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-= 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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An improvement. Now on to the kitten...

Thanks for all the nice comments about the guitars. My wife bought me the MIJ Jackson DK2 pro "crimson swirl" the weekend we got engaged in Orlando. We celebrated our 20th anniversary this year! Its my favorite guitar, especially since I had some fret and nut work done on it.

Thanks for the week!

Starting the week, will focus more on my level in the start, trying to improve

Make sure to grab the new update for Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition if you haven't already, everyone!

KEEP ROCKING!! 🤘

I remember playing this in a acoustic nylon guitar finger picking. Do you play it with a pick?

I tried 😅 🤷

1 hour ago, jimmy655 said:

Hell yes, it was worth playing five times to get the 100...

Small improvement, missed the 100...

This is hard in a whole different way than most SRV songs are hard...

46 minutes ago, Satinuke said:

Thanks for the week!

Starting the week, will focus more on my level in the start, trying to improve

If you have the white text above the album artwork for Supersition you are using an old version, I would recommend grabbing the newest with all the improvements which should hopefully make tightening up your score easier. Cheers!

Thanks for the new week!

Couldn't be happier about this run, was also the first time I used my digitech drop pedal with bass in a long time, thought it would help with the heavy fret noise I was getting that I really noticed last week. Might keep on using it for the foreseeable future.

Hope I'll be able to play the rest later this week but it's my birthday on Thursday (where I usually aim to play during the week) so we'll see.

So close to a million!

3 minutes ago, JobwanMojo said:

Couldn't be happier about this run, was also the first time I used my digitech drop pedal with bass in a long time, thought it would help with the heavy fret noise I was getting that I really noticed last week. Might keep on using it for the foreseeable future.

Hope I'll be able to play the rest later this week but it's my birthday on Thursday (where I usually aim to play during the week) so we'll see.

So close to a million!

Happy Birthday! Keep on Rocking!

New Fret noise may indicate you need to adjust your truss rod, especially if you live in a climate that varies in temp and humidity this time of year.

1 minute ago, ModestMonk said:

New Fret noise may indicate you need to adjust your truss rod, especially if you live in a climate that varies in temp and humidity this time of year.

I've twiddled around with it a bit every now and then and I have it set where I want it perfectly for E standard, it's just when I downtune outside of drop D or E flat it gets a little messy esp for my playstyle when it gets more hectic😅

I've put on thicker strings before as well when I was in a band that played in D standard but alas the band is in a long hiatus, if we get back together I'd probably throw those thicker strings back on and play another one of my basses (or ideally a new bass I've been looking at) for Rocksmith

Thanks to the host great picks
Bass scores

Nice song

Easier than the Stevie version

Cat stevens Did the original I believe This Is such a good version

More megadeth Is always a good thing

The updated version has really nice guitar sounds, but my playing is still not up to it...

My goal was just to break my 30 streak from Superstition ... Yeah!...

This is feeling harder than Word Up last week, but only because of the fast picking. I just don't have enough speed in my picking hand yet.

masterclass
Some double thumb practice

Hey everyone! Some fun songs this week, wish I had more time but these will do for now.

SRV one of my faves

Will try to find more time to practice this one later

Woke up on a mission lol back to sleep

Slow improvement... I just can't get my left hand to go fast enough.

Maybe 90 is in reach. But it's going to be tough work. I can honestly say that I've put a good 3-4 hours into riff repeater to just get here.

P.S. if it wasn't for the relatively simple outro, these numbers would be considerably lower.

Thanks for hosting @drand !

Misfits - Dig Up Her Bones

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

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky

Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Superstition

Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle

Megadeth - Good Mourning / Black Friday

Dirty Loops - Bitten By The Kitten

We Came As Romans - bad luck

Periphery - Luck As A Constant

Thanks for the week! @drand

Lead scores

This looks easy to me - just simple power chords and single-note streaks, the only difficulty is the speed, so 2.5.

Funny

2.5

3.5

A good chart

4

The solo parts seemed difficult to me, but that’s based on the previous version, I haven’t tested the new one yet.

7

Good song and good cover

6.5

What a song and what a chart! So much hard work goes into this, but this is such fun - definitely 8.5, maybe even a 9.

few small improvements tonight. Feel like I should be able to 100% Keyboard cat but just missing stringing it all together in one run.

I haven't listned to too much chappel Roan but am loving this song. Great selection this week