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aEvery kid has dreams of becoming a Rockstar. Their rich, their famous, and they get all the women. Most of us lived that dreams in our head or while playing Guitar Hero. If you’re like me, then your parents probably kept saying, “You’re wasting your time! Why don’t you learn how to play a real guitar”! Well, now guess what, ma, there is a game that can actually teach you guitar, and I am playing it for Sixty days. What’s going on, everybody! My name is Jack Jenkins, and welcome to my Youtube Channel. Today I am playing the sixty-day guitar challenge for the original Rocksmith!
I want to start off by saying I never played the guitar before this. The only real musical experience I have is about seven years on the euphonium and Tuba for the band. Other than that knowledge from eight years ago, I am pretty fresh-faced on this instrument. God… this reminded me I’m twenty-six and old now. Anyways, to start off, I went on Amazon and got this really cheap full-size guitar kit for about a hundred bucks. Got the Rocksmith cable for thirty bucks, and the game itself was on sale for ten dollars on Steam. One hundred and forty bucks was a pretty cheap entry point into the world of rocking out. I am playing the PC version of the game. I read online that there are some lag issues with the console versions, so keep that in mind while I go through the game. Another side note is that the challenge is an hour a day for sixty days. I only played thirty minutes a day due to time constraints. I made sure to do a full hour for the 2014 version of the game, which I am still currently playing.
[Day 10 Check In]
The game starts off teaching you how to hold a pick and strum a guitar, which is very helpful cause I was like having it with all five fingers at first. After strumming and tuning the guitar, you will be transported to the main screen of the game. You can go through the journey mode, play some songs, or practice your skills with the guitarcade. Overall the menu is well designed and very clean. I played mostly through the Journey mode to try and get my skills up. To start off, you will play a song. Each note you hit in the game will give you points towards your score. If you get enough points, then you continue onto the next song to play a set. If you don’t get enough points, then you will let you replay the section in slow motion, play a minigame to build out a skill, or just replay the song until you get good enough. I got about a little bit more than halfway through the journey mode within my thirty days. I love the journey mode as it slowly gets you accustom to different songs and skills. For example, in the first few songs, all you do is play a single note. From there, you go into Sustaining the message to a period of time. Then you learn to start bending it and sliding it around the fretboard. I got to the part where I am just beginning to get comfortable playing Chords by the end of the sixty days.
And boy, let me tell you. The first few days were pretty rough getting started. I actually don’t have any footage of this time, but I could barely play the few notes that came up while playing. I got massive sausage fingers, so switching between strings was and still is a challenge. It’s so much more comfortable in guitar hero, let me tell you. However, I just kept playing, and I got to the point where I can actually skip or mute a string without even thinking about it. I’d say overall, my skills progressed decently well. I went from this in day five:
To this on day sixty.
Noticed that I don’t have to look at the fretboard the whole time. That Skills!
Overall, I gained a bunch of confidence in an instrument I never played before. I can now Strum, fret, sustain, bend, and Trello as well as a few other techniques within sixty short days. I will say my skills still fall flat when it comes to playing Chords in general. Like I said, I got these sausage fingers that cover two or three strings at a time, although this will go away as I continue to build my muscle memory.
The game itself does have some problems. It’s glitchy as all heck. Sometimes during a set, the people freeze, or it just doesn’t read my guitar playing anymore. One time it just broke down and didn’t show the instrument at all. It is a glitchy mess. Luckily you can import almost all the songs in the game to the more stable 2014 version of the game. I decided to play the original cause I can get four videos out of it instead of just two. As far as any Lag issues, I didn’t really experience any problems on that front. My notes were read on time. Sometimes though, my notes wouldn’t be read at all, or it would say that I’m playing them wrong when I am right. I learned that you can bend the note with too much pressure, but even after making that adjustment, it still occurred. Another big issue I had is with this minigame Big Swing Baseball. I tried it many times, and I have no idea how to play it. If you look it up, there are Steam and Reddit threads are talking about how terrible this minigame is.
What I like most about this game is the setlist. This game has a tremendous great setlist with a ton of songs. You have Eric Clapton on Run Back to Your Side and him with cream in Sunshine of your Love. Both of these songs, by the way, don’t transfer over to the new game so you gotta play it here. You have the country sounding Well OK Honey by Jenny O and the Rocking Mean Bitch by Taddy Porter. Rolling Stone has three songs in this game, and the Black Keys got two. I mean, just look at this setlist… It’s all pretty great. There was not one song that I didn’t like of the bunch. My favorite songs I like listening to our Islands by the XX and Gobbledigook by Surg Rios. My favorite songs to play are Six AM Salvation by Versus Them and Slither by the Velvet Revolver. Overall I can say that I absolutely love this track listing. I should say that there is a Ton of DLC available, but I didn’t buy any of them until I started bass, so I’ll talk about it then.
[Day 60]
Now, this is usually the point of the video where I talk about what I want in the sequel. However, at this point, I am already playing the 2014 version for the next video. So for this and the bass video, I will ignore it. And have a big old list ready for changes that need to be made for Rocksmith 3. Over the sixty days I was playing Rocksmith, I went from no guitar skills to become familiar with Barre chords. It’s a great way to learn guitar, and I recommend picking it up. Is it going to turn you into a rock god? No, but this, along with youtube videos, makes up a great pair to eventually becoming one. I recommend everyone pick up this game along with the 2014 version. Try the sixty-day challenge yourself and send me a message so I can watch it. I love watching people try to improve your liSSSves or learn a new skill. Here is the chart I filed out for this video. If you’d like, you can download this outline in the description below. And now here’s Angela by Jarvis Cocker from Memory.
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