Teach? Not really, but there are songs in the game which utilise this technique. Just use riff repeater, and take it down to 20% of the speed or something, and gradually increase it. I'm doing it with the BTBAM song Selkies, and the sweep picking section has become much more logical to me now, as in understanding how to move, and see how it works. So no, doesn't outright teach it, but if you put in some work, it will help you learn it nonetheless. @@Walamonga1313
@@Henriktranoydoes the game actually teach guitar? Or are you just playing along like guitar hero. I would actually really like to learn the fundamentals instead of trying to learn a song.
somewhere after 6 mins I realized you wont display your skills after 547 days of playin the game...you know, the thing that would much better demonstrate how the game helped you instead of listening to you yapping about it
He did show a side by side of then and now in the game. Since the game is the context by which his skills were measured. Seems reasonable to show those skills inside the game.
So what if its a review? This is a tool, so showing the audience how well that tool performed, by watching the content creator play the instrument, the tool was supposed to have taught him, is exactly what you would expect from a review? Go thru the damn comments, everyone expected him to play something.
Slipknot is considered a nu metal band. The band's members prefer to distance themselves musically from other nu metal bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit.
Nice review. I tell people about this tutorial / game all the time. You did a better job at explaining the tutorial / game. Nothing beats a hands on lesson, but Rocksmith 2014 has improved my bass playing dramatically. I love this program.
Been looking at reviews for a few hours on this specific game... this review i felt was most genuine, truthful and thorough so far - great video! Im sold
I put out a video on the remaster a couple days ago. It's not really a review, but it points out a lot of the stuff that's different now. th-cam.com/video/DzFgO7Q2Smo/w-d-xo.html
You had a chance here to show us the differences in your playing at certain stages across the last year and a half, but you just gave us some generic background music and totally meaningless clips of you playing because they're muted. Honestly, I think someone who's played the game for a week could come to the same conclusions as you.
@@yungchill69 its says 542 days later after 60 day rocksmith challenged. Clearly giving the impression he is going to show how the game taught him to play.
I agree with your assessment of the game. I'm a seasoned guitarist. Having played and teaching the instrument I highly recommend it as a tool to help learn.
I totally agree! The only things I dont like about rocksmith though, is that its so easy to play a song without really having to learn it first, which means I dont really pay attention to how the song goes and what notes I've plyed. Its a lot harder to remember the songs than if you tried to learn from tabs. Also, you can download pretty much any song you like for free like a custom dlc!
Agreed. Rocksmith to me is nothing more than a Karaoke game. It's a lot of fun, but if you really want to learn how to be a musician rather than sticking with Karaoke you need to learn more about music theory. The next Rocksmith should give you the option to play with sheetmusic instead, like to Songs2See game or at least show A - G instead of numbers of the fretboard, the block itself already shows you where of the fretboard you need to be.
You guys obviously don't play with master mode on. Yes, theory will help you, but you can also learn both rhythm and lead parts to get a better understanding of what'd going on such as chords and lead parts and how they relate to scales.
I don't understand why its harder to play songs from tabs, if you don't pay attention how you play them then I would suppose it doesn't matter where the notes come from. And If you are trying to imply that its easier to play because the notes scroll on the screen instead of a piece of paper then I have to say you have not played Rocksmith or a guitar in your life.
Session mode is something like improvisation for dummies. You customise the "backing track" to an end, choose what style it is, tempo, complexity of the progression, the instruments that play beside you and shows you the scale you're using with the base shape of it on a specific set of frets. You can always go past that by simply moving to other shapes in different fret zones or adding some complexity with transitions to natural minors or using different modes of the scale (Ionian, Dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian for the major scale) and using those to make your improvisation solo more interesting
Thank you very much for this large informative review. I think the things said are at least still counting in 2018 - which makes your work that great. THX for spending the time making that video for us :)
I agree is a great tool, it has helped me tremendously, however I also used Yousician as well. They teach differently thus cover many bases at once. And when you practice enough, you definitely will notice growth. Still, you can hit a wall with even both, but worry about that when you get there. Good review.
After the posting of this review, Non-Stop mode have been given the option to filter on tuning, so you can with a flip of a switch limit the playlist to only E Standard tuning.....
I really cant agree more. I find that Rocksmith 2014 is good at allowing you to learn to play, and a great way to practice, however for the finer details even professionals go to coaches. Its always good to go to a teacher, learn what you're doing wrong and fix it. Great review.
I've been using the game just over a year and can play Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls" on max difficulty, But i'm 14 and homeschooled so I have all the time I want to play haha
Do yourself a favor and quit using the game, and just practice like normal guitarists. Use TabPro to learn songs, then don't look at any screen while you're practicing.
That is something I plan on doing eventually, but I think I've reached the best part of the experience, where you can pop in to any song that isn't Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, or Eric Johnson, an just play and get 90%+. And the Riff Repeater makes solos easy to learn at any tempo, while still being visually appealing.
why ? I have 14 songs memorized using rocksmith, and can play them along to cd's. at full speed, and those are the songs ive tried to memorize... all learned thru rocksmith.. I don't see the purpose of guitar tab pro, when that's all rocksmith is... a visual scrolling tab... its all easily memorized by using riff repeateror or turning around and not facing the screen after a while... most of the CDLC..20,000 + songs are just created using guitar tab pro stuff, so whats the diff?.. normal guitarists...lol
Thanks :) I play it often just because I'm addicted to buying DLC but I still have 700 hours and probably double that on TH-cam with an amp. I have 97.5% on Dream Theater's "On The Backs of Angels" so I'd say I've gotten good use out of the game. And I can't stop!
I do have it on PC! I love CDLC, and it has doubled my songs (I have all the DLC at this point so that's over 1000 CDLC) and my dad is a teacher, so if I ever need anything he's pretty much got me covered! Thank g=/god guitar is my passion cuz anything else wouldn't be half as easy :)
I started with Rocksmith as well, after about 70 days, I quit using it and just began practicing guitar like a normal person. The latter is much more effective. With Rocksmith, you're almost always having to use some of your focus on staring at the screen. To make real progress with difficult, fast lead guitar, you need to learn whatever you're playing, then use 100% focus on your hands and the fretboard, not a screen. I've been playing for almost 3 years now, and I'm way better than I would have been just playing Rocksmith.
I don't play it nearly as much anymore. I found that it's fine for getting the basics down and learning songs, but I spend most of my time playing my acoustic on the couch. Also, I'm taking a guitar class in college, and that's been really helpful with getting proper technique down. I think Rocksmith is a good tool, but not the only tool anyone should use.
No, it just means you aren't good at sight reading. I can sight read Satriani (cover on my channel) and Iron Maiden at this point, and apart from occasional Riff Repeater, it's really not a good thing to have to look down. You should attain a sense of spatial awareness over time.
Great review. As a formerly trained classical guitarist (went to college for it) I'd say Rocksmith covers 80% of the technique you need. People complain about the short comings...without stoping to think for a moment. Rocksmith doesn't exist in a vacuum. Buying it doesn't mean you can't get lessons or use books or youtube. But as a tool it is hands down the best tool you can buy if your goal is to play songs and learn technique. When you're learning slowing things down and getting feedback are the two most important things to learning. This does it in spades. The other is picking up the guitar every day. And this game gives you tons of options for why and how to practice with enough diversity that you have no excuse for "getting bored" There is no better way to learn scales than to riff over chords.
Four years later, & I can say this is still a great review... well, it almost was, except you didn't include the one thing I'm sure every viewer wanted; For You to Play the Damn Guitar!!! We want to hear how far you've come within a year and a half, & from no experience. Hearing your development, would have helped everyone make a judgement call about the game. I'm sure you were self-conscious about your playing, but hopefully that's long gone by now, and that you're out on tour ;)
You really gotta try out session mode man it's great for improvisation and the notes that are lit up are the notes that are basically ''notes that will sound good if you play them with the current backing track'' AKA the scale you're playing in.
I got this game this weekend. I'm an experienced bassist couldn't pass it up for £30 ($40ish). Although there is a slight latency issue (notes sounding a fraction of a second after you play it) my impressions are extremely positive. Nothing beats having a real amp for sound and feel, but if you don't mind a compromise in that area it's a really good and fun format that gets you learning new tunes really quick. I don't think I'd at the normal full retail for it, but if you ever see it on sale it's worth a go
It's worth noting that if you don't want to spend a lot of money on the official DLC, you can just buy Cherub Rock and then you can add custom song charts the community has made.
Session mode for me is the best part of the game. I wish it would have a chord repeater as I need practice finding and changing chords quickly. If you search on line you will come across some great tutorials for session mode. For example; the first mode the backing band never changes the chord, I believe radio friendly mode is a three chord progression and when you hear the drummer throwing in some fills it means you are cumming to a chord change. The blue mode is actually a twelve bar blues progression which will repeat for ever. The wavy line at the top is just showing you the dynamics between you and the band, use this to calibrate your guitars input so that it registers on the display.
Actually, not all of it is quality. Some tabs are wrong, some songs don't have dynamic difficulty or sections which are required in the remastered edition, and there are even CDLC's that use the wrong DLC key. All of them are supposed to tree off of 'Cherub Rock' but some CDLC creators use other DLC's. As a CDLC creator myself. There isn't that much work that goes into creating a CDLC using software. I've found songs that sound amazing and I want to tab them. Now I do, but that takes a lot of work. a CDLC really is made up of 95% the tabbers if you ask me. They deserve the credit, not us. (My CustomsForge username is SuperSonic)
I mean, yeah... but the comment is still valid. Anyway, I wouldn't say the tabbing is harder, just that the EoF/tone design half can often be more subtle and subjective. Imperfect syncing and cheap tones still let you play the same tab, but it's not as smooth. Really, auditing the tab is quality control and a prerequisite before the actual work. I've actually had another creator somehow mess up what I had given as a tab by not applying bend/slide commands and such properly, so it goes by ways.
After playing guitar hero for several months I'm moving to rocksmith. I don't think that guitar hero is necessarily going to transfer in a lot of ways but one thing I learned from playing so much GH was that it's amazing how good you can get at something if you do it a lot. I started out barely being able to play medium and now I'm playing some of the hardest custom tracks ever made. I'm looking forward to the challenge of learning real guitar and i think that rocksmith will help with that feedback loop to keep me practicing for many months (maybe even years) to come.
After putting 600 hours on it, i've moved on to Amp and learning songs from tabs on Ultimiate-guitar.com Rocksmith has been the building block for me to learn guitar, i find it only takes you so far. Session mode by that way, is to practice your scales with a backing track that moves up and down with your BPM. It's actually pretty useful if you're in to improvising solos.
I will add one thing: Personal experiences with it as far as the lessons that they have can be wonky, I could be playing the right frets , but it will still say i'm wrong. So what I would do is slide up one fret and suddenly it's correct. Maybe its because they sometimes don't have you tune for the lessons, or maybe because I have a used ibanez that i've been playing with ( Once i get better i'm upgrading to schector )
I watched this video at least 4 times and thought it was such a good review. Its got a reasoning for everything. Nice vid. Probably going to buy rocksmith 2014
Shit... I used to play on and off, I started playing again and I'm on day 3 and my fingers are sore... I have an old guitar but I might be getting a Les paul on Christmas, I try to play 2-3 hours a day lol. I want to be a master at guitar and play a bunch of songs and even freestyle. Rocksmith has Some songs I've never heard before but they sound so nice. I think it's alot of work so I'm scratching the surface but I wish theBest of luck to all of you guitarists lol.
This is a really good and thorough review. I haven't seen your newer stuff, but if you improve on your execution (you sound like you're reading from a script in this) I can see you becoming an excellent reviewer.
this game is far more effective than tabs, and builds your finger dexterity pretty damn quickly. but as far as writing music, both options will do nothing for you. do yourself a favor and learn theory.
So when you make progress on the missions. Eventually the game will direct you to a bunch of mission about the session mode and it pretty much explains everything about it.
It's a must own on PC because of the free CDLC. I have downloaded like every song I like for this game for free and got the base game for 7.99 on a steam sale
You can group songs by tuning during non-stop play. The game will think and suggest exercises for you when you are having issues. If you mess up on slides then the game will suggest you play something related to slides in guitarcade. Missed that bend because you didn't bend hard enough? The game may suggest you to play Temple of Bends.
i have a question for people who have actually used this to learn, considering the games guitar hero like setup, i feel like rather than teaching you to play its just telling you what strings to press. i feel like this game would make me dependent on the game to play songs. is anyone who used this to learn able to play the songs they learned without turning the console back on? because on guitar hero i was a master at sweet child of mine, but if you asked me to push the buttons in the order of the song without the screen i would be lost, i feel like it would be the same with this
Dalton Sullivan Actually i think it does pretty well at teaching you. Once you play a song enough and well enough its starts to push you into Master mode where the notes slowly begin to fade out (as long as you have previously been hitting the notes with little mess ups) until they arent there anymore so all you see is the "highway" or whatever you wanna call it but no notes and then everytime you play it, it will be blank unless you arent hitting the notes then that part will slightly appear for you next time you play the song. Now of course if you arent willing to do that since you can turn it off in the settings then no you wont really memorize the song and learn it but for the people who really actually wanna learn the instrument, yes i believe this game does a good job at it
Honestly just use CDLC on rocksmith if you play on pc it’s opened so many doors for me I literally go on the site for hours and download so many songs.... I have 250 songs on my first 3 days....
im 14 , ive been playing since may 2015 , and I'm so much better at guitar then i ever thought... my father has been playing guitar for 20 years... with no rock smith... I'm already much better than him. Im getting things like lamb of god and disturbed past 100% , i showed my dad rocksmith and he has gotten so much better at guitar
Wheren Fadestar you actually got lamb of god to 100%?! I just started listening to them and love them super cool you can play the songs that’s my ultimate goal rn
Wheren Fadestar It's not about how much time you have played, it's about how regularly you practice. If you play for 15 years just one hour a week, you'll never as good as someone who has played 1 hour each day for 10 years.
Rocksmith couldn't answer my question. Maybe someone here can. There are TWO Rocksmiths - Rocksmith 2014 Edition with cable, released 10/22/2013 for $ 79.99 and Rocksmith 2014 Edition-REMASTERED with cable, released 10/04/2016 for $ 59.99. What is the difference between the two versions? Why does the older version cost more than the newer remastered version? Which should I buy?
Buy the cheaper one. It might be a price glitch, because the normal 2014 was discontinued in favor of the Remaster. I remember seeing RS2014 being sold for $79.99 years ago, and whatever store selling it might have forgotten to take it out of the system/change the price. Also, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered is the most current version, which came out a month or so after the video. They added a couple things, which I covered in another video. Even if you don't get the remaster, you still do, because it was offered for free for existing players. TL;DR - Remaster.
And for anyone interested in getting more songs for Rocksmith. You can get Customs songs and charts. Just google it. Also, don't do what I just did and talk about it, you can get banned from the CDLC site :D
Rocksmith now in 2021: Rocksmith plus. A subscription based game, To be honest idk why ubisoft even decided to make rocksmith plus a subscription game in the first place.
I learned on Rocksmith 2 2 years ago up picked up an off-brand glary guitar and started learning the guitar was honestly a piece of s*** now I play Ibanez and now I'm attempting to learn Slipknot solos:-)
I see thunder horse, nice to see they have dethklok. This "game" made me go from playing 2 notes a minute to being able to play stevie wonder and rush on bass
I've picked the game up during the summer sale but only started playing 4 days ago. The first 2 days were super fun but the i realized that the game is trying to push me faster than i would like too and it becomes frustrating when I completely fail something. Even for something as seemingly simple as Blitzkrieg Pop that is supposed to be complete entry-level stuff the game is already trying to give me 75% difficulty and i miss most of the notes because of the speed and complexity. Could also be that i'm doing something wrong. We'll see how it goes. So far i'm really optimistic and hope to learn how to play guitar half-decently in the next year or so
I'm maybe 2 weeks into the game, but those are the first 2 songs I started with as well haha. I highly recommend completing the first couple of lessons (up to bends and chords 101) up to almost 100%. Also try practicing alternate strumming; its a little more difficult than down strumming everything but I'll make fast songs like Blitzkrieg Bop easier in the long run. I "mastered" all the parts of BB, but couldnt get anything higher than 75% on the song for a long time purely because my hand would get tired. Its all about building those muscles up and making everything muscle memory.
BADD2087 That's what i did first thing! Did most of the 101 lessons but got stuck on slides 101 cause i can never get that 1 freaking note and it gives me 98% haha I'm getting a bit better but chords and alternate strumming is still freaking hard :|
Rahfu I haven't been playing as much as i would like to cause of school, but I've been making some great progress even with the little time I have. My finger dexterity is still kinda bad and my pinky won't do what i want it to do, but i navigate on the fretboard much quicker and sometimes even without looking at it. Strumming still needs work too but it got much better over time. I have about 45h total in-game time as of today. I think my best song so far is Volbeat - A Warrior's Call, sitting at about 70% . Additionally, i've noticed that i'm learning a TON faster playing songs that i actually like, that's why I've invested in some DLC packs during the holiday sales
I've been playing for quite some time and I can surely agree with your review. Thankfully Rocksmith is getting a Remastered edition to fix a lot of issues like Non-Stop play. My biggest problem with the game is that the game doesn't recognize palm muted power cords at times. mainly when they're open string palm mutes. But on the whole, I'm still going to be playing this game for a while. Rock ya later dude and keep going. -Thumper
Yeah, I've had a couple issues with notes not being recognized, but I always chalked it up to my playing. I've seen some people get 100% FCs on songs, which always made me think that it might be me. Also, I'm glad that they released a new version, because it fixed all the issues I've really run into. Keep rocking, man.
"Death metal"
>shows a pic of slapnut
>hopefully doesnt think slapnut is dm
lel
Lmao I was just about to comment about that
Quils topkek he will not divide us
SaME
Quils
Also DethKlok is Melodic Death Metal in C standard tuning.
Quils probs one of those guys who thinks AC/DC is metal
It would have been nice to actually learn something about your progress "547 Days Later".
and mine for 4 years
and mine for 3 years
Does Rocksmith teach sweep picking?
Teach? Not really, but there are songs in the game which utilise this technique. Just use riff repeater, and take it down to 20% of the speed or something, and gradually increase it. I'm doing it with the BTBAM song Selkies, and the sweep picking section has become much more logical to me now, as in understanding how to move, and see how it works. So no, doesn't outright teach it, but if you put in some work, it will help you learn it nonetheless. @@Walamonga1313
@@Henriktranoydoes the game actually teach guitar? Or are you just playing along like guitar hero. I would actually really like to learn the fundamentals instead of trying to learn a song.
gamestop sold me a copy of rocksmith 2014 for $3 no cable. they put the original rocksmith inside...
Typical gamestop
Oh hey, my dad worked on this, we got a Guitarcade shirt a few days before the game came out and I wasn't allowed to wear it until it came out.
somewhere after 6 mins I realized you wont display your skills after 547 days of playin the game...you know, the thing that would much better demonstrate how the game helped you instead of listening to you yapping about it
While the title is misleading, it does clearly say review in headings as well.
He did show a side by side of then and now in the game. Since the game is the context by which his skills were measured. Seems reasonable to show those skills inside the game.
It's a review moron...
So what if its a review? This is a tool, so showing the audience how well that tool performed, by watching the content creator play the instrument, the tool was supposed to have taught him, is exactly what you would expect from a review? Go thru the damn comments, everyone expected him to play something.
The jam session is actually very well explained through an in-game tutorial. I spent most of my Rocksmith time in the jam sessions.
jam is so fun (5 years late)
@@yassinethlija4839 I love fashionable late comments 😉
He did not just fucking put a picture of slipknot as fucking death metal
I like slipknot but I also like death metal and slipknot is definitely a long stretch from death metal
Nu metal
James you can't sing anymore
He does
Slipknot is considered a nu metal band. The band's members prefer to distance themselves musically from other nu metal bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit.
Nice review. I tell people about this tutorial / game all the time. You did a better job at explaining the tutorial / game. Nothing beats a hands on lesson, but Rocksmith 2014 has improved my bass playing dramatically. I love this program.
Been looking at reviews for a few hours on this specific game... this review i felt was most genuine, truthful and thorough so far - great video! Im sold
Thanks, man
You should update you review, some features you wanted in NonStop Play are now available with Remastered.
I put out a video on the remaster a couple days ago. It's not really a review, but it points out a lot of the stuff that's different now.
th-cam.com/video/DzFgO7Q2Smo/w-d-xo.html
*cough* CDLC *cough cough*
Mostly Gaming perfect for people who listen to the Br00T5
I tried CDLC a few years ago and it was so bugged out that I just ended up paying for actual DLC :/
You had a chance here to show us the differences in your playing at certain stages across the last year and a half, but you just gave us some generic background music and totally meaningless clips of you playing because they're muted. Honestly, I think someone who's played the game for a week could come to the same conclusions as you.
It says it's a review, dickhead.
@@yungchill69 its says 542 days later after 60 day rocksmith challenged. Clearly giving the impression he is going to show how the game taught him to play.
@@Mulberry2000 It's still litterally a review though. You're dumber than the first guy.
@@yungchill69 really say so a stupid yank
@@yungchill69
You like his boyfriend or somthing
The time of your life joke fucking killed me.
Nice little reference that Im sure went over a vast majority of peoples heads.
The lit up notes in session mode are the arpeggios that make up the chord for the key + scale you're in.
I agree with your assessment of the game. I'm a seasoned guitarist. Having played and teaching the instrument I highly recommend it as a tool to help learn.
I totally agree!
The only things I dont like about rocksmith though, is that its so easy to play a song without really having to learn it first, which means I dont really pay attention to how the song goes and what notes I've plyed. Its a lot harder to remember the songs than if you tried to learn from tabs.
Also, you can download pretty much any song you like for free like a custom dlc!
Agreed. Rocksmith to me is nothing more than a Karaoke game. It's a lot of fun, but if you really want to learn how to be a musician rather than sticking with Karaoke you need to learn more about music theory. The next Rocksmith should give you the option to play with sheetmusic instead, like to Songs2See game or at least show A - G instead of numbers of the fretboard, the block itself already shows you where of the fretboard you need to be.
You guys obviously don't play with master mode on. Yes, theory will help you, but you can also learn both rhythm and lead parts to get a better understanding of what'd going on such as chords and lead parts and how they relate to scales.
I don't understand why its harder to play songs from tabs, if you don't pay attention how you play them then I would suppose it doesn't matter where the notes come from. And If you are trying to imply that its easier to play because the notes scroll on the screen instead of a piece of paper then I have to say you have not played Rocksmith or a guitar in your life.
Session mode is something like improvisation for dummies. You customise the "backing track" to an end, choose what style it is, tempo, complexity of the progression, the instruments that play beside you and shows you the scale you're using with the base shape of it on a specific set of frets. You can always go past that by simply moving to other shapes in different fret zones or adding some complexity with transitions to natural minors or using different modes of the scale (Ionian, Dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian for the major scale) and using those to make your improvisation solo more interesting
Excellent job with your review! Mine is on the way and after watching your review I am even more excited!
Thank you very much for this large informative review. I think the things said are at least still counting in 2018 - which makes your work that great. THX for spending the time making that video for us :)
i am a beginer been playing guitar for a year. My personal Expiriance Rocksmith Took me to the next Level of Playing
I agree is a great tool, it has helped me tremendously, however I also used Yousician as well. They teach differently thus cover many bases at once. And when you practice enough, you definitely will notice growth. Still, you can hit a wall with even both, but worry about that when you get there. Good review.
Thought I might see something about the progress a person made in 547 days of playing but no, it's a game review for a 3-yr old game. Moving on.
a big thing about learning songs is how you transition from reading to playing by heart idk how well this game helps you with that
Spent 200$ on songs the other day. I don't regret it at all.
Same boat, same thoughts too!!!
Great review mate! I have been using Rocksmith for a while and I'm really happy with the result.
That was a great review, good job. 👍
After the posting of this review, Non-Stop mode have been given the option to filter on tuning, so you can with a flip of a switch limit the playlist to only E Standard tuning.....
I really cant agree more. I find that Rocksmith 2014 is good at allowing you to learn to play, and a great way to practice, however for the finer details even professionals go to coaches. Its always good to go to a teacher, learn what you're doing wrong and fix it. Great review.
I've been using the game just over a year and can play Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls" on max difficulty, But i'm 14 and homeschooled so I have all the time I want to play haha
Do yourself a favor and quit using the game, and just practice like normal guitarists. Use TabPro to learn songs, then don't look at any screen while you're practicing.
That is something I plan on doing eventually, but I think I've reached the best part of the experience, where you can pop in to any song that isn't Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, or Eric Johnson, an just play and get 90%+. And the Riff Repeater makes solos easy to learn at any tempo, while still being visually appealing.
why ? I have 14 songs memorized using rocksmith, and can play them along to cd's. at full speed, and those are the songs ive tried to memorize... all learned thru rocksmith.. I don't see the purpose of guitar tab pro, when that's all rocksmith is... a visual scrolling tab... its all easily memorized by using riff repeateror or turning around and not facing the screen after a while... most of the CDLC..20,000 + songs are just created using guitar tab pro stuff, so whats the diff?.. normal guitarists...lol
Thanks :) I play it often just because I'm addicted to buying DLC but I still have 700 hours and probably double that on TH-cam with an amp. I have 97.5% on Dream Theater's "On The Backs of Angels" so I'd say I've gotten good use out of the game. And I can't stop!
I do have it on PC! I love CDLC, and it has doubled my songs (I have all the DLC at this point so that's over 1000 CDLC) and my dad is a teacher, so if I ever need anything he's pretty much got me covered! Thank g=/god guitar is my passion cuz anything else wouldn't be half as easy :)
I started with Rocksmith as well, after about 70 days, I quit using it and just began practicing guitar like a normal person. The latter is much more effective. With Rocksmith, you're almost always having to use some of your focus on staring at the screen. To make real progress with difficult, fast lead guitar, you need to learn whatever you're playing, then use 100% focus on your hands and the fretboard, not a screen. I've been playing for almost 3 years now, and I'm way better than I would have been just playing Rocksmith.
I don't play it nearly as much anymore. I found that it's fine for getting the basics down and learning songs, but I spend most of my time playing my acoustic on the couch. Also, I'm taking a guitar class in college, and that's been really helpful with getting proper technique down.
I think Rocksmith is a good tool, but not the only tool anyone should use.
No, it just means you aren't good at sight reading. I can sight read Satriani (cover on my channel) and Iron Maiden at this point, and apart from occasional Riff Repeater, it's really not a good thing to have to look down. You should attain a sense of spatial awareness over time.
This is a great review of both the game and the process. Nice job.
Really enjoyed this review. I have been playing learning for just over three years and still love it!
Great review. As a formerly trained classical guitarist (went to college for it) I'd say Rocksmith covers 80% of the technique you need. People complain about the short comings...without stoping to think for a moment.
Rocksmith doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Buying it doesn't mean you can't get lessons or use books or youtube.
But as a tool it is hands down the best tool you can buy if your goal is to play songs and learn technique.
When you're learning slowing things down and getting feedback are the two most important things to learning. This does it in spades.
The other is picking up the guitar every day. And this game gives you tons of options for why and how to practice with enough diversity that you have no excuse for "getting bored"
There is no better way to learn scales than to riff over chords.
Thank you for this video! Beautiful work! :)
Very thorough and honest review, thank you.
Session mode is my favorite mode once I figured it out
I never really considered Rocksmith 2014 when I was teaching myself guitar but it would be a good refresher and kind of fun .
Four years later, & I can say this is still a great review... well, it almost was, except you didn't include the one thing I'm sure every viewer wanted; For You to Play the Damn Guitar!!! We want to hear how far you've come within a year and a half, & from no experience. Hearing your development, would have helped everyone make a judgement call about the game. I'm sure you were self-conscious about your playing, but hopefully that's long gone by now, and that you're out on tour ;)
You really gotta try out session mode man it's great for improvisation and the notes that are lit up are the notes that are basically ''notes that will sound good if you play them with the current backing track'' AKA the scale you're playing in.
Awesome review dude
I got this game this weekend. I'm an experienced bassist couldn't pass it up for £30 ($40ish). Although there is a slight latency issue (notes sounding a fraction of a second after you play it) my impressions are extremely positive. Nothing beats having a real amp for sound and feel, but if you don't mind a compromise in that area it's a really good and fun format that gets you learning new tunes really quick. I don't think I'd at the normal full retail for it, but if you ever see it on sale it's worth a go
It's worth noting that if you don't want to spend a lot of money on the official DLC, you can just buy Cherub Rock and then you can add custom song charts the community has made.
Session mode for me is the best part of the game. I wish it would have a chord repeater as I need practice finding and changing chords quickly.
If you search on line you will come across some great tutorials for session mode. For example; the first mode the backing band never changes the chord, I believe radio friendly mode is a three chord progression and when you hear the drummer throwing in some fills it means you are cumming to a chord change. The blue mode is actually a twelve bar blues progression which will repeat for ever.
The wavy line at the top is just showing you the dynamics between you and the band, use this to calibrate your guitars input so that it registers on the display.
For quality CDLC you can visit customsforge website.
Actually, not all of it is quality. Some tabs are wrong, some songs don't have dynamic difficulty or sections which are required in the remastered edition, and there are even CDLC's that use the wrong DLC key. All of them are supposed to tree off of 'Cherub Rock' but some CDLC creators use other DLC's.
As a CDLC creator myself. There isn't that much work that goes into creating a CDLC using software. I've found songs that sound amazing and I want to tab them. Now I do, but that takes a lot of work. a CDLC really is made up of 95% the tabbers if you ask me. They deserve the credit, not us.
(My CustomsForge username is SuperSonic)
I mean, yeah... but the comment is still valid. Anyway, I wouldn't say the tabbing is harder, just that the EoF/tone design half can often be more subtle and subjective. Imperfect syncing and cheap tones still let you play the same tab, but it's not as smooth. Really, auditing the tab is quality control and a prerequisite before the actual work. I've actually had another creator somehow mess up what I had given as a tab by not applying bend/slide commands and such properly, so it goes by ways.
CDLC that doesnt use "cherub rock" can be easily fixed in seconds though.
I dont have Cherub rock myself so all CDLC i get i have to change anyway.
5:55 you can actually now play in the same tuning for non stop play
After playing guitar hero for several months I'm moving to rocksmith. I don't think that guitar hero is necessarily going to transfer in a lot of ways but one thing I learned from playing so much GH was that it's amazing how good you can get at something if you do it a lot. I started out barely being able to play medium and now I'm playing some of the hardest custom tracks ever made. I'm looking forward to the challenge of learning real guitar and i think that rocksmith will help with that feedback loop to keep me practicing for many months (maybe even years) to come.
That Green Day part killed me im dying of laughter
I love the main riff for Dammit at 7:50... so recognizable!
After putting 600 hours on it, i've moved on to Amp and learning songs from tabs on Ultimiate-guitar.com Rocksmith has been the building block for me to learn guitar, i find it only takes you so far. Session mode by that way, is to practice your scales with a backing track that moves up and down with your BPM. It's actually pretty useful if you're in to improvising solos.
Down With The Sickness
I will add one thing: Personal experiences with it as far as the lessons that they have can be wonky, I could be playing the right frets , but it will still say i'm wrong. So what I would do is slide up one fret and suddenly it's correct. Maybe its because they sometimes don't have you tune for the lessons, or maybe because I have a used ibanez that i've been playing with ( Once i get better i'm upgrading to schector )
Session mode is the best part of the game! It lets you just play whatever you want. Play in the scale it tells you too and just jam!
This was really cool, thanks mang
Great breakdown an wording... excellent video.
What i do for the PS4 version is I plug my amp headphones into the little controller headphone jack so I can hear everything much better
Great review. I love the time lapse (rather than a quick survey of it like most video game reviews).
Thanks!
I fixed my cable by cutting off the old Jack and adding my own gold plated jack, still sounds great after 4 years
I watched this video at least 4 times and thought it was such a good review. Its got a reasoning for everything. Nice vid. Probably going to buy rocksmith 2014
Great review man!
Why was I able to tell what songs you were playing in the background?
Shit... I used to play on and off, I started playing again and I'm on day 3 and my fingers are sore... I have an old guitar but I might be getting a Les paul on Christmas, I try to play 2-3 hours a day lol. I want to be a master at guitar and play a bunch of songs and even freestyle. Rocksmith has Some songs I've never heard before but they sound so nice. I think it's alot of work so I'm scratching the surface but I wish theBest of luck to all of you guitarists lol.
Good luck, man! It takes some time to get good, or even decent, but it's a good time. Just stick to it, and you'll get there!
this is an excellent review. A+ for this and thanks. I'm about to buy my first guitar. Thanks.
This is a really good and thorough review. I haven't seen your newer stuff, but if you improve on your execution (you sound like you're reading from a script in this) I can see you becoming an excellent reviewer.
Just subbed for the 1000 sub milestone
this game is far more effective than tabs, and builds your finger dexterity pretty damn quickly. but as far as writing music, both options will do nothing for you. do yourself a favor and learn theory.
It's good if I just want to learn guitar for myself though?
Alex K yes
the game actually teaches you music theory up to a certain level
The game is crap
@@KimmyR3 no it does not lol
excellent review.
I wouldn't have learned to play guitar without Rocksmith, the traditional way, is way to boring, and you get discouraged.
I wish I had Rock Smith. I would buy all the Chains, Soundgarden, and STP.
im waiting till rocksmith 2016 comes out again
I ve put in almost 1000 hours now n while I am far from being fluent, I ve come along way since the first time I picked my fender.
So when you make progress on the missions. Eventually the game will direct you to a bunch of mission about the session mode and it pretty much explains everything about it.
Great Review!
It's a must own on PC because of the free CDLC. I have downloaded like every song I like for this game for free and got the base game for 7.99 on a steam sale
You can group songs by tuning during non-stop play. The game will think and suggest exercises for you when you are having issues. If you mess up on slides then the game will suggest you play something related to slides in guitarcade. Missed that bend because you didn't bend hard enough? The game may suggest you to play Temple of Bends.
Great review!
Hey man thanks. You sold me!
1:13 All The Small Things? I’ve played that song enough on this game to be able to recognize it. I’m hoping I’m right.
FUCK!!!
Kills me everytime. I literally come back just for that little reference.
i have a question for people who have actually used this to learn, considering the games guitar hero like setup, i feel like rather than teaching you to play its just telling you what strings to press. i feel like this game would make me dependent on the game to play songs. is anyone who used this to learn able to play the songs they learned without turning the console back on? because on guitar hero i was a master at sweet child of mine, but if you asked me to push the buttons in the order of the song without the screen i would be lost, i feel like it would be the same with this
I wondered the same thing. It's kind of like saying because you've played GTA, now you can drive a real car.
Dalton Sullivan Actually i think it does pretty well at teaching you. Once you play a song enough and well enough its starts to push you into Master mode where the notes slowly begin to fade out (as long as you have previously been hitting the notes with little mess ups) until they arent there anymore so all you see is the "highway" or whatever you wanna call it but no notes and then everytime you play it, it will be blank unless you arent hitting the notes then that part will slightly appear for you next time you play the song. Now of course if you arent willing to do that since you can turn it off in the settings then no you wont really memorize the song and learn it but for the people who really actually wanna learn the instrument, yes i believe this game does a good job at it
Dalton Sullivan yeah, if u use riff repeater you'll get it
Honestly just use CDLC on rocksmith if you play on pc it’s opened so many doors for me I literally go on the site for hours and download so many songs.... I have 250 songs on my first 3 days....
im 14 , ive been playing since may 2015 , and I'm so much better at guitar then i ever thought... my father has been playing guitar for 20 years... with no rock smith... I'm already much better than him. Im getting things like lamb of god and disturbed past 100% , i showed my dad rocksmith and he has gotten so much better at guitar
Same I started playing 2015 may 12th!
Wheren Fadestar you actually got lamb of god to 100%?! I just started listening to them and love them super cool you can play the songs that’s my ultimate goal rn
Wheren Fadestar It's not about how much time you have played, it's about how regularly you practice. If you play for 15 years just one hour a week, you'll never as good as someone who has played 1 hour each day for 10 years.
Good review!
I still hate the way it has the notes coming towards you. Its so much harder to read that the more standard tabs style of Bandfuse and Yousician.
This dude has 600 subs? Thought this was a big channel until I looked lol.
Rocksmith couldn't answer my question. Maybe someone here can. There are TWO Rocksmiths - Rocksmith 2014 Edition with cable, released 10/22/2013 for $ 79.99 and Rocksmith 2014 Edition-REMASTERED with cable, released 10/04/2016 for $ 59.99.
What is the difference between the two versions? Why does the older version cost more than the newer remastered version? Which should I buy?
Buy the cheaper one.
It might be a price glitch, because the normal 2014 was discontinued in favor of the Remaster. I remember seeing RS2014 being sold for $79.99 years ago, and whatever store selling it might have forgotten to take it out of the system/change the price.
Also, Rocksmith 2014 Remastered is the most current version, which came out a month or so after the video. They added a couple things, which I covered in another video. Even if you don't get the remaster, you still do, because it was offered for free for existing players.
TL;DR - Remaster.
Excellent run down
You can sort the songs be tuning if you click on learn a song and hit RB
not sure 4 pc
Good review. Love the game and I have it on all of my computers!
And for anyone interested in getting more songs for Rocksmith. You can get Customs songs and charts. Just google it.
Also, don't do what I just did and talk about it, you can get banned from the CDLC site :D
Rocksmith now in 2021:
Rocksmith plus. A subscription based game, To be honest idk why ubisoft even decided to make rocksmith plus a subscription game in the first place.
Rocksmith is fun... And now I start to make my own CDLC, which make it more fun...
0:22 how was that a failure... that was actually correct!
yeah we know about the features, we want to know your progress
I learned on Rocksmith 2 2 years ago up picked up an off-brand glary guitar and started learning the guitar was honestly a piece of s*** now I play Ibanez and now I'm attempting to learn Slipknot solos:-)
I see thunder horse, nice to see they have dethklok. This "game" made me go from playing 2 notes a minute to being able to play stevie wonder and rush on bass
How is everyone 4 years later
0:17 was so damn relatable lmfao
i have the video game rocksmith 2016 i know how to play the guitar for 3 years it took me to play and i mastered it.
I've picked the game up during the summer sale but only started playing 4 days ago.
The first 2 days were super fun but the i realized that the game is trying to push me faster than i would like too and it becomes frustrating when I completely fail something. Even for something as seemingly simple as Blitzkrieg Pop that is supposed to be complete entry-level stuff the game is already trying to give me 75% difficulty and i miss most of the notes because of the speed and complexity.
Could also be that i'm doing something wrong. We'll see how it goes. So far i'm really optimistic and hope to learn how to play guitar half-decently in the next year or so
I had the same problem until I started using riff repeater and playing it slowed down repeatedly and gradually increasing the speed.
I'm maybe 2 weeks into the game, but those are the first 2 songs I started with as well haha. I highly recommend completing the first couple of lessons (up to bends and chords 101) up to almost 100%.
Also try practicing alternate strumming; its a little more difficult than down strumming everything but I'll make fast songs like Blitzkrieg Bop easier in the long run. I "mastered" all the parts of BB, but couldnt get anything higher than 75% on the song for a long time purely because my hand would get tired. Its all about building those muscles up and making everything muscle memory.
BADD2087 That's what i did first thing! Did most of the 101 lessons but got stuck on slides 101 cause i can never get that 1 freaking note and it gives me 98% haha
I'm getting a bit better but chords and alternate strumming is still freaking hard :|
Update on progress please? I'm interested to know what's happened since.
Rahfu I haven't been playing as much as i would like to cause of school, but I've been making some great progress even with the little time I have.
My finger dexterity is still kinda bad and my pinky won't do what i want it to do, but i navigate on the fretboard much quicker and sometimes even without looking at it. Strumming still needs work too but it got much better over time.
I have about 45h total in-game time as of today. I think my best song so far is Volbeat - A Warrior's Call, sitting at about 70% . Additionally, i've noticed that i'm learning a TON faster playing songs that i actually like, that's why I've invested in some DLC packs during the holiday sales
I've been playing for quite some time and I can surely agree with your review. Thankfully Rocksmith is getting a Remastered edition to fix a lot of issues like Non-Stop play. My biggest problem with the game is that the game doesn't recognize palm muted power cords at times. mainly when they're open string palm mutes. But on the whole, I'm still going to be playing this game for a while.
Rock ya later dude and keep going. -Thumper
Yeah, I've had a couple issues with notes not being recognized, but I always chalked it up to my playing. I've seen some people get 100% FCs on songs, which always made me think that it might be me. Also, I'm glad that they released a new version, because it fixed all the issues I've really run into.
Keep rocking, man.