Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 675 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @iQu3so (92.85)
- Intermediate: @jimmy655 (91.19)
- Advanced: @Mikson (96.35)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (98)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 2 is @PlanetFinesse (98), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @Mitcho (96)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (93)
- Advanced: @robolechuga (89)
- Masterclass: @Rodman (98.6)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 2 is @LuZifeR (96), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @Mitcho (97)
- Intermediate: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Advanced: @Daz40 (99.33)
- Advanced Bonus: @ALSRC (97.47)
- Masterclass: @pedropmf (99.7)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 2 is @Nomgoose (99.15), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Silverstein - The Afterglow (3.5^) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: The Weeknd - Starboy (3*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Chevelle - Young Wicked (4) (C# Drop B) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Alice Cooper - It's the Little Things (4) (Eb Drop Db) selected by drand
Advanced: Between the Buried and Me - Desert of Song (7*) (C# Standard) selected by Nomgoose
Advanced Bonus: Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) (6) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Masterclass: Phinehas - Crowns (9*) (D Drop C) selected by drand
God of Guitar: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (10) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 3 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Silverstein - The Afterglow (3*) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: The Weeknd - Starboy (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Chevelle - Young Wicked (4) (C# Drop B) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Alice Cooper - It's the Little Things (4) (Eb Drop Db) selected by drand
Advanced: Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) (7*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced Bonus: Between the Buried and Me - Desert of Song (6.5) (C# Standard) selected by Nomgoose
Masterclass: Phinehas - Crowns (8.5) (D Drop C) selected by drand
God of Rhythm: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (9) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 3 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Chevelle - Young Wicked (4^) (C# Drop B) selected by cacahuate51
Beginner Bonus: Silverstein - The Afterglow (3*) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Intermediate: Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) (5*) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Intermediate Bonus: Phinehas - Crowns (4) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Advanced: Between the Buried and Me - Desert of Song (6) (C# Standard) selected by Nomgoose
Advanced Bonus: The Fearless Flyers - Patrol Acrobatique (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Dirty Loops - Just Dance (9*) (E Standard) selected by drand
God of Bass: The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal (Full Album) (8) (C Standard) selected by Nomgoose [Week 3 of 4]

(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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5 strings

Struggle with the bottom strings and some quick transitions 😅

4 hours ago, rosefog said:

hello!! ive been on fee[dB]ack, it is sooo much better to not have to wait 5 minutes every time i open the game

Are the developers back from vacation? I think it was a bit on pause for some time

It has great potential and if the feedforge selection increases it can be awesome 😍

Absolute slapping chaos 😅

I kept waiting for the power chords.....

5 hours ago, ALSRC said:

Are the developers back from vacation? I think it was a bit on pause for some time

It has great potential and if the feedforge selection increases it can be awesome 😍

ive been out of the loop on the chanell, whats the feedforge selection?

Improvements

53 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

ive been out of the loop on the chanell, whats the feedforge selection?

Feedforge it's like CustomsForge but for fee[dB]ack https://feedforge.org/library

Got a small improvement this morning while the site was napping:

Have a nice musweek everyone! Thanks for hosting @drand !

Silverstein - The Afterglow

The Weeknd - Starboy

Chevelle - Young Wicked

Alice Cooper - It's the Little Things

Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love)

Between the Buried and Me - Desert of Song

Phinehas - Crowns. I think I forgot to play bass.

The Fearless Flyers - Patrol Acrobatique

Dirty Loops - Just Dance

Nice, diminished chord inversions...

Thanks for the new week!

I don´t think I am this kind of bass player

More like this kind

By the way, I have a small cut in my left index finger, but I didn´t really know what to do about it, so I just suffered through it. Do you guys have any tips for those kind of problems?

Also, I noticed Weird Al Yankovic has never been selected for the Championship, but there quite a number of CDLCs available for him (mostly bass by @Emmy-Dell). I don't have the time to try them out right now, but I'll try to make a few suggestions later. (But if anyone else wants to get into it first, of course go ahead :) )

14 minutes ago, MaltaSoron said:

By the way, I have a small cut in my left index finger, but I didn´t really know what to do about it, so I just suffered through it. Do you guys have any tips for those kind of problems?

uh probably bandaid or worst case scenario tape. Make sure nothing gets in there cause if it does and heals youll have a permanent bump (atleast i do from a cut i got)

huh surprised weird al hasnt gotten picked, thought we had played eat it before but you are right its never been picked. Look forward to anything you or any one reading this will submit this week as I will be hosting next week.

36 minutes ago, MaltaSoron said:

By the way, I have a small cut in my left index finger, but I didn´t really know what to do about it, so I just suffered through it. Do you guys have any tips for those kind of problems?

Acrylic resins are my jam so I use superglue 😂 (originally used during the Vietnam War to quickly patch injured soldiers)

used to do all my fretting fingers until they stopped hurting 🤘💀 watch out though some might consider it performance enhancing drugs 😉 You can buy liquid skin bandage/tissue adhesive at the pharmacy to make sure it's safe on skin


Couldn't do better on this today ofc I didn't play score attack and it ended up at 98.92 allegedly here 😅

Good picks thanks for the week
First bass scores

difficult beginner song 4.5

3 nice

5 I forgot this my daughter sings this all the time.

more later I'm tired

On 9/27/2026 at 1:07 PM, drand said:

The Whiskey in the Jar cover on one of your weeks is my absolute favorite Metallica I found from the Championship so far 🤩 I am glad to get introduced to more of their songs and eras on here, their performances from the 80s are mindblowing 🤯

I love the way Cliff plays Bass that floating thumb
and sometimes hitting the strings with two fingers for extra whoomp!!

13 hours ago, MaltaSoron said:

By the way, I have a small cut in my left index finger, but I didn´t really know what to do about it, so I just suffered through it. Do you guys have any tips for those kind of problems?

I used some rubber/silicone finger protectors from AliExpress or Amazon, but you lose sensibility while playing and can't do slides

Whenever I hear the diminished run it reminds me of a spongebob song

@drand Thanks for the week!

First scores

There’s no solo here, but that fast switching between double stops isn't easy, so maybe 4.

Pleasant melody, in my opinion, this too easy for 3, since the chart is repetitive and the notes move quite slowly. 2 for me.

This is not technically difficult, but quite fast, so 4/4.5.

Generally easy, but the solo with those two-string bends gave me some trouble, so 4/4.5.

I was actually expecting a heavy, hard-hitting song here, but it turned out to be a calmer, mostly acoustic song 😄 I don't think this difficult enough for a 7; more like a 6 or 6.5.

Ahh, those chords I couldn't catch... Also 6/6.5.

No chance here, truly 9.

I'm adding screenshots from Steam for the first time; I hope it works 😬

@cacahuate51 Thanks for the guide!

Guitar

The Alice Cooper song felt easier (to me) than Silverstein

5 hours ago, Mikson said:

I'm adding screenshots from Steam for the first time; I hope it works 😬

@cacahuate51 Thanks for the guide!

The screenshots load immediately for me, seems this solves the problem from the last few weeks where screenshots delayed or not displayed for some of us.