- #ROCKSMITH 2014 EDITION TIPS FOR BEGINNERS HOW TO#
- #ROCKSMITH 2014 EDITION TIPS FOR BEGINNERS SERIES#
These are designed to teach you technique without feeling like you’re learning technique.
#ROCKSMITH 2014 EDITION TIPS FOR BEGINNERS SERIES#
Guitarcade is a series of old-school arcade style games that you play with the guitar. You can see me using riff repeater in this video:
Riff repeater lets you select a specific phrase and slow it down so that you can master those measures and repeat them as many times as necessary to gain that mastery. These may include lessons (which is how I first attempted the lessons and found them to be helpful), reviewing a chord in the chord book, playing a game in the Guitarcade (one of my favorite parts of the game) or using the riff repeater function. This can be a bit irritating at times, but it’s still a lot easier than doing it without the game.Īfter playing a song for the first time, Rocksmith 2014 analyses your performance and gives you three tasks to complete to help you achieve mastery. However, tuning is easily explained on screen with the game picking up your current tone and telling you which way to turn the pegs in order to tune correctly – it only lets your progress once your instrument is in tune. These also require different guitar tunings, which means that you may need to retune your guitar frequently in order to play the songs of your selection. There is a wide range of songs from a variety of time periods and genres. As you progress through the song, Rocksmith adjusts dynamically, making it easier or harder depending on your ability. I was playing an average of five notes per phrase at the beginning, most of which were limited to one string only. You select a song you wish to play and the game starts you off with a very basic version. This is the mode where I spent most of my time. I worry some may have just given up at that point and would claim that Rocksmith is simply too difficult or scales too quickly, instead of taking the time to complete a “boring” lesson. I only tried out the lessons when I’d hit of a bit of a wall at learning a song. They might help avoid some frustration people would feel.
I found the lessons very helpful and wished the game had placed a bit more emphasis on them. You can later return the lessons and just repeat the practice tracks in order to achieve 100% on them. Following the video explanation, there is usually a practice track to test if you can apply the new skills taught in the lesson.
#ROCKSMITH 2014 EDITION TIPS FOR BEGINNERS HOW TO#
This can be really helpful if you’re confused about how to actually hold a guitar for maximum comfort, or how to position your fingers on the frets. The first shows a video of an actual human being holding a guitar and showing the things that you will need to do. The lessons generally take a two-part approach. This may be obvious to those who have any background in guitar, but for an absolute beginner such as myself, this was really helpful and important. For example, I honestly didn’t know how to move between the frets until I did the lesson which explained the dots and how to quickly tell which fret was which. While you can already get through a bunch of game content without doing any lessons, they are definitely integral to advancing. The lessons are further down in the menu options, seemly relegated to the realm of something boring that you probably wouldn’t be interested in. You would think this would be the start of the game, but in actual fact it’s not even part of the opening quests/missions. That said, the order in which these quests are presented can be a bit counter-intuitive. This adds a level of gamification to the experience, as well as giving the player some ideas about what to do next to improve. In order to achieve this, the game provides a range of missions or goals, taking you through all the different approaches given to teach you how to play. Regardless, you are learning to play a real instrument, guided from the point of being an absolute beginner to a guitar master.
That said, they do recommend connecting it through your sound system before connecting to the console for a better sound experience. The cable jacks into your electric guitar (that you presumably have somewhere, collecting dust) and connects directly to the console.
Rather than playing with the awful plastic instruments made famous with Guitar Hero, Rocksmith 2014 makes use of real electric guitars (or bass guitars). Rocksmith 2014 seeks to build on the original Rocksmith, making learning guitar an easier, more enjoyable experience without the same grinding. It can be a slow, frustrating process that is ultimately rewarding. Learning to play an instrument takes dedication, practice and hard work.