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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9 minutes ago, drand said:

glad y'all are having fun! found these in my stash idk how mikson pulls up screenshots from 3 years ago like nothing 😂

Holy cow, you got so much done! 🤘

Just now, MotivatedCF said:

Holy cow, you got so much done! 🤘

I tested so many we could do another week with the ones I couldn't fit into this one 🤣 So they are going in my next week in November to celebrate Friday the 13th 😈

@drand and his pictures from 3 years ago still makes me need to pracitce 🤣

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I went back and found some more from testing since I did worse the second time on this one 💀

Since y'all already checked in congrats @shaggy_malagy on your first 30-week play streak, and congrats @MotivatedCF on your first 5-week play streak!

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aand this is everything! I see there's a few things i have to replay since I had played with the busted guitar

Lets see if this works...

It does sound good on a five-string, but the green bass string still freaks me out a bit

We played this one two years ago I think, my endurance isn't quite where it was then..

13 hours ago, ModestMonk said:

Lets see if this works...

Welcome to the Championship events! Glad to have you @ModestMonk !

Progress on Donovan, the other way around for Tame Impala (not posting a screenshot), and I started "working" on Thriller :)

Sometimes, I have "what if" moments, and the other day, it went like this: "What if instead of playing Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 for over 4,600 hours, I would have spent this time on Rocksmith? 🤔". No regrets though, I've fun playing L4D and haven't time for everything ; note though that I'm spending now more time in Rocksmith than L4D ;)

38 minutes ago, MotivatedCF said:

Sometimes, I have "what if" moments, and the other day, it went like this: "What if instead of playing Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 for over 4,600 hours, I would have spent this time on Rocksmith? 🤔". No regrets though, I've fun playing L4D and haven't time for everything ; note though that I'm spending now more time in Rocksmith than L4D ;)

I have over 3k hours in dbd and more time than id like to admit on rs so i know that feeling 😅 do think its important to spend focused time trying to remember what you played aswell/try it without rocksmith for actual learning

16 hours ago, drand said:

Since y'all already checked in congrats @shaggy_malagy on your first 30-week play streak, and congrats @MotivatedCF on your first 5-week play streak!

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here's to another 30...
don't set me off trophy hunting though you'll get sick of seeing my name everywhere 😅

i'll stick to lead mc/god (and the occasionally bass) and keep trying to catch up on joker however futile

21 hours ago, drand said:

glad y'all are having fun! found these in my stash idk how mikson pulls up screenshots from 3 years ago like nothing 😂

I used to have a problem with this and often had to scroll through a lot to find old screenshots, but then I discovered that if you import them to your Google Drive, you can search by name - Google somehow recognizes the text within the images.

I’m back home and back in the game!

@drand Thanks for the week - good selection of songs!

Completely unknown to me but nice. The CDLC was way too quiet, so I couldn't really hear what I was playing, but it seems quite easy for beginners. 2.5/3.

Ahh, a cool song featuring Alissa. Easy, it’s almost entirely power chords, so 2/2.5 at most.

Such a famous song and it turns out that I played this for the first time! Diff 5 for me.

These chord transitions were a bit awkward for me - 5.

Something really old, but I didn't know this. 6 seems ok.

A faster tempo and a lot more solo work, but this is fun to play. 7.5/8.

Here I used a screenshot from 2 years ago. This is a long song, I’ll come back to it later.

Really hard for me, there were some sections I just couldn't play. Definitely an 8.5, maybe even a 9.

And tell me, how the hell do you play something like that? Am I really expected to stretch my fingers that far (impossible for me), or should those orange 10s actually be blue 15s?

😮‍💨😅

I normally lurk a bit more to get a feel for etiquette before posting but really want to participate in these challenges so sorry if I break any of the rules I'm unaware of.

Do people just usually post a first and last play for the week or just once?

Here's my first pass at doing the championship in the beginner bass category. Probably will just do the freebird account for a bit until I find where I'm comfortable.

1 hour ago, ModestMonk said:

I normally lurk a bit more to get a feel for etiquette before posting but really want to participate in these challenges so sorry if I break any of the rules I'm unaware of.

Do people just usually post a first and last play for the week or just once?

As much as you want! Always motivating to see posts going up, I usually post as soon as I can after I screenshot so I don't forget 😂

Welcome @daijoubu! You are now in FreeBird, let me know whenever you're ready to choose your class 😊

Just a quick run for today, been doing a lot of prep for a big Magic the Gathering tournament this week.
A really catchy Alice Cooper piece! Super fun, (2.5) for this one:

So anyway I started blasting

Thanks for the new week! Lots of fun songs :D

I've had a really busy day, so I've only done a quick playthrough of these four. But I'll try to get around to the rest later this week.

On 10/24/2026 at 8:29 PM, drand said:

I saw there is a new chart for this one, let me know which one you prefer by Monday!

It doesn't have a bass path

time to ice the fingers lol

1 hour ago, MaltaSoron said:

It doesn't have a bass path

yep, meant to comment that when i posted gtr scores but forgot to, thanks!

Does this one remind anyone of Flight of the Bumblebee?