Things to Come and Day 07

There are several things I can write posts about with this game, but in 60 days I will be running out of topics that are purely about Rocksmith.  In an earlier post you saw me talk about the History of SG's, and I think I'm going to continue putting up some music related stuff like that.  I'd like to clarify why I think they taught the Overdrive, Distortion and Fuzz topics out of order.  I'd also like to talk about some common Pedal designs that get copied over and over and resold for ridiculous amounts of money(Ross Compressors, Tubescreamers, and FuzzFaces).  Then there is the fact that I think of guitars like samurai swords, and I'd like to talk about the origin and the journey of a few fabled guitars/basses through the years.  The way Brian May got his guitar is a very cool one, and then you have the journey of Jaco's recently re-discovered Bass of Doom.

I also have a few personal posts that I plan on having.  I have a post already written about my own personal guitar.  Its not a "look at this expensive, nice, badass guitar, aren't you jealous?" kind of post, because my guitar wasn't expensive, and I actually have a story that goes along with it.  Generally I will try to not have robotic non-posts about stuff that means nothing to me.  I either think its cool to know, would like to try and educate, or mean something personal to me.

I will continue my daily updates.  I feel like there will be days that are kind of uninteresting.  Its the equal of speeding up time in the "My success story" videos on youtube.  I will, however, continue to document the general happenings of my day inside the game.

Day 07

Wow, its been a week already?

Well today I messed around with the Riff repeater because the missions had me doing that.  I also got diverted into sorting songs and playing something from the 1980's.  I chose "Every Breath You Take" because there's not a lot of 80's stuff in this game by default.  The song threw an F chord at me and it looked like I had to twist all my fingers and use 2 hands to be able to do it... I'm so intimidated by chords.  Anyway, got through the song, got the mission done, not sure what good it did...  The Riff Repeater is really nice.  Ever wish you could slow down a song in Guitar Hero/Rock Band?  Maybe you could, I did not play those games later on.  Well you can do that here.  You can adjust the difficulty and the speed, you can even have the game alter it as you get better.  I'll do a larger topic about it later.

Played some Ducks Redux.  It had an annoying habit of not being able to tell the difference between my 2nd fret on the E string and the first.  I re-tuned the guitar, and still, it had that problem.  It was not a problem before... I'll have to keep an eye on it.  I may have to look and see if others are having this problem.

I had decided that on day 10 I'll force myself to learn a song.  Learning theory and application is just so much for fun for me right now.  I'm not playing in front of anyone, so its not like I get requests for songs people would know.  I'm more interested in what I can do in making my own stuff up.  I broke that decision and played some more of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks.  Turns out that song is like a sharp "E" tune, but not enough to be a different tuning altogether.  So every time I play that, I have to re-tune for other parts of the game.  I felt like I have improved already.  The confidence in my fingers to find the correct place and to be able to shift while keeping that simple power chord used in the song has me optimistic.  Still going to wait and focus on it after day 10 though.