Rocksmith 60 Day Challenge - 547 Days Later (Rocksmith 2014 Review)

Can Rocksmith 2014 really teach you guitar? Find out in this Rocksmith 2014 review, along with a lot of the cool features that the game has to offer!
"Rocksmith 2014 Edition is the fastest way to learn guitar. Plug in any real guitar or bass and join over 1 million people who have learned with the award-winning Rocksmith method. This official sequel is bigger, better, and faster than ever."
- Rocksmith Steam Page
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[@quils9893]

"Death metal" >shows a pic of slapnut >hopefully doesnt think slapnut is dm lel

[@bruhbbawallace]

Lmao I was just about to comment about that

[@commit123]

Quils topkek he will not divide us

[@sebfl5228]

SaME

[@EXTREMEKIWI115]

Quils Also DethKlok is Melodic Death Metal in C standard tuning.

[@guardsmansteven4128]

Quils probs one of those guys who thinks AC/DC is metal

[@nilshott2918]

It would have been nice to actually learn something about your progress "547 Days Later".

[@kasnitch]

and mine for 4 years

[@jakemilligan1875]

and mine for 3 years

[@Walamonga1313]

Does Rocksmith teach sweep picking?

[@Henriktranoy]

Teach? Not really, but there are songs in the game which utilise this technique. Just use riff repeater, and take it down to 20% of the speed or something, and gradually increase it. I'm doing it with the BTBAM song Selkies, and the sweep picking section has become much more logical to me now, as in understanding how to move, and see how it works. So no, doesn't outright teach it, but if you put in some work, it will help you learn it nonetheless. @@Walamonga1313

[@Ilihiafarris]

Nice review. I tell people about this tutorial / game all the time. You did a better job at explaining the tutorial / game. Nothing beats a hands on lesson, but Rocksmith 2014 has improved my bass playing dramatically. I love this program.

[@rozonetwofoureightsix191]

gamestop sold me a copy of rocksmith 2014 for $3 no cable. they put the original rocksmith inside...

[@SapeHallward]

Typical gamestop

[@CoachFranklinBoland]

Been looking at reviews for a few hours on this specific game... this review i felt was most genuine, truthful and thorough so far - great video! Im sold

[@iMissTooMuch]

Thanks, man

[@mylon999]

Excellent job with your review! Mine is on the way and after watching your review I am even more excited!

[@achtungdan]

Really enjoyed this review. I have been playing learning for just over three years and still love it!

[@ARTFLY]

Thank you very much for this large informative review. I think the things said are at least still counting in 2018 - which makes your work that great. THX for spending the time making that video for us :)

[@chibiabos]

Great review mate! I have been using Rocksmith for a while and I'm really happy with the result.

[@CedricSatterfield]

This is a great review of both the game and the process. Nice job.

[@brandongarcia1349]

He did not just fucking put a picture of slipknot as fucking death metal

[@pennywisethedancingclown6670]

I like slipknot but I also like death metal and slipknot is definitely a long stretch from death metal

[@6thChair]

Nu metal

[@dannyh7557]

James you can't sing anymore

[@dannyh7557]

He does

[@Steggman]

Slipknot is considered a nu metal band. The band's members prefer to distance themselves musically from other nu metal bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit.

[@Biskawow]

somewhere after 6 mins I realized you wont display your skills after 547 days of playin the game...you know, the thing that would much better demonstrate how the game helped you instead of listening to you yapping about it

[@TheJayson8899]

While the title is misleading, it does clearly say review in headings as well.

[@SophiaAphrodite]

He did show a side by side of then and now in the game. Since the game is the context by which his skills were measured. Seems reasonable to show those skills inside the game.

[@martinblank1484]

It's a review moron...

[@JeighNeither]

So what if its a review? This is a tool, so showing the audience how well that tool performed, by watching the content creator play the instrument, the tool was supposed to have taught him, is exactly what you would expect from a review? Go thru the damn comments, everyone expected him to play something.

[@TheEveryDayC]

Oh hey, my dad worked on this, we got a Guitarcade shirt a few days before the game came out and I wasn't allowed to wear it until it came out.

[@kwokydow2]

Very thorough and honest review, thank you.

[@StefAdr]

Thank you for this video! Beautiful work! :)

[@leavingjesusland]

Great review. I love the time lapse (rather than a quick survey of it like most video game reviews). Thanks!

[@russk1971]

I agree with your assessment of the game. I'm a seasoned guitarist. Having played and teaching the instrument I highly recommend it as a tool to help learn.

[@Stealthzero]

That was a great review, good job. 👍

[@doingus]

The jam session is actually very well explained through an in-game tutorial. I spent most of my Rocksmith time in the jam sessions.

[@yassinethlija4839]

jam is so fun (5 years late)

[@rezzinous]

@@yassinethlija4839 I love fashionable late comments 😉

[@RoleyChiu]

this is an excellent review. A+ for this and thanks. I'm about to buy my first guitar. Thanks.

[@mostlygaming5689]

*cough* CDLC *cough cough*

[@nebularvoid4669]

Mostly Gaming perfect for people who listen to the Br00T5

[@Syuurp]

I tried CDLC a few years ago and it was so bugged out that I just ended up paying for actual DLC :/

[@jerrydavid1258]

The lit up notes in session mode are the arpeggios that make up the chord for the key + scale you're in.

[@RC-dj8rp]

You should update you review, some features you wanted in NonStop Play are now available with Remastered.

[@iMissTooMuch]

I put out a video on the remaster a couple days ago. It's not really a review, but it points out a lot of the stuff that's different now. kzbin.info/www/bejne/equpmIJthpeGo9E

[@talleric4523]

Great breakdown an wording... excellent video.

[@garytucker3563]

I agree is a great tool, it has helped me tremendously, however I also used Yousician as well. They teach differently thus cover many bases at once. And when you practice enough, you definitely will notice growth. Still, you can hit a wall with even both, but worry about that when you get there. Good review.

[@vonbleak101]

Awesome review dude

[@GiddyGoat]

I watched this video at least 4 times and thought it was such a good review. Its got a reasoning for everything. Nice vid. Probably going to buy rocksmith 2014

[@jacoby6000]

This is a really good and thorough review. I haven't seen your newer stuff, but if you improve on your execution (you sound like you're reading from a script in this) I can see you becoming an excellent reviewer.

[@AndrewsArcade]

excellent review.

[@teamfailtrucks]

Great review man!

[@hinataloverx92]

This was really cool, thanks mang

[@sliccricc1654]

Just subbed for the 1000 sub milestone

[@XBlueM0ndayX]

You had a chance here to show us the differences in your playing at certain stages across the last year and a half, but you just gave us some generic background music and totally meaningless clips of you playing because they're muted. Honestly, I think someone who's played the game for a week could come to the same conclusions as you.

[@yungchill69]

It says it's a review, dickhead.

[@Mulberry2000]

@@yungchill69 its says 542 days later after 60 day rocksmith challenged. Clearly giving the impression he is going to show how the game taught him to play.

[@yungchill69]

@@Mulberry2000 It's still litterally a review though. You're dumber than the first guy.

[@Mulberry2000]

@@yungchill69 really say so a stupid yank

[@milowolfface9392]

@@yungchill69 You like his boyfriend or somthing

[@xrhstos7003]

Session mode is something like improvisation for dummies. You customise the "backing track" to an end, choose what style it is, tempo, complexity of the progression, the instruments that play beside you and shows you the scale you're using with the base shape of it on a specific set of frets. You can always go past that by simply moving to other shapes in different fret zones or adding some complexity with transitions to natural minors or using different modes of the scale (Ionian, Dorian, phrygian, Lydian, mixolydian, aeolian, locrian for the major scale) and using those to make your improvisation solo more interesting

[@UsVeteran]

Great review!

[@milowolfface9392]

The time of your life joke fucking killed me. Nice little reference that Im sure went over a vast majority of peoples heads.

[@whysoreligious2657]

Excellent run down

[@brierepooc8987]

Good review. Love the game and I have it on all of my computers!

[@NexxZt]

I totally agree! The only things I dont like about rocksmith though, is that its so easy to play a song without really having to learn it first, which means I dont really pay attention to how the song goes and what notes I've plyed. Its a lot harder to remember the songs than if you tried to learn from tabs. Also, you can download pretty much any song you like for free like a custom dlc!

[@MrSSmit87]

Agreed. Rocksmith to me is nothing more than a Karaoke game. It's a lot of fun, but if you really want to learn how to be a musician rather than sticking with Karaoke you need to learn more about music theory. The next Rocksmith should give you the option to play with sheetmusic instead, like to Songs2See game or at least show A - G instead of numbers of the fretboard, the block itself already shows you where of the fretboard you need to be.

[@wolfpac1970]

You guys obviously don't play with master mode on. Yes, theory will help you, but you can also learn both rhythm and lead parts to get a better understanding of what'd going on such as chords and lead parts and how they relate to scales.

[@Marco-pr9oc]

I don't understand why its harder to play songs from tabs, if you don't pay attention how you play them then I would suppose it doesn't matter where the notes come from. And If you are trying to imply that its easier to play because the notes scroll on the screen instead of a piece of paper then I have to say you have not played Rocksmith or a guitar in your life.

[@brierepooc8987]

Great Review!

[@geologist_luna]

I really cant agree more. I find that Rocksmith 2014 is good at allowing you to learn to play, and a great way to practice, however for the finer details even professionals go to coaches. Its always good to go to a teacher, learn what you're doing wrong and fix it. Great review.

[@UnboxFlix]

Good review!

[@JeighNeither]

Four years later, & I can say this is still a great review... well, it almost was, except you didn't include the one thing I'm sure every viewer wanted; For You to Play the Damn Guitar!!! We want to hear how far you've come within a year and a half, & from no experience. Hearing your development, would have helped everyone make a judgement call about the game. I'm sure you were self-conscious about your playing, but hopefully that's long gone by now, and that you're out on tour ;)

[@devinloew7681]

I love the main riff for Dammit at 7:50... so recognizable!

[@eduardogalan4451]

Pretty good review. I agree with everything you sad... along with needing to put time into it, if you really want to learn.

[@billrobertjoe]

Down With The Sickness

[@skeliskull]

After playing guitar hero for several months I'm moving to rocksmith. I don't think that guitar hero is necessarily going to transfer in a lot of ways but one thing I learned from playing so much GH was that it's amazing how good you can get at something if you do it a lot. I started out barely being able to play medium and now I'm playing some of the hardest custom tracks ever made. I'm looking forward to the challenge of learning real guitar and i think that rocksmith will help with that feedback loop to keep me practicing for many months (maybe even years) to come.

[@gamepad31live23]

I never really considered Rocksmith 2014 when I was teaching myself guitar but it would be a good refresher and kind of fun .

[@TheTrigzHD]

very good video went in good depth and detail.

[@Imsemble]

You really gotta try out session mode man it's great for improvisation and the notes that are lit up are the notes that are basically ''notes that will sound good if you play them with the current backing track'' AKA the scale you're playing in.

[@xGuitarkytt3nx]

Great Video

[@seanwalsh999]

Session mode for me is the best part of the game. I wish it would have a chord repeater as I need practice finding and changing chords quickly. If you search on line you will come across some great tutorials for session mode. For example; the first mode the backing band never changes the chord, I believe radio friendly mode is a three chord progression and when you hear the drummer throwing in some fills it means you are cumming to a chord change. The blue mode is actually a twelve bar blues progression which will repeat for ever. The wavy line at the top is just showing you the dynamics between you and the band, use this to calibrate your guitars input so that it registers on the display.

[@skippern666]

After the posting of this review, Non-Stop mode have been given the option to filter on tuning, so you can with a flip of a switch limit the playlist to only E Standard tuning.....

[@jimwoodard64]

Good review.

[@skirwan78]

Great review. As a formerly trained classical guitarist (went to college for it) I'd say Rocksmith covers 80% of the technique you need. People complain about the short comings...without stoping to think for a moment. Rocksmith doesn't exist in a vacuum. Buying it doesn't mean you can't get lessons or use books or youtube. But as a tool it is hands down the best tool you can buy if your goal is to play songs and learn technique. When you're learning slowing things down and getting feedback are the two most important things to learning. This does it in spades. The other is picking up the guitar every day. And this game gives you tons of options for why and how to practice with enough diversity that you have no excuse for "getting bored" There is no better way to learn scales than to riff over chords.

[@lukeduke9540]

i am a beginer been playing guitar for a year. My personal Expiriance Rocksmith Took me to the next Level of Playing

[@ddraigtribe8768]

I got this game this weekend. I'm an experienced bassist couldn't pass it up for £30 ($40ish). Although there is a slight latency issue (notes sounding a fraction of a second after you play it) my impressions are extremely positive. Nothing beats having a real amp for sound and feel, but if you don't mind a compromise in that area it's a really good and fun format that gets you learning new tunes really quick. I don't think I'd at the normal full retail for it, but if you ever see it on sale it's worth a go

[@bannyb41]

Hey man thanks. You sold me!

[@_born__stoned_3062]

yah i cut the cable off and replaced it with a real cable as if I dont have 4 real cables

[@Johnny5ive0]

That was some good "lol" at the beginning when you sang Green Day

[@captainnut9270]

Solid review, I' m somehwat intermidiate at guitar ig, and recently decided I want something that would help me get better because I like playing video games more than guitar, and seeing how guitar hero slowly teaches me how to unplay the guitar, I might pick this up and give it a go, however I've also heard that there is lag between the time you actually play the note and when you hea rit in the game, dunno if you had that problem or not but still p slid. might pick up a copy myself

[@YourFellowRNRSisterFan98]

I’m a complete beginner at guitar, my guitar hero is Angus Young (if you know who he is of course who doesn’t?!) I have the first edition (I think it’s the first) of rock smith for Xbox 360, I wanted the AC/DC edition. What is your suggestion?

[@SlayPlenty]

a big thing about learning songs is how you transition from reading to playing by heart idk how well this game helps you with that

[@rickpearo4682]

Session mode is my favorite mode once I figured it out

[@jasongodin9270]

After putting 600 hours on it, i've moved on to Amp and learning songs from tabs on Ultimiate-guitar.com Rocksmith has been the building block for me to learn guitar, i find it only takes you so far. Session mode by that way, is to practice your scales with a backing track that moves up and down with your BPM. It's actually pretty useful if you're in to improvising solos.

[@KraftyUk]

I fixed my cable by cutting off the old Jack and adding my own gold plated jack, still sounds great after 4 years

[@Aaroboe]

Hey nice ur using iamsleepless music. Nice :) amazing musician

[@Bagel007]

I will add one thing: Personal experiences with it as far as the lessons that they have can be wonky, I could be playing the right frets , but it will still say i'm wrong. So what I would do is slide up one fret and suddenly it's correct. Maybe its because they sometimes don't have you tune for the lessons, or maybe because I have a used ibanez that i've been playing with ( Once i get better i'm upgrading to schector )

[@paulpantorilla6121]

Session mode is the best part of the game! It lets you just play whatever you want. Play in the scale it tells you too and just jam!

[@ComaAlpha]

Can you tell me anything about the solos? Like there's a lot of songs where I improvise the solos and I would like to know that if I play a song I already know through the game and play my solo instead of the studio solo will it punish me?

[@contentnotfound3599]

Why was I able to tell what songs you were playing in the background?

[@brentbowman4498]

What i do for the PS4 version is I plug my amp headphones into the little controller headphone jack so I can hear everything much better

[@shadowsinscarlet3222]

I've been playing for quite some time and I can surely agree with your review. Thankfully Rocksmith is getting a Remastered edition to fix a lot of issues like Non-Stop play. My biggest problem with the game is that the game doesn't recognize palm muted power cords at times. mainly when they're open string palm mutes. But on the whole, I'm still going to be playing this game for a while. Rock ya later dude and keep going. -Thumper

[@iMissTooMuch]

Yeah, I've had a couple issues with notes not being recognized, but I always chalked it up to my playing. I've seen some people get 100% FCs on songs, which always made me think that it might be me. Also, I'm glad that they released a new version, because it fixed all the issues I've really run into. Keep rocking, man.

[@boundoits9759]

I've been using the game just over a year and can play Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls" on max difficulty, But i'm 14 and homeschooled so I have all the time I want to play haha

[@rustyshackleford4743]

Do yourself a favor and quit using the game, and just practice like normal guitarists. Use TabPro to learn songs, then don't look at any screen while you're practicing.

[@boundoits9759]

That is something I plan on doing eventually, but I think I've reached the best part of the experience, where you can pop in to any song that isn't Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, or Eric Johnson, an just play and get 90%+. And the Riff Repeater makes solos easy to learn at any tempo, while still being visually appealing.

[@chris75180]

why ? I have 14 songs memorized using rocksmith, and can play them along to cd's. at full speed, and those are the songs ive tried to memorize... all learned thru rocksmith.. I don't see the purpose of guitar tab pro, when that's all rocksmith is... a visual scrolling tab... its all easily memorized by using riff repeateror or turning around and not facing the screen after a while... most of the CDLC..20,000 + songs are just created using guitar tab pro stuff, so whats the diff?.. normal guitarists...lol

[@boundoits9759]

Thanks :) I play it often just because I'm addicted to buying DLC but I still have 700 hours and probably double that on KZbin with an amp. I have 97.5% on Dream Theater's "On The Backs of Angels" so I'd say I've gotten good use out of the game. And I can't stop!

[@boundoits9759]

I do have it on PC! I love CDLC, and it has doubled my songs (I have all the DLC at this point so that's over 1000 CDLC) and my dad is a teacher, so if I ever need anything he's pretty much got me covered! Thank g=/god guitar is my passion cuz anything else wouldn't be half as easy :)

[@milowolfface9392]

FUCK!!! Kills me everytime. I literally come back just for that little reference.

[@minty4492]

That Green Day part killed me im dying of laughter

[@Pjb83]

I ve put in almost 1000 hours now n while I am far from being fluent, I ve come along way since the first time I picked my fender.

[@onngroovecdboomboxtransfor2723]

im waiting till rocksmith 2016 comes out again

[@UltimaJC]

It's worth noting that if you don't want to spend a lot of money on the official DLC, you can just buy Cherub Rock and then you can add custom song charts the community has made.

[@deputydang8291]

It's a must own on PC because of the free CDLC. I have downloaded like every song I like for this game for free and got the base game for 7.99 on a steam sale

[@ComaAlpha]

I wish I had Rock Smith. I would buy all the Chains, Soundgarden, and STP.

[@Non-disjunction]

5:55 you can actually now play in the same tuning for non stop play

[@jimforjzs777]

I was expecting to see you play... To see how good u r after that time.

[@yoop4322]

I got rocksmith 2 days ago, it's really fun.

[@crazynico101]

So when you make progress on the missions. Eventually the game will direct you to a bunch of mission about the session mode and it pretty much explains everything about it.

[@etan5543]

can someone please help me? i bought the main game and the 2014 edition (because it says that you need the base for this edition) and turns out it does'nt show the 2014 edition in my steam library...... i don't know what to do, tried many options.... please let me know how to play this edition because i really want to

[@MrFrenchyge]

Thought I might see something about the progress a person made in 547 days of playing but no, it's a game review for a 3-yr old game. Moving on.

[@xandergregor8292]

Spent 200$ on songs the other day. I don't regret it at all.

[@matthewmiller9485]

Same boat, same thoughts too!!!

[@GuitarsAndSynths]

It is a good supplement as a beginner to lessons and fun.

[@kristoferjonsson733]

if i am not really sure if i want the game. Is it then worth it to buy the game plus a guitar to play it?

[@onngroovecdboomboxtransfor2723]

i have the video game rocksmith 2016 i know how to play the guitar for 3 years it took me to play and i mastered it.

[@ZAMtech1994]

Great video! Would you mind if I used a couple of screenshots from your review in a project of mine? I'll be sure to credit you - Thanks!

[@iMissTooMuch]

Sorry for the late response, but if it helps go ahead!

[@niklofr]

For quality CDLC you can visit customsforge website.

[@jakeofyo]

Actually, not all of it is quality. Some tabs are wrong, some songs don't have dynamic difficulty or sections which are required in the remastered edition, and there are even CDLC's that use the wrong DLC key. All of them are supposed to tree off of 'Cherub Rock' but some CDLC creators use other DLC's. As a CDLC creator myself. There isn't that much work that goes into creating a CDLC using software. I've found songs that sound amazing and I want to tab them. Now I do, but that takes a lot of work. a CDLC really is made up of 95% the tabbers if you ask me. They deserve the credit, not us. (My CustomsForge username is SuperSonic)

[@Zooropa_Station]

I mean, yeah... but the comment is still valid. Anyway, I wouldn't say the tabbing is harder, just that the EoF/tone design half can often be more subtle and subjective. Imperfect syncing and cheap tones still let you play the same tab, but it's not as smooth. Really, auditing the tab is quality control and a prerequisite before the actual work. I've actually had another creator somehow mess up what I had given as a tab by not applying bend/slide commands and such properly, so it goes by ways.

[@briggerz]

CDLC that doesnt use "cherub rock" can be easily fixed in seconds though. I dont have Cherub rock myself so all CDLC i get i have to change anyway.

[@anthonydelange4128]

I play this game on my own way lol I put the song on the riff repeater on 60 or higher from the start even if haven't play the song yet

[@vendetta1306]

Just ordered in the pc adapter

[@karrde666666]

yeah we know about the features, we want to know your progress

[@slovak4life1991]

1:13 All The Small Things? I’ve played that song enough on this game to be able to recognize it. I’m hoping I’m right.

[@Mauruud]

My spotify is ecatly the same :P I started playing 2 weeks ago. I am a big fan of bands like Nirvana, Green day and Led Zeppelin. Green day have pretty "easy" songs compared to other bands at least some of the main riffs or what its called (Sorry for grammar mistakes)

[@daryllmartinez52]

How many hours do you play the game on average?

[@megapixels1033]

Hey dude like the last guy said you could have spoken more about YOUR progress in not trying to be a D**k I'm just letting you know you can do Nonstop setlist by the tuning of your choosing its in the options for it and once you do more rocksmith recommended "Missions" it opens up session mode and guides you through it and how it all works aswel as basic music theory hope this helps keep rocking dude \m/