Rocksmith+ update brings new songs from Santana, Mercyful Fate, Pixies, and more!

Hello Rocksmith fans!

Last night (November 17th, 2022) there was a patch update for Rocksmith+ which included new songs, arrangements, and of course new artists.

Let’s take a look at the patch notes:

Feature improvements / New features

  • Connection Settings
    • The “Audio Engine Buffer Size” and “ASIO Device Buffer Size” options are now available in the “More Settings” menu

This is going to solve a lot of “my interface” issues for sure

  • Noteway
    • The way arpeggio zones are displayed has been simplified
      • The arpeggio zone style can be changed under Settings > Game Options > Gameplay > Noteway Display > Arpeggio Zone Style

The most complained about thing is actually getting fixed? Only took three updates!

    • Pressing Space will now open the Riff Repeater menu to match how this worked in Rocksmith 2014

Should have been the way from day one but we will take it

Major Bug Fixes

  • Audio
    • The sound effect used to censor explicit audio has been replaced by ducking the audio, so the explicit language is no longer heard

How about a way to disable the censorship altogether if it’s being done by the game 🤔

Song Library Website

  • Fixed an issue where filters got reset after clicking the back button

Good!

Major Known Issues

  • Rocksmith+ Connect
  • The Rocksmith+ Connect app may fail to connect to your Rocksmith+ client

Yeah, we hear about this one a lot 😂

  • The tuner may not pick up an amped guitar with a clean tone consistently
  • Rocksmith+ Workshop

    • Tones sound different in the Workshop compared to what they sound like after arrangement submission

    YUP

    • The launch time for the workshop is too long

    uh huh

  • Search

    • Keyboard arrows cannot be used for navigation if the mouse cursor is over the search bar
    • Search results filter display reverts to A-Z after completing a song

    Still needs a lot of work

  • Subscription

    • Users in certain regions may be unable to purchase a subscription or redeem a code

    Shocking

  • Tutorial

    • The game may crash sometimes after a long period of time on the “Which genres do you like?” step

Hear about this one fairly often


Alright let’s get to the songs…

New songs in bold

New Transcriptions (Authentic Arrangements):

  • Alfie Templeman – Wait, I Lied (Forever Isn’t Long Enough) – Lead
  • Alfie Templeman – Used To Love (Used To Love) – Lead
  • Alicia Keys – Love When You Call My Name (Originals) (KEYS) – Bass
  • B.B. King – Guess Who? (B.B. King & Friends) – Bass
  • Bad Bunny – Ignorantes (YHLQMDLG) – Lead
  • Bad Bunny – Ignorantes (YHLQMDLG) – Bass
  • Bad Bunny – La Difícil (YHLQMDLG) – Bass
  • Black Flag – Loose Nut (Loose Nut) – Lead
  • Blackfield – Blood (Welcome to My DNA) – Lead
  • Blue’s Clues & You – Blue’s Clues & You Theme Song (Blue’s Clues & You Theme Song) – Lead
  • CHiCO with HoneyWorks – Kessen spirit (Matatakusekaini Aiwo Yurase) – Lead
  • CHiCO with HoneyWorks – Kessen spirit (Matatakusekaini Aiwo Yurase) – Bass
  • Coal Chamber – Loco (Coal Chamber) – Bass
  • Coal Chamber – Friend (Dark Days) – Bass
  • Daughter – Smother (If You Leave) – Lead
  • Daughter – Smother (If You Leave) – Bass
  • Daughter – Medicine (The Wild Youth EP) – Lead
  • Daughter – Medicine (The Wild Youth EP) – Bass
  • Daughter – Youth (The Wild Youth EP) – Lead
  • Daughter – Youth (The Wild Youth EP) – Bass
  • Elmore James – Early One Morning (Shake Your Moneymaker: The Best of the Fire Sessions) – Lead
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Ghosts (Acoustic) – Lead
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Ghosts (Acoustic) – Bass
  • girl in red – bad idea! (bad idea!) – Lead
  • girl in red – bad idea! (bad idea!) – Bass
  • girl in red – i wanna be your girlfriend (i wanna be your girlfriend) – Bass
  • girl in red – i’ll die anyway. (i’ll die anyway.) – Lead
  • girl in red – i’ll die anyway. (i’ll die anyway.) – Bass
  • girl in red – summer depression (summer depression) – Lead
  • girl in red – summer depression (summer depression) – Bass
  • girl in red – we fell in love in october (we fell in love in october / forget her) – Lead
  • girl in red – we fell in love in october (we fell in love in october / forget her) – Bass
  • Happy The Man – Knee Bitten Nymphs In Limbo (Happy the Man) – Lead
  • Heart – Treat Me Well (Little Queen) – Bass
  • Janis Joplin – To Love Somebody (Box Of Pearls) – Lead
  • Jim Hall – How Deep Is The Ocean (Jim Hall and Friends Live at Town Hall) – Lead
  • Justin Timberlake – Never Again (Justified) – Bass
  • Kaiser Chiefs – Everyday I Love You Less and Less (Employment) – Lead
  • Kaiser Chiefs – Everyday I Love You Less and Less (Employment) – Bass
  • Kate Nash – I Want a Boyfriend with a Car (Death Proof) – Lead
  • Meat Loaf – Stand In The Storm (Hell In A Handbasket) – Lead
  • Mumford & Sons – Hopeless Wanderer (Babel) – Lead
  • Mumford & Sons – Awake My Soul (Sigh No More) – Lead
  • Nana Kitade – Kesenai Tsumi (Berry Berry SINGLES) – Bass
  • Ozzy Osbourne – 21st Century Schizoid Man (Under Cover) – Bass
  • Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton) – Rhythm
  • Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way (Peter Frampton) – Bass
  • Peter Maffay – Last Time (Live ’82) – Lead
  • Pixies – All I Think About Now (Head Carrier) – Lead
  • Pixies – All I Think About Now (Head Carrier) – Bass
  • Santana feat. Ziggy Marley & ChocQuibTown – Iron Lion Zion (Iron Lion Zion) – Bass
  • Snarky Puppy – What About Me? (We Like It Here) – Bass
  • Steve Lacy – Dark Red (Dark Red) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Amber (Gemini Rights) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Amber (Gemini Rights) – Bass
  • Steve Lacy – Looks (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Ryd (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Ryd (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Bass
  • Steve Lacy – Some (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Some (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Rhythm
  • Steve Lacy – Some (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Bass
  • Steve Lacy – Thangs (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Lead
  • Steve Lacy – Thangs (Steve Lacy’s Demo) – Bass
  • The Isley Brothers – Love, Peace, Happiness (Power Of Peace) – Bass
  • The View – Same Jeans (Hats Off To The Buskers) – Lead
  • The View – Same Jeans (Hats Off To The Buskers) – Bass
  • T’Pau – Heart and Soul (T’pau) – Lead

New Unverified Chord Charts:

  • Acapulco Tropical – Acapulco Tropical
  • Acapulco Tropical – Acapulco Tropical
  • Acapulco Tropical – Acapulco Tropical
  • Atomic Drum Assembly – Atomic Drum Assembly
  • Atomic Drum Assembly – Atomic Drum Assembly
  • Dean Martin – Dean Martin
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Gabrielle Aplin
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Gabrielle Aplin
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Gabrielle Aplin
  • girl in red – bad idea!
  • girl in red – i’ll die anyway
  • Jigsaw – Sky High
  • Johnny Paycheck – Johnny Paycheck
  • Kleerup – Kleerup
  • Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate (A Corpse Without Soul)
  • Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate (Curse of the Pharaoh)
  • Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate (Evil)
  • Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate (Gypsy)
  • Mercyful Fate – Mercyful Fate (Melissa)
  • Pixies – Greens and Blues
  • Pixies – Indie Cindy
  • Pixies – Magdalena 318
  • Santana – Guajira
  • Santana – Gumbo
  • Santana – I Love You Much Too Much
  • Santana – Just in Time to See the Sun
  • Santana – One Chain (Don’t Make No Prison)
  • Santana – Shades of Time
  • Santana – Song of the Wind
  • Santana – Stand Up
  • Santana – Taboo
  • Santana – Treat
  • Santana – Waiting
  • Taj Mahal – Taj Mahal
  • The Byrds – It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
  • The Byrds – It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
  • The Byrds – Mr. Tambourine Man
  • The Byrds – My Back Pages
  • The Byrds – The Times They Are A-Changin’
  • The Byrds – You Ain’t Going Nowhere
  • The Primitives – The Primitives
  • Thomas Dybdahl – From Grace
  • Waldik Soriano – Waldik Soriano
  • Welshly Arms – Welshly Arms

New Verified Chord Charts:

  • *NSYNC – Gone (The Essential *NSYNC)
  • AIDA CUEVAS – Dos Arbolitos (25 Exitos)
  • AIDA CUEVAS – Si Acaso Vuelves (25 Exitos)
  • Aimee Mann – The Scientist (Live) (Lost In Space (Deluxe Edition))
  • Alexander Rybak – Disney Girls (No Boundaries)
  • Alexis Ffrench – Moments (Evolution)
  • Alfie Templeman – Wait, I Lied (Forever Isn’t Long Enough)
  • Alfie Templeman – Used To Love (Used To Love)
  • Allan Holdsworth – Ruhkukah (The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever)
  • Allan Holdsworth – So Long (The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever)
  • Atomic Drum Assembly – Feelin (Jump In)
  • Bad Bunny – Ignorantes (YHLQMDLG)
  • Bad Bunny – La Difícil (YHLQMDLG)
  • Barrington Levy – Skylarking (Moonlight Lover)
  • Bay City Rollers – There Goes My Baby (Rollin’)
  • Beth Carvalho – Eu Quero Mais (Beth)
  • Beth Carvalho – Cuidado Com A Minha Viola (Nos Botequins Da Vida)
  • Big Mama Thornton – Let Your Tears Fall Baby (Big Mama Thornton: R & B Originals)
  • Big Mama Thornton – The Big Change (Big Mama Thornton: R & B Originals)
  • Big Mama Thornton – How Come (They Call Me Big Mama)
  • Billie Holiday – Tenderly (Romance in the Dark Vol.3)
  • Billy Porter – My Romance (Billy Porter Presents: The Soul of Richard Rodgers)
  • Blue’s Clues & You – Blue’s Clues & You Theme Song (Blue’s Clues & You Theme Song)
  • Boy In Space – Caroline (Caroline)
  • Branches – Just One Look (Covers)
  • Buzzcocks – Keep on Believing (The Way)
  • Cardellino – Dalí (Dalí)
  • Cardellino – Niño Eterno (Love Dealer)
  • Celia Cruz – La guagua (La Guarachera de Cuba)
  • Celia Cruz – Corazón De Rumba (La Negra Tiene Tumbao)
  • Celia Cruz – Yo Viviré (La Reina Y Sus Amigos)
  • Charles Trenet – C’est Bon (Le Soleil et la Lune)
  • Charlie Christian – Groovin’ High (Immortal Charlie Christian – Guest Artist)
  • Charlie Parker – Scrapple From The Apple (Storyville Presents The A-Z Jazz Encyclopedia-P)
  • Chet Baker – You Don’t Know What Love Is (This Is Jazz #2)
  • CHiCO with HoneyWorks – Kessen spirit (Matatakusekaini Aiwo Yurase)
  • Cirque du Soleil – Tango (Cirque du Soleil)
  • Clannad – A Bridge (That Carries Us Over) (The Essential Clannad)
  • Coal Chamber – Loco (Coal Chamber)
  • Coal Chamber – Friend (Dark Days)
  • Coal Chamber – Rowboat (Dark Days)
  • Dean Martin – Jingle Bells (The Dean Martin Christmas Album)
  • Demon Hunter – Collapsing (feat. Björn “Speed” Strid) (The World Is a Thorn (Deluxe Edition))
  • Demon Hunter – Driving Nails (The World Is a Thorn (Deluxe Edition))
  • Dinah Washington – Trouble in Mind (Dinah Washington Sings Bessie Smith)
  • Dizzy Gillespie – Salt Peanuts (The Ultimate Collection)
  • Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra – Lover Man (Greatest Hits)
  • Eir Aoi – Tsuki O Ou Mayonaka (Tsuki O Ou Mayonaka)
  • Ella Fitzgerald – Cheek to Cheek (The Complete Ella & Louis)
  • Fakear – Karmaprana (Karmaprana)
  • Fakear – Out of Reach (Out of Reach)
  • Flamin’ Groovies – Walkin’ the Dog (Teenage Head)
  • Flo Morrissey – Grease (Gentlewoman, Ruby Man)
  • Flo Morrissey – Look At What the Light Did Now (Gentlewoman, Ruby Man)
  • Frank Black and the Catholics – All My Ghosts (93-03)
  • Frank Sinatra – All or Nothing at All (The Essential Frank Sinatra)
  • Gabrielle Aplin – Ghosts (Acoustic)
  • Gal Costa – 70 Neles (Maxximum – Gal Costa)
  • Gal Costa – Nuvem Negra (O Sorriso Do Gato De Alice)
  • George Benson – Little Train (From Bachianas Brasileiras #2) (White Rabbit)
  • Gipsy Kings – Un Amor (Gipsy Kings)
  • Gipsy Kings – Soy (Mosaïque)
  • girl in red – bad idea! (bad idea!)
  • girl in red – i wanna be your girlfriend (i wanna be your girlfriend)
  • girl in red – i’ll die anyway. (i’ll die anyway.)
  • girl in red – summer depression (summer depression)
  • Hailey Tuck – Trouble In Mind (Junk)
  • Heaven Shall Burn – Nowhere (Wanderer)
  • Heaven Shall Burn – River Runs Red (Wanderer)
  • Herbie Hancock – Space Captain (feat. Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks) (The Imagine Project)
  • iamamiwhoami – goods (goods)
  • Isabelle Boulay – Summer Wine (Les grands espaces)
  • Justice – Genesis (The Square (Original Soundtrack Album))
  • Kevin Garrett – Coloring (Mellow Drama)
  • Kevin Garrett – Pushing Away (Mellow Drama)
  • Killing Joke – Song and Dance (25th Gathering Let Us Prey)
  • Killing Joke – The Wait (Down by the River)
  • Killing Joke – Unspeakable (Down by the River)
  • Killing Joke – War Dance (Down by the River)
  • Lee Hazlewood – Easy and Me (Cowboy in Sweden (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack))
  • Lisa Ekdahl – Don’t Stop (Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile)
  • Lonnie Liston Smith – Explorations (Loveland)
  • Los Amigos Invisibles – Dulce (Los Amigos Invisibles, Acústico)
  • Lou Bega – Red Red Wine (A Little Bit Of 80s)
  • Lou Bega – Sunshine Reggae (A Little Bit Of 80s)
  • Luciano – Legalise It (Sons of Jamaica – Luciano)
  • Meat Loaf – Stand In The Storm (Hell In A Handbasket)
  • Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar – Chante… (Comme si tu devais mourir demain) (Michel Fugain, les Années Big Bazar)
  • Mike Bloomfield – Cherry Red (Live) (American Hero)
  • Mike Bloomfield – It Hurts Me Too (Triumvirate)
  • Mike Bloomfield – Rock Me Baby (Triumvirate)
  • Mountain – Flowers of Evil (Over The Top)
  • Mountain – You Can’t Get Away! (Over The Top)
  • MUCC – Nirvana (Shangri – La)
  • Mustasch – Down in Black (Above All)
  • Napalm Death – Troops of Doom (Leaders Not Followers, Pt. 2)
  • New Found Glory – Sonny (Kill It Live)
  • New Found Glory – Understatement (Kill It Live)
  • Ornella Vanoni – Perduto (Procuro Olvidarte) (Ornella Vanoni Live al Blue Note)
  • Ornella Vanoni – Samba Per Vinicius (Ornella Vanoni Live al Blue Note)
  • Ornella Vanoni – Non So Piu’ Come Amarlo (Quei Giorni Insieme A Te)
  • Paul Desmond – Blight of the Fumble Bee (Two Of A Mind)
  • Peter Maffay – Last Time (Live ’82)
  • Pharoah Sanders – You Don’t Know What Love Is (Welcome to Love)
  • Pixies – All I Think About Now (Head Carrier)
  • Ray Charles – Someday (The Best Of Ray Charles)
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela – Orion (Rodrigo Y Gabriela (Deluxe Edition))
  • Roy Kim – Only Then (Only Then)
  • Samantha Harvey – Forgive Forget (Forgive Forget)
  • Sanctuary – Communion (Into The Mirror Black)
  • Santa Sabina – Ajusco Nevado (Símbolos)
  • Santa Sabina – Vete Leve (Símbolos)
  • Santana feat. Ziggy Marley & ChocQuibTown – Iron Lion Zion (Iron Lion Zion)
  • Scientists – Solid Gold Hell (Sedition)
  • SKIY – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) (I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me))
  • Something For Kate – Close to Me (Desert Lights (Deluxe Edition))
  • Something For Kate – Rock the Casbah (Desert Lights (Deluxe Edition))
  • Sonia Dada – Last Parade (Crazy Lady) (A Day At the Beach)
  • Sonia Dada – Mamba Wan Gama (Sonia Dada)
  • Sonia Dada – Gordon (Test Pattern)
  • Spyro Gyra Featuring Basia – Springtime Laughter (Got The Magic)
  • Stan Getz – Yardbird Suite (Live at the Haig, 1953)
  • Stensons – Crazy Arms (Jag vill dela varje dag med dig)
  • Steve Gadd Band – Sister Sadie (Live at Voce (Deluxe Edition))
  • Steve Lacy – Amber (Gemini Rights)
  • Steve Lacy – Looks (Steve Lacy’s Demo)
  • Steve Lacy – Ryd (Steve Lacy’s Demo)
  • Steve Lacy – Some (Steve Lacy’s Demo)
  • Steve Lacy – Thangs (Steve Lacy’s Demo)
  • Sunset Strippers – Falling Stars (00s Party Mixtape)
  • Swingin’ Utters – Here We Are Nowhere (Live in a Dive)
  • Taj Mahal – Fishin’ Blues (The Essential Taj Mahal)
  • The Duke Spirit – Red Weather (Roll, Spirit, Roll)
  • The Durutti Column – Voluntary Arrangement (Rebellion)
  • The Skatalites – Latin Goes Ska (Treasure Isle)
  • The Sonics – Have Love, Will Travel (Busy Body!!! Live In Tacoma 1964)
  • The Sonics – Lucille (The Sonics Meet Charlie & The Tunas)
  • The View – Same Jeans (Hats Off To The Buskers)
  • The View – Covers (Which Bitch?)
  • Vanessa Zamora – Amor Eterno (Amor Eterno)
  • Vicente Fernández – La Diferencia (Es La Diferencia)
  • Vicente Fernández – Yo Quiero Ser (Palabra De Rey)
  • Wanessa Camargo – High (DNA)
  • Wanessa Camargo – Murder (DNA)
  • Weeping Willows – First of May (Christmas Time Has Come)
  • Weldon Irvine – Music Is the Key (Sinbad)
  • Wes Montgomery – The End Of A Love Affair (Essential Jazz Masters)
  • Yusef Lateef – All Alone (Constellations)
  • Yusef Lateef – Take The ‘A’ Train (Love & Humor)

Kind of hard to remember what is new and what isn’t already, thankfully we have some ways to keep track of things

Unfortunately, we also lost some songs this update. However, were some of these songs ever actually playable? Did anyone in Brazil or Denmark get to try Kiss From a Rose?

The following songs have been deactivated from the Rocksmith+ library

  • Love 2 Fast – Steve Lacy
  • Only If – Steve Lacy
  • Samba Pa’ Ti – The Abraxas & Tijuana Grass (not the Santana track)
  • En la Orilla del Mar – La Sonora Matancera
  • No Llores Por Mí Argentina (En Vivo) – Seru Giran
  • Is It Any Wonder? – Keane
  • De ensammas promenad – Arvingarna
  • Kiss from a Rose – Seal
  • Like a Roller – Tomcraft
  • Caught in a Jar – Dropkick Murphys

note: waiting on database scrape to see if anything else was added


So if you are subscribed, how are you feeling about Rocksmith+ this month? If you aren’t subscribed are you seeing anything worth checking out? You get that VPN yet? Let us know!

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11 thoughts on “Rocksmith+ update brings new songs from Santana, Mercyful Fate, Pixies, and more!

  1. I actually just saw a play-through of some of the Mercyful Fate songs and honestly they are awful, several of the riffs miss out key details and they totally butchered the solos. I remember back in the day when the solos were most transcribed (despite some embarrassing missteps) but the solos are tabbed out in a way that it makes them way harder than they actually are. It makes me think they are just using a machine to tab things out.

  2. The RS+ song collection is so unsatisfying that a couple of days ago I was looking on Amazon to see what tab books are available for sale.

  3. Honestly, if this were a few years ago I would be jumping for joy so much I would accidently smash every piece of furniture in the room. Mercyful Fate are an absolutely legendary band that have inspired sooo many other bands: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Death among many others. Hank Shermann and Michael Denner are one of the greatest guitar duos of all time – easily on par with Tipton and Downing, Murray and Smith ect.

    Unfortunately it comes too late on a product that is vastly inferior in so many ways, a product that favours quantity over quality and as a result has managed to alienate a great many people, myself included. You only need to look at the responses to the Black Friday post to see how unhappy people are with this. It’s a shame since I did specifically say many years ago that something like this would happen.

    Still at least Rocksmith2014 still exists, it’s just a shame that anyone else who gets the product will not be able to play those songs from the previous games as the license runs out

  4. If anyone is actually using Rocksmith+ can you tell us what is the actual content of these new songs?

    Is it full tabs like in the good old Rocksmith or automatic chord detection like G!&son joke mobile app or something in between?

    1. New Transcriptions (Authentic Arrangements):

      denote full tabs like “good old Rocksmith” as you said

      Verified Chord charts are auto generated but with curation by notetracking team

  5. First of all, I want Rocksmith+ to succeed. I signed up for a year and am really enjoying it. But to be honest, the 3 new music drops have been underwhelming for me. There was only 2 songs I’m even interested in learning to play in the last drop if I have access to them. FYI I have a wide taste in music. I’m worried that for whatever reason they might not be able to get the licensing for any of the popular groups or songs.

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