Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 678 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner:@EmbraceTheAbsurd (98.23)
- Intermediate:@Vodka (99)
- Advanced:@cacahuate51 (98.25)
- Masterclass:@shaggy_malagy (98)

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (94)
- Intermediate: @FlatCap Jay (97)
- Advanced: @aNDESmASAMUNE (98.51)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (89)

Bass:
- Beginner: @MotivatedCF (99.88)
- Intermediate: @MaltaSoron (98)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (99.39)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (99.82)

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner:Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?(2.5)(E Standard)selected by poll
Beginner Bonus:Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)(4^)(E Standard)selected bypoll
Intermediate:Atreyu - Becoming The Bull(5*)(D Drop C)selected bypoll
Intermediate Bonus:Chris Isaak - Wicked Game(5*)(E Standard)selected bypoll - Alt. Lead Path!!!
* Alt lead path is the same as lead path except alt doesn't require a whammy.
Advanced:Wolfmother - Sundial(6.5)(E Standard)selected bypoll
Download this unofficial cfsm cdlc fix thanks to @Nomgoose instead so the bass path doesnt crash
Advanced Bonus:Pink Floyd - Money(6)(E Standard)selected bypoll
Masterclass:Megadeth - Dystopia(9*)(D Standard)selected bypoll
Masterclass Bonus:Tenacious D - Beelzeboss(5.5)(E Standard)selected bypoll
God of Guitar:Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album(10)(D Standard)selected bypoll[Week 1 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (2.5) (E Standard) selected by poll
Beginner Bonus: Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (3*) (E Standard) selected by poll
Intermediate: Atreyu - Becoming The Bull (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by poll
Intermediate Bonus: Pink Floyd - Money (3) (E Standard) selected by poll
Advanced: Coheed and Cambria - The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye (6.5) (E Standard) selected by poll
Advanced Bonus: Coheed and Cambria - The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye (7.5^) (E Standard) - Alt. Lead path!!!! selected by poll
Masterclass: Megadeth - Dystopia (8) (D Standard) selected by poll
Masterclass Bonus: King Crimson - The Court of the Crimson King (7.5) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by poll
God of Rhythm: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 1 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? (2.5) (E Standard) selected by poll
Beginner Bonus: Chris Isaak - Wicked Game (2) (E Standard) selected by poll
Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Money (5*) (E Standard) selected by poll
Intermediate Bonus: Atreyu - Becoming The Bull (4.5) (D Drop C) selected by poll
Advanced: Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) (6.5) (E Standard) selected by poll
Advanced Bonus: Coheed and Cambria - The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye (7*) (E Standard) selected by poll
Masterclass: Jamiroquai - Runaway (8) (E Standard) selected by poll
Masterclass Bonus: Wolfmother - Sundial (7.5) (E Standard)
Download this unofficial cfsm cdlc fix thanks to @Nomgoose instead so the bass path doesnt crash
God of Bass: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (A Standard) selected by poll [Week 1 of 4] -Bonus rhythm path 5 strings!! Normal path is broken don't recommend it

(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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9 hours ago, drand said:

Happy FRIDAY everyone!

⏳ Streaks at stake

Active streaks with no score yet this week · 1 day left

• @MaltaSoron 🔥 72weeks

• @Daz40 🔥 36weeks

• @jimbobmccecil 🔥 20weeks

• @FlatCap Jay 🔥 9weeks

• @LuZifeR 🔥 1week

Come check out the new Seasons feature on the companion site and see your standings!
Have a great weekend if we don't see you 🤘😁

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Don't forget to complete the poll for ignition4 by Nov 5 if you haven't already and check out the results:

https://ignition4.customsforge.com/survey/soundcheck-2026/

Im on it !!😅

16 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

This one was the one I played cause I remember it not having lyrics, had hard to read arpeggios and its fripnomonics

Got to say I prefer Arpeggios, I just see Handshapes as single notes.
Will have to get used to them though as Arpeggios are now a No!No!
Or I would have to convert every chart😂

9 hours ago, drand said:

Happy FRIDAY everyone!

⏳ Streaks at stake

Active streaks with no score yet this week · 1 day left

• @MaltaSoron 🔥 72weeks

• @Daz40 🔥 36weeks

• @jimbobmccecil 🔥 20weeks

• @FlatCap Jay 🔥 9weeks

• @LuZifeR 🔥 1week

Come check out the new Seasons feature on the companion site and see your standings!
Have a great weekend if we don't see you 🤘😁

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Don't forget to complete the poll for ignition4 by Nov 5 if you haven't already and check out the results:

https://ignition4.customsforge.com/survey/soundcheck-2026/

Had a really busy week, but here I am

Congrats on thirteen years, everyone! 🥳🥳🥳

48 minutes ago, Daz40 said:

Got to say I prefer Arpeggios, I just see Handshapes as single notes.
Will have to get used to them though as Arpeggios are now a No!No!
Or I would have to convert every chart😂

yea it becomes really subjective which is why i'm counting them all.

personally this looks more confusing:


than this :

I do understand why they used sustains as well as arp in pic 1, it just gets a little too hard for read for me. Plus the lines at the bottom of the notes always make me think its an open note since the arpegiated notes already have open notes.

Looking at those notes they are not the same so i guess ill have to slow them down and see which one is more accurate ( but like i said theres flaws in all of them and any would benefit from an update and it might not be the exact same spot)

Glad a version works for you though 🤘.

Since we recently got drop tunning mod (which was said for years to not be possible) I don't doubt someone in the future that cares about arps and handshapes will find a way to make a mod that can be toggleble and convert both of those notations into the prefered one by the user.

5 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

yea it becomes really subjective which is why i'm counting them all.

personally this looks more confusing:


than this :

I do understand why they used sustains as well as arp in pic 1, it just gets a little too hard for read for me. Plus the lines at the bottom of the notes always make me think its an open note since the arpegiated notes already have open notes.

Glad a version works for you though 🤘.

Since we recently got drop tunning mod (which was said for years to not be possible) I don't doubt someone in the future that cares about arps and handshapes will find a way to make a mod that can be toggleble and convert both of those notations into the prefered one by the user.

Bad example with all those overlaps I suppose ??
Seems the camera zooms in more on the Arpeggio chart too, Not sure If that Is a focus thing or not ??
But yes a toggle for Arp's on and off would be great.

You are right though Handshapes are cleaner, it just does not scream Arpeggio loud enough to me..

improvements

I don't have any more time so here is my last submission for this week.

Fun mix of some classics, bit pushed for time this week but made a point of making room for the Death album, a band I've been meaning to get into so this was a good way to force that!

I just noticed the point in the song list about doing Alt Lead for this one, don't have time to do that I'm afraid so just posting this score, not going to trouble the leaders anyway!

Love me some Pink Floyd. However, I do not love me copious amounts of sensitive string bending, Score Attack did not go well for this one...

All the best with your scores everyone!

Week ends at 9:00PM CET

Good luck everyone!

Slight improvement but not quite the 100 - always seem to fluff a (relatively) easy bit 🫣

I was motivated to play "Pink Floyd - Money" (Lead-adv bonus) this week... however I've spent the last two days trying to install RsMods+Plus... 😅

I am not a tech guy and get pretty nervous and hyper-vigilant that I dont f%ck anything, since Its a miracle I can still play Rocksmith and CDLCs on my computer after all the changes in Windows versions!!

Finally I followed @drand advice (thank you for your support!!) and installed the "Audiobridge"... It didn't work "out of the box", so It still took me a couple hours to get the right settings (the most important thing was having the Audio exclusivity on, which wasnt I dont know why). And finally, EVERYTHING WORKS!!! ALELUYAH!!! 🤩

Something I wasnt expecting that will be very useful is that it takes the screenshots automatically!!! VIVA!!!!

After all this, I did try to RR "Money", but I am mentally tired to learn the solo... so I give up. 😵

Looking forward to next week!

I had time to go for Pink Floyd, managed 100% (on Easy 😅) after several attempts, then passed Medium difficulty with one fail, and will need to keep practicing, but not this week.

Ah good to know theres still 2 hours left. I tend to oversleep on saturdays and thought there would be no more time to practice,might give other songs a try. replayed a couple of the 100s on sa

I looked at previous 20 weeks and I didnt spot a week with 10 participants over 100% so its a new record! Sometimes it gets to 9 but not 10 if i counted right. So congrats to everyone that got it this week 🎉 (and maybe someone gets more during the last hour?)

retried for score and got a worse one 😅 pretty crazzy that theres almost a 400k difference between first place and last place score. I wonder if that means jobwan got an almost perfect score.

Passing Medium without a Fail, went for Hard, and while I hear what's playing, I fumbled too fast on my first and last attempt (again, will keep practicing (I love Pink Floyd)). All the more respect for Roger Waters for his bass lines AND singing while playing. The screenshot below is for Medium difficulty (I need to go to Intermediate rank again :))

Wish I had time to put more work into Runaway, but I'm traveling to a concert today. Impressive work everyone with this week's scores, can't wait to see how we all do with the next batch of songs!

45 minutes ago, Nomgoose said:

Wish I had time to put more work into Runaway, but I'm traveling to a concert today. Impressive work everyone with this week's scores, can't wait to see how we all do with the next batch of songs!

Concert?

tried to run CFSM and it keeps hanging up on the parsing at the same point... any suggestions? my megadeth will have to stand as is but i dont feel its legit

ooof 30 mins left hopefully i still have enough time to beat my score in atreyu (Edit: answer is nope 😅)

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10 minutes ago, shaggy_malagy said:

tried to run CFSM and it keeps hanging up on the parsing at the same point... any suggestions? my megadeth will have to stand as is but i dont feel its legit

have you tried writing your issue on discord? i also havent had luck with cfsm but i know they usually respond quick there

They are not doing support for CFSM1 at this point since CFSM2 is coming out soon as far as I know

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Rating adjustments from companion site votes:
Lead Beginner: 2.5 → 3 (website 2.9 from 1 player rating)
Lead Beginner Bonus: 4 → 4.5 (website 4.5 from 2 player ratings) ⚠ outside the 1–3.9 range
Lead Intermediate: 5 → 5.5 (website 5.7 from 1 player rating)
Lead Masterclass: 9 → 9.5 (website 9.4 from 1 player rating)
Lead Masterclass Bonus: 5.5 → 6 (website 6 from 1 player rating) ⚠ outside the 8–9.9 range
Lead God of Guitar: 10 → 9.5 (website 9.3 from 1 player rating) ⚠ outside the 10–10 range
Rhythm Intermediate: 4.5 → 5 (website 5 from 1 player rating)
Rhythm Intermediate Bonus: 3 → 3.5 (website 3.7 from 1 player rating) ⚠ outside the 4–5.9 range
Rhythm Advanced Bonus: 7.5 → 7 (website 7.2 from 2 player ratings)
Rhythm Masterclass: 8 → 8.5 (website 8.4 from 1 player rating)
Rhythm Masterclass Bonus: 7.5 → 8 (website 8 from 1 player rating)
Rhythm God of Rhythm: 10 → 9 (website 9 from 1 player rating) ⚠ outside the 10–10 range
Bass Beginner: 2.5 → 3 (website 2.8 from 4 player ratings)
Bass Intermediate Bonus: 4.5 → 5 (website 5 from 3 player ratings)
Bass Advanced Bonus: 7 → 6 (website 5.9 from 3 player ratings)
Bass God of Bass: 10 → 9 (website 9.2 from 2 player ratings) ⚠ outside the 10–10 range

This week is over! Thanks for playing!
New week here:
https://customsforge.com/topic/81491-rocksmith-2014-championship-week-679-haunted-riffs-halloween-hits-monster-grooves-supernatural-shredding-%F0%9F%8E%83/

quick bass check in.

Dang!!😅

2 hours ago, MotivatedCF said:

Concert?

Yup! Going out to go see Spite with a friend of mine. I'm ready to go get beat up a little.

i'll put it down to the pfp drama atm.... 🤷‍♂️