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Don't get too hung up on the software, use your ears. Does it sound right? All I worry about is "does my bend match the bending I hear in the song exactly" That is ultimately what the goal is, not a score on a piece of software.
I don't care how perfect Rocksmith thinks I do or don't play, I care about what I sound like to real people with real ears.
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;^) Words to live by. I managed my own workaround for the software's lack of feedback. I just used slides instead of bends. One fret for half bends, two for full. In play, it creates a "stair step" sound, which real bends are meant to avoid, but the software didn't ding me for it, so I got the check mark on the list of lessons done.Originally Posted by Mr_Scrogger Go to original post
Of course, I'll want to practice it more, until I get it right, but the software doesn't want to provide proper feedback for that, so I'd be on my own in that regard whether I'd cooked up my work around or not. Still, others may benefit from it, if getting all of the lessons done -and the trophy with it- are important to them, as they are important to me.
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Bends can be picky, but at the end of the day if you bend properly, in almost all cases the game will recognize them. Your workaround (fretting the higher notes rather than bending), is primarily just making it easier for you to hit the correct pitch without working on your bend technique.
Your feedback on the game not giving good enough indications of what is wrong in these cases is spot on (i.e. it'd be great if the game told you that you were over vs. under bending etc... so you'd know what to correct), but at the end of the day, what is probably happening is you are either overbending or underbending, or starting on the incorrect pitch when the game is causing a 'miss' for a bend if you can get the bends to work no problem by fretting them instead of bending.
The other thing about certain bends is the game actually looks for the correct pitch at a few different points in the bend (for a longer bend with multiple bend steps), so you have to pay attention to your pitch across the full length of the bend to get correct credit for it.
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:^/ Yeah. There are two separate but related issues. One is learning the technique correctly so that I can play songs the way they're meant to be played. The other issue is getting the software to accept that I know it well enough to unlock higher level tutorials that take bending as a prerequisite. In a perfect world, the visual feedback would show what I was doing compared to what was expected, and I could learn readily enough. As things stand, I must resort to workarounds to overcome the poor feedback and unlock the higher lessons anyway.
I'm not happy about it, but I'm less unhappy than I would have been if I'd never thought of the workaround. So, it's making lemonade out of life's lemons.
