This is fun just to play along songs. I don't know anything that is even close to this. You don't even need to change tones for songs. Beats tabs any day.
Rachelf: My wife came in as I was watching you and said, "Who is that wearing my T-shirt?" She loves the T-shirt, but forgot that you actually created it. That was my laugh of the day. Great video. I have never heard of Rocksmith before, but I might just have to get it to have more fun in my life (especially since we are all "sheltering-in-place" these days in California. Thanks for posting this! Cheers.
@@RachelfGuitar I just mailed you my CD album and calendar to your P. O. Box. You will receive it on Saturday, April 4th. Since the Priority Mail package is made of plasticized bubble wrap, you may want to handle it will paper towels and put it in your garage for three days before opening it. Hey, maybe you should write a song about the Coronavirus! I know I am. Thanks for everything. Cheers.
@@jeemalsoknownasjimhawkins1294 That is so kind of you! I'm so sorry though, because of the Coronavirus situation in my city we are (and have been for a while) in shelter-in-place and are only allowed to go outside for essential to health reasons. I haven't left my apartment in over 2 weeks now with unfortunately no end in sight, so I'm not sure when I will actually be able to retrieve the package from the post office :(. It could likely be 1-2 months (or more) before I am able to check the P.O. Box depending on how the situation progresses. Again, I'm so sorry about this! I really appreciate you thinking of sending it out to me and I can't wait to check it out whenever I am able! Do you happen to have any sort of digital version I could potentially check out in the mean time? Hope you and your family are doing well in these unusual times!
@@RachelfGuitar We live down here in Carlsbad (San Diego), so we have similar "stay at home" restrictions. Post Offices are considered essential businesses, so when I mailed out the 100 CD/Calendar packages to my friends, we put on our face masks and went in. Everyone maintained at least a 6-foot distance, but it still gave us pause to wonder if this was the smart thing to do during this time. Since I am not noted for being terribly "smart" I went ahead anyway. Duh! If there is a way for me to send you my personal email address, without your 150,000 followers finding out, I would be glad to send it to you and then I can send you some digital files; otherwise, we'll all just wait this out. Cheers!
@@jeemalsoknownasjimhawkins1294 The situation is so unusual and evolving so quickly, it's hard to know what is best! I was also going to the post office pretty frequently until the lock down here. I have a RU-vid email that I can share that would work when you get the chance! It's just rachelfguitar@gmail.com. Thank you so much and sorry about the package retrieving difficulty!
It has a slight delay at times, the chord needs remastered, too. If not on the Epiphone line, the signal experiences a pretty noticeable delay at times.
Well what happens is there is a video delay so when using something like an hdmi it lags a bit. Rocksmith was designed for rca inputs (the white, red, and yellow. Plugs) and or to directly plug into compositor; laptop via usb,
I love your attitude, you are definitely a great motivational speaker. Please keep putting out videos. This days we need a person with your kind of passion for life, for music and the instrument. Thank you for all your positive vibes your encouragement is well received.
I learned playing the guitar from rocksmith only. No single lesson except youtube. What i realized was that my sightreading became really good after the first few months but when it comes to solos i still can't read them properly. I found out that i missed to practise some techniques. Started practising a few months ago and the progress is amazing. So if you start with rocksmith don't forget to sit down and practise. You will have a much easier life in "learn a song" then.
I’ve been playing Rocksmith for 4 year and it has helped me a lot. After a year of playing it I got real lessons and also still played Rocksmith. It really does help you learn guitar. Still play to this day and spend so much money on DLC
@Mynoah16 - You might wanna check out Customsforge website and you can get tons of fan made custom dlc on there for free. Pretty much any song you want on there (with the exception of the official dlc, they don't allow those on there)
I've been using Rocksmith for a few years now. For lockdown it's awesome with all the creator downloadable content (Tina Turner to Amon Amaroth). Favorite "arcade" game has to be Scale Racer. Not that I'm burning through scales like Zakk Wylde or anything. But I've been using this almost daily the past month. Great tool to get started and build confidence. Not much theory would be my only downside to it. Oh and no extended range instruments (7 or 8 string guitar, 5 or 6 string bass), although it does cover altered tunings (Open E, Drop D, Drop C#, ect) to make up for that. The tuner is pretty damn accurate is well. I've done more than a few set-ups and intonation adjustments with it.
I don't have the cable for it. I did buy a usb to guitar cable but it doesn't work. I tried both the pc and PS4. I can't find the no cable patch download. What would you recommend?
@@pacovalencia6204 I don't have the cable for it. I did buy a usb to guitar cable but it doesn't work. I tried both the pc and PS4. I can't find the no cable patch download. What would you recommend?
@@shannonwagner2134 I’ve heard you can use an interface. Search how to use an audio interface with rock smith. The interface is for pc or Mac By The Way
AAAA THE SMILE ON UR FACE IS DEFINITELY INFECTIOUS, i’m a 13 year old girl who just got a guitsr for her britt bday like a week ago. i can do bends, slides, some chords amd i can play a bunch of riffs and solos. i honestly taught myself using tabs and i think it sounds pretty good. i still need to learn mkre and improve and this kind of learning can’t be found using youtube or tabs so my dad told me if i really want the game i can get it but i decided to do more research. this video makes the game look really fun rewarding snd it seems like it works? my spring break just started and i’m so excited to learn more!!!
To begin with I had some persistent issues with note recognition. It took a while to realise that the issue was my guitar's poor setup. This motivated me to learn how to setup my guitar myself and now that it's optimised it plays pretty much flawlessly. If you find that you're missing notes that you'd swear you hit I guarantee it's a setup issue. Dux Redux will definitely highlight if the guitar's intonation is off; on mine for instance, the high e string was too low at the bridge and so would mute itself against the higher frets. Pickup/pole height (not too far or too close either) was also critical to getting the thin strings to register notes higher up the neck for me. Bear this in mind when you read reviews from people complaining about missing notes.
I've been learning solely with Rocksmith for the past 3 months. It's amazing to be able to play along with your favorite music with the tabs right on the screen AND it scales the difficulty for you so as you learn the song it introduces more complex chords and adds more things. It's so flexible and dynamic. The downside of course is you have to buy the songs you want. But overall, it's a major reason I've kept playing.
The main problem I have with rocksmith is that at the beginning it's easy and later on you get more notes. Problem with this is that sometimes you get used to a certain fingering and when the game makes it harder for you you have to get used to a new fingering. What I usually do is put max difficulty but with slow speed it sort of helps.
Great video! btw in Session Mode, you pick the size of the scale position with your arrow keys, also the notes light up as you can see depending of wich chord that is being played by the band. So the point of session mode is not to play what you want but rather playing with the chord changes of the band :)
In Jam mode the chord never changes, put it in blues and it will play three different chords in a twelve bar sequence, your welcome, only took me 30 hours to figure out. If you want your guitar to track better, go to tune and at the bottom right hand of the screen, choose calibrate.
i started as an absolute beginner with rocksmith and hated it at first because the lessons were too difficult haha, but the learn a song feature kept me interested and now i can play songs i never thought possible. its great for learning new songs fast and easy. it doesnt teach you a lot of things like good technique and many other important things but its great at keeping you motivated to play guitar at the start of your musical journey
I bought a copy to start learning with but found it too hard for a complete beginner. It’s now been shelved until I can play better and then I’ll give it another try. Then again, I might try it again for the games.
I had the same experience. I think that never being a gamer made the learning curve to steep for me. I got more out of RU-vid and rarely mess with RockSmith.
@@SypherLXVII-MySixStringJourney I sucked when I first started but I just thought of it as a game. Just started doing missions and trying to get higher % on each song. After awhile I could play most songs.
Im a complete beginner and i find it quite easy to understand it , The lessons are a great help , I am a guitar hero pro though so maybe that has helped me in alot of ways
I highly recommend Rocksmith to anyone that wants to learn guitar or bass :). Only thing it doesn't "really" teach you is music theory and weird techniques such as whammy tricks. It's main focus is learning songs, but it has a lot to offer :). Keep in mind I'm 31 and have been playing off and on since I was 5. Self taught and mostly learned through books and videos (mostly Petrucci and Vai), but... it's something I wish I had in my preteen years :). I probably would've kept playing then :D.
Session mode is really a joy. I think its one of the best hidden gems. Got me to practice scales and to learn how to improvise a bit. Still bad but it gets me playing daily.
I've been playing this a lot recently and it's been a lot of fun but I don't think I'm learning as much as I could be. But it's great for getting me motivated as a beginner.
The secret to the string skip saloon to get it to really hear what's going on. You need to mute. Constantly. I mean each time you hit a string, mute everything. Of course left hand muting works well since you're not really using it. Or... Like the guitarist I was in my youth, lift the palm enough to get it to ring, then heavy palm it, but it does work, as long as there isn't excess noise. Session mode, reads the volume and attack transients over time, to be able to adapt its own dynamics. It plays a pretty good rhythm and the chords are very simple, so if you stay in key it will always sound alright. I'm simplifying a little. The amount of code voodoo to make it happen is insane. for others that have trouble with it tracking the pitch correctly or the The rest of the games in general, To get them tracking well, one, don't use an active guitar if you can help it, it HATES my Schecter. it Loves my les Paul. Something to also keep in mind, it's VERY sensitive to changes in volume and intonation. So a good setup is a great idea, It doesn't like the mud that comes with heavier strings. So playing 8s or 9s is highly recommended (I normally play anything from 10s to 12s, it does not like the darker tone of it). It isn't fond of my neck pickup. it's not bright enough for their code to handle properly. So the advice, make sure you have appropriate strings. Make sure you have a good setup on the guitar (intonation is important. also important is pickup height, if they are close you can get warble in the tone which causes rocksmith to not like it, even before that warble is audible to the player the game may freak out. so worth noting) Calibrate. Every time you play. It gets really weird about input gain, if things aren't tracking well, check your tuning, open and at the octave (or octave harmonic and octave fretted). if the tuning is good at open and octave. Calibrate again. Play on the bridge pickup. Make sure your tone knobs are CRANKED. Their code that processes the audio makes that assumption, I advise against playing that way outside of the game, but their code is designed to have everything at max so it can handle the rest tone wise. if you're using an active guitar. on PC, go to the windows input settings and turn down the gain there a lot. Then calibrate, the game will adjust the gain, but if you don't start low, it doesn't quite get it right in my experience. I've not used the active on my roomates xbox so on that I'm not helpful, maybe it works better on consoles without having to mess with it. if that's still not getting it sounding or tracking right a more expensive (and a lot more work) option is using a recording interface as input, this requires a 3rd party library to work, annnnnd it requires a lot of trial and error with the input settings inside an ini file to get it right. but it brings down the latency a lot and presents a cleaner signal, and rocksmith does work great that way. The game has it's limits in a lot of ways on the technical side of things. HOWEVER if everything is set up properly. It is surprising reliable.
I have been using rocksmith for over 1000 hours now started out without no knowledge and I can say I'm pretty decent now :) It definitely can be tricky to get in to at the start but if you keep at it it is definitely a good way to improve your guitar playing. One tip is to use an own amp (requires some more pedals/switches) but it is definitely worth it in the end as you can hear yourself way better.
I think the kazoo sounded more like a whoopie cushion. 😆 I really like the jam mode! I wonder if anyone has just a freestanding jamming program? My son has Rocksmith for bass, but I don't think he ever tried it. I'll have to tell him about the jam mode. Thanks for the test drive. 👍✨
Jonathan Rousseau I would disagree. I started off on rocksmith and I found it a pretty easy concept to start off on. I wouldn’t say to stick with it as a permanent learning tool but it really gave me the inspiration to continue playing guitar
I'm actually not into games but in the beginning trying to figure out what to learn first was a nightmare so I just went with something where I could hear my progress. I think it does help to a point but recalling chords by name, not so much and actually remembering a whole song, not so much either unless you stay strictly on one song? Most people are better visual learners which I think is their selling point. Been using it for about a year and a half.
@@RachelfGuitar from the original game content: muse with knights of cydonia.. But for computer you can have a lot of costum made Songs. Which is amazing.
personally ive found using a audio interface has a higher degree of acuracy than the cable that comes with the game. even a cheap one i got from amazon for $30, which if you're like me and already have one for recording mics, keyboards.....ect makes the game a lot more responsive and accurate. you do have to launch the game through a different little launcher but its easy enough to get going just by googling it and i would recommend it to anyone that buys the game on steam and doesnt have the cable or that already had a audio interface. made the game 110% better for me at least..
I love rocksmith really good for practice i would not say its perfect but it's a lot of fun. I do recommend if anyone has the PC version is look into free CDLC there is thousands out there which is not in the original or official DLC you can find just about anything you want to play
if you legit want to learn the songs, I feel like the best way to do it is play on the highest difficulty as its closest to the actual tabs, and just take the time to learn each part slowly. Scaling up using the AI difficulty by playing simple parts, like notes here and there, doesnt really seem to teach much, but is fun none the less. :)
Glad to see Rocksmith in 2020. I love this game but my Real Tone Cable broke last december so without it there are few annoying problems. Yes, You can play using audio interface or mic input but You must set 16 bit 48 kHz input/output. Still You can get distorted audio or just clean signal, but You can use real amp or guitar sim software - it works! Also there are few versions of NoCableLauncher if You have problems. Songs are to boring? to expensive? not Your taste? Try CDLC found on CustomsForge. You need to buy 1 DLC (mostly Cherub Rock). Have fun!
Cherub Rock... The Best song I've bought that i've never played :D Buying that one song unlocks the ability to have 7000+ songs ... Best $2.99 ever spent!
My brother got rock smith for me a few years ago, because of the way life goes I haven’t had time to try it out more than the first few days I had it. This reminded me of it and I definitely will be trying it out again 😂
Trying to get my gf to practice with this game. It's useful for somebody that's new to guitar. Not as much for somebody like you or me. Because the limiting factor will be the game and not our ability to play the song itself.
randyrrs the advanced lessons really aren’t that advanced for instance the chord progression is basically split up between learning the different open chords and the “most” advanced is basically barre chords (which aren’t that complicated once you have the idea down) and the jazz chords (suspended chords and ninths and so on) which like learning them by ear is obviously important but it’s helpful to know the theory behind the construction and how they would be used harmonically which rocksmith doesn’t get much into (that’s a lot to chew for a video game lol) but I think the most advanced lesson would probably be the pinch harmonics which are more of just a video on how to do it and the tapping lesson which I actually really enjoyed
randyrrs to be fair for someone who has never played guitar before that is fairly intimidating but I would say once someone feels they’ve mastered rocksmith it’s beneficial to dig into the theory not like you have to pick up a book (though that might help) but the next challenge is to learn scales and intervals by ear and look at chords and the notes they’re made of
@@randyrrs7028 This game can't teach me anything more. And the only thing I'll be fighting against when playing it is recognizing the colors for the strings. It's better to just read tabs or treat the riff repeater like I would treat guitar pro. The game is unnecessary if you've practiced without it for a long time.
Its cheaper then a guitar teacher! Best investment I ever made! + With real tone cable you can record your music into music maker software too! Just discovered how to record on FL Studio! So excited to create some bangers!
Actually that jam session software is worth the cost of the whole thing! Of course learning songs and such as well is cool, but between the learning videos and Jam stuff you are pretty set to go a long way!
You only get a few songs that route... you don't get all the previous songs from version 1. The only converted a few songs from the first game to be compatible with the current game. Although Customsforge website is a nice place to get pretty much any song you want (that isn't a official dlc release)
I’ve been using Rocksmith to learn bass. The lessons are pretty cool, but sometimes it doesn’t register when I play a note and tell me I’m not playing it right even though I’m playing exactly the string/fret it’s telling me to. My favorite mode is the Learn A Song section. Love trying to play along with Queensrÿche or Skid Row. Definitely a challenge trying to keep up with those guys. I’ve all but mastered Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me (eat your heart out, Sav! 😆). 🤘🏻
Im learning with rocksmith, i have the 1st and 2nd. I only play the 1st right now been playing for a year in the event mode. I like the super ducks, Corddead as my top 2 in guitarcade. Overall a it can be very challenging at times, because when you think you have the pattern down it will add notes.
In rocksmith there is a menu that has several different places you go to.it has options on it. That's where you will find lag correction and you can take the lag down to 0.
The lag she experienced in the Slide Tutorial was intentional the game forces that pause in the section... it takes the note up to the line... pauses slightly until you strum the string. It's a bit jarring and I didn't realize what was going on at first when I went through that section years after just playing the Learn a Song mode I thought... I'll go through the tutorial section finally and unlock the achievements for doing it... and experienced the same thing.
You can turn off the lag in rocksmith by going to tools then go to difficulty settings there you can turn the latency down to 0 and that will stop. I done that on my xbox one s and there is no latency in the lessons or anywhere in the software.
Hi Rachel, Cool video. Have you ever heard or tried Band-in-Box. It is a computer program where you can set-up a faux band to play along with you. It's not a game like Rocksmith more of tool for musicians, but you can get a whole session going with a computer. It also has these game-like learning tools where you can test your ear or other musicianship aspects.
Rocksmith taught me how to play guitar. Overall it's a great tool to get started but it isn't a substitute to a real teacher. I struggled with not having my guitar setup correct, pickups too low, poor intonation, high bridge, etc. It also does a poor job teaching you about music theory, which would of been a big help later on. My biggest gripe is that if you are a brand new player and power through the lessons and really work on it you can still pick up bad playing habits and that if you just had someone to guide you here and there, it would of made the learning process a lot easier.
Yes, I had to learn through reddit why my rocksmith game wasn't picking up my notes. Then I had my guitar properly setup and check the intonation 3 months after I got mines. I think a couple months on youtube guitar tutorial then rocksmith second is better than, rocksmith first then youtube tutorial
Hi i own ROCKSMITH 2014 for my computer and i like some of the stuff with the so called game,but it has taught me a lot about guitar and i am learning new songs but still trying to figure out SESSION MODE but after watching your video i now have a better idea on how to use SESSION MODE ty KEEP ROCKING
I used to play Rocksmith on my Xbox 360 years ago and it was loads of fun. I've recently tried playing on my MacBook Pro and the latency is terrible. I've tried all of the suggestions on the Rocksmith site but to no avail. Wish i could play it though. I miss jamming with the real tunes.
So I started Rocksmith today but for bass. I am a complete beginner, so it wasn't great how the game makes the songs more difficult as you progress. I mean, I am so new that I have to count the frets. I played it today for 2 hours and 30 minutes. I am enjoying it so far, but I need to find a way to get better audio from it. I also read somewhere that I should switch the visual display upside down because it helps with sight reading. I think the learning curve for beginners on the game is quite high, but I have experience with the double bass and I love video games. I am going to try to do it daily
I found the Dynamic Difficulty settings a bit weird too, just as you learn to play it one way it changes it up on you to increase the difficulty... In the settings I just set the difficulty to 100% and turned off Dynamic Difficulty altogether ... that way you'll see the full song the way it's inteded to be played all the time... and for better or worst that's the whole song and I found doing this sped up my learning of the song... even though it was more difficult. Cranking up the difficulty to 100% and then using the Riff Repeater to repeat sections of the song until you get it down 100% is the best way to go about this.
New subscriber here having just stumbled upon your channel, the band mode on Rocksmith looks really good for jamming along to, keep up the good work Rachel!... 🎸👍🙂
Never played guitar until my little one wante it, we then discovered rocksmith, man he insited for me to play hours on Scale Warriors, yes if I can play one thing blind its the first scale :D :D I bought him since then a mini strat works quite well, now he plays Scale Warriors :) thou for a child in all of the games the difficulty progressin is way too fast. I’m so much looking forward to buy a second cable and play splitscreen with him that will be fun!
yeah love rocksmith myself. Mainly tone designer, and learn a song always at full difficulty, pretty often every week lol. After watching your video I am thinking I should use guitarcade and session mode a lot more now, looks a lot more fun than i remember lol.
When yo can, buy you a Peavey head amp, 3120model and 5650 too, this will a big to your sound guitar, you can download the application to pc software to you listen and practique head amp simulator, This is very cool!! Congratulations Champion!!!
