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

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

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (95)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (97.89)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (96.15)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (92)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (97.55)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (96.36)
- Advanced: @Vodka (97)
- Masterclass: @LuZifeR (97)

Bass:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (99.46)
- Intermediate: @theMaelstro (100)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (99.48)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (99)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (100)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

More great news. There are players to be promoted to higher rank this week.

- @theMaelstro is promoted to Advanced class in Bass path.
- @attaboy is promoted to Advanced class in Bass path.

Congratulations and good luck with new challenges!
In case the above players do not accept promotion, please advise accordingly in the post so we can revert back to previous Class.

Lead Path:
Beginner: Millencolin - Devil Me (3*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
CFSM fix: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nbqrp2atiievxlw/Millencolin_Devil-Me_v1_p.psarc/file
Intermediate: INXS - Devil Inside (4) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate Bonus: The Beatles - Devil in Her Heart (5*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Judas Priest - Devil's Child (7*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced Bonus: Ghost - Satanized (6) (D Standard) selected by Rodman
Masterclass: Satan - Who Dies Wins (8) (E Standard) selected by Rodman

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Millencolin - Devil Me (3*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
fix: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nbqrp2atiievxlw/Millencolin_Devil-Me_v1_p.psarc/file
Intermediate: The Beatles - Devil in Her Heart (4) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate Bonus: Judas Priest - Devil's Child (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise (6) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Masterclass: Satan - Who Dies Wins (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman

Bass Path:
Beginner: Millencolin - Devil Me (3*) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
fix: https://www.mediafire.com/file/nbqrp2atiievxlw/Millencolin_Devil-Me_v1_p.psarc/file
Beginner Bonus: Judas Priest - Devil's Child (1.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate: INXS - Devil Inside (4) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Intermediate Bonus: Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil in Disguise (4) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Ghost - Satanized (7*) (D Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced Bonus: The Beatles - Devil in Her Heart (6) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Masterclass: Satan - Who Dies Wins (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Rodman

(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)

STREAKS

@robolechuga is on a 5-week streak and has played a total of 79 weeks!

Keep it up!!

13 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Now I'm waiting for the video of you shredding the solo :P

yep definitely cooking that up for y'all 😂

1 hour ago, MotivatedCF said:

Thank you! Drag and drop looks to have done the trick, i've checked and what's on this page is a <img> element now, with a href to my Steam screenshot, yeah!

Great!! One last thing the auto-score assistant I think only registers images in new posts so I don't think it will pick up that edit 😅

8 hours ago, Mikson said:

Not now, I don't know when, maybe when I create another CDLC because I rarely make charts for the masterclass difficulty level.

Yea that masterclass one would be a hard one to do for all three classes, will look forward to it when you do it though!

Edit: Was also just making sure incase you wanted to do it this week, im free today so I volunteered to do it. (niiickeeelbackweek)

There's nothing hard here but for no reason I can't play it properly. Those chords are hard for my sausages.

3 hours ago, drand said:

STREAKS

Great!! One last thing the auto-score assistant I think only registers images in new posts so I don't think it will pick up that edit 😅

yeah i think drand is right, it doesnt look like your score got automatically picked up @MotivatedCF . So it would be appreciated if you just repost the picture in a new comment 🙏

Few attempt and trying to crack that 94.7% on Iron Maiden,

Here is another devil song.

Tough (for me 😅)

No way I was gonna miss this week!



Note detection was being (and excuse me for this) a little devil on this

This one was way too fun

TOTAL WEEKS PLAYED

Congratulations @LuZifeR on 60 weeks played!

Yikes! This ain't smashing the thick strings...

That was painful, burn the recording

Reposting now that I know how to post images lol

4th attempt is my last one for this song. I'll hope I can find time to try more tunes (INXS is next).

Edit: INX is out of my league for now ¯\(°_o)/¯

I'll keep practicing :)

Edited July 31Jul 31 by MotivatedCF

On 7/30/2026 at 10:21 AM, Rodman said:

Obviously had to check on that - hahahaha - i really did forget to upload my pics that week, i even made the leaderboard update manually and posted it, i got all the screenshots in my lib, didn´t post. However - for me personally i count updating the leaderboard and making a post about that as passive participation - so no week missed anyway ;)

More importantly - man that was a nice journey right now back to 2017 reading those posts from our allstars let´s just name @NoonyDeloony @JokerTheAnarchist and my dear rival @MonstaS4 ...

Rock!

Rod.

i'm still around! cheers for the memories 🤘

Bass

I don't know why or if it's just me, but when I play easy, repeatable charts like this with a pick, I get random misses. I had 98% accuracy with a pick, played second time with my fingers, and 100%...

This is fun on bass

And this too

Has anyone noticed tuning issues with the Rocksmith tuner? (I'm on a Mac, which may have different issues than the more popular Windows machines.) When my guitar is carefully tuned using the Rocksmith tuner and then checked with any of the many guitar tuners I've owned, the guitar tuner shows about 12 cents flat on every string. I've checked my guitar tuners versus my digital piano and they're always within one cent of true on any note, so I'm pretty sure it's the Rocksmith tuner that is a bit off. Not sure if the song audio tracks are also played a bit flat on Rocksmith, they sound fine together with the guitar, but honestly I'm not sure I could hear a 12 cent discrepancy on electric guitar. Curious if I'm the only one who's noticed this, it's been an issue on multiple Macs and multiple guitar tuners over the years.

10 minutes ago, jimmy655 said:

Has anyone noticed tuning issues with the Rocksmith tuner? (I'm on a Mac, which may have different issues than the more popular Windows machines.) When my guitar is carefully tuned using the Rocksmith tuner and then checked with any of the many guitar tuners I've owned, the guitar tuner shows about 12 cents flat on every string. I've checked my guitar tuners versus my digital piano and they're always within one cent of true on any note, so I'm pretty sure it's the Rocksmith tuner that is a bit off. Not sure if the song audio tracks are also played a bit flat on Rocksmith, they sound fine together with the guitar, but honestly I'm not sure I could hear a 12 cent discrepancy on electric guitar. Curious if I'm the only one who's noticed this, it's been an issue on multiple Macs and multiple guitar tuners over the years.

Here is @firekorn's word on that from 11 years ago I found on reddit 😆 (the ancient text!):

RS tuner take in consideration the fact that picking a string will make it go a little sharp so RS tuner is 20 cent flat compare to any other tuning that don't care about the variation in pitch on attack.

I think this might even be related to what you're talking about @Mikson 👀

2 hours ago, Mikson said:

I don't know why or if it's just me, but when I play easy, repeatable charts like this with a pick, I get random misses. I had 98% accuracy with a pick, played second time with my fingers, and 100%...

19 minutes ago, drand said:

Here is @firekorn's word on that from 11 years ago I found on reddit 😆 (the ancient text!):

I think this might even be related to what you're talking about @Mikson 👀

Those are very interesting points. I wonder if it would make sense to retune with an external tuner after tuning with the mandatory Rocksmith tuner. I had tried retuning with an external tuner a few times past, and I thought it sounded slightly better on some quieter songs, but I hadn't been concerned with tracking accuracy issues - until I started playing in the Championship of course where every note matters. (I play pretty much every bass chart with my fingers, so I haven't noticed a pick vs fingers tracking issue. This week's Ghost chart seems really hard with fingers - at least for me - will try to find a heavy enough pick at the bottom of the drawer... )

I retuned the bass with an external tuner and got a 100 on this one. Previously I had missed one or two notes, not sure if it's detection issues or not, but it did sound better with the external retuning.

But retuning didn't solve all of my misses on this one, just a tiny improvement. I've been experimenting with some alternate fingerings on this one, which improves my accuracy on the tricky sections in RR, but then I can't quite remember them when I play the whole song... as they say 90% is half mental...

"I should have known not to give in"... finally gave up trying to play this with fingers, need to work on picked bass..

Hey...



the Ghost song i only did 84%... played only once but i could tell it wouldn't be much better anyway.
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cheers.

Hello everyone.

Very long time no play! Hope everyone is well.

Me on lead and @Sofe on Bass.

This one was hard for me. Not sure why?


Only had 1 quick attempt.

Hey all,

I am new here but I have played bass for a few years back in the 2000's. I have just starting picking it up again.

This is my second attempt at the song, first time solo.

14 minutes ago, RoR said:

Hello everyone.

Very long time no play! Hope everyone is well.

Me on lead and @Sofe on Bass.

This one was hard for me. Not sure why?


Only had 1 quick attempt.

Damn, we now have Saruman VS Gandalf (@Rodman) !
also looks like last time you participated was 322 weeks ago (way before my time), good to have you back!

8 hours ago, jimmy655 said:

Those are very interesting points. I wonder if it would make sense to retune with an external tuner after tuning with the mandatory Rocksmith tuner. I had tried retuning with an external tuner a few times past, and I thought it sounded slightly better on some quieter songs, but I hadn't been concerned with tracking accuracy issues - until I started playing in the Championship of course where every note matters. (I play pretty much every bass chart with my fingers, so I haven't noticed a pick vs fingers tracking issue. This week's Ghost chart seems really hard with fingers - at least for me - will try to find a heavy enough pick at the bottom of the drawer... )

Just make sure to recallibrate the bass if you change from fingers to pick as you might be hitting it either harder or softer so note detection may be funky if you dont.
also i always thought recallibration was just a volume thing but with drand commented bout picking cents changing maybe its actually a pitch callibration thing as well . with ableton tuning i can see my guitar can go 30 cents detuned if strumed hard and fretted hard but yea i dont usually play like that (and also it might be just that i have the guitar not setup irl as well ) . but yea i guess just be mindfull of how hard you play.

Dang wish I had more time to work on that solo 🤯

On 7/29/2026 at 8:49 PM, cacahuate51 said:

yeah ghost has grown on me, i remember dreading it the first couple times they were featured in the championship but they do have some neat parts.

me when I first heard the band in the championship then i think @jimbobmccecil said he was all about Sabaton until Ghost took over and I got an idea what my future might look like 😂 pretty amazing project, gonna catch their IMAX movie this month 🙂
i haven't recalibrated in months now thankfully adjusting volume on the interface works okay for me

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