chords 202 stuck in %97.8

[Pandemic]

im playing very well, i ve tested my playing with on amp too but notes arent stable very well so rocksmith cant catch my chords well is there anything i can do?

[Xelloss [FR]]

Maybe check in the "sound and audio device properties" (the sound icon on your taskbar) if the rocksmith cable input don't have a too small dB gain, windows tends to reduce it a lot each time you plug out / plug in back the cable, and it could cause the software to 'mishear' your notes.

[mikedavies]

From my experience in the game (approaching 1000 hours) Rocksmith isn't fantastic at picking up 97.8% of my playing and absoloutly appaling at missing the other 2.2%. I would suggest go back and look at your previous attempts in Riffrepeater and find out if the exclamation marks are consistent if so I would politely suggest you are missing chords at the same point. That is either because you are out of time or every note within the chord structure isn't being sounded cleanly maybe you are mutting a G string or something like that. Sometimes it helps to forget the visuals, put the guitar down and listen to the rhythm to pick it up. I wish I had a money for every time I have done that and then gone back and nailed a section in Rocksmith.

Rocksmith is a prety good analytical tool equally placed at recognising the good notes as well as the bad ones once we have the software set up properly on our computer system etc... I have to question myself at times am I equally as good at analysing my own performance. I think when we are beginners we are often good at focusing in on all aspects of our playing because we expect issues to be present. When we start to get a bit better do we continue to think in the same ways or do we presume we are doing everything correctly?

Just a few personal thoughts based on my own experience of the game and my own attitudes to my own playing.

[Pandemic]

Originally posted by mikedavies:

put the guitar down and listen to the rhythm to pick it up.

that would do. thanks for your comments

[Pandemic]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Agree with Mike's comments. I'm hitting a string I shouldn't. It also helps to make sure you mute stings that shouldn't sound as well as mute all strings a bit before you play a chord so that it's very distinct.

im playing guitar since 2009 so i know how to play, im playing rocksmith just for fun and thats the rocksmiths problem besides i typed there tested on amp

[905]

Originally posted by Pandemic:

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Agree with Mike's comments. I'm hitting a string I shouldn't. It also helps to make sure you mute stings that shouldn't sound as well as mute all strings a bit before you play a chord so that it's very distinct.

im playing guitar since 2009 so i know how to play, im playing rocksmith just for fun and thats the rocksmiths problem besides i typed there tested on amp

Don't be so sure. Likee they said your timing could be off just a few milliseconds on a chord change. Or for example I was having trouble on Sixteen Saltines. I finally figured out I wasn't quite strumming all the way down to the high e string on the Em chord. Now I haven't quite mastered it, but I'm setting at 99%.

[905]

Hi guys, I've just tried that stupid lesson. Has anyone commenting tried it besides pandemic. I was getting 92% and decided to just fake it by hitting the chords on the up and down strum since RS doesn't care about extra notes. That got me up to 97.3%, I' probably played it 10 or 15 times.

I'm not a strummer and I can honestly say this pisses me off for two reasons. The strumming hand is actually moving pretty darn fast. Faster than I thought and therein lies a couple of problems for me. I play strumming by feel, but there is no feel or grove to this. The strumming pattern seems pretty abstract. Also no real drums to even guide the rythm.

So I see why you are having problems maxing this out. If you haven't already, if all you want to do is max out the practice track, I'd just strum up and down and not skip any strumming. If you want to master this peice of trash rythm exercise, then riff repeater will be your friend. Select the whole thing unless it is a particular section that is getting you and get the strum pattern down cold at 80 or 90 percent and then let it level you up. I'm pretty sure if you play it perfectly inside riff repeater at 100% accuracy and 100% speed it wil give you the 100% on the practice track. And by using riff repeater you will see what chord you are missing. Maybe it is just 1 or 2 and your pattern is a bit off.

But, I am curious, how do you know you are playing it right, I have no sense of what this track is supposed to sound like.

[mikedavies]

Firstly it is so easy not to come to these forums and pass comment, but then people are free to take or leave what anyone says because it is not personal.

I would just like to add that our brains are incredibly complex things and from being little babies we are looking for patterns which work, trying to make things fit into our concept of the rules. So when we play music our brain is more than capable of convincing us that it sounds perfect, if we have a sense of what perfect is all about.

Rocksmith as people have said is a software program which works with similar type machines. So if you think rocksmith is ♥♥♥♥ then its ♥♥♥♥, if you think its accurate then its accurate.

If I think my guitar playing is ♥♥♥♥ then it is ♥♥♥♥, if I think it is accurate I can personally record myself go to my DAW software convert the notes to a midi line then up on a grid in my DAW software and see if I actually hit them in time and they are all there. If they were then maybe I could claim Rocksmith is ♥♥♥♥ for missing them. But what if they are out a bit can I accept that or is the recording ♥♥♥♥, is my DAW ♥♥♥♥, is there something wrong with my computer screen etc...

I am sure the software developers have done all this prior to the relase of Rocksmith. For sure if your system is slow you might have to modify the lag to align things but in that case blame the system and not the software developers.

[905]

Are you talking to me Mike? I don't think I said RS was ♥♥♥♥. I said I hated the lesson. The rythm is abstract and not like any rythm I'm used to playing. I can see why Panterra is having problems getting 100%. If you haven't got to 100% on Chords 202, go try it and get back to us.

I have no doubt that people that can just read the chord pattern on the screen are very good at chord strumming, but I do better with a groove. So report back to the thread after you have spent a little time with the practice track. Maybe you will have insight that I lack, but I find the exercise a bit weird. But then I'm not a strummer.

[905]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

I got 98.9% missing 2 out of 193 strums frankly because my chord changes were a bit sloppy. The keep your hand moving to the beat thing (especially when NOT strumming) does take a litte practice but it really helps with playing rhythm parts.

Would you agree that there really isn't a groove to get into? It really does feel like a completely technical lesson with no musicality to it. What I mean by that is, it doesn't feel like something somebody would ever play in real life. You say keep the hand moving to the beat, maybe that is part of it, I never really felt a beat in the track. Alll I really hear is the other guitar part. Also, how many times with the practice track to get that?

[rcole_sooner]

I wouldn't worry about it.

Just move on to something else in Rocksmith that you think is fun.

[SiegeFrog]

I just checked the tab for Chords 202. The entire thing is the common strumming pattern:
D Du uDu
On Justinguitar.com, they refer to this as Old Faithful because it's the most common strumming pattern ever. That said, it can be a little tricky to get 100% on strumming lessons, but if you've got good rhythm and changes, the pattern is pretty straightforward.

[905]

Originally posted by SiegeFrog:

I just checked the tab for Chords 202. The entire thing is the common strumming pattern:
D Du uDu
On Justinguitar.com, they refer to this as Old Faithful because it's the most common strumming pattern ever. That said, it can be a little tricky to get 100% on strumming lessons, but if you've got good rhythm and changes, the pattern is pretty straightforward.

Hmm, I'll have to look into that. I certainly didn't discern a pattern from the note highway. But I also didn't go into riff repeater to slow it down or anything. Also as I said, I'm not a stummer. Like many my right hand technique is the weakest link.

[rcole_sooner]

If ya just want the 100%, then overstrum ... double up on it.

There are no penalties in the game for hitting too many notes/chords.

It is probably just a timing thing, and throwing some double time strumming in, will most likely sneak past any timing issues.

[Pandemic]

Originally posted by thejohnnewton:

Originally posted by rcole_sooner:

I wouldn't worry about it.

"I must get 100% on everything"

thats what all about

[905]

Originally posted by SiegeFrog:

I just checked the tab for Chords 202. The entire thing is the common strumming pattern:
D Du uDu
On Justinguitar.com, they refer to this as Old Faithful because it's the most common strumming pattern ever. That said, it can be a little tricky to get 100% on strumming lessons, but if you've got good rhythm and changes, the pattern is pretty straightforward.

I can only guess the tab is wrong. I have tried playing it at 70% speed. There are times when I think it is D D uDu, I think on the D chord. So it mixes it up I think. Going back to there isn't a groove. Its gonna drive me nuts.