Can a gamer learn how to play the guitar? (Rocksmith 60-Day Challenge Month 1)

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3 жыл бұрын

Watch Ed as he shreds songs left and right! Like, not in a good way! Part 1 of a 2 part series.
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@Sakura0754 2 жыл бұрын

I wish this was available back when I started learning. It keeps things fun. The little fun games help you really progress on chords, bridge placement and string placement. It's so easy when self learning to hit a plateau and learn 6-10 chords and not branch out. With rocksmith you don't have much of a choice but to progress and it keeps you wanting to because..it's a game. I started Rocksmith today and it blows my mind and I can tell already that not only am I going to have fun but I'll pick up on techniques and bridge chord progressions that I've been lazy learning. You sounded great and what's more fun than picking up a new skill while also playing a game! Learning doesn't have to be boring scales and repeatedly trying single chords looking at tabs or music on paper or screen. I think this is revolutionary for guitar learning and it blows my mind it's been around for so long. A new one is coming out this year 😁 I can't wait!

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! It definitely kick-started my journey. I need to work with it some more -- I have been playing, but not heavily working with with the game lately. Good luck on your journey!

@Seagull425 Жыл бұрын

I think it can definitely be a tool to help learn guitar but idk how well it teaches scales or if they just teach techniques and chords and shows you how to play songs but it can absolutely keep you motivated in learning for sure with the mini games etc

@Sakura0754 Жыл бұрын

@@Seagull425 It doesn't really delve into theory pentatonics/scales so being self sufficient it will only get you so far and likely some bad technique but it certainly helps with the plateau

@madhatterentmt6146 Жыл бұрын

@@Sakura0754 its a good tool to get started but making it youre only tool for learning isnt very good it has built in lesson with videos which do help you learn techniques but i found after 500 hours of rocksmith and hundreds of songs 100 at percent i don't remember any of them without the game in front of me they have a mastery mode which helped me learn a few but i find it i can easily download a new song and play it perfectly but i never really remember them unless ive played them all 100 times

@jimdep6542 Жыл бұрын

@@madhatterentmt6146 What if you got some software for your computer like Band in a Box, where you can take the chords from the songs and put them in Band in the Box in the same order along with the correct accompanying instruments with the same beat / groove ? I think it's a great way to play the same songs, beginning to end without having to use Rocksmith. He will help you memorize chord progressions and give you jam tracks to play your solos over. ......or just practice scales and modes.

@melodywiggins2160 2 жыл бұрын

Loved watching you learn and grow. Nice job.

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

@stekwein 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. Very enjoyable and well done!

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Many thanks!

@mdfabiano 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, please post a new video, I really want to see how about your progress. Great work!

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I have been considering starting up again, but it wouldnt techincally be part of the 60 day challenge :) thinking about doing them more often, just to make it easier to produce and release. Thanks for the kind words!

@heiah 2 жыл бұрын

Cmooooon part 2 let’s goooo

@net-ego 2 жыл бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible yeah, post part 2!

@melodywiggins2160 2 жыл бұрын

I wanna try this!

@Nbl_Six 2 жыл бұрын

I have been a year since the pandemic began in Mexico and saved and with Rocksmith this was less ugly :') Greetings and how great you use Rocksmith :D

@raf.nogueira 2 жыл бұрын

Rocksmith is the greatest learning experience in modern technology, after some years finally I bought my first guitar, cant wait to learn on Rocksmith

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Rocksmith is great -- I need to just spend the time to actually playing it - got a bit more stuff going on lately. Thanks for the comment, and enjoy learning how to play the guitar!

@jcdestroyes2102 2 жыл бұрын

I started playing rocksmith last year my one year progress has improve and still going at it every day.

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

I try to play every day as well!

@bluephoenix3865 3 жыл бұрын

Keep going you’re going to get it🤘🏾🙂

@MissionEdPossible 3 жыл бұрын

I keep workin at it!

@meekman2725 2 жыл бұрын

I am able to see some major improvements, so if guitar is something you would do during your free time that's amazing, if you don't that's completely fine. rock on 🤘

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! - I practice, but not with Rocksmith right now - I'd really like to do another one of these though :)

@SeleDreams 2 жыл бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible i think rocksmith is good to start as it gives initial motivation and then it's easier to follow more standard courses

@PitTheFighter 2 жыл бұрын

@@SeleDreams The best thing it's motivates for practice mechanical skill a lot.

@jonmccauley6490 4 ай бұрын

Looks like you had a lot of experience before day 1. You knew how to play basic chords and change quickly. I just tried playing RS14 and I can barely get single notes out with long delays. lol But, you definitely improved in 60 days. Can't wait to see the same results myself.

@MissionEdPossible 4 ай бұрын

Admittedly, yes, I had played before. I wanted to see if I could get better. Chord changes (especially C to G or D) are still way slow for me. I also have been playing piano for 40+ years, so I had that going on too. I still haven't progressed much since I started playing guitar again. I did find my RealTone cable though again recently, so I might pick it back up. Glad you enjoyed the video!

@simplycraiggaming 10 ай бұрын

WHERE IS PART 2???!?!!?!?!?!?!!? I'd love to see the progress after 60 days, I'm already seeing improvement in a week or so with consistent practice! Keep it up if you still got it, Defiantly Worth it!

@MissionEdPossible 10 ай бұрын

Well, I am still playing, but have quite a few other priorities at the moment. I did recently fire up Rocksmith again, but not sure I can spend the time needed to do a part 2 justice.

@simplycraiggaming 10 ай бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible understandable, it takes up a lot of time for sure!

@caatah 4 ай бұрын

Have you ever done a follow up on this, did you stick with it?

@MissionEdPossible 3 ай бұрын

I ended up de-prioritizing it since I started playing keyboard in a band instead! :)

@Mal_3D 27 күн бұрын

Did you start off with it at max difficulty or the dynamic difficulty? Im using Rocksmith 2014 and ive never played an instrument besides a bit of the Ocarina years ago for fun, Rocksmith has dynamic difficulty as default and idk if i should just put it on full difficulty and learn by just slamming my head (or in this case fingers lmao) into the wall over and over again or not.

@SeleDreams 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like for one month it's already good progress

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm still practicing, just not much in Rocksmith.

@scottbee22 Жыл бұрын

Loved your video! How did you end up doing? I'd love to learn guitar and hope something like this will work for me!

@MissionEdPossible Жыл бұрын

I play every once in a while, but to be honest, I spend most of my "music time" playing the keyboard, since I'm now in a band, and don't have a lot of time to focus on two different instruments. I definitely think that it's a viable way to practice, but having a real guitar teacher I think is also required - there's so many technical aspects that just can't be conveyed in a medium such as this. That being said, good luck with your guitar journey!

@jimdep6542 Жыл бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible You started on guitar and then learned the keyboard ...or were you playing keyboards first and then started learning guitar ? Just curious. Thanks.

@dsmith4658 6 ай бұрын

yes it can help u learn to play guitar but like every thing it takes time

@MissionEdPossible 6 ай бұрын

That it does!

@rtrgrl78 2 жыл бұрын

Are you using the 2014 edition or the remastered one? Thinking of getting this.

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

2014 edition - I know they're working on a new one, but haven't looked into it much.

@weasel6535 11 ай бұрын

RS has you playing some pretty difficult chords for beginner, four finger chords should only be taught when the basics are firmly established, and watching the video it was the four finger sliding up the neck that did you in. But all in all you did well.

@MissionEdPossible 11 ай бұрын

One of my gripes with RS is that it isn't great about the difficulty level. IMO, the default adaptive difficulty mode is complete garbage. It really kills your motivation when you're doing great and then all of a sudden it gets *MUCH* harder... The manual setting of the levels is a little odd too, because it has you playing weird things by dropping notes. That's not great either. I elected to go with the 100% difficulty option, so there's no changing anything, but that means that I really had to pick the songs wisely -- I couldn't just play anything at a much lower difficulty. It's the way I wanted to play it, and the goal was to just get good :) Thanks for the comments!

@weasel6535 11 ай бұрын

I watched parts again, you actually did pretty damn great for Eye of the Tiger (hate that song), there were some fast fret jumps. IF! they actually built a beginner to advanced system using this method I could see tons of new players adopting it. I have taught myself using books and UT but getting real feedback as you play, if they modified the system for that, would be tremendous. Cheers. (BTW - do you still play, this video was 2 years ago).

@fearisthemind-killer 2 жыл бұрын

So what happened with the 60-day challenge? I can't find the follow up video. I just see the video with your brother. How did it go?

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

So, I actually did do the 60-day challenge, but their wasn't enough footage to actually make two videos. I had some issues getting things right (audio, video, etc.) - I'm actually planning on doing a new set of videos for this though (basically starting over) - look for them soon!

@fearisthemind-killer 2 жыл бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible Cool! Thanks for the update.

@johnny1max113 2 жыл бұрын

where is part 2

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, my schedule has been tight and I haven't had the chance to make it yet :(

@ls1_cammeroh 11 ай бұрын

I started a couple days ago. Having issues with it not picking up some notes

@MissionEdPossible 11 ай бұрын

Hmm, could it be the cable you're using? I don't think I've had that issue before.

@ls1_cammeroh 11 ай бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible I have no idea. I can’t get through some of the lessons. It shows it on the screen I hit the note on time but says I missed it

@MissionEdPossible 11 ай бұрын

@@ls1_cammeroh Hmm, it could possibly be a timing issue - I think there's a calibration (Display Lag) you can do to make it so that the video and audio are better in sync - I'd say try that out to see if it helps. I can't remember if I had to do that, it's been a while (and something you set and forget :) More info here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdOAh8Z2rNzPlGg.html&ab_channel=Rocksmith%2B and here is another video that might help: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtaBmtiCm8nVoac.html&ab_channel=Goose1705

@ls1_cammeroh 11 ай бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible that’s not working for me either. I can play the practice riff in the menu perfectly but when I try it in lessons keeps saying I’m missing the notes. It’s getting annoying

@MissionEdPossible 11 ай бұрын

@@ls1_cammeroh Unfortunately, that's the extent of my knowledge for it. Hope you get it figured out!

@ShawnJonesHellion 2 жыл бұрын

Played for like 20 years before I found Rocksmith in Rocksmith still catapulting me really far within 30 days. take breaks when you hurt or you might get injured

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

I still love playing in Rocksmith, but have been jamming outside of it as well, going through exercises and songs!

@ShawnJonesHellion Жыл бұрын

@@MissionEdPossible I noticed rewatching this video you left the riff repeater on. I turned that off really fast. I don't think even the people who made most music play it at 100% an the repeat thing just ruins the whole feel of the song

@ls1_cammeroh 11 ай бұрын

Seems like every video I’ve watched the person has a little experience already the first couple things you showed no way in hell I could play it

@MissionEdPossible 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, I did have a little bit of experience going into it. Unfortunately, even with the game, I don't think I'm much better than when I started. Gotta put in the time, which I currently don't have much of :( Stick with it though! You'll get past the very initial stages pretty quickly. There's still a lot of basic stuff that I have issues with.

@steveafulton Жыл бұрын

I tried Rocksmith about 10 years ago, and it was not help. I'm just not coordinated enough.

@MissionEdPossible Жыл бұрын

One thing I will say, is that the default Rocksmith mode -- the "adaptive" mode is horrible. You think you are doing well, and then suddenly it throws a bunch of stuff at you that you don't know, and then it makes you feel horrible. Thankfully that's able to be shut off, and I do! Try again sometime -- it can be a lot of fun! I wish they had something similar for keyboard...

@gramagy 2 жыл бұрын

have your guitar setup by a pro...your fingers will thank you

@MissionEdPossible 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment - yeah, I still take my guitars to a tech to set up. Definitely helps. I've done a little bit of adjusting, but things like adjusting the truss rod scares the hell out of me! I like to leave that to the pros!

@tenminutetokyo2643 Жыл бұрын

Yes. Practice Boston riffs.

@MissionEdPossible Жыл бұрын

Would love to work on Boston - time is a bit limited these days, and have been focusing on keyboard lately (for my band). Have thought about working on guitar again though...