thanks for hosting this week @Rodman! Here are my scores for this week, as well as my thoughts:
Bass:
Perfectly rated, can't ask for more from the Ramones.

Might honestly swap with The White of Their Eyes, great piece all together.

Maybe a (5), nothing really jumped out to me to see it at the same level as Handshake with Hell. Fun piece.

Another perfectly rated piece. Always brings me back to hear some Arch Enemy.

I don't think this one is an (8), maybe a (7). Really fun though. Took a couple of runs to get the groove down.

12 minutes ago, jasmith85 said:

Has anyone tried the Rocksmith with that Donner Hush Guitar? My body is giving up with the my Ibanez it's too heavy and I've considering something lighter and wondering if anyone from the Championship has tried?

have you tried discord? theres probably more people there that can answer you. I have seen that guitar and was also tempted to get one cause they arent that expensive and looks neat. But decided not to cause i really need to start getting rid of stuff rather than accumulate.

4 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

have you tried discord? theres probably more people there that can answer you. I have seen that guitar and was also tempted to get one cause they arent that expensive and looks neat. But decided not to cause i really need to start getting rid of stuff rather than accumulate.

I'm not on discord, this is really the only social media I do, could try it, thank you Cacahuate :)

40 minutes ago, jasmith85 said:

Has anyone tried the Rocksmith with that Donner Hush Guitar? My body is giving up with the my Ibanez it's too heavy and I've considering something lighter and wondering if anyone from the Championship has tried?

I thought about buying this guitar for a long time but didn't because I saw complaints about discomfort with the picking hand. No good place to rest it, so that will work against your purpose.

I asked on the Discord and they said any headless will be an improvement, probably since the center of gravity drops down. For the type of wood used, lighter is better. I saw Strandberg guitars recommended the most online for comfort because of the shape of the body for ergonomics so any similar looking models could work best. I think @Vodka has one similar? Like this https://reverb.com/ca/item/85621334-eart-gw2-headless-electric-guitar-right-handed-roasted-padauk-poplar-burl-body-24-stainless-steel-frets

Also just mentioning playing with the guitar horizontal or on your right leg is worse ergonomics than playing in the classical position or closer to it, Steve Vai dealing with an injury from playing 😅 love this vid:

I got my match and England won like i wanted !! best match i watched this world cup. Congrats to all the people supporting England :)
Unfortunatley not for first place but tomorrows match doesnt count for me :P