Rocksmith 2014 Day 2

On day 2 of my Rocksmith 60 Day Challenge I was eagerly awaiting the end of the work day to get home to continue my journey on becoming an elite shredder.

Wrong shredder. Cute though, would make an awesome rock outfit.

I focused more on the Riff Repeater today, wanting to nail the "American Idot" by Greenday.  But first, I wanted to see how much of the song I could perform from the day before, so I just jumped right into playing it.  Apparently it takes more than 24 hours for muscle memory to develop..... Got about half way through the intro and freaked out going all over the fret board.  Back to square one.

I kicked off Riff Repeater to get my skills up.

More options than you can shake a guitar at!

If you don't know what Riff Repeater here's my sparknotes for it. It's the ultimate tool to help you learn a song.  There's tons of options specify exactly what part of the song you want to practice, what happens when you master that section (repeat|continue), what mastery of the song you want to focus on, etc etc.  Check here and here to get the complete breakdown, I only messed with what to practice, where, and how fast.  My only frustration with it would be helpful if the song layout at the top of the screen also had subheadings underneath of what part of the song that is, into, chords, bridge, ending.

However, I can honestly say that I spent more than an hour in Riff Repeater on the same section of the song and it was still fun.  Practice makes you better, and it was fun getting better because Rocksmith was pretty well designed in this area. As Rocksmith noticed I would ace a section of the song, it would either increase the difficulty or speed to encourage me to keep going.  And going I did, I hadn’t even realized I went through most of the song until the outro.  Thanks for keeping me engaged Rocksmith!  By the end of the session I was at 50% difficulty on 100% speed.

 

I didn’t do too much else on Day 2 except try another Guitarcade game called Star Chords which reminded me a lot of math blaster back in the day.  Check the video out below.  The game is fun once you realize how to interpret the chord sheet they show you.  Took me a minute to realize that the solid lines are not to indicate a bar chord, but an open string. =/