Da Rules
(Credit to the Ubi Forums for some Ideas!):
1. Anyone may join the contest as long as he's a forum member.
2. You can play "Score Attack" On Hard or "Learn a Song" with all sections mastered (all purple):
  2.1 There are three classes: Beginner, Intermediate and Masterclass.
  2.2 If you enter to the contest the first time, you choose your class.
  2.3 You are then leveled automatically as follows: 3x =>90% (3 weeks in a row) or 1x 98% qualifies you for the next class. If you score <=79% on a level two weeks in a row you are leveled down one class.
  2.4 Both instruments are leveled separately. You may not choose to play a higher or lower class.
  2.5 You may only enter in one class per arrangement.
3. You may participate in all available arrangements
4. One Song is chosen for all Instruments and classes
5. Every Saturday new songs are chosen. From all participants of a class, one is chosen at random by Kaijn or fron.
  5.1 Every member should put the song he/she would choose in the Song Selection List
  5.2 Only 1 song per class will be selected and only custom DLC's with at least 1 arrangement for guitar and 1 arrangement for bass are allowed.
  5.3 You only need to change the song in the list if you are selected. If not, you can keep the same choice, or choose another, it's up to each one of you.
  5.4 On Saturday, if your name is picked and you didn't entered any song in the Song Selection List, another member will be chosen.
6. Starting with the publication of the songs, you may enter your score.
7. The scores are entered in the corresponding google doc: Leaderboard
Kaijin, Krazyone and afterdark take care of entering the scores.
8. You may post a screenshot to prove your score but you don't have to. If another competitor doubts the score you have to prove it with a screenshot. Otherwise your score is deleted.
9. Ranking is done by percentage first, then by Longest Streak.
  9.1 If you play LAS (Learn a Song), you percentage will be always, xx.00%, if you prefer SA (Score Attack), your percentage will always be xx.xx%.
10. You may submit mastermode scores, but these won't be judged for the contest. Although the best masterscore will be honored separately.
11. When you choose a custom song please specify the guitar arrangement you want to play.
  11.1 You may choose any song for your class as long as it's provided on the forums and has at least 1 arrangement for each instrument.
  11.2 Every song is up for discussion until Sunday around 23:00 UTC. If you think a song is to hard, please let us know in the thread, so we may discuss it.
  11.3 After Sunday 23:00 the songs are set and are not allowed to change.
12. The contest closes the next Saturday around 18:00 UTC
13. The winners are announced in the OP of the corresponding week's thread.
14. Rules may change without notice. So watch out.


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Beginner: Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers
Intermediate: Pink Floyd - Money
Masterclass: Sonata Arctica - Wolf & Raven | NDD Version

Small improvement on Lead:

http://i.imgur.com/v1hTD7p.jpg

Nice job richomat I tried playing this song again last night and my hand would just cramp up and not let me play it right. I need to figure out a way to stop my hand from cramping while doing these bends. I have the same issue with songs that have too many bar chords I can't take the hand cramps. 

@ maybe you bend your wrist to much.. tilt the neck upwards a little ..

richomat I have tried many different positions for the guitar lol even putting the neck up almost to my face I guess my positioning may still be wrong I will have to check and see how most people hold their guitars and compare it to myself. This has always been a issue for me while learning to play and still to this day. Its also one of the reasons I stopped playing guitar for years. 

Do yourself a favour and take a few lessons.. a guitar teacher can work with you on your hand position

don't really have the funds for guitar lessons but I guess I will see what I can do. Thanks for the advice and I am sure I will figure something out. I am not going to let this stop me from playing again it was the worse mistake i ever made.  

It's taken me a while but I'm in!!

 

Molly's Chamber

81%

51 Streak

 

Phew...

This score for now...
http://i57.tinypic.com/b4f41k.jpg

Leaderboard Updated

 

Welcome to the new entrants 

I am not having much fun with my guitar lately its showing its cheapness and putting me off playing guitar for a while till I can get a better guitar.

 

But the best I can manage with it for now. :(

 

http://i60.tinypic.com/2ntzfhe.jpg

We are talking about number of frets on the guitar not actual size.

 

And you still think a telecaster is a beginner's guitar? I'm just so confused. 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Telecaster_players

And you still think a telecaster is a beginner's guitar? I'm just so confused.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Telecaster_players

Telecasters are great and versatile guitars. But I had problems with it in this specific song. Since it has only 21 frets and in the solo there are many notes and bends at the 22nd fret I did not manage do get that section purple.

Ignore my comment about it being a beginner guitar I spoke incorrectly. I meant that guitars with less than 22 frets limit you with certain songs as is apparent with this particular song. Personally I prefer guitars with 24 frets.

Okay finally I am starting to improve on this song. Still have some issues with hand coordination in the fast parts, but improving!

 

My new score:

http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z11/billa_011/Rocksmith/wolfandraven.jpg

 

Not exactly sure how I got that insane streak on my last score :O

Leaderboard Updated

Found this song pretty challenging  

http://i.imgur.com/Tf5uhiA.jpg

Ignore my comment about it being a beginner guitar I spoke incorrectly. I meant that guitars with less than 22 frets limit you with certain songs as is apparent with this particular song. Personally I prefer guitars with 24 frets.

 

A small guitar with 21 frets is very nice to play. If what you are playing doesn´t require more its perfect.

 

In 94 when i bought my first expensive guitar it was quite an investment for me. I was still a student, had to take a job for a while to get money and i tried to make the best choice i could.

One of the guitars i liked back then was Ibanez JS. The arm was great and just perfet for me. But it had only 22 frets and i wanted a 24 frets guitar.

Never played one of those Ibanez since then but i still remember and miss that guitar, 

 

Some years later i realized a 22 frets guitar or 21 are great to play and you actually don´t need more than that 90% of the time. i still enjoy to play my first guitar, a cheap Maison with 21 frets that i heavly upgraded in the 90´s

 

(But i have 3 24 frets guitars in my colection)

New score from me

http://s29.postimg.org/qk0uxdjl3/smilemolly_chambers_92_Lead.jpg
 

and the next  is Bass

http://s10.postimg.org/94v1q7vyh/smile_molly_chambers_Bass.jpg
 

my submission for wolf and raven bass not sure where the 101% came from :S
 

http://s9.postimg.org/50l7r8lbz/SONARTBASS.jpg

the 101 comes from master mode but we don't look at the big yellow score we look at the accuracy. Great scores to everyone keep em coming. 

 

Leaderboard Updated

Noooooooo, gonna have to play it better if I want to win this week, challenge accepted Thrallsa

Just played once through Money on Bass without Riff Repeating before. I have to say the intermediate song is much more challenging on Bass then the masterclass song. On the masterclass song I got 97% on the first run. I played Money on a real Bass (like Wolf&Raven too) and I think that on emulated I could have gotten at least 5% more, since I'm not used to the large fret spacing on the bass.

I don't believe I belong into Masterclass at Bass since I haven't played much Bass before this Championships. But due to the 3x90% or 1x98% rule everyone get's moved into masterclass after a few weeks.

 

http://i.imgur.com/YuHZ5XC.jpg

@@richomat were pretty lax on that rule here as that would have put me in Masterclass back on Smithy. Certain songs are easier than others and some people who have been put in MC class by that rule (myself included) still cannot handle most MC songs so we let everyone play what they are comfortable playing. If a MC song is to difficult for you and the Intermediate song is a challenge still then by all means play what is more fun for you. After all we are all here to have fun and not bang our heads against a wall on songs that we still cannot play. 

Money...99,6%

Streak...334

 

http://i1335.photobucket.com/albums/w674/Cannalonga/ScoreMoney_zps8779a0d4.jpg

Last update before I head home from work. Great score Cannalonga and welcome to the championships.