Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 681 =-

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Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (96)
- Beginner Bonus: @ModestMonk (98.9)
- Intermediate: @Vodka (98)
- Intermediate Bonus: @Andru (99.71)
- Advanced: @Rodman (98.13)
- Masterclass: @CraigDengate (96.07)
- Masterclass Bonus: LOST TROPHY
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 3 is @TrevyMetal (93), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ModestMonk (96.89)
- Beginner Bonus: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (99)
- Intermediate: @ALSRC (92.85)
- Intermediate Bonus: @ALSRC (93.48)
- Advanced: @Vodka (97)
- Advanced Bonus: @Andru (97.16)
- Masterclass: @cacahuate51 (95.9)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 3 is @LuZifeR (97), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @MotivatedCF (99.73)
- Beginner Bonus: @ModestMonk (91)
- Intermediate: @EmbraceTheAbsurd (94)
- Intermediate Bonus: @MaltaSoron (95)
- Advanced: @Mikson (97)
- Advanced Bonus: @ALSRC (98.36)
- Masterclass: @Nomgoose (93.25)
- Masterclass Bonus: @Nomgoose (100)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 3 is @Nomgoose (98), 1 week left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: We Came As Romans - bad luck (3.5^) (D Drop C) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Keyboard Cat / Charlie Schmidt - Fatso's Theme aka Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky (4.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition (6) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle (6) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday (8.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Periphery - Luck As A Constant (8.5) (D Drop C) selected by drand
God of Guitar: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 4 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones (3*) (E Standard) - Lead path!!!! selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Keyboard Cat / Charlie Schmidt - Fatso's Theme aka Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! (2.5) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (4) (E Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition (6) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Advanced Bonus: Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle (6) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday (8) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass Bonus: Periphery - Luck As A Constant (8) (D Drop C) selected by drand
God of Rhythm: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 4 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (3.5^) (E Standard) selected by drand
Beginner Bonus: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky (2) (E Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition (4.5) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Intermediate Bonus: Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle (4) (Eb Standard) selected by drand
Advanced: Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday (6) (E Standard) selected by drand
Masterclass: Dirty Loops - Bitten By The Kitten (8) (E Standard) selected by drand
God of Bass: Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (10) (D Standard) selected by poll [Week 4 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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🌙🐈‍⬛ Happy Week 681 everyone! 🐈‍⬛🌙

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🫵 First time? Welcome! The Rocksmith Championship is a friendly weekly guitar and bass challenge hosted on the CustomsForge forum. Players of every level take part, from complete beginners to Masterclass veterans, and it's easy to jump in:

1️⃣ Download this week's songs from the forum post.

2️⃣ Play them in Score Attack (Hard) or in Learn a Song with all sections at 100% difficulty (all purple bars in Riff Repeater).

3️⃣ Take a screenshot showing both your accuracy % and streak. Winners are decided by accuracy first, then streak, then score.

4️⃣ Post your screenshot as a new reply in the forum thread before the next championship begins. You can submit as many attempts as you'd like during the week. Only your best result counts! 📸🏆

🎸 Which class should I play?

• Beginner: 1.0 - 3.5

• Intermediate: 4.0 - 5.5

• Advanced: 6.0 - 7.5

• Masterclass: 8.0 - 9.5

• God Tier: 10.0 (special challenge songs)

Not sure where to start? Try the Beginner songs, or jump in as a FreeBird and play for fun while you get comfortable with the format.

💡 New to custom songs? Check out the CustomsForge guide to get everything set up, then come join us on the leaderboard. Every week is a chance to improve, discover new music, and have fun with fellow Rocksmith players. 🤘

Thank you to everyone who submitted song requests!

🐈‍⬛🍀 Friday the 13th lands this week! Black cats, broken mirrors, lucky breaks and bad ones: this week's lineup is all about tempting fate. Whether you're chasing your first medal or fighting for a division win, may the odds be ever in your favor... or not. 🍀🐈‍⬛

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Keyboard Cat / Charlie Schmidt - Fatso's Theme aka Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat! (1984)

The internet's most famous feline musician takes the stage. A bouncy, lighthearted tune that's perfect for warming up your fingers and easing into the week with a smile.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @cacahuate51 !

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Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones (1997)

Horror punk at its catchiest. Big, simple chords and a sing-along chorus make this a great Beginner challenge on the Lead path for Rhythm players, rewarding a steady strumming hand.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Kuwe !

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We Came As Romans - bad luck (2025)

Heavy, emotional metalcore in Drop C. Chunky riffs and a driving pulse make for a Beginner challenge with real weight behind it. Lock into the groove and don't let the bad luck get to you.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @RoberCIB !

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Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky (1982)

A moody, synth-tinged classic with a cool, unhurried groove. The parts are approachable but leave little room to hide, so keep it clean and you just might get lucky.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Djpavs !

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Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! (2024)

A soaring modern pop anthem with a big, dramatic build. Steady rhythms and a memorable melody make it a fun, flowing challenge across all three paths.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @burnmik !

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Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition (1986)

SRV takes on Stevie Wonder's funk classic with blistering Texas blues fire. Tight funky rhythms and fiery leads make this a real test of timing and feel.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @peonmypeon !

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Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle (1992)

A heartfelt hard-rock take on the Harry Chapin classic. Acoustic warmth builds into a big electric finish, rewarding players who can stay consistent as the song grows.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @shotfirer !

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Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday (1986)

Thrash metal at full speed. A haunting intro gives way to a relentless, razor-sharp riff assault that will test your picking hand, precision and stamina. The perfect soundtrack for an unlucky Friday.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Rhyffs !

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Periphery - Luck As A Constant (2012)

Djent precision meets technical fireworks. Syncopated riffs, shifting rhythms and demanding lead work make this a Masterclass challenge where luck won't help you, only accuracy will.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Mage_Gage !

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Dirty Loops - Bitten By The Kitten (2020)

A jaw-dropping bass showcase from the masters of virtuoso pop-fusion. Slick grooves, lightning-fast runs and tricky rhythms make this a Masterclass bass challenge for the bravest players.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Djpavs !

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Death - The Sound of Perseverance Full Album (1998)

The final week of our God Tier marathon! Chuck Schuldiner's last masterpiece pushes technique, endurance and focus to the limit. Finish strong and conquer the whole album one last time.

🙏 Thanks for the chart, @Alan24 !

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🌞😀🌞 Enjoy! 🌞😀🌞

Thanks for the fun varied theme week drand! was fun playtesting them earlier this week. I probably missed some since it said like 21 screenshots and it seems like theres around 25?

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Steam Community: Rocksmith® 2014 Edition - Remastered.

Thanks for hosting this week @drand! Fantastic selection of music for us. Here's the results from a quick session, I'll try to remember to grab screenshots of the other two soon:

Classic Petty song, super fun and easy, (2) is a good fit here:
An easy listen, a fun run! (4) here for this one:

Another classic, another (4) here as well:
And then we have more Dirty Loops. Henrik's playing scares me, but this is a much more manageable song of theirs! Still, this feels more like an (8.5) to me, this asks a lot for clean, fast playing:

Just so I can understand, why didn't my score on November Rain last week count?

3 minutes ago, CraigDengate said:

Just so I can understand, why didn't my score on November Rain last week count?

Had to jump off the computer and on my way home now to finish the week transition, sorry for the delay!

Congratulations on top score! Do you accept promotion to Masterclass and take the win? :)

3 minutes ago, drand said:

Had to jump off the computer and on my way home now to finish the week transition, sorry for the delay!

Congratulations on top score! Do you accept promotion to Masterclass and take the win? :)

Oh I understand, so to win you have to be in the same class. I had assumed that playing above your class was okay. Thanks for clearing that up!

My mind is definitely happy to be in masterclass. My fingers not so much but they will learn to embrace it :D haha

Looks like I'll be struggling with megadeth this week!

4 minutes ago, CraigDengate said:

Oh I understand, so to win you have to be in the same class. I had assumed that playing above your class was okay. Thanks for clearing that up!

My mind is definitely happy to be in masterclass. My fingers not so much but they will learn to embrace it :D haha

Looks like I'll be struggling with megadeth this week!

Yep thems the rules!

Awesome, better watch out @shaggy_malagy there’s a new kid on the block!! 🎉🍾 I think you’ll do very well if this performance is any indication 😎

4 minutes ago, drand said:

Yep thems the rules!

Awesome, better watch out @shaggy_malagy there’s a new kid on the block!! 🎉🍾 I think you’ll do very well if this performance is any indication 😎

I just played Black Friday and @shaggy_malagy, you'll be fine for a while :D haha

Also, thank you for calling me a kid. As Jimmy Carr says, the only way someone refers to me as young now is if I die! (I'm 42)

This keyboard cat song crashes for me. Took 3 reloads to get this play through, also started a playthrough that ended immediately with 100% completion.

I feel i'm way to inexperienced to add much value to the difficulty scores at this point but there is no way this song is harder than last weeks korn. Drop tuning power cords with fairly easy tempo and cord changes with plenty of notes to make up for any small mistakes. Never heard it before and this was my first playthrough, I put hours into korn lol

Part of my reason for joining after I saw the ad a few weeks back was to give me some competition but also to actually focus practice rather than just selecting songs at random. Another reason was to challenge myself for things outside my comfort zone. Masterclass is definitely going to do that.

Posting this so I can hopefully look back at the end of the week and see improvement. I'm not sure I can even get this to 90, but I'll try. It's only the last 30 bars or so that raises this score into the 70s.

17 minutes ago, ModestMonk said:

This keyboard cat song crashes for me. Took 3 reloads to get this play through, also started a playthrough that ended immediately with 100% completion.

Did you by any chance download the cdlc multiple times or have two versions in the same folder? cause i deleted mine and redownloaded it from the site and didnt get a crash

5 minutes ago, cacahuate51 said:

Did you by any chance download the cdlc multiple times or have two versions in the same folder? cause i deleted mine and redownloaded it from the site and didnt get a crash

I will check but now that you mention it I do think I may have accidently clicked the dlc link twice for this one and forgot to delete the copy before I moved them. I'll check and update my results, but it crashes non stop and any time i tried to pullup rr

47 minutes ago, ModestMonk said:

I feel i'm way to inexperienced to add much value to the difficulty scores at this point but there is no way this song is harder than last weeks korn. Drop tuning power cords with fairly easy tempo and cord changes with plenty of notes to make up for any small mistakes. Never heard it before and this was my first playthrough, I put hours into korn lol

Yeah it's just a difference in opinion between hosts since it's only the initial rating (like I mentioned last week you can generally expect me and @cacahuate51 to disagree by 0.5-1.0), that's why we average all votes at the end of the week for the final ratings before ending the week to get a better picture! (and why the more votes we get the better)

To me this is a challenging beginner song to show you are ready for intermediate by getting a 99%, and to me the Korn song was an easier intermediate song (I rated that a 4 myself). My reasoning is beginner includes people that recently started playing so I think a song like Korn is not immediately approachable / could be discouraging in that stage of their learning journey so I would rather have intermediate players duke it out in a song like that.

So far I suspect you are more of an intermediate player and here is the player level projections based on your scores so far. The calculated level shows you off the [beginner] charts (bigger yellow dot floating above teal intermediate band):

some from testing i could find:

Hope there's something for everyone in these picks, the adv ones are not my usual genre so I will be struuuggling but hopefully I can sing a different tune come next saturday 😄

3 minutes ago, drand said:

Yeah it's just a difference in opinion between hosts since it's only the initial rating (like I mentioned last week you can generally expect me and @cacahuate51 to disagree by 0.5-1.0), that's why we average all votes at the end of the week for the final ratings before ending the week to get a better picture!

To me this is a challenging beginner song to show you are ready for intermediate by getting a 99%, and to me the Korn song was an easier intermediate song (I rated that a 4 myself). My reasoning is beginner includes people that recently started playing so I think a song like Korn is not immediately approachable / could be discouraging in that stage of their learning journey so I would rather have intermediate players duke it out in a song like that.

So far I suspect you are more of an intermediate player and here is the player level projections based on your scores so far. The calculated level shows you off the [beginner] charts (bigger yellow dot floating above intermediate band):

I see, I wasn't exactly sure where the difficulty scores came from, makes sense why I can't sort by difficulty on ignition.

So even more props and thanks to the hosts every week!!!

My guitar experience is six months of lessons 25 years ago. I recently picked up my old guitar and took it to get set up (didn't know this was a thing back then) and it was a completely different experience and have been playing in most of my free time for about 3 months, I think as the weeks go by and my sample size increases the rating will drop....or I'll go up to intermediate lol, You got Lucky is fun, probably where I'll put most of my time this week.

Thanks for hosting, songs are very fun so far.

Also I did have 2 versions in the same folder of keyboard cat and deleting one fixed my crashing issues. THANK YOU!

Edited Sunday at 1:55 AM3 days by ModestMonk
avoid double post, add info about crash fix working

Thanks for a great new week!

Dirty Loops scares me in general, but this song is pretty fun.

Had some endurance issues by the time I played this one, need to play bass more..

Should have played the beginner songs first. The SRV seems pretty advanced for a beginner song...

Beginner level seems right for this one:

Okay seems the consensus is Superstition is too tough for beginner and harder than these next two so, is either Good Luck, Babe! or Cat's in the Cradle better suited so I can switch one of those two around with it and move it to main Intermediate bass?

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Which should move to beginner? Argument for each:

• Good Luck, Babe! is in E Standard (vs. Eb Standard) --- vote with HEART (LIKE) REACT

• Cat's in the Cradle has less notes (482 vs. 618) --- vote with SAD REACT

Edited Sunday at 11:30 AM2 days by drand
Chappell wins! Songs switched

Here's a little treat for everyone, it's "technically" an improvement, but I want to do better on the next run:

And a video play though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6510OFDvjCQ

Last couple of songs for the week since I'm not sleeping:

Okay yeah, that is 100% not a beginner song, great cover of one of the best funk fundamentals though! The charter made an update to this piece and I like the newer one a lot more, feels a lot cleaner to play, although there's more nuanced notation towards the beginning, (4.5) for this one:

A great piece from my second most favorite Megadeth album. A couple of faster note sequences in the middle, but nothing too demanding otherwise. (5) seems appropriate here:

Thanks for the week @drand Great songs for a theme week

A bit tricky

Awesome song

🎂 Anniversaries

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First played this week in an earlier year and last played within the past year

• @TrevyMetal joined Wk 525 · Nov 11, 2023 · last played Wk 680🎂 3years Looks like you returned just in time!! :)

• @drand joined Wk 577 · Nov 9, 2024 ✓ playing🎂 2 years - Working even on her anniversary! Much respect for all the work you've put in!!

• @VegetaxGuts joined Wk 629 · Nov 8, 2025 · last played Wk 678🎂 1 You came and left but hopefully you will be like the terminator, and you will be back :)

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