Rocksmith has been a really great tool for learning bass, but after almost 300 hours I find it more enjoyable as a means to relax. Most songs I can play to 99% but it's pure muscle memory, my brain sees things on screen and my fingers react accordingly, without RS I really can't remember how to play the songs, but I'm okay with that. It's a good foundation for if I ever want to put in the work to be good without it. It's very fun to just hop into it for an hour and bang out some good tunes and feel like you've played them yourself. I found the regular 6 string guitar very confusing on RS but bass guitar is wonderful for it.
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Initial review:
So far it's been a pretty good tool for learning bass.
The actual teaching elements of the game are kind of barebones, even the guitarcade stuff isn't great for learning but it's a fun distraction. Learn a song and Session mode are really where most of the experience comes from. My biggest problem when I first picked up guitar was mostly a lack of interest but RS14 provides me with a constant set of goals and a pretty decent library of tracks to keep pushing through with bass, unofficial listings make that playlist even bigger and more to my taste too. The ability to customise tones is fantastic too, it's not the same as investing in waa peddles, cabinets and heads, but it's as close to Dan Maine's set up as I'm going to get. The riff repeater and dynamic difficulty are key to what makes this such a good learning tool, being able to isolate a specific part of a song and slow it down and repeat it over and over without loading screens or fluff makes it easy to correct mistakes. I think most of my time in this game comes from 2/3 hours doing the same 20 - 30 seconds of a song over and over.
Only negatives are that the Realtone cable is actually pretty difficult to come by now and it's still really expensive, also DLC is quite expensive too. It's not bad when you consider you're getting a high quality, licensed song broken down into a format with dynamic difficulty but they always become dirt cheap during sales and it's kind of annoying to wait for that window. The tuner isn't always as precise as it could be and sometimes lower notes and especially chords don't register but it happens infrequent enough that it's forgiveable.
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Initial review:
So far it's been a pretty good tool for learning bass.
The actual teaching elements of the game are kind of barebones, even the guitarcade stuff isn't great for learning but it's a fun distraction. Learn a song and Session mode are really where most of the experience comes from. My biggest problem when I first picked up guitar was mostly a lack of interest but RS14 provides me with a constant set of goals and a pretty decent library of tracks to keep pushing through with bass, unofficial listings make that playlist even bigger and more to my taste too. The ability to customise tones is fantastic too, it's not the same as investing in waa peddles, cabinets and heads, but it's as close to Dan Maine's set up as I'm going to get. The riff repeater and dynamic difficulty are key to what makes this such a good learning tool, being able to isolate a specific part of a song and slow it down and repeat it over and over without loading screens or fluff makes it easy to correct mistakes. I think most of my time in this game comes from 2/3 hours doing the same 20 - 30 seconds of a song over and over.
Only negatives are that the Realtone cable is actually pretty difficult to come by now and it's still really expensive, also DLC is quite expensive too. It's not bad when you consider you're getting a high quality, licensed song broken down into a format with dynamic difficulty but they always become dirt cheap during sales and it's kind of annoying to wait for that window. The tuner isn't always as precise as it could be and sometimes lower notes and especially chords don't register but it happens infrequent enough that it's forgiveable.