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

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 674 =-

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

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (94.5)
- Intermediate Bonus: @jimmy655 (94.29)
- Advanced: @jimbobmccecil (96)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (91.73)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (96.44)
- Masterclass Bonus: @LuZifeR (95)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @PlanetFinesse (98), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: LOST TROPHY
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (92)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (91)
- Advanced: @Vodka (98)
- Advanced Bonus: @jimmy655 (88.58)
- Masterclass: @LuZifeR (95)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 1 is @drand (87), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @Knippenburg (99)
- Beginner Bonus: @Knippenburg (100)
- Intermediate: @Knippenburg (98)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Knippenburg (99.67)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.59)
- Advanced Bonus: @drand @Daz40 @Knippenburg (100)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (94.15)
- Masterclass Bonus: @pedropmf (98.93)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 1 is @Nomgoose (99.15), 2 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion (3*) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655
Intermediate: Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You (4.5) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Advanced: The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (7*) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655
Masterclass: Metallica - No Remorse (8.5) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
God of Guitar: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (10) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 2 of 3]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion (3*) (D Standard) selected by jimmy655
Intermediate: Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You (4) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Advanced: Sturgill Simpson - Life Of Sin (7*) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by RoboLechuga
Masterclass: Metallica - No Remorse (7.5) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
God of Rhythm: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (9) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 2 of 3]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Joe Walsh - A Life of Illusion (3*) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655
Intermediate: Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You (4) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Advanced: The Allman Brothers Band - One Way Out (6) (E Standard) selected by jimmy655
Advanced Bonus: Sturgill Simpson - Life Of Sin (6) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
Masterclass: Metallica - No Remorse (7.5) (E Standard) selected by RoboLechuga
God of Bass: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (8) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 2 of 3]

(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).

Do you want to host a week? Join the Championship organizing team!!!
The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman.

33 minutes ago, Mikson said:

I checked, and you're actually right. The post with score for the Leatherneck song was added at 8:24 PM, and the new week started at 11:25 PM, so the score definitely counts.

I've added it to the leaderboard, so @robolechuga, you can update the winner list in the main post.

@Mikson @shaggy_malagy Got it - fixed up the leaderboard here in the main post - also looks like 3 way tie for Advanced bonus bass - so I did that too.

Improvement

6 hours ago, Mikson said:

Now it is @drand responsibility to choose easy songs next week so as not to discourage participants 😅

No pressure @drand , you got this. On an unrelated note i'll be opening up a torches and pitchfork stand next week.

Maybe a (7)? Chart could use a lil update sustains connect i think

Near my limits, wish it weren't so.....

I don't usually get into the ratings discussions, but this one seems a lot harder than the Metallica song - as reflected by the scores

On 9/22/2026 at 4:43 PM, MotivatedCF said:

Hum, I tried last week songs and it didn't go well, and it's not going well either this week (I get a less worse score with Squier than with Walsh 😔). So, as much as I wanted to play, the championships (and even more Intermediate) aren't for me yet (with my 88 hours on Rocksmith...). I'll keep training, I'll keep playing championship songs on the side (and maybe commenting 😅), I'll certainly cheer and celebrate other's scores, but I won't be participating.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I was there, believe me! Songs difficulty vary of course - and the last ones are on the real edge from Beg/Int.
Don´t get DEmotivated - the CS is good for you - i promise if you keep going for 3 months - 12 weeks you will already be delivering 90%s constantly. Try me!
Don´t go away - if you wanna learn to play that 6er having the most possible fun on the way, getting motivated back2back - that´s your place.

Rod.

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words. I'm still motivated (I played a full hour yesterday, like almost every day), it's just I'm also realistic, and this is out of my league at the moment. And I might have been to eager when I accepted to be promoted to intermediate 😅. I hear you too, and I'll keep following what's happening in terms of championship, and posting scores, even the bad ones.

Championship is very motivating, not just for the sake of friendly competition, but also for the songs I don't know (Dolly Parton comes to mind, Arctic Monkeys as well (I knew the song, never clicked that the bass line was so catchy)).

A propos of nothing, I learned a couple of weeks ago there's a bass version of the Whammy DT drop tuning pedal.

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!

YEEAAHHH!!! ✌😎✌🤩✌😎✌🤩
Thank you @robolechuga for hosting the week!!!

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Just a quick first try to keep my streak!!!

🤫This will be very unpopular opinion, but I dont like Metallica...🫣

I think their overuse playing the low E string with variations.... Dont have much motivation to play this perfectly... But dont tell anyone 😅

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Thank you @drand for the streak reminder!!

Actually I warmed up trying your song 👍

I love this song!! Used to play it on acoustic guitar...

I think is a 3.5 or 4... 😉

Early submission again (can't catch me @drand reminder!) this week seeing as I'm away this weekend. Didn't get much time to play this week at all with a bundle of puppy energy running around the house and an older dog that's not too pleased with the new addition! Someday I might get to play Nocturnal...

All the best with your scores everyone!

plus rhy

better

hell yeah. absolutely butchered the beginning, else i´m very happy

22 hours ago, robolechuga said:

@Mikson @shaggy_malagy Got it - fixed up the leaderboard here in the main post - also looks like 3 way tie for Advanced bonus bass - so I did that too.

its not the points i care about, its the recognition for trying my hardest to earn the points that means most 😅 appreciate it... like i say, slimmest of margins in that one 😂and respect for making me try my hardest, thats why i love this comp

plus lead

When my hair's all but gone and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way, mmm
I know you will still love me the same

poor ed 🙃

44couldn't miss metallica.. ;)

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i just hate new post editor... no idea how o paste images from links... it is complete random for me how it is done now.

i changes the text to links instead of converting to the image...

maybe someone could explain what is going on...

23 minutes ago, kayteck said:

i changes the text to links instead of converting to the image...

maybe someone could explain what is going on...

Took me a while to figure it out too but on every image you post there is a button on the bottom right that says "insert line after" and it makes the process so much better and less of a headahce.

3 hours ago, JobwanMojo said:

Took me a while to figure it out too but on every image you post there is a button on the bottom right that says "insert line after" and it makes the process so much better and less of a headahce.

yep i'll second that thought that hitting that button usually keeps the others as images as well
I also noticed when I ctrl + v the links that you left up above @kayteck they also appear to me like this:
https://i.postimg.cc/tCthMVZn/20260924223139-1.jpg

However, when I use the same link and use ctrl +shift+ v it posts the image like this:

sometimes shift + enter or just enter after an image can also help

Also I noticed that if I go to your link and right click copy image adress it works fine both ctrl v and ctrl shift v.. so maybe you got the url some other way?