Hello Rocksmith fans!
Hope you enjoyed the Academy Awards (spoiler: @LeoDiCaprio finally won) now let’s play some classic movie themes on our Axes! Today’s DLC is five rearranged but still true to the original Rocksmith DLC tracks of the following movie scores by @UbisoftStudioSF!
Rocksmith Goes to the Movies – $9.99 / Steam (PACK ONLY)
- Howard Shore “A Knife In The Dark” – Drop D
- Alan Silvestri “Back to the Future”
- Danny Elfman “Batman – Theme” – Alt. Lead
- John Williams “Superman – Main Title”
- John Williams “Jurassic Park – Theme” – Drop D [Rhythm/Bass]
| httpvh://youtu.be/E4BBCTz-Kk4 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wjq07IecHk |
| httpvh://youtu.be/E19FzfGRa7M | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0fBRyK5lMc |
| httpvh://youtu.be/XhB0NdWH8QI | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBG1Uc_T2Dk |
| httpvh://youtu.be/r3lm0Csg6mk | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Az17qQ9kU |
| httpvh://youtu.be/pb0uThd0fGo | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6puqOMhZa58 |
Are you excited to learn these movie themes on Guitar and Bass? Or would you rather have seen similar treatment bestowed upon your favourite TV shows? Let us know!
I was super-excited for this pack. I’m getting it, and I’m glad they did it. But I’d have really preferred something like Eric “Erock” Calderone’s productions. I’m sure there’s more learning benefit in keeping these simpler and cleaner, and closer to the original themes. But it feels a little wrong having these bombastic, epic, orchestral pieces played in a garage by a 4-piece band.
So am I just lame for wanting something that sounds more … “produced?” I guess? More “wall of sound”-y?
Anyway… I’m not gonna complain much, because in spite of my complaints I’d love to see… dare I say it… a sequel… 😐
I think we were spoiled with Bachsmith. I kind of expected the same–thought they’d rock the tracks up a bit.
We can still play this with different effects though.
Now that I’ve had the chance to play them, I’m happier. I still wish they’d used more interesting tones and maybe threw a keyboard in there to make these more fun to play along with, but they are good practice tracks and at my speed, so I’m good!
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I couldn’t agree more.
I dunno why they would waste their time doing this, was there a resounding cry from the community calling out to the Devs for this music?, How about some follow up songs packs to Alice in Chains or White Zombie
Very very deceiving, m’y opinions , you cant take classic and do that none of thèmes for me , was hoping maybe jurrAsic and bttf wasnt butchered to much
wow im glad im not the only one that thought these sounded bad or disappointing. i found these boring as shit and sounded more like something that would be heard as a demo take, not a final release, and most if not all of the “styles” for lack of a better word at the moment, dont sound fitting for what the tracks come from, but that may just be me.
what happened to the amazing sounds that were done from the Bachsmith packs? those sounded great all around, these just sound…shitty. poor note picking, the timing in some sound off, theres unnecessary tremolos and the lead guitar tones sound like they are coming from a practice amp, and frankly a lot of the leads (to me) sounded like it was being played by a learning lead guitarist.
better luck next time ubi
I bought the pack. I do think converting an orchestral piece to a single guitar line is tricky. It’s easier to make an orchestral arrangement sound more true on piano, where you have two (or four) hands to really broaden the music. Overall, I support the team and am glad they did this. Maybe a few of these could have used twin lead harmonies or the like. But, these will be fun to play and improvise with.
This just sux. That is all.
One of the worst DLCs yet. I wouldn’t even take it for free
Actually hate all the totally unneeded tremelo picking in half of them, sounds terrible. Very let down was looking forward to rocky interpretations.
Super stoked about this one, dlc that interest me are few and far between but this is a goodun. Take your neigh saying elsewhere! Also, why has no one mentioned the possibility of a video games pack? Halo on guitar hero was awesome! Please do Halo, Skyrim and final fantasy 7 boss battle theme to mention a few.
Maybe I should not say…”good” music in that previous post. Movie music is “good” music…but…not…able…to…GAH!
I think it was just transitioned poorly. The weird tremolo spots in back to the future, the tones don’t sound good IMO. Just a waste.
Oh…I know….maybe we could get the oldsmobile ads from the 70’s….and how about pepto bismol ads. Maybe oscar mayer bologne as well. Also what about ringtones…could we get that old cingular ringtone…that brings back memories. Just can’t wait to get that. I am bored with novelty releases…are we out of good music? I can imagine better things to do with 10 bucks…and they come with fries and a shake for that price!
Um, no.
Looks like fun to me. How about tv themes next? Simpsons, the A-Team, macguyver, and I second the wkrp suggestion.
While I’m not old enough to have seen the show, I’ve heard the Barney Miller theme. That bassline is pretty nice. Since we’re talking bass, how about Night Court.
The barney miller bassline is super groovy and worth learning outside of rocksmith. 🙂
Now I’ve that intro bassline in my head. It is too awesome. Dum da da dum da da da da da da dum. So much funk.
Totally agree hammer. Easy to see why they are making us buy all or nothing on this one
There are so many films out there with guitar-based songs (like Breakfast Club, Flashdance, Footloose, Dirty Dancing…), and you pick something so boring. Great job, RR team. 👿
Change “pick” with “were able to get the rights for”.
Calling them boring is a bit harsh – not your preference sure, but there will be some that like them.
I’d suggest watching the full videos on these before buying them, extremely boring.
I’d buy Back to the future for two bucks if it was a single.
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Got to be honest, the song I was most interested in was Sup’s Theme, and I’m sadly a bit disappointed that they stayed so true to the song we hear in the movie. (yeah I know, damn if you do, damned if you don’t) I kind of assumed Ubisoft’s RS version would have taken a few liberties, sped up the track and rocked it out a little more. .
This isn’t a complete negative, just not what I expected. I’m still buying it.
On another note, of all the Batman movies to select from, they chose the first Tim Burton movie. Considering The Artist associated with that movie, are we now one step closer to seeing something from Prince? (can this be taken as a near miss.)
Just coming on here to say how bad ass the superman theme is until I read that and yeah speeding it up some would’ve been nice. Still pretty epic.
Slight off topic, but the closest Leo has ever been to truly deserving an Oscar was Gilbert Grape. Someone else should’ve won.
httpvh://youtube.com/watch?v=oAKG-kbKeIo
The thing I want to know is why didn’t Jamie Fox get the roll of Gilbert Grape.
I will wait till I hear them later in the mix video before I buy. I think it’s a great idea, especially Tv shows, but also licensed music for the movies as well, IF they are available. Prince and batman!! We can only dream. Oh well. ❤️?
Instabuy from me and a great segway into a different genre of rocksmith besides bachsmith. Hopefully they are fun to play and challenging. Awesome DLC week(s)
I hope they can get a decent melody out of that LOTR song.
I was really excited about this DLC — esp knowing LOTR was among them — and will still buy to support the inclusion of different genres. But why oh why — when every other selection got the overture or main theme — did they pick the most obscure/least musical piece out of the ENTIRE Lord of the Rings score????
I would like to thank the Academy and Rocksmith for this award as well as my family and friends. Oh no, the music is playing, I just want say something involving liberal politics, but I don’t have time.
You mean like global warming is the greatest threat facing us but with help from a-list celebrities everything will be fine