Rocksmith discussion thread - New real guitar game.

[Magnet]

I disagreed with a few of his points and made a long comment with feedback .

What recipe were you going for near the top?

[mikeyts]

What recipe were you going for near the top?

I recently bought a Sodastream machine and was trying to calculate the cost per twelve ounces given the cost of each of the ingredients, filtered water, soda syrup and CO2 . I bought it mostly so I can stop dealing with the mountain of recyclables generated by my bad diet soda habit, but I wondered if there was any actual savings (it depends on whether one is using $5-per-12-liter syrup or $7-per-12-liter syrup, the former yielding a good sale price, though not the best).

[tnevaker]

Cool articles comparing RB3 pro and Rocksmith

A little late to the party but still nice to see the RB3 pro guitar get some press.

http://www.fakeplasticrock.com/2012/...itar-showdown/

i don't think that was written by a real guitar player. you aren't supposed to press the strings "all the way down to the fretboard"

in general it's a pretty fair article, though not mentioning the chord numbering option makes RB3's notation system sound vastly inferior to it's actual capabilities (not that HMX helped themselves out much by hiding it in the menus, not making it the default, and not allowing you to save that setting). with chord numbering turned on, RB3 notation is far less confusing. there's a definite trend that experienced guitarists prefer RB3's more tab-like notation, and new players seem to prefer RS notation. hopefully when BandFuse comes out the game will be good enough and it will finally combine the best of both worlds, the tab-style notation with the ability to use any guitar.

[Cipher_Peon]

He shows pictures of the chord numbers, though, so I guess he found it eventually.

[tnevaker]

I recently bought a Sodastream machine and was trying to calculate the cost per twelve ounces given the cost of each of the ingredients, filtered water, soda syrup and CO2 . I bought it mostly so I can stop dealing with the mountain of recyclables generated by my bad diet soda habit, but I wondered if there was any actual savings (it depends on whether one is using $5-per-12-liter syrup or $7-per-12-liter syrup, the former yielding a good sale price, though not the best).

i've been thinking of getting one of those, mainly for my fiancee who loves soda, i don't really drink soda myself. it looks like a keurig for soda. how are the flavors? i wish there was a way to sample some of their flavors before buying.

[tnevaker]

He shows pictures of the chord numbers, though, so I guess he found it eventually.

no he doesn't, the first picture shows power chords without chord numbering, just the wave shapes, and the second picture shows arpeggio notation (with the all-too-familiar first-note arpeggio "bug"). if you've never played above easy (or medium? i don't know when arpeggios first start showing up) then you've probably never seen it before.

[raynebc]

I prefer tab over Rocksmith's representation, but I like the wave shapes because it's fewer numbers to look at. This probably allows one half of the brain to interpret the tab numbers while the other half interprets the shapes, or something like that.

[tnevaker]

the shapes are ok when you're only dealing with a few familiar chord forms. but once you start introducing more exotic chords, they become confusing and difficult to decipher.

[mikeyts]

i've been thinking of getting one of those, mainly for my fiancee who loves soda, i don't really drink soda myself. it looks like a keurig for soda. how are the flavors? i wish there was a way to sample some of their flavors before buying.

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[tnevaker]

cool, thanks.