Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 679 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (98)
- Beginner Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- Intermediate: @Vodka (97)
- Intermediate Bonus: @jimmy655 (94.87)
- Advanced: @cacahuate51 (97.87)
- Advanced Bonus: @Mikson (97.08)
- Masterclass: @shaggy_malagy (85)
- Masterclass Bonus: @LuZifeR (99)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @shaggy_malagy (91), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (99)
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (91)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (98.23)
- Advanced: @aNDESmASAMUNE (95.99)
- Advanced Bonus: @aNDESmASAMUNE (96.49)
- Masterclass: @LuZifeR (95)
- Masterclass Bonus: @cacahuate51 (84)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 1 is @drand (93), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @MotivatedCF (92.3)
- Beginner Bonus: @MotivatedCF (100)
- Intermediate: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (92)
- Intermediate Bonus: @MaltaSoron (95)
- Advanced: @ALSRC (98)
- Advanced Bonus: @drand (98.32)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (99.86)
- Masterclass Bonus: @Nomgoose (100)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 1 is @Nomgoose (97.2), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: Gerard Way - Baby You're a Haunted House (3*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Powerwolf - Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend ft. Alissa White-Gluz (2.5) (Eb Drop Db) selected by jimbobmccecil
Intermediate: Michael Jackson - Thriller (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Tame Impala - Dracula (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Riot City (feat. Ty Gogal) - Halloween at Midnight (7.5^) (Eb Standard) selected by Zoutje
Advanced Bonus: Donovan - Season Of The Witch (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Helloween - Halloween (9*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon (8.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
God of Guitar: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 2 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Gerard Way - Baby You're a Haunted House (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Powerwolf - Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend ft. Alissa White-Gluz (2.5) (Eb Drop Db) selected by jimbobmccecil
Intermediate: The Tragically Hip - I'm A Werewolf, Baby (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Alice Cooper - Keepin' Halloween Alive (4) (E Standard) selected by Sinomod
Advanced: Donovan - Season Of The Witch (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: Tame Impala - Dracula (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Helloween - Halloween (8) (E Standard) selected by drand
God of Rhythm: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 2 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Tame Impala - Dracula (3*) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Donovan - Season Of The Witch (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Michael Jackson - Thriller (5*) (E Standard) selected by cacahuate51
Intermediate Bonus: Alice Cooper - Keepin' Halloween Alive (2.5) (E Standard) selected by Sinomod
Advanced: Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: The Tragically Hip - I'm A Werewolf, Baby (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Helloween - Halloween (8) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Michael Jackson - Thriller (5) (B Standard) - Bonus Rhythm path!!!! selected by cacahuate51
God of Bass: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 2 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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oops wrong one

Quick little improvement, just a single note away! Tip for y'all on five string, I've been getting much better accuracy playing super staccato during the groove, might help y'all as well:

Hi! First time joining the championship. This was fun!

1 hour ago, Andru said:

Hi! First time joining the championship. This was fun!

Glad you enjoyed it and participated 🤘
I have placed you in Intermediate Lead guitar, Advanced Rhythm and Bass. Let me know if you prefer somewhere else though.
Also if you havent already, make sure to vote in the community poll up above! I'll try my best to feature atleast one song from the band with the most votes nextweek

Just to clarify, the Bonus Rhythm track for Thriller requires a 5-string bass?

If so, might be an excuse for me to go out and buy one finally 😂

8 minutes ago, Knippenburg said:

Just to clarify, the Bonus Rhythm track for Thriller requires a 5-string bass?

If so, might be an excuse for me to go out and buy one finally 😂

It is a 5 string path, technicly not required though, but
if you don't wanna do math in your head every time a green note is in the chart (not that often) then yes.

(Show us what you get if you do buy one 👀)

Else you can do it with a standard bass heavy strings or normal ones and a drop pedal/ cheesewizzards mod or robolechugas mod and try to math it when they appear

4 hours ago, Andru said:

Hi! First time joining the championship. This was fun!

Welcome to Championship weeks @Andru ! It's fun every week 😉. For a first time, you got so much done, NICE! 🤯

And to wrap up the songs for this week, we have an Ozzy classic. (6) is a good spot for this:

OK so a rather large blister has developed on the ring finger of my right hand as a result of 3 finger picking throughout this song. Might need a couple of days off before I have another go 😅

when you get 50 mins through trying the Death album again and break a string...... 😭

but you still improve wooooo

Hi All,

I've been a member of custom forge for a long time but have never really gotten into the championships before. Saw an advertisement recommending and calling for more people and thought I'd have a go.

I've tried out the below songs (also gave Bark at the Moon a fair crack but can't get it above 90 so haven't bothered with a screenshot).

Halloween at Midnight is good for speeding up your minor pentatonic!

its not about being the best, its about the friends/personal gains you make along the way... next time Bark comes up and youre 5-10-20% better you'll be like hell yeah progress 🐺

51 minutes ago, CraigDengate said:

Hi All,

I've been a member of custom forge for a long time but have never really gotten into the championships before. Saw an advertisement recommending and calling for more people and thought I'd have a go.

Welcome to Championship week @CraigDengate ! Glad to have you with us!

10 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

Glad you enjoyed it and participated 🤘
I have placed you in Intermediate Lead guitar, Advanced Rhythm and Bass. Let me know if you prefer somewhere else though.

Yes welcome to the championship @Andru! 🎉

& Welcome to the championship @CraigDengate 🎉, you have been placed in Advanced Lead and Advanced Rhythm though I'm thinking you might be better suited for Masterclass..

Let us know if either of you prefer to be placed in a different difficulty bracket! Thanks for joining us ☺️

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1 hour ago, shaggy_malagy said:

its not about being the best, its about the friends/personal gains you make along the way... next time Bark comes up and youre 5-10-20% better you'll be like hell yeah progress 🐺

Yes @shaggy_malagy release the beast within!

We also keep track of your submissions, if you want to see how much you've improved over the week you can claim your profile on the companion site at any time!

Along with this chart in the Levels tab to see how many people are usually playing in each rank and scope out the competition 👀

Improvements

Rhythm

My impression after first playing is that Donovan and Tame Impala songs are of similar difficulty, both 5/5.5.

Don't know if appropriate, but this just showed up on my YT homepage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIVBMowfDM

KEVIIIIN!

43 minutes ago, Knippenburg said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpIVBMowfDM

KEVIIIIN!

That was great 🤣 & fresh off the press too thanks for sharing

Daaang @JobwanMojo left no crumb s

improvement

Good week everyone!

I'm playing very bad this week, don't know why, i think i need to slow down a little bit to recover some muscle memory.

Tomorrow i will do the dropped songs.