9717 Bass Thursday - a mix of the original Rocksmith and Rocksmith 2014 tunes

Today I played for 29 minutes taking my total logged time to 628 hours and 14 minutes. All together, I have played 9717 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Gobbledigook by Sigur Ros
• Good Enough by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Higher Ground by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
• Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
• 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
• Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders

9710 A Quick Rhythm session before Cubs

Today I played for 26 minutes taking my total logged time to 627 hours and 44 mintes. All together, I have played 9710 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Drops of Jupiter by Train
• Hey Ya by OutKast
• Brand New Kind of Blue by Gold Motel
• Black Magic by Magic Wands
• Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
• All I Wanna Do by Splash
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet

9703 A session on the original Rocksmith game

Today I played for 22 minutes taking my total logged time to 627 hours and 18 minutes. All together, I have played 9703 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Number Thirteen by Red Fang
• Run Back to Your Side by Eric Clapton
• Sunshine of Your Love by Cream
• Surf Hell by Little Barrie
• Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

9681 A Lunchtime Rhythm practice

Today I played for 31 minutes taking my total logged time to 626 hours and two minutes. All together, I have played 9681 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Drops of Jupiter
• Hey Ya!
• Brand New Kind of Blue
• Suspicious Minds
• 21 Guns
• Ain't No Sunshine
• California Dreaming
• Pour Some Sugar on Me

9672 A bass session

Today I played for 28 minutes taking my total logged time to 625 hours and 31 minutes. All together, I have played 9672 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

A couple of photos to go with the songs, I didn't do as well as this lunchtimes practice, but I'm still happy enough with these.

Songs attempted were:

• Step Out of the Car by The Boxer Rebellion
• Where is My Mind? by Pixies
• We Are The Champions by Queen
• Self Trap by Playground Kings
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
• 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
• Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders

9665 Second guitar session

Second guitar session of the day. This session I played for 51 minutes taking my total logged time to 625 hours and 3 minutes. All together, I have played 9665 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
• Stuck On A Wire Out On A Fence by The Dear Hunter
• The Spirit Of Radio by Rush
• Rock and Roll All Nite by Kiss
• Savior by Rise Against
• Machinehead by Bush
• Wasteland by EarlyRise
• Blood and Thunder by Mastodon
• Paranoid Android by Radiohead
• Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana
• 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones 

9653 First ever "Flawless Performance"!

Today I played for 24 minutes taking my total logged time to 624 hours and 12 minutes. All together, I have played 9653 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

I managed to get a flawless performance with Blitzkrieg Bop. Buzzing just a little bit!

Songs attempted were:

• Satch Boogie by Joe Satriani
• Stay In by Jaws
• California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
• Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders
• Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson
• 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones

9646 Sunday Morning

Today I played for 41 minutes taking my total logged time to 623 hours and 47 minutes. All together, I have played 9646 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Lots of changes to my spreadsheet, and I might have deleted some songs played. I will need to go through all the systems and build up a list of how many times each song has been played (again!).

Songs attempted were:

• Don't Look Back In Anger by Oasis
• You Really Got Me by The Kinks
• Round and Round by Ratt
• Cold Company by Minus The Bear
• Wasteland by EarlyRise
• Rebel Rebel by David Bowie
• Love That's Gone by La Sera
• Knockin' On Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan
• 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
• Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders

9667 And more new songs today

Today I played for 61 minutes taking my total logged time to 625 hours and 12 minutes. All together, I have played 9667 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger
2. Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders
3. Bad Romance by Halestorm
4. Basket Case by Green Day
5. Brass In Pocket by The Pretenders
6. Careless Whisper by Seether
7. Don't Get Me Wrong by The Pretenders
8. Green Onions by Brock T & The M.G.s
9. Hey Ya by OutKast
10. I'll Stand by You by The Pretenders
11. Middle of the Road by The Pretenders
12. Oh Love by Green Day
13. Some Nights by FUN.
14. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
15. Tainted Love by Marilyn Manson

9656 More new songs while waiting for cubs to arrive

Today I played for 19 minutes taking my total logged time to 624 hours and 17 minutes. All together, I have played 9656 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• 21 Guns by Green Day
• Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet
• Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
• Dust in the Wind by Kansas

9596 Banging on the Bass on a Thursday evening

Today I played for 39 minutes taking my total logged time to 623 hours and 28 minutes. All together, I have played 9596 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Every Breath You Take by The Police
• Higher Ground by Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
• I Can't Hear You by The Dead Weather
• Impossible Dreams by Versus Them
• My Generation by The Who
• Sore Tummy by Paws
• Stay In by Jaws
• The Hardest Button To Button by The White Stripes
• Walk This Way by Aerosmith

9586 Another rainy day in the North East

Today I played for 32 minutes taking my total logged time to 622 hours and 49 minutes. All together, I have played 9586 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• American Idiot by Green Day
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
• Well OK Honey by Jenny O
• Where is My Mind? by Pixies
• Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
• All I Wanna Do by Splash (played twice 'cos I selected the wrong song)
• Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
• A More Perfect Union by Titus Andronicus

9577 A Green Day Day it appears.

Today I played for 29 minutes taking my total logged time to 622 hours and 16 minutes. All together, I have played 9577 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

And the number of songs played has jumped again. No idea what is going on.

Songs attempted were:

• Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
• California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
• American Idiot by Green Day
• Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
• Sixteen Saltines by Jack White
• Basket Case by Green Day
• Oh Love by Green Day
• Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups

9264 Tuesday lunchtime rockout

As I've just had a four day weekend, it feels strange trying to get back into my normal routine.

Today I played for 27 minutes taking my total logged time to 621 hours and 46 minutes. All together, I have played 9264 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• American Idiot by Green Day
• Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
• House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
• You Really Got Me by The Kinks
• Now by Paramore
• Good Enough by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Walk This Way by Aerosmith

9257 for a second practice of the day

Today I played for 39 minutes taking my total logged time to 621:19. All together, I have played 9257 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
• American Idiot by Green Day
• Drops of Jupiter by Train
• My Own Summer (Shove It) by Deftones
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
• Walk This Way by Aerosmith
• Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
• You Really Got Me by The Kinks
• Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
• R U Mine by Arctic Monkeys
• Message In A Bottle by Police 

9127 A Saturday morning session at Cub Camp

Today I played for 41 minutes taking my total logged time to 620:40. All together, I have played 9127 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. American Idiot by Green Day
2. California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
3. Drops of Jupiter by Train
4. Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
5. Walk This Way by Aerosmith
6. Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
7. You Really Got Me by The Kinks
8. Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
9. R U Mine by Arctic Monkeys
10. My Generation by The Who
11. Knights of Cydonia by Muse

9055 And a cub camp session.

Today I played for 44 minutes taking my total logged time to 619 hours and 59 minutes. All together, I have played 9055 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
2. Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
3. Walk This Way by Aerosmith
4. Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
5. You Really Got Me by The Kinks
6. Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
7. Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
8. R U Mine by Arctic Monkeys
9. My Generation by The Who
10. Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane
11. Stay In by Jaws
12. We Are The Champions by Queen
13. Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

9042 and a new song attempted

Today I played thirteen songs lasting 49 minutes taking my total logged time to 619 hours and 15 minutes. All together, I have played 9042 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

I have no idea what is happening to the total songs played. I'm getting a different number each time. I need to get enough time to finish the web application I'm designing.

Oh, the new song was Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane

Songs attempted were:

1. Where is My Mind? by Pixies
2. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
3. Losing My Religion by REM
4. Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
5. Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
6. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
7. My Generation by The Who
8. Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
9. Song 2 by Blur
10. Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
11. We Are The Champions by Queen
12. Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane
13. California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas

8842 Nine songs sort of attempted

Today I played nine songs taking 24 minutes taking my total logged time to 618 hours and 25 minutes. All together, I have played 8842 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

1. Songs attempted were:
2. American Idiot by Green Day
3. Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
4. Black Magic by Magic Wands
5. Blue Orchid by The White Stripes
6. Do You Remember by The Horrors
7. Gobbledigook by Sigur Ros
8. Next Girl by The Black Keys
9. California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas

8967 Another 28 minutes practice.

Today I played for 28 minutes taking my total logged time to 618:01. All together, I have played 8967 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Where is My Mind? by Pixies
• Behind Blue Eyes by The Who
• Heart Shaped Box by Nirvana
• Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
• R U Mine by Arctic Monkeys
• Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
• Use Somebody by Kings of Leon

8942 No idea why the spreadsheet has dropped the number of songs played.

I have no idea why the total songs played has dropped. The time played matches correctly, but all of a sudden I seem to have lost 500 songs or so from my tracking. #Confused.

Today I played for 25 minutes taking my total logged time to 617:33. All together, I have played 8942 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• House of the Rising Sun
• Rebel Rebel
• Run Back to Your Side
• Boss
• Sunshine of Your Love
• Boys Don't Cry

9511 Eight songs on a Monday

Today I played for 49 minutes taking my total logged time to 617 hours and eight minutes. All together, I have played 9541 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. We Are The Champions
2. American Idiot
3. Boys Don't Cry
4. I Want Some More
5. I Can't Get No Satisfaction
6. Angela
7. Are You Gonna Go My Way
8. All I Wanna Do

9533 and another six songs ruined

Today I played for 46 minutes taking my total logged time to 616:40. All together, I have played 9533 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. Losing My Religion by REM
2. Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley
3. My Generation by The Who
4. Pinball Wizard by The Who
5. Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard
6. Walk This Way by Aerosmith

9527 Basically blasting through a few songs

Today I played for 38 minutes taking my total logged time to 616:16. All together, I have played 9527 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Although I only played seven songs, I did play two of them more than once. That's always assuming that you were paying attention to the way the numbers change.

I had to stop because my back is really aching. I probably shouldn't have picked up the bass in the first place.

Songs attempted were:

1. Burnished by White Denim
2. California Brain by RapScallions
3. Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
4. I Want Some More by Dan Auerbach (twice)
5. Ricochet by Brian Adam McCune (three times)
6. Slow Hands by Interpol
7. Unnatural Selection by Muse

9517 And Thursday lunchtime already

Today I played for 19 minutes taking my total logged time to 615:38. All together, I have played 9517 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. Slither by Velvet Revolver
2. Six AM Salvation by VsThem
3. California Brain by RapScallions
4. I Can't Hear You by The Dead Weather
5. Play with Fire by The Rolling Stones
6. Space Ostrich by Dinosaur

9512 Wednesday Rocksmith on Guitar

Today I played for 22 minutes taking my total logged time to 615 hours and 23 minutes. All together, I have played 9512 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. Plug In Baby by Muse
2. Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
3. Mean Bitch by Taddy Porter
4. Well OK Honey by Jenny O
5. I Miss You by Incubus
6. Outshined by Soundgarden

9506 songs with a burst on the lead guitar

Today I played for 20 minutes taking my total logged time to 615 (and a minute). All together, I have played 9506 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

The seven songs attempted were:

• American Idiot by Green Day
• Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
• Blitzkrieg Bop by Ramones
• California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
• House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
• Song 2 by Blur
• You Really Got Me by The Kinks

9499 An Arrhythmic Monday

Although I was playing Rhythm, apart from Paint It, Black I felt decidedly arrhythmic in my playing.

Today I played for 31 minutes on the Rhythm track, taking my total logged time to 614:40. All together, I have played 9499 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Apart from Richochet and Everlong, the songs were in E Standard tuning.

Songs attempted were:

1. Ricochet by Brian Adam McCune (Drop D)
2. Everlong by Foo Fighters (Drop D)
3. Where is My Mind? by Pixies
4. Brand New Kind of Blue by Gold Motel
5. For A Fool by The Shins
6. Losing My Religion by REM
7. Love That's Gone by La Sera
8. Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones

9242 More on the four string

Today I played for 20 minutes taking my total logged time to 614:09. All together, I have played 9242 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

The six songs attempted were:

1. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
2. Islands by The xx
3. Next Girl by The Black Keys
4. Song 2 by Blur
5. Vasoline by Stone Temple Pilots
6. Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand

9485 Thursday evening

Today I played for 47 minutes taking my total logged time to 613:48. All together, I have played 9485 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. Breed by Nirvana
2. Burnished by White Denim
3. California Brain by RapScallions
4. California Dreaming by The Mamas and the Papas
5. Cold Company by Minus The Bear
6. Don't Stop by Crimson
7. Fell In Love With A Girl by The White Stripes
8. For A Fool by The Shins
9. Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
10. Gobbledigook by Sigur Ros
11. Good Enough by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
12. X-Kid by Green Day
13. You Really Got Me by The Kinks

9472 Bass again for lunch

Today I played for 31 minutes taking my total logged time to 613 hours and one minute. All together, I have played 9472 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

1. Gobbledigook by Sigur Ros
2. House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
3. Boys Don't Cry by The Cure
4. For A Fool by The Shins
5. Fell In Love With A Girl by The White Stripes
6. The Hardest Button To Button by The White Stripes
7. Good Enough by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8. Impossible Dreams by Versus Them

9464 More bashing the bass

Today I played for 29 minutes taking my total logged time to 612 hours and thirty minutes. All together, I have played 9464 songs, mainly on the Rocksmith games although some have been either solo practice or with friends.

Songs attempted were:

• Ultra Soul by B'z
• Brand New Kind of Blue by Gold Motel
• Black Magic by Magic Wands
• Cold Company by Minus The Bear
• Breed by Nirvana
• Go With the Flow by Queens of the Stone Age
• California Brain by RapScallions
• Higher Ground by Red Hot Chilli Peppers