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Digitally Analogue

By Tweaklab on March 2, 2014 1:50 pm

143 BPM Breaks with some electric guitar loops I actually played (and time stretched due to my sucky playing abilities)!

This comes after just 1 week of owning my first guitar, never having a musical lesson in my life (I'm 28), and picking up Rocksmith 2014... I am actually quite impressed with how familiar I am with an instrument after only 1 week with no outsider help other than the game/software and some tabs for some of my fave bands.

I also recorded all of the guitar loops using Rocksmith's built in Tone modifier and effects, the bass in the track is just a synth sequenced in Reason (same goes for the drums etc) I recorded the middle section riff 3 times on 3 different strings then panned them out to get a "rhythm" guitar feel (at least what I understand to be a rhythm guitar feel!)

Also went for a "one man band" approach with some tambourine hits backing the snares etc etc

Enjoy! smile

p.s. I for the most part SUCK at chords so they are absent in this tune but I am working on them and will hopefully make another WB in a few weeks with a chord or two if I've gotten good enough smile

March 3, 2014 9:19 pm

DataJanitor

This is pretty awesome. Nice work.  I, too, am just learning guitar, and Rocksmith is part of the plan. I haven't been ballsy enough to try to record myself playing guitar yet... not very good at this point.

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March 4, 2014 4:48 am

an0va

This is fucking fantastic coming from a guitarist of over ten years and is super crazy how you used Rocksmith for a week beforehand. Song is great, has a slight old school big beat vibe with modernized production values

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March 4, 2014 7:26 am

Tweaklab

Thanks so much guys!!! While the track was coming together the cymbal crash and drum pattern in particular reminded me of 90s Fatboy Slim big beat, I have to admit he was one of my idles when I got into production 10 years ago. As for the guitar sections, Rocksmith is amazing, they say that even a pro could improve somewhat using it for a bit! After you've "played" a song, it gives you 3 tips on the performance, if there was a section you struggled with more than others it will get you to run through a mini game that helps you learn those chords or strings etc pretty crazy stuff, the dynamic difficulty is the coolest part, the better you do, the harder it gets, and it eases off if you are failing miserably so it never makes you think "this is too hard". If it can do that for me in a week I'm sure it can do even more for some!

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March 8, 2014 4:35 pm

cTrix

I dig how this bumps around :-)  Nice work

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