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:^/ RockSmith 2014 has a tutorial for learning to bend strings. The riff I'm attempting has notes on the G string, on frets 14, 12, 11 and 9. Repeatedly, it asks me to do it over again, without indicating in which direction it thinks I am in error. This lack of visual feedback makes it difficult to learn. I can see that I am playing the correct string, and the correct frets, but I cannot see which strings/frets the software mistakenly believes I am playing. I know only that they don't match the software's expectations.
Well, after about half an hour of this, I tried playing the wrong notes on purpose, to see whether I could stumble upon a combination that satisfied RockSmith. Sure enough, when I play the G string on frets 13, 11, 10 and 8, the graphical highway creates the highlights to indicate that I'm correctly playing the G string on frets 14, 12, 11 and 9. Either the software is out of whack, or the exercise has stretched the stings so much that they play too sharp. -except that I would think a string stretched out of shape would then play flat. Go figure.
Is this common with the Bends Tutorial? I know the Slide Tutorial had me repeating the correct slide several times before it would be recognized. Now I'm wondering how many other tutorials are similarly buggy....
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It's not buggy per se, it is just bend in the game are odd, and the tutorials seem more picky than the rest of the game.
The trick with Rocksmith bends, are to hit the original note and hold it for a split second, then bend to the designated pitch.
It is really quite different than how I used to bend outside of the game.
Yeah, it can be a bit frustrating.
The good news is the rest of the game is not quite as picky as the tutorials.
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:^/ There's still trouble. When I hit the bend on fret 14, then the note on fret 12, it tells me that I missed the last of the sustain on 14. Again, when I continue to fret 11, RockSmith tells me that I've missed the end of note 12.
How is one supposed to do that? Fret one note while sustaining a higher note on the same string? Isn't playing more than one note at a time why guitars have six strings, instead of one?
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I don't think the bend tutorial cares about sustain.
Maybe there were releases at the end of the bend you are missing?
It is not asking you to hit a lower note on the same string while playing a higher note on that string. That would not be possible.
Can you post a screen capture of where you are missing the note?
Most of us ... well some of us .. me included .. .have done the tutorials so they are not "bugged" ... frustrating maybe, but not "bugged" ... just been so long ago that I don't remember much about them.
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:^/ I've captured the video with my PS4, trimmed via Linux's Kdenlive, and exported it both as an MPG4 and FlashVideo, but you guys have no provision for uploading video.
-But I took screen shots of the video, so it's all good, except that I have to host them on Sony's server because you won't allow uploads of screen shots, either:
:^/ Here we see the "MISS" graphic appearing in the lane that has just finished, after the not in question is supposed to have been completed. Perhaps it wanted the note to continue longer before starting the next one? Or perhaps it is dissatisfied for a different reason, which it is failing to make clear? I can't tell what it wants of me....
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Nope. I can see the release at the end of the bend on the 12th fret.
You are either not bending enough or missing the release.
To get the complete bend and release you first hit the original note, bend to the designated pitch (looks like at least a full step bend with 2 up arrows maybe more hard to see in that image), then while still sustaining the note release back to the original pitch.
As for uploading images or videos you need to use a hosting site and post links to those images/videos here using the insert image or insert video buttons. Just like you did with the above image, using playstation.com as your hosting site. Usually folks use Youtube for videos.
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This part sounds like you are pressing the string too hard.Originally Posted by Mr._pseudonym Go to original post
I also found this tutorial to be a b****.
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:^/ Huh. It seems the site also breaks nested quoting. Surely that's not a bandwidth issue, too? Anyway, the first issue had been an issue of the guitar losing its tune from bending the strings too much. Tuning it again corrected it.Originally Posted by jnovak.calgary Go to original post
As for the bend tutorial, it bugs me that the feedback is insufficient to tell me what I'm doing wrong. Instead, feedback is binary; I either got it right, or not, but no details are provided. How to learn from that, other than to simply beaver away at it blindly until I luck up, and stumble upon the right thing by accident?
I thought RockSmith 2014 was supposed to be better than RockSmith 2011 in this regard.
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:^/ If RockSmith's own Tech Support cannot tell which of the two it is, from RockSmith's own graphical interface, then how is the end student supposed to tell? Remember that customers buy this software to learn stuff they are not already familiar with....Originally Posted by rcole_sooner Go to original post
As for sustaining the note until the end, that doesn't happen because the expectation is too high. I can hold the note until it stops vibrating, but the software hasn't reached the end of the graphic. Especially when the tutorial slows things down to make them easier; it's now expecting the note to be sustained longer.
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Um, I ain't tech support. This is just a community forum. I am just another volunteer trying to help out.
If you want tech support then go to the ubisoft support site. That link is in m sig.
But, we are happy to try to help other players here.
One thing it sounds like you need to stretch the strings on your guitar so it will stay in tune better.
You seem kinda hung up on the sustain, but what you need to concentrate on is getting the bend to the right pitch then releasing to the original pitch and staying in time with the song.
