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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8 hours ago, Nomgoose said:

Didn't expect to get this so fast, thought I'd do just one more run tonight for fun. Just that one A string slide from fret 16 to 3 to get to cooperate and this is done as well:

CW: alcohol reference

More gin might help? 😅

Jamiroquai is always a fun time, but as with a lot of funk tracks it's about remembering all the little fills and variations then trying to put it all together in a performance. Might be able to push this a bit higher but there's a lot of other music this week 😅

I can't actually listen to Wicked Game without thinking of this video 😂:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fhE7wgBKzA

Is there a "fixed" copy of the Wolfmother psarc file floating around, or do I need to download the CFSM? 🤔

7 minutes ago, Knippenburg said:

I can't actually listen to Wicked Game without thinking of this video 😂:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fhE7wgBKzA

It's another wicked game 😅

On 10/17/2026 at 3:38 PM, cacahuate51 said:

Download this unofficial cfsm cdlc fix thanks to @Nomgoose instead so the bass path doesnt crash

@Knippenburg here

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!
YEEAAHHH!!! ✌😎✌🤩✌😎✌🤩
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Coheed and Cambria - The End Complete II: Radio Bye Bye
A bit frustrated because I get many missed notes when playing the main riff... even when I play at 70% speed or so!!! 🤣

This went a bit better than I expected, but don't know if I will keep trying with this path...

Improvement

Wow greeat scores everyone!!

So is the championship really good for you as legend says?? @Rodman

I think I have my answer, it's made a huge difference for me!!
It's been 100 weeks since my first!
thank you to my all rivals for giving me the drive to pick up the instrument again and again, and slowly but surely figure it out 😊

Also added chess style rankings to see how we stack up against each other for fun 😄 (still under construction this one is not final!)

Timelines added to all player profiles ☝

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Neat to see more stats being added! unfortunately i dont play chess and dont really understand what i am looking at :V
All i see is lots of ups and downs and my bass elo is the same when i started in beginer so... xD
edit : nvm looking back i guess i participated in adv bass quite early on, didnt know it was that long ago, scary

Edit edit: I got too distracted by your cool website and skimmed a very important part of your mesagge

CONGRATS ON YOUR 100 WEEK BEING HERE WITH US!!

It's been great to have you as a participant, competitor, host and coder! You are the complete package !! Guess that means in 4 weeks it'll be the two year anniversary ;)

Oh man, Do I wanna Know, is one of my favorite song from high school,
Its really nice to play it!
Had to practice a few days because of the speed, but I'm getting the hang of it.
The lead is particularly brutal with all the sliding.

Need some bass practice.

Usually playing the guitar chart helps on the bass chart, and vice versa, but not so much on this song. And not a lot of those extened 16th note sections to make up for mistakes on the other sections. Really fun song though. I just want to stop playing and groove...

5 hours ago, drand said:

Wow greeat scores everyone!!

So is the championship really good for you as legend says?? @Rodman

I think I have my answer, it's made a huge difference for me!!
It's been 100 weeks since my first!
thank you to my all rivals for giving me the drive to pick up the instrument again and again, and slowly but surely figure it out 😊

Congrats on t he 100 weeks! The championship is definitely good for you. It's a great way to achieve a state of flow through a dynamic symbiosis of challenge and skill - as summarized by AI:

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi explores how happiness and peak satisfaction are achieved through a state of total absorption in an activity, known as a "flow state".

Core Concepts

• Optimal Experience: Moments when body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

• Control of Consciousness: True happiness does not happen by chance; it comes from learning to order the information that enters our consciousness.

• The Challenge-Skill Balance: Flow happens when a task's challenge matches or slightly exceeds a person's current skill level. If challenges are too low, people feel bored; if they are too high, they feel anxious.

Key Conditions for Flow

• Clear Goals: Knowing what needs to be done step-by-step.

• Immediate Feedback: Knowing how well you are doing at any given moment.

• Deep Concentration: Complete focus on the task with a loss of self-consciousness and an altered sense of time. [

This one is not for me - tough octave jumps

new reaction emojis dropped let's gooo!!

thanks for posting about it @MotivatedCF :)

3 hours ago, drand said:

new reaction emojis dropped let's gooo!!

thanks for posting about it @MotivatedCF :)

SO COOL! I would have noticed, eventually, but I learned it through you @drand ! ❤️

100%ing this song is brutal I can get 99 consistantly but not missing a note is always tricky.Tried more times than i could count on monday :P Wonder who will get there first this week 👀

Tbh was quite surprised it was rated a 4 so i checked the old version to see if it just didnt have the piano part. Maybe they were just a different breed back then and we've gone soft 🇻🇬
lots of colors but i guess with some handshapes perhaps itd look less threatening.

Bands like Atreyu aren't usually my thing but I've enjoyed both of the recent songs on here, and it was pretty tricky for an Intermediate. Also one thing I've noticed is my bass dislikes the drop tuning if I play too softly (which thankfully isn't too much of an issue with this song 😀)

I've played Money plenty of times before but on another CDLC file so was caught out a bit by the changes in notation. Still good fun to play and it remains a test of concentration!

Fun song to play this one, probably my favourite of this week's picks - for me I felt this was on a par with the Atreyu one difficulty-wise. I did enjoy the off-beats and syncopation 👍

Had a brief look at Wolfmother today as well so should hopefully get round to posting a score on that in the next couple of days. Then I'll decide if I can stomach learning BlueDaBaDeeDaBaDeeDaBaDee etc etc or not 😂

18 hours ago, drand said:

Wow greeat scores everyone!!

So is the championship really good for you as legend says?? @Rodman

i knows its done wonders for my playing....

ignore my megadeth score iv played it a few times now and gives me the same score, think i need to run a fix on it...

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!!
YEEAAHHH!!! ✌😎✌🤩✌😎✌🤩
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I beat my past self!! Yeah!

I think at that time I played the bass as tabbed, but now that I know the riff in guitar, It doesnt make sense to play it differently...

Progress on Arctic Monkeys (two days ago = XXX, yesterday = X, today = no boos).

The slide on A from 3 to 5 gets me, even though they aren't supposed to be that hard (looks like I get them too late?). Will keep trying :)

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