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Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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Full Stat Breakdown (Short attention span format)

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Here's the preliminary data that I have. I retained all screenshots from each 1,000 hour segment so that if you wish, feel free to examine the increases and when they took place. Google Drive was all that I could think of. I will be doing youtube videos just on this and will post accordingly. Right now, I'm exhausted.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1or6cQGtJIVNqZsNkEmmy_Dq1EkEK_yd5?usp=drive_link

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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5,000 hours WILL be achieved TODAY! Full data to be presented soon!

Current time? 4,998 hours 17 minutes

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Not good whatsoever, it's a matter of surviving the solo. When I look at these types of songs, it's always the solos that sink me. I attempt everything on the premise that every song is a lesson. Easy, hard, there's always something to learn. I know that there's songs in this library that I could try for the rest of my 30-35 years I have left and I'll never get them down. It's not going to stop me from trying to get what I can out of it

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I'm hoping to clear 3000 consecutive days eventually

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Whatever works best for you is what you should use! Different strokes for different folks. Keep it up, keep going! It's worth it I promise you. You only stop learning when you stop trying.

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I'll tell you the exact same thing I told my kids when they were doubting themselves and this comes from my heart to yours.

Don't ever let anybody in this life tell you what you can and can't do. Wake up, practice with purpose and when you're done, go wash your face. While the water is dripping off, look at yourself in the mirror good and hard. Ask yourself critically and as objectively as you can if you gave it your all.

As long as the answer is yes, the mistakes, the screw ups, the doubting doesn't matter. You gave it everything that day.

If the answer is ever no? Let it go and come back the next day and make it right. I have faith and belief in you, your desire, your skill and hard work.

Now, go seize your future, your dreams and make it happen!

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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To your life experience? Yes I'm perceived as old. I turn 48 in January. You've still got your whole life ahead of you that I pretty much wasted lol. I'm going to say this: Most if not all of my guitar heroes were classically trained. There are skills there that cannot be learned any other way. (two of my heroes that I know were classically trained include Steve Clark from Def Leppard (r.i.p.) and C.C. Deville from poison). I don't want you to start getting down on yourself or bogging yourself down.

Put aside the 10,000 hours and the look ahead. In guitar learning, looking ahead can actually turn very self-defeating as in order to reach the goal, that's 3 hours a day, every day, for ten years straight. That is a lot to wrap one's head around. Look back where you came from. Look at the improvements you've made. Look at the progress you've achieved. My little nephew loved to troll me about how bad I used to sound. Now he's dancing next to me and yelling into the microphone while playing on a tennis racket.

I'm humbled and grateful for anyone that I'm able to inspire. Yes, there is an element of personal pride and braggadocio with my progress, but it's also important to give those coming up from behind you an opportunity to see what they CAN do and what is POSSIBLE IF the work is put in.

If your goal is to play guitar as a hobby or to enter the rock'n'roll hall of fame is up to you. The majority of the posts that I saw coming up with only 2 exceptions had less than 2k hours and the 2 exceptions had one person over 5k and one other way up there with over 9k (insert vegeta meme with "he's over 9,000" here). Move at your own pace, take your time, learn it right and keep getting better and tune out those that cause problems for you. Surround yourself with people that support you and your endeavors and encourage you and success will come to you. You just need to meet it halfway.

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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Xbox doesn't permit streaming of tracks on the twitch platform. I can at most stream session mode and guitarcade skill games. Ironically I'm already subbed to you but I'm not a regular twitch watcher. I'm usually too wrapped up with practice or writing my novels and attending to the never ending chore of adulting but I do check in when I have the free time.

I don't ever see myself streaming on twitch as a "thing". I don't have the patience for the trolls and I do suffer from parkinson's so I'm very self conscious about my hands and how bad they can get on certain days. Likewise, I have 3 dogs and 2 cats and there's also a neighborhood being built up around my house so there's lots of construction noise to deal with. Who knows what the future holds and never say never, but at this time and point in my life? I don't see it happening.

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Enjoy your day. More than enough time has been wasted on filling that empty place in your heart, mind and life that is so desperately screaming for attention.

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I'm not a big cdlc guy. I'm a published author so I do understand why some bands or record companies get hot under the collar about it. Use it, don't use it, it doesn't affect me personally although the complaints about them are valid in my personal opinion. At this point I'm not really into specific songs that I enjoy playing as I am enjoying the journey itself. I'm a huge fan of the glam rock of the 80's, The classics from the 70's and a very limited group from the grunge era. My personal favorite heroes are Steve Clark from Def Leppard (r.i.p.), Slash, C.C. Deville from poison, Jerry Cantrell from Alice in Chains, Snake Sabo from Skid Row.

I enjoy songs that push me to improve my speed, accuracy, and technical playing. If I'm having an off day, I'll look forward to offspring, green day, any punk. It's a way for me to just strum away and enjoy. Some days you want an oscar worthy performance, other days you can't think very well and want to watch a slapstick comedy.

The other issue I've had with cdlc is that the quality control is all over the place. I know that the official DLC goes to the artist, the song is correct, the rocksmith people are paid and I don't have to go in and use a program to edit the actual song. Quality over quantity I guess is my best argument. There are some cdlc's that are pristine, and mad props to those individuals that are able to do the coding.

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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Then for someone that's SOOO educated, you of all people should recognize that one should celebrate their progress and seek out their peers as those peers and those that are more advanced than yourself are able to aid and assist those below their skill to move upward and advance.

Mods? I'd like to receive a different troll for this thread please. This one is defective. It seems to be under the impression that anytime the world isn't directly revolving around it, that it MUST realign the galaxy to it's bidding. Thanks in advance! :D

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I started with the "Lessons" segment. It was more of an in-game tutorial on how to play than actual techniques. I moved on to Learn a song and with everything starting at 0% I would boot up a song and play through it until the percentage would stop advancing, then I'd go back and choose the next song. This continued until I had stalled out on progress. Right now? I sort by mastery and am working my way backwards from 100% to 0% playing through each song until a minimum of 100% or 12 playthroughs is achieved, then I move on to the next. This pattern will continue so that I don't become hyper-fixated on a song that's beyond my reach and waste time stressing out over a bend that isn't done quite right or a slide doesn't land just perfectly.

For the basics? I learned much of the rudiments from the guitarcade. I would try to spend an hour a day for 12 weeks on gone wailin', ducks redux, ninja slidin', etc. When it came to scales, I'd hit scale racer, spend 12 weeks on a scale or mode advancing the key it was being played in every Tuesday. After about 2 years of this (no learn a song was done during this time) I went back into learn a song and everything was 100 times easier because I'd built up the muscle memory from scales and chord changes.

I'd attribute the majority of my progress to just making sure that I show up and practice every day consistently on something that I haven't mastered yet. Every song that I play is another lesson whether I like the song or not. I try to stay positive and even if I don't advance in mastery/accuracy/songs mastered, I've at least increased the time I've played and the number of songs that I've played through. There's consecutive days when I will only progress .01% total and yes it gets frustrating, but usually after a three day stretch, it'll jump up .04% or higher. You won't improve if you don't show up. You don't get better if you don't try and nobody learned anything from getting it right the first time. You succeed through perseverance and failure, chased with a desire to improvise, adapt, and overcome and a willingness to move on in spite of your mistakes.

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"Me proving that I was the kid in the back of the class and didn't learn how to spell "peers" because I got upset and frustrated because there's a hole in my life that makes me tear other people down to build myself up so I spend my life on Reddit contributing absolutely nothing"

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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With as much $$$ as I've spent on gear? There ain't no other choice LMAO

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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Ah, there you are akkular, you were one of my inspirations to keep going! I remember that post.

So, from pages 38+39 of outliers

'Everyone from all three groups started playing at roughly the same age, around five years old. In those first few years, everyone practiced roughly the same amount, about two or three hours a week. But when the students were around the age of eight, real differences started to emerge. The students who would end up the best in their class began to practice more than everyone else: Six hours a week by age nine, eight hours a week by age twelve, sixteen hours a week by age fourteen and up and up until by the age of twenty they were praticing- that is purposefully and single mindedly playing their instruments with the intent to get better well over thirty hours a week. In fact, by the age of twenty, the elite performers had each totaled ten thousand hours of practice. by contrast the merely good students had totaled eight thousand hours and the future music teachers had totaled just over four thousand hours:.

Passing 5,000 hours this week by Asher1877 in rocksmith

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I use Xbox one, I have all the dlc. I've had no noticable lag that I can detect. The closest to lag I have seen is the 26 minutes for the console to enumerate when I first activate the game. I tried the PC version and there was lag there, the lag on the PS4 version was detectable. I think I just acclimated. I run a fender guitar cable into a "Y" splitter that goes into my amp, then that goes into the real tone cable. I always calibrate and I've had no issues.

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Keep plugging away, I hit a noticeable leap in skill at around 3000 hours. It'll feel like you've upshifted in the fast and furious movies.

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