Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 681 =-

=> How and Why join the Championships?
=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

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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quick warm up before I go guitar shopping! Hoping to find a revstar in dcecent condition.

Cat Williams is a lover not a bitter 🐈‍⬛

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY NIGHT!!!! 🎵🎵
YEEAAHHH!!! 🤟🤩✌😎🤟🤩✌😎

Congratulations @drand for your brand new second anniversary medal!!!!

🥳🥳🥳 🎉🎉🎉 🍻🍻🍻

Very grateful for all your contributions that has made this Championship 500% times more exciting!!!

I am also celebrating 100 weeks played! 🥳 (over a period of 3 years... meaning I have skipped many weeks! 😅)

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Early post just to keep my streak.

After a quick RR session, the execution of this was actually a big mess!!! 🤣

I know the competition here in bass-MC is getting pretty though and all my rivals are way better than me... however, I would rate this song (8.5) just for the speed you need to play this!!

Very cool song, so definetely I will play this more!!!

11 hours ago, drand said:

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

It looks like it's Good Luck, Babe! I haven't time to check them out but I worked on SVR, and I was like "I'm exiting Score Attack Easy and going to Riff Repeater for now", and then I remembered this post :) Nice! I'll switch target :)

16 hours ago, CraigDengate said:

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.

90+%... back to learn-a-song for that riff that keeps choking me out 😅

Thank you for being our host this week @drand ! Luck is the theme this week eh? I'll need it :D

Except for Tom Petty:

16 hours 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 😎

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38 myself... as long as us kids can play nicely 😉
(hope i didnt embarrass myself too much the other night 😅 wobble slur thrash 🍻)

Hell yeah, i won on Royal Blood. Rock!

2 hours ago, shaggy_malagy said:

90+%... back to learn-a-song for that riff that keeps choking me out 😅

If I could play the song at 75% tempo, I'd be fine :D haha

This was the best I could manage after a good 90 minutes in riff repeater

Improvements

7 hours ago, shaggy_malagy said:

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38 myself... as long as us kids can play nicely 😉
(hope i didnt embarrass myself too much the other night 😅 wobble slur thrash 🍻)

Nah you are awesome it was good vibes and good advice! cute cat🐈‍⬛

Curious is anyone younger than me 29?

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I can't make it through a run of this song without tearing up 😭😭

Originally discovered it watching The Office 😂

And of course there's also a Modern Family clip 🤣 a song so depressing it's a sitcom staple, you gotta laugh so you might not cry

Is there a difference between LAS and ScoreAttack in note detection? Songs I'm scoring in the high 90 seem to be 4-5% lower in SA...which seems more realistic considering what I'm hearing lol. Just wondering if this is "feature", known issue or just me being poorly skilled, old and folding under pressure lol.

46 minutes ago, drand said:

Nah you are awesome it was good vibes and good advice! cute cat🐈‍⬛

Curious is anyone younger than me 29?

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I can't make it through a run of this song without tearing up 😭😭

Originally discovered it watching The Office 😂

And of course there's also a Modern Family clip 🤣 a song so depressing it's a sitcom staple, you gotta laugh so you might not cry

This song hits different when you have kids and they become teenagers.

I'm 46

New guitar! It didn't magically transform me into an advanced player but its my first new (not used lol) guitar in 20 years!

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...

33 minutes ago, ModestMonk said:

New guitar! It didn't magically transform me into an advanced player but its my first new (not used lol) guitar in 20 years!

cool guitars, I really like the color of the jackson! 😍

Congratulations on 100 weeks @aNDESmASAMUNE!!

Happy to have you showing up more lately :D Appreciate the competition!! 🤘& you've almost beat your longest play streak record!

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11 hours ago, ModestMonk said:

New guitar! It didn't magically transform me into an advanced player but its my first new (not used lol) guitar in 20 years!

Very nice!! what are you planning to play with this one?

10 hours ago, cacahuate51 said:

cool guitars, I really like the color of the jackson! 😍

I had the same reaction 😂 reminds me of cracked nail polish back in the day

🎶🎸🌘 CHAMPIONSHIP NIGHT!!!! 🎵🎵
YEEAAHHH!!! 🤟🤩✌😎🤟🤩✌😎

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Rhythm Path: Advanced Bonus: Ugly Kid Joe - Cat's in the Cradle (7)

I like this song!!! However it is the kind of path I find very very hard!!! 😅

IMHO I think it should be rated 7, since it is quite difficult to play all the arpeggios correctly and whoever achieves 99% in this song deserves to be in Masterclass!
I am not confident I can reach the 90s, but I should keep trying if I have time! Great challenge for me.

11 hours ago, ModestMonk said:

New guitar! It didn't magically transform me into an advanced player but its my first new (not used lol) guitar in 20 years!

Really nice!!!

38 minutes ago, drand said:

Congratulations on 100 weeks @aNDESmASAMUNE!!

Happy to have you showing up more lately :D Appreciate the competition!! 🤘& you've almost beat your longest play streak record!

Thanks a lot!!

And yes! I am motivated to break my record in playing weeks streak! Thanks for making it visible!!!

23 hours ago, shaggy_malagy said:

That's the official mascot for this week!! 😆
Actually, that picture above is very hillarious!!! You can make a meme with it!! 🤣

@shaggy_malagy This is the meme I saw!!! 🤣

14 hours ago, ModestMonk said:

New guitar! It didn't magically transform me into an advanced player but its my first new (not used lol) guitar in 20 years!

It's a beauty 🤩! Congrats!

Can we get SRV in the Bass Beginner section, it can't be harder than Chappell lol! JK, don't mind me 😅

After stopping Chappell's song in SA Easy because I couldn't follow, I tried riff repeater, the first block, at 75-ish% speed and difficulty, and there's progress, but I'm still far from 100% on both (and it's only the firs block 😱)

I need to get into the difficulty voting/rating club ;)

So my bass came back from its spa at the end of last week - now with improved intonation, a slightly lower action and some nice fresh strings. And yet Rocksmith was still not registering notes in strange places, so I ended up playing the whole song staccato to ensure it was correct 😂

Forgot how good this song was, and I like the chorus-filled default bass tone on this file as well so I'll probably have another playthrough or two of this one before the week's out 👍

Had a few sight reads of the 🐈, it's a lively one for sure 😂