-= 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:

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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1 hour ago, cacahuate51 said:

cool, looks good! so no additional setup with it being usb c? also is the metal bar ok for sitting?

i like your ibanez aswell looks hypnotic

I need to look into USB-C the problem I uncovered when I plugged it into my Computer and when trying to use my macbook as a pedal board as I do with Bias FX, it's a different sample rate so I'm still working out the kinks there, but works fine going through my Digitech Drop Pedal into my FocusRite Audio Interface into my macbook.

The Metal Bars are the exterior of a normal guitar but they come off so when you are traveling the guitar goes into a really small bag in comparison.

Never intended to get the Ibanez but I saw it at my local guitar shop but they wanted £1200, I found another online with a minor knick in the fret board and was £400 less, so I jumped straight on it.

Fortunately this song is not very fast and I can play something. Technically hard because you need to keep an eye on strings you don't want to play 🤣

22 hours ago, EmbraceTheAbsurd said:

I bought a bass last week and decided to try it out for real in the championship now. Didn’t think it would go this well. I got 99% on basically my first try but kinda forgot to post it until now, and did score attack later.

I think that once you've mastered guitar a bit, switching to bass is easier, at least that was my experience. I bought bass and, knowing I could play all paths in Rocksmith, I joined the championships and immediately achieved good results in bass.

Ramones

I think those jumps from 244 to 799 are much easier to play by going from 244 to 244 strings lower, but as I saw in the video, the band seems to prefer jumping, so ok.

Quick improvement

And slight improvement on this

Rhythm

I find this a bit more difficult than 3 and the Lead path. There are only power chords there, Rhythm has barre chords and some fast jumps. I'd give this a 4.

5

I hate this chart. It's a 7 for me.

Something pleasant for a change 😄

This is so very 80s 😁

4 hours ago, Vodka said:

Fortunately this song is not very fast and I can play something. Technically hard because you need to keep an eye on strings you don't want to play 🤣

Nice playing! I gotta catch up

On 7/21/2026 at 4:25 PM, jasmith85 said:

Beautiful guitars! 🤩 Build quality looks good on the new one, how is it for your picking hand then?

Unfortunately been a little too busy for Rocksmith lately, was running out of time after realizing the Icon song's tuning was incorrect so I had to skip it for now, very fun bunch of tracks though. Excuse the rust 😅







Super super fun to play, gotta play it another time.

11 hours ago, drand said:

This is so very 80s 😁

Nice playing! I gotta catch up

Beautiful guitars! 🤩 Build quality looks good on the new one, how is it for your picking hand then?

my hands hurt like hell though it's injury of my own doing, I've taken up retaken up Jiu-Jitsu and boxing more at the gym so my hands hurt an awful lot. So a lighter guitar is better for my back and the neck profile seem nicer on my left hand, picking hand not so much but I haven't pushed myself yet, might try "Her Ghost In the Fog" by Cradle of Filth, thats very very heavy on the picking so I will try that later on my new guitar.

Is there a way to reset song progress? I RRed Icon and now I've got to high %%. I'm not able to play that good.

17 hours ago, drand said:

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This is so very 80s 😁
Nice playing! I gotta catch up

...

I'm sure you'll get great results very soon. I'll sweat for two nights to improve my results by at least 0.1%, and then you'll come and tear me to shreds 🤣

Not bad for me actually.

Bass

Improvements

7 hours ago, Vodka said:

I'm sure you'll get great results very soon. I'll sweat for two nights to improve my results by at least 0.1%, and then you'll come and tear me to shreds 🤣

6 hours ago, Vodka said:

Not bad for me actually.

😂😂 diabolical gg

Hmm might be just me or my interface but I felt like some sections are off sync (a bit late to music = me hitting early). Anyone else had that feeling or should I start beating the living crap out of my interface.

new strings back on guitar... think i've started to get tapping finally... realise i actually haven't quite😅
still, a lot better now!!)

Happy Friday everyone! 😊 Only one day left to join this week's Championship ⏰

Reminder for everyone that's put in scores within past 2 weeks:

@aNDESmASAMUNE	@Argh1992
@jimbobmccecil	@figital
@attaboy

Have a great weekend if we don't see ya! 😁 Week 666 incoming 😈

Glad you got your strings @shaggy_malagy!

[Chorus: Paul McCartney, John Lennon & George Harrison]
I've got to admit it's getting better (Better)
A little better all the time (It can't get no worse)
I have to admit it's getting better (Better)
It's getting better since you've been mine

3 hours ago, drand said:

Happy Friday everyone! 😊 Only one day left to join this week's Championship ⏰

Reminder for everyone that's put in scores within past 2 weeks:

@aNDESmASAMUNE	@Argh1992
@jimbobmccecil	@figital
@attaboy

Have a great weekend if we don't see ya! 😁 Week 666 incoming 😈

Glad you got your strings @shaggy_malagy!

Thats right @attaboy .
First you tryin to be cool by slinging mud at me and now you don't show up!
Get yo ass here.