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Rocksmith |OT| While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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Of All Trades
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Use the accelerator so he can play at 50% speed and lowest mastery? Alternatively he should just do challenges or minigames because some of the songs on their easiest level are just... so easy.
I'm not an expert but isn't this kinda how it is for regular-to-expert guitar players learning a new song barring some super-pro?
Regular for sure but not for people who can read tabs or sheet music. Still you're not going to have many people who can sight-read it 100% off the bat.
Of All Trades
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People who can read tabs/sheet are who I'm thinking of. I can read both and while I'm maybe, at best, a mediocre guitar player, a jump down the neck will cause me to freeze the first time I see it in a new song.
Is there any way to play the length of an entire song at 50%? Rather than just like the verse or chorus.
The Holiday pack is now on Steam, but I can't actually download/play the songs.
Here's a link to it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/206103/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_5
Here's a link to it. http://store.steampowered.com/app/206103/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_5
toymachine
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should work now
also Steam Sale:
The game itself is available for $19.49, individual songs are $1.94, 3-packs are $5.19, and 5-packs are $7.79. Foo Fighters is not on sale.
also Steam Sale:
The game itself is available for $19.49, individual songs are $1.94, 3-packs are $5.19, and 5-packs are $7.79. Foo Fighters is not on sale.
So I'm doing Journey mode, around rank 7 now...I have a set list with stuff like the Blur song and the Pixies one, but they're asking me to hit 90k on 'em to pass. Is this because I've already played them in the free song mode prior to journey mode and I did well on them? It's near impossible for me to hit this score cap and it doesn't seem like it'll let me lower it after replays unless I reset the difficulty in the options and then set it back after playing it once.
How well had you done on them before?
Hitting 90k on the Blur song shouldn't be too difficult if you work at for a little bit. It definitely shouldn't be asking for 90k on "Where Is My Mind" though. That's strange.
Yaceka said:
I wouldn't get the bundle. You can find better beginner guitars for a comparable price.
As for the lag, audio latency shouldn't be an issue if you use analog connections (like component cables), and you can correct any visual lag in the game's settings. Lag shouldn't be a problem.
This game is like the holy grail for me! Always wanted to learn playing electric guitar but never did it! Bought a PS3 and all the GH games. That was cool but after one year nailing all the songs in a plastic guitar, it seemed like a dead end.
So I decided to treat myself and get an early gift by buying the PS3 copy while on a trip in Dubai.
Really liked the game but the game is really slow and has a lot of bugs. Couple of weeks ago, tried the game on PC and HOLY SHIT!
I feel like when I was a kid rushing back home after school to play some SNES/N64.
Definitely a wise choice, and the choice of new songs is far from poor. Panthera? OMG!
Now I only need a dedicated Slash pack.
Going back to rock the stage!
So I decided to treat myself and get an early gift by buying the PS3 copy while on a trip in Dubai.
Really liked the game but the game is really slow and has a lot of bugs. Couple of weeks ago, tried the game on PC and HOLY SHIT!
I feel like when I was a kid rushing back home after school to play some SNES/N64.
Definitely a wise choice, and the choice of new songs is far from poor. Panthera? OMG!
Now I only need a dedicated Slash pack.
Going back to rock the stage!
Sarcastico
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I've never played a real guitar. Can this game really help me learn and improve?
I'd never played a real guitar before playing this and I'm learning an awful lot.
Sarcastico
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Cool. I'm considering getting it from Steam. Just need to know where to get the guitar to usb cable.
From what I've read, the cable is always £25 anyway so you might as well get the game from Amazon with the cable included.
Sarcastico
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Hrmm ok. Thanks.
It's asking 90k for every song now, it's kinda weird. Not sure why.
Huh, I don't think I started getting 90k songs until lvl 10 or something.
Game activates on Steam anyway, so it doesn't matter.
I'll be using HDMI on my TV as there's only 1 component cable input which is in use already. I have another TV I could use (HD CRT so it won't have much lag) although it has overscan issues so I'm worried some stuff will get cut off. Are there overscan options in the game ala Call of Duty?
If so I'll use my HD CRT as it'll be a pretty lagless experience.
HDMI is not optimal for this game, if you are going to use it you should also be connecting the console to a stereo with composite audio cables.
Are there overscan options or screen positioning/sizing in the game? I'm not sure how to do that at all and if there are options in the game I could save myself the hassle and use it in component on my HD CRT.
Not sure, can take a look.
Edit: Silly me, they probably wouldn't be showing those options in the PC version anyway. So I don't know if they have that in the console versions.
I only see easy and current level in setup, weird.
toymachine
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No, you can only increase difficulty by showing Rocksmith how good you are by scoring high in events. You can also play the technique challenges to get RSP points as well.
Mastering "Go With The Flow" "Next Girl" "I Got Mine" is an easy way to accelerate the process as you could play those in Master Mode events and acquire a large number of points.
bottom line: hit the notes that are there to get more notes
toymachine
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Just know that there is a true guitar legend involved 
- Paul Cross on January 8th's DLC
- Paul Cross on January 8th's DLCPretty much. God damn, this has got to be the hardest thing I've ever tried. Why would you put noobs trying to play Go With the Flow and shit. This game is mocking my inability! I don't even know where to place my hands yet, let alone pull off something like that.
Still liking it.
toymachine
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It pushes you out of your comfort zone. I don't see the point of being locked into a stripped down version of a song over and over, but that's just my opinion.
But Go With The Flow is one of the easiest songs in the game, seems reasonable for them to let you play that. The song uses 3 very simple chords during the verse and then switches out one of them in the chorus.
Go in to the riff repeater and learn the sections before playing the songs, that will help a lot.
And for every number on the note highway in the game you probably have a dot or some inlay on the frets of your guitar. So in the game you see the numbers 3 and 5 and that translates to the first 2 dots on your guitar neck. If you learn what dot is what fret it makes it so much easier to know where to move your hand.
It's been like 15 years since the last time I took music lesson ( piano ), but rocksmith definitly seems to push you far too fast ( for a complet beginner at least ). Only playing something like 70% of the notes ( and struggling to do so ) yet seeing the game consider that to be enough to complicate things doesn't seems a good way to teach at all.
toymachine
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Rocksmith doesn't teach you guitar, but you'll learn
Yeah, this seems like what happens.
Haha, that's actually a great way to put it.
I was pretty much a beginner when I first picked up Rocksmith and it seemed to handle the difficulty progression very well. If you don't hit enough notes then it ill level down until you get to a point where you can do them all. I don't really know how it can level it up to a point that it's too hard for you to complete it and yet the game will still keep it at that level when you're missing almost all the notes. If it does then that is the level that you should be practicing at.
I'm actually just getting back into the game after a good 8 months of not playing(At level 9 atm) and I still feel like it does a great job in knowing my skill level for any given song.
toymachine
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toymachine
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Guessing it's Santana then
toymachine
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Here's hint #1 for the 1/8 DLC: this guitarist is one of the most famous musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area, which is also home to the Rocksmith Studio!
toymachine
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Santana "Oye Como Va"
toymachine
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Ready for DLC hint #2? This artist gained prominence in the late 60's/early 70's, but his 1999 record was actually his most successful, selling over 15 million copies!
Smooooooth