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

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 665 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (92)
- Intermediate: @Daz40 (99.31)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (98.28)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (95)
- Masterclass Bonus: @shaggy_malagy (94)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (93)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (97.5)
- Advanced: @drand (98.17)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (97)

Bass:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Mikson (98)
- Intermediate Bonus: @attaboy (99)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.07)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (99.93)
- Masterclass Bonus: @pedropmf (99.14)

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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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!!

Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell (C Standard)

🪫Can't tune that low? Pitch-shifted version here, make sure you delete the original file from your game to avoid duplicate ID messing with game: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IwCiFwuRdW4YAifxEGknuU2aM19S9WrJ?usp=sharing

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 and second place (i think these teams today deserved it more) but tomorrows match doesnt matter to me xD

3 hours ago, jasmith85 said:

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

My youtube recommendations got flooded since your comment . Im guessing the company sent out to alot of these youtubers even the guitarist of dragon force.

Thanks for the week Rodman!

ah its been a while since ive played this one..i dont think I rated them 5s? today the paths felt pretty doable 4s 4.5 at most but 5 seems way too high since theres not really a solo

surprised i got so low on this one, but i think its doable aswell 6.5 for lead since its just a little bit harder.

bass seemed easy , i think @attaboy in intermediate could pull it off

i agree with @Nomgoose a 7 is high enough for this song, i shouldnt be getting a 99 on a 8 first try.

4 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

bass seemed easy , i think @attaboy in intermediate could pull it off

possibly...but if i can, i think it doesn't belong to advanced. (same with that other last week's "advanced" one that i got like 98%)

11 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

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 and second place (i think these teams today deserved it more) but tomorrows match doesnt matter to me xD

What a match... i laughed my ass off at halftime knowing how Tuchel was struggling there mentally as every pore of his body was going "we are 4 goals ahead let's substitute in 2 more Defenders, let's go 5-4.5-0.5 and bring that ship home". But after getting stonewalled against Arg he just couldn't ... but he knew what was coming - watch him hugging and joking with M'Bappe an the way to the lockers. What a game. So happy with Eng. Go boys!!!! You did well 👏 ok.

Been watching the game with my brother between drunk Brits... elderly Ladies mainly screaming "Sakaaaaaaa!!!" On every display and "good lookin, i luv ya!!" every time Kane was shown watching from the bench... ha..

But the best is yet to come :D

I am in 🇪🇸 since yd

Today the air is gonna be 🔥 burning, aye.

Rod

11 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

My youtube recommendations got flooded since your comment . Im guessing the company sent out to alot of these youtubers even the guitarist of dragon force.

Oh I've seen the videos on it, just wanted to know if anyone from the championship has used it and how well it works with Rocksmith and if anyone used the USB-C connection for Rocksmith rather than the standard method. Though it'll be my first 22 Fret Guitar as I always have stuck with 24 as songs I like to play on Rocksmith like My God Is The Sun demands 24 frets

13 hours ago, drand said:

...
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
...

I've got an Eart GW2 Pro. https://eartguitar.com/products/eart-guitars-gw2-pro-blue-burst

It's lighter, more stable. No head. I punch my table and microphone stand with head of my Ibanez strat. But my Eart is badly assembled. I need to unscrew the neck and put something under it because it is very low relative to the bridge. I have a very large gap after the 12th fret. And I suffer every time when changing strings and tuning the guitar. The bridge is not comfortable too - screws scratch my hand. Fine tuning is harder here - better use a screwdriver in the inner screws especially. Also you don't need to wind a strings - they are fixed with a screws.

But I think these problems of my guitar only because I bought it blind on Aliexpress (don't do it. but a guitar in local store after you touch and try it). I really like headless guitars but the variety of them is such small and cost of them is too high imho.

I also want you to know you'll have troubles with resting the guitar. You can't place it on the wall - no head. And you will have troubles with standings. I've got a horned stand for two guitars. And when I place my headless to it I always abut with one of that horns to bridge. I had to find a balance everytime.

I've already stretched the horns in a vice, but I'll have to do it again and stretch it moar. I'm too lazy to go to the garage.

Do I like it? No doubt. Of course, the downsides I wrote about above annoy me. I'll try to raise the neck at least later.

Someday I will put active pickup to my Ibanez. Or I will not... It's been lying in my desk for two years I think.

Hope someone will understand my scribbling.

Thanks for the week @Rodman ! Great stuff

Bass results

14 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

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 and second place (i think these teams today deserved it more) but tomorrows match doesnt matter to me xD

Best match of the world cup so far 😁

Seemed like a friendly match where you swap at 5 goals and end on 10 🤣

I could be wrong, but I don't think the final will be so interesting...

Have a nice musweek everyone! Thanks for hosting this week @Rodman !

Ramones - I Dont Want To Grow Up. My left hand...

Seiler und Speer - Servas Baba

Icon - The Whites Of Their Eyes. Rhythm here is harder than Arch Enemy for me.

Arch Enemy - Handshake with Hell

Blu DeTiger - Toast With The Butter

This one is gonna need practice, good advanced song for me 😄

Oops played Lead first 😅

Ok, all previous weeks missing scores added manually, winners updated - shall be good now!

Please everyone check!

Rock,

Rod.

@Rodman Thx for the week!

First scores (I forgot about The Ramones, I'll play it later)

This is not too difficult, but caused me such problems...

It's so awkward for me to play that I make a lot of mistakes when I try to catch it

Testing score, I don't remember how I rated this because the suggestion completely disappeared from the spreadsheet, but I think it was Lead 9, Rhythm 7.5. I have to repeat this.

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A little late to the party with this, sorry. Just gave the Blu DeTiger - Toast With The Butter chart an update to fix up some of the visuals and a couple wrong notes/ mutes.

Thanks for the updated chart @Emmy-Dell! The mutes feel a whole lot more natural this time around.

Updated bass score: