Hello Rocksmith fans!

Now that you’ve been lulled into a false sense of security with songs for children it’s time to get 22 songs you most likely can barely play on any instrument! Yep, the tease of Panic Attack was leading up to an 22 song drop, which includes the entire Images and Words (1992) album!

Before we get to the songs, let’s take a look at the very significant Title Update for April 2024!

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS / NEW FEATURES

Onboarding Challenge

These are challenges for new players to help get them used to using Rocksmith+. These range from asking you to play a lesson, to getting a certain percentage on a song.

This will be great for beginners, but we can’t help to wonder if unlockable cosmetics to make XP mean something are ever coming back

Pitch Shifter

Ever wanted to play a song on Guitar or Bass that was in a low tuning but did not want to retune your whole instrument to play that one song? This feature is to help alleviate that! When enabled, you can set what tuning you want your guitar or bass to stay in, and we will try to adjust the tuning of songs to accommodate for that. We will pitch your instrument’s audio up or down, so it sounds like it is in the proper tuning. This feature works on Guitar and Bass when using a cabled connection.

Here are some examples:

• E Standard -> B Standard – With the pitch shifter enabled, you will not need to retune your instrument going from E standard to B Standard (or vise-versa).
• Drop D -> Drop A – The pitch shifter also works in this case, and you will not need to retune your instrument.
• E Standard -> Drop C – The pitch shifter will ask you to retune to Drop D, so you only need to retune one string, instead of all of them.

They finally did it!

It works really well also!

Grand Piano Tone Override

A new option has been added under the “Sound” settings that allows you to turn off the tones we use on Piano, so you are left with just a Grand Piano tone. Sustain Pedal pop-up
If you previously disabled the visuals for Sustain Pedal on Piano, and we detect that you press the sustain pedal on your piano, we will ask you if you would like to turn the visuals back on. This is to help if you started playing before you owned a sustain pedal, and you purchase one later and forgot to turn the visuals back on.

This will be useful for those really REALLY loud organ songs, would love this for guitar/bass as well 😉

Sustain Pedal pop-up

If you previously disabled the visuals for Sustain Pedal on Piano, and we detect that you press the sustain pedal on your piano, we will ask you if you would like to turn the visuals back on. This is to help if you started playing before you owned a sustain pedal, and you purchase one later and forgot to turn the visuals back on.

Rocksmith Workshop

Lower Guitar tunings now allowed in Rocksmith Workshop The new lowest tuning allowed on Guitar is -12 semitones, lowered from the -7 previously allowed. This only applies to Guitar; it does not impact Bass.

Low E Standard activated

Noteway (Major Bug Fixes)

• Fixed an issue that caused the noteway to flicker when transitioning from the tuning screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused the noteway to not appear when switching from Tab Only mode to the noteway on the pause menu.
• Fixed an issue where accented chords were hard to see when “Blackout Mode” was enabled. (Yay!)
• Fixed an issue that caused chords with bends to sometimes display the wrong arrow depicting how much you need to bend the string.
• Fixed an issue that caused notes in detailed arpeggio zones that need sustain as they are linked to other notes (change of technique, slide, etc.) to not have a notehead nor a sustain tail, making the child notes appear incorrectly.
• Fixed multiple issues in piano sheet music
  • Rhythmic note spacing has been improved
• Fixed some issues with some vertical and horizontal collisions that occurred in some songs
• Fixed some scaling and padding issues

Great stuff, really enjoying these monthly QoL updates!

It also seems like the Tones got an UI update, still no Tone Designer or Tone Changing yet in song…

First, let’s see what we lost…

I can’t tell you how many times I forgot to VPN to try that Fatboy Slim cover…

DEACTIVATED SONGS: 12

• Fatboy Slim – Right Here, Right Now
• Johnny Cash – Ballad of a Teenage Queen
• Johnny Cash – Down the Street to 301
• Living Colour – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
• Spice 1 – 187 He Wrote
• Johnny Cash – It’s Just About Time
• Jerry Lee Lewis – It’ll Be Me
• Aswad – Roots Rocking
• Black & White Brothers – Put Your Hands Up
• Peter Weniger – You Don’t Know What Love Is

Let’s get to the songs!

NEW AUTHENTIC ARRANGEMENTS: 66

• Dead & Company – Franklin’s Tower – Chord Chart
• Dead & Company – Friend of the Devil – Chord Chart
• Dead & Company – Mr. Charlie – Chord Chart
• Dead & Company – Ripple – Chord Chart
• Dead & Company – They Love Each Other – Chord Chart
• Dead & Company – Uncle John’s Band – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – 6:00 – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Anna Lee – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Another Day – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- As I Am – Bass, Lead, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Hollow Years – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Learning to Live – Bass, Lead, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Metropolis – Part I: “The Miracle and the Sleeper” – Bass, Lead, Rhythm, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – On the Backs of Angels – Bass, Lead, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Pull Me Under – Bass, Lead, Rhythm, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity – Bass, Lead, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Scene Two: I. Overture 1928 – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Song 09 (Pale Blue Dot) – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Space-Dye Vest – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Surrounded – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Take the Time – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – The Enemy Inside – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – The Silent Man – Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Under a Glass Moon – Bass, Lead, Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Wait for Sleep – Piano, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater – Wither – Bass, Lead, Chord Chart
• Dream Theater- Wither (Piano Version) – Piano, Chord Chart

If you recall from the AMA, Anthony Martinez asked if the community would be interested in charting live tracks from Dead & Company, well 2 months later, here they are!

Godspeed…

We also noticed that the only Dream Theater songs not charted for Guitar/Bass are the Demo versions (6:00, Anna Lee, Hollow Years, Song 09, Space-Dye Vest, and The Silent Man) and The Enemy Inside which is sort of not possible to chart without it being 7 String since the solo is in E Standard and the rest of the song is in B Standard (7 String) 🤷🤷🤷

Also while there are 9 piano songs charted for this drop, they did omit one (can’t blame them for it).

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NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SONGS: 7

• Bonnie Raitt – Louise – Simple Piano
• Bonnie Raitt – About To Make Me Leave Home – Piano
• Cardigans – Lovefool – Piano
• Gallina Pintadita – Cucarachita – Simple Piano
• Gloria Estefan – Mambo I, I, I – Simple Piano
• Super Simple Songs – Put On Your Shoes – Piano (Haven’t seen this in game yet)
• The Sesame Street Cast – What’s the Name of That Song? – Piano

We also noticed some new arrangements for Guitar/Bass show up before the Song Drop and Title Update 👀

• Stan Getz – Nobody Else But Me – Lead
• Sloan – 500 Up – Lead
• Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Fetish – Lead
• Bowling For Soup – The Hard Way – Lead
• Tom Misch – Memory – Lead, Bass
• Muna – Loudspeaker – Lead, Bass
• Beardyman – When You See the Light – Bass
• Joe Cocker – You Are So Beautiful – Bass
• The Shins – September – Bass
• Hot Tuna – Eve of Destruction – Bass
• Peter Tosh – Burial – Bass

Also a new song:

But wait, there’s more!

While it’s not on YouTube currently the in-game What’s new in April video has revealed some upcoming drops including…

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Wonder what else we will see then?

How are you liking the Dream Theater drop? Are you excited for the hints of content to come or are you going to be trying to become Myung, Ruddess, or Petrucci in the weeks to come. Let us know!