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Day 22. Played for 4 hours. Scale Warriors helps with changing strings and stuff, not sure what else it's good for since I don't know any scales really. Chordead first progression is way easier now. Can go through the entire thing and die twice. Messed around in tone designer and eventhough nothing makes sense at all I came up with some cool sounds (no idea what a preamp is or does. I don't even have an actual amp yet  ). I guess you can setup your controller like a pedal board thingy with 4 different sounds or something? 
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PaganGoatPants posted:Day 22. Played for 4 hours. Scale Warriors helps with changing strings and stuff, not sure what else it's good for since I don't know any scales really. Chordead first progression is way easier now. Can go through the entire thing and die twice. Sounds like you should follow the goals with the pick shapes for tone designer to learn the basics there, and follow the goals for session mode to start learning about scales and have fun jamming.
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:86% in Song 2 on my 4th day playing. Congrats on being able to do this on guitar:  
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Dec 8, 2013 04:00
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keyframe posted:Congrats on being able to do this on guitar: Basically, yeah. A buddy came over tonight to check it out. "Is that seriously all there is to the song?"
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Dec 8, 2013 04:55
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King Vidiot posted:
Thank you. Suddenly I don't feel so bad for just playing Bop with just down strums.
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Dec 8, 2013 05:16
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keyframe posted:Congrats on being able to do this on guitar: I just bought rocksmith and I've been playing guitar for ~10 years. Boy howdy, assign a percentage score to my playing and I turn into a big huge obsessive sperg!
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Dec 8, 2013 05:28
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Hypnolobster posted:I just bought rocksmith and I've been playing guitar for ~10 years. You have just been
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Dec 8, 2013 05:34
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I had to go and start doing all the lessons and get 100% on each one just because.
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Dec 8, 2013 05:48
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Hypnolobster posted:I just bought rocksmith and I've been playing guitar for ~10 years. Hypnolobster posted:I had to go and start doing all the lessons and get 100% on each one just because. Holy poo poo this is so true. It seriously took me two days to move on from one of the lessons because I couldn't 100% it and I didn't want the goddamn game to beat me. 
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Dec 8, 2013 07:08
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It is worse when you miss ONE note in a song or it doesn't register and you get a %99.9 rating on it 
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Dec 8, 2013 09:04
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PLANES CURE TOWERS posted:Basically, yeah. A buddy came over tonight to check it out. Bass. Gotta play that song on bass. Then it makes sense.
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Dec 8, 2013 09:41
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Parkingtigers posted:Bass. Gotta play that song on bass. Then it makes sense. Exactly. Anyone know when the 60 day challenge beta is going to be over? It seems like possibly after 12/9, but didn't know if anyone was following it at all.
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Dec 8, 2013 09:51
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Parkingtigers posted:Bass. Gotta play that song on bass. Then it makes sense. Speaking of bass on Blur songs, they should give us Girls and Boys. Also through the early lessons and the 1 minute chord change exercises from justinguitar, I can play a couple songs that aren't in Rocksmith now 
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Cannot Find Server posted:Speaking of bass on Blur songs, they should give us Girls and Boys. Oh hell yes
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Dec 8, 2013 10:00
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Ugh, what's with the levelling up progress not being saved on PS3? Thought that had been patched? Bloody annoying.
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Dec 8, 2013 12:27
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Does the music track get lowered for anyone else when they start a new song? Pausing the game and hitting the resume button usually fixes it, but it's quite annoying.
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Dec 8, 2013 16:15
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I bought Rocksmith 2014 for Xbox 360 and bought the $10 import tool to transfer the songs from the original game. It transferred the songs from the RS1 game disc, but none of the RS1 DLC I bought transferred over. The Ubisoft website said it would work. Is this a universal problem or is it just me? Is there some secret to getting the RS1 DLC that lives on my Xbox 360 hard drive to play in RS 2014? I'm bummed.
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I don't own an Xbox, but the RS1 DLC worked right off the bat on PC, so it should do the same. Check if your games are account synced maybe. One thing I wish that could have been left alone was how you can play as fast as you want in Scale Runner RS1 minigame compared to focusing on perfect timing instead in Scale Racer. I like that latency is good enough for the game to manage rhytm now, but Scale Runner was the game that helped me become faster at playing notes and I haven't found the same groove within the new minigames. Also, if the game stalls and won't load the video in the Lessons section, unplug the cable, wait for the prompt and plug it back in. Works every time for me. You should add this tip to the OP.
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Getting the RS1 songs and a few RS1 dlc songs, along with smithys anvil being stuffed with songs is going to make the next week suck for me. My guitar is at the store getting new strings which takes a week. I'll learn to do it myself but the plus side is that a professional guitar tech guy will be also choosing the right strings for my guitar and also tweak all sorts of things to make my guitar sound even better and I only pay for the strings. Still.. I wanna play guitar.  By the way, does anyone know of the custom DLC songs use, or can use, the dynamic difficulty thing. Or is it always at 100%?
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Dec 8, 2013 22:04
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Torabi posted:By the way, does anyone know of the custom DLC songs use, or can use, the dynamic difficulty thing. Or is it always at 100%? It depends. Usually authors are too lazy to add it. Someone created a tool that creates dynamic difficulty levels automatically but they're about as good as you'd expect an algorithm reducing musical notes to be.
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Dec 8, 2013 22:33
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newbie question here: some songs will ask you to play a chord using only the 2nd and 4th string (or 3th and 5th or something). How is this done? If I strum with a pick I'm obviously gonna hit the 3rd string when going from 2nd to 4th, so what am I missing?
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Dec 8, 2013 22:33
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The Milkman Cometh posted:newbie question here: some songs will ask you to play a chord using only the 2nd and 4th string (or 3th and 5th or something). How is this done? If I strum with a pick I'm obviously gonna hit the 3rd string when going from 2nd to 4th, so what am I missing? You still play the strings in between, they're just open strings.
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Dec 8, 2013 22:37
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The Milkman Cometh posted:newbie question here: some songs will ask you to play a chord using only the 2nd and 4th string (or 3th and 5th or something). How is this done? If I strum with a pick I'm obviously gonna hit the 3rd string when going from 2nd to 4th, so what am I missing? Put your first finger on the 2nd string, ringfinger on the 4th and mute the 3rd string with your middle finger. Touch the string but don't press down on it. Then just strum like you normally would.
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Dec 8, 2013 22:41
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Glad to hear it  . This guitar playing thing is hard enough already  .
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Jeephand posted:I bought Rocksmith 2014 for Xbox 360 and bought the $10 import tool to transfer the songs from the original game. It transferred the songs from the RS1 game disc, but none of the RS1 DLC I bought transferred over. The Ubisoft website said it would work. This may help: http://imgur.com/a/x5JLM
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MrData posted:Put your first finger on the 2nd string, ringfinger on the 4th and mute the 3rd string with your middle finger. Touch the string but don't press down on it. Then just strum like you normally would. Yeah, you're basically playing a power chord but with one string muted. On most of those, all you're doing is playing the same note but in two octaves (lower note and higher pitched version of the same note). Some songs will have you play other strings, but if a string isn't highlighted when a chord comes up you're not supposed to play it, so deaden it in some way.
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Dec 8, 2013 23:02
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MrData posted:Put your first finger on the 2nd string, ringfinger on the 4th and mute the 3rd string with your middle finger. Touch the string but don't press down on it. Then just strum like you normally would. You can do this, but a lot of the time it's just easier to let your first finger mute it instead, so it's basically a two-finger chord (an octave shape, in case you see that name pop up). Sometimes you want your middle finger free to add in the low E string, and letting your first finger lie against strings you don't want to hear is good technique, so it's good to get in the habit
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Dec 8, 2013 23:07
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Jeephand posted:I bought Rocksmith 2014 for Xbox 360 and bought the $10 import tool to transfer the songs from the original game. It transferred the songs from the RS1 game disc, but none of the RS1 DLC I bought transferred over. The Ubisoft website said it would work. You must have bought the digital download: quote:A note about the RS2014 download on XBL. If you DL it now you may need to wait a day or 2 for the DLC compat to work following the 360 patch
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baka kaba posted:You can do this, but a lot of the time it's just easier to let your first finger mute it instead, so it's basically a two-finger chord (an octave shape, in case you see that name pop up). Sometimes you want your middle finger free to add in the low E string, and letting your first finger lie against strings you don't want to hear is good technique, so it's good to get in the habit Along that line, how do I go about muting the low E string in Blitzkrieg, or do I just hope my strumming is very accurate?
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Thanks all. I had forgotten about muting strings.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Along that line, how do I go about muting the low E string in Blitzkrieg, or do I just hope my strumming is very accurate? Use the tip of your index finger and leave it touching the E string.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Along that line, how do I go about muting the low E string in Blitzkrieg, or do I just hope my strumming is very accurate? I hear it's "bad technique", whatever that really means, but I just wrap my thumb around and deaden it. Then I use the rest of my hand to deaden the highest strings as well, and that makes it so you can just flail around with your strumming hand with no worries. You could try it outside of the song to get the sound right, the important part is that you just hear the power chord and no other notes.
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It's bad technique because if you keep your thumb behind the neck (and parallel) you can stretch better, higher up the neck is easier to play, and etc etc. It's not REALLY necessary on songs like Blitzkrieg Bop to care, but it's good to not form bad habits in the beginning so you don't have to try to break them later on down the line.
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PaganGoatPants posted:Along that line, how do I go about muting the low E string in Blitzkrieg, or do I just hope my strumming is very accurate? Pokey poke with a nearby fretting finger as mentioned above is one way, and I should really learn to do that more for when I'm flailing around on an acoustic - I usually use the thumb-over death grip and you can't stop me, but it does make some stuff hard. This is my other approach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tmM83KeP28 The basic idea is you have some string(s) you want to hear, and some lower and higher strings you don't. So for the higher strings, you usually let your index finger fall on them - it's 'at the back' if you like, so any notes your other fingers fret won't get muted. The lower notes you mute with your picking hand, like doing palm mutes except on the strings below the ones you want to hear. It takes a bit of practice but it works well - you're effectively surrounding the notes you're playing, moving your hands as you play different strings. It's like muting everything... and then leaving a gap for the sounds you want. Keeps things quiet and under control, which helps a ton when you're playing with high gain. Recently I forced myself to start practicing with Jazz III picks, since everyone loves them for their precision - and I finally got to like them. You can have your amp cranked and actually pick so lightly you get a nice quiet clean tone, and good muting technique really helps with that, since any accidental noiSE IS HOLY gently caress LOUD. It's kinda zen
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This is weird since all the chords I know I'm actively NOT trying to mute stuff so I'm going straight on with my fingertip. Now I have to kinda flatten out my index fingertip to mute big E? 
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MrData posted:Put your first finger on the 2nd string, ringfinger on the 4th and mute the 3rd string with your middle finger. Touch the string but don't press down on it. Then just strum like you normally would. This is a terrible method when you can just easily mute with your first finger.
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PaganGoatPants posted:This is weird since all the chords I know I'm actively NOT trying to mute stuff so I'm going straight on with my fingertip. Now I have to kinda flatten out my index fingertip to mute big E? Well try this - fret something like x68xxx - that's a power chord on the 6th fret of the A string. Crank it up, and get strumming it fast and aggressive. You keep hitting the low E, right? Sounds a bit poo poo* doesn't it? You can't rely on picking accuracy when you're rockin, and even if you could the other strings will start vibrating anyway. You need to shut them up. Now adjust your finger to poke that low E and try again. Better, right? No need to worry, you can flail away and it sounds tight and rad * actually this can sound cool as gently caress, but it's not always the right time
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keyframe posted:It is worse when you miss ONE note in a song or it doesn't register and you get a %99.9 rating on it Seriously. Something about those loving double stop lessons kept refusing to register correctly.
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Dec 9, 2013 03:11
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If anyones looking for a real fun custom to play that isn't retard metal music, A Tear For Eddie is actually really fun and just stays within one scale so you can feel like a guitar god with relative ease.
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Looks like Disturbed is the 3 pack this week
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