Actually, you'd be surprised at the music selection. While heavy metal is there, there is a lot of alternative and classic rock as well as some grunge stuff. I would say the song selection is pretty varied.
Yeah I didn't respond to that, but there is definitely more than just metal on there. Hell, "my girl" and "what's going on?" are available as DLC for example.
I've heard that some of the cheaper pickups don't work so well and that it'll cost me over 100 to get a decent one. In any case, I spoke to a friend who's going to give me his fender. All I need to do is buy strings. Is that a good brand? Oh and about the song selections, that's cool that they have variety. I guess from watching the commercials I assumed it was mostly a certain type of genre.
Ah makes sense. Fender is good, especially if it's a real Fender and not Squier or some such. There's a good bit of variety there music wise, there's still a looooot of songs I haven't even touched.
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68 hours and counting in RB 2014 + 36 hours in the original (between August / October when this came out). I guess I'm officially over 100 hours playing the guitar. It doesn't really feel like it, honestly when I pick it up time flies by. I am unquestionably better than I started. I plateaued a bit about a month ago or so (Titanfall beta, coincedence?), but I've been playing again lately and I am absolutely noticing improvement again. Definitely a daunting task; there is just so much to learn. With that said it is never boring, and I always feel happy after I'm done playing. I would like to thank the creators of this game for helping me to succeed where I had failed previously. Still can't recommend this game enough.
Good on you. I'm guessing I'm around the 40-50 hour mark (combined). I agree with you about improvement. Dexterity and neck familiarity comes easy when you put in hours on RS. Great selection of songs keeps me interested as well as the large offering of DLC. My signif other has no experience with guitar and she tried out Rocksmith and within a day beat Everlong on easy mode. The game is a great teaching tool and an easy introductory piece for someone wanting to learn guitar who has an interest in video games as well. The one drawback that sticks for me is the lack of translation to playing without the game. The game has it's own system where the strings are color coded. IRL there is musical score and tablature. Other than that, I love the game and all that it offers.
Couldn't agree more across the board really. With that said I don't really feel it's a crutch, I am not really ready to "play" for anyone but myself right now. Once I'm ready I'll spend more time with tabs. I love that they keep adding music almost every week really. Lots of stuff I really want to play in addition to things I'm discovering I like that I haven't already tried. Congrats on getting up to 50 hours you're closing in on the "60 day challenge" number.
This is going to be my next game but I have two questions for you guys. 1) Which version is better? From what I heard you can download custom songs on PC version only? Does the PC version support split screen? 2) What entry level guitar would you recommend?
1) Custom songs? Please elaborate. Split screen, yes. [edit]: Sorry, I didn't really answer your question. I think the PC version is the best because it's easier to avoid HDMI latency issues; those tend to crop up on the consoles. Other than that they should be the same. 2) Go back a page or so I linked a starter fender set that I used. If you want to play electric, it's definitely a solid set though you could just get the guitar by itself if you want. (that'll save you some cash, but I definitely recommend getting an amp -- can't play rocksmith forever. ) The one I got was a Squire Telecaster Affinity (comes with guitar, amp, strap, picks, a cable, and a dvd or something), but they also have a Stratocaster variant.
So I just replaced my strings for the first time* (*attempted to). I did every string fine, though it took me forever. Right up until I got to the high e string (String 1 or 6 depending on how you look at it...most consider it 1 I believe), first I put it in wrong cus I was being careless...then that resulted in me cutting it too short. Luckily I had a second set, so I used that one...then promptly wound it too tight and snapped it. Off to the guitar shop again tomorrow. With that said I definitely think I'll be a lot faster next time, wrapping my head around the process took some time. The unfortunate thing is I can't play now after basically 2 hours of that. Ah well, should take me like 10 minutes to fix and maybe 20-30 minutes to do next time. Live and learn.
I haven't kept up. I know you are though, so how do you feel you've progressed from beginning to now.
It's night and day, I can't even really compare my playing from when I began to now. I'm definitely just intermediate, but guitar is quite difficult. I can play a lot of songs now; a lot of them all the way through. Now I'm just getting used to finger placement, playing a bit faster, and learning chords etc. It's incredibly rewarding and I'm so glad I took that first step. I've also found that the more I play the more I can pick out little things when I hear music. I can tell oh hey that was a slide or vibrato or whatever. I definitely have flashes of brilliance where I can really kill a solo or two. Practice practice practice. Edit: For clarity; in the beginning I couldn't play at all and knew virtually nothing. Now I feel like I'm not very far away from being comfortable with playing in front of other people. I'm already okay for riffs here and there, but I mean playing a somewhat complex song for someone and playing it well. (outside of Rocksmith of course)
For those who have doubts, this is a good discussion about the game as an instructional tool over at www.reddit.com/r/rocksmith [the link takes you to the post!] This isn't the original post, but this is the first reply and I tend to agree with it. I'm a visual/tactile learner so what works for me may not work for others. For me all other methods always resulted in failure (due to my own discipline of course, but a failure none the less) short of paying for lessons (I have yet to pay for lessons, I'd like to in the future but currently I haven't felt the need). I'm very happy with Rocksmith and I'm making a list of more DLC tracks to buy. Admittedly I've spent a bit extra, but I also really enjoy music and I'm learning a large variety of techniques from all of them. I'd gladly rebuy all of it, not a single regret whatsoever. It's always fun, never boring, never tedious, almost always challenging, always rivals my other toys for attention (ps4, titanfall, pc, vita, pistol/range, etc), and always on my mind.
Thanks! I really like RHCP songs but when I check the rocksmith library it doesn't seem to have many of them. On Youtube I can find a lot of people playing those "custom songs" they downloaded which were not made by Ubi. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gXfh_aJOaPk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The latency issues are they still a big deal now? From what I read people seem to be saying it has improved a lot comparing to the original game.
ahhh, not sure. I haven't looked into it yet, but I seem to remember people mentioning that on reddit. I'll have to check it out some time, I still need to master all the songs I have. I don't have any latency issues whatsoever, but again it's related to usage of hdmi. If you don't use hdmi, you won't have latency problems. you can avoid it on the consoles, and there are instructions on how to do so on the rocksmith site. 75 hours and rolling... Since breaking through that plateau a couple months ago, I feel like I improve every time I play again. Notes are getting easier to fret, chords easier to hit / remember. I'm getting up to 80%+ in complex songs that I've been trying forever. (I'm 100% on a few easy ones, or like 99.5%). It's really gratifying after not playing a song for awhile, then coming back to play it and noticing the percentage shoot up at the end of the song. That's very tangible progress.
My god how are people doing this. Two days and now I can't feel my fingertips and they start to hurt even when I think about those strings.
Eventually you build up calluses and it hurts less. My fingers still get sore from time to time but it's not so bad. I've definitely never played until I've bled, though I've heard stories. They added an AFI dlc pack; I'll definitely pick up at least a couple of those tracks.
Where can i check my hours? Also is there a way to tell which finger should be used on the fret for a note and which note should be down-stroke/up-stroke? This is much more fun than practicing with youtube and I can see myself playing it for a long time. The audio lag with HDMI is definetely noticable I think I will just get a splitter, mute my guitar sound in game and listen to it from my Amp.
