Greetings Rocksmith fans!
Yesterday’s clue was quite puzzling indeed. It involved four different zip files, binary code, German, YouTube videos, and of course working together.
Here are the five YouTube videos that were decoded, can you figure out which classical music piece each one refers to?
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Pretty obvious right? Well here they are anyway
- Grieg “In The Hall of the Mountain King”
- Mozart “Turkish March”
- Bach “Fugue in G Minor”
- Beethoven “Moonlight Sonata”
- Wagner “Ride of the Valkyries”
One of the other associated hints for this week is a tweet from @UbisoftStudioSF back in May:
This was put to good use today. You’ll find out why this summer. http://t.co/eWVNEpLqCU
— UbisoftStudioSF (@UbisoftStudioSF) May 19, 2014
What could it mean? We could assume that these classical pieces have been arranged by in house musicians much like the XMas DLC. Perhaps there is a video of @HailTheShane, @NicholasBonardi and @BrianAdamMcCune in powdered wigs? Or something completely different…
Will this DLC be free as it’s Public Domain? Will metalheads ironically express dismay for music that is the very tenet of the material they enjoy? Come back next week to find out more!
Bachsmith, I love it. Pure genius!
Hey! Where is canonrock??
Not in this DLC, you should request it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w
My first reaction was, come on classical music, but then I looked at the potential set list and I’m really excited for the moonlight sonata! The part in RE1 where Jill that song on the piano to unlock the secret door is my favorite! So at least that song will be a buy for me!
I’m very confused. If they’re relating the tabs to a classical guitar with bass/rhythm guitar feature, it’ll sound quite well but translated odd.
If it’s metal/rock backing bands, the selections could have a weird take but translate well into the game.
And I’ll be damned if the entire three movements of Moonlight Sonata appears on game. I would by that faster than I bought My God is the Sun.
BTW – if you go to Tina Morgans FB page and Block her, you won’t have to listen to her bitter rants anymore. They just don’t show up in the feed.
She’s certainly a master (or at least well-schooled) in the art of the run-on sentence, isn’t she? A perfect example of the product of our current educational system.
I just can’t understand how someone can be so bitter. I feel sorry for the guy that tries to pick her up one night. Anyhoo – I muted blocked her on FB and the Riff Repeater has been all the better since!
aaand blocked. Thanks!
I have to give it to Rocksmith on this one. A really cool idea that gives most of us a chance to try something new. I cant wait to give these tunes a shot. Another easy decision to buy for me.
I was thinking the same thing. Kind of funny that I was telling my wife this weekend I should learn some classical stuff. Good job RS 😛
Little different, but will buy a couple. Still waiting on Coheed and Cambria!!! Thought we were told early 2014 DLC?
Actually I can’t find the link but apparently the deal fell through. We have to wait and see.
I´m waiting a 5 pack of Coheed!!!
Why is Tina Morgan always so bitter and angry?
to many tickles from elmo as a kid?
Trolls be trollin’.
Last weeks homophobic comments were a high water mark. This week, to take the high ground against detractors is a hypocritical master-stroke.
The poor spelling and lack of punctuation… Bravo!
Sounds like she needs to get laid. Big time.
Sorry, my bad. I used punctuation. Tina, if you’re reading this (make that trying to read this), skip ahead to this next part:
Sounds like she needs to get laid big time geniuses because its certainly not the producers fault that no one can please her you know what i mean you idiots gosh when are we gonna get real music shes so sick of all this crap and i love reading her posts and seeing my tax dollars and the education system at work lolz
great oogleee boogleee
whats next ?
country.?
If enough people are asking for it (which they are) I don’t see why not.
There is some pretty great country out there! I’m not a fan of all of it (not even close), but I’d play some Brad Paisley or Keith Urban! There are definitely some other artists with consistently good guitar that I don’t know by name, too!
Not ot forget Jason Aldeen. Luke Bryan and Jake Owen are good to…but playing them is kind of a bore. Florida Georgia Line? ZAac Brown?
Odd – the very first thing I thought when I saw the headline was “A Fifth of Beethoven” by Walter Murphy band. Really glad it’s not that. That’s all synth anyway.
Oh wait, that’s the tune out of Lemmings. Totally buying this
These should be free or at the very least not 3 dollars a pop since there is no licensing involved.
this may not have disappointed me so much if i didnt get excited for all the Scorpions speculations i saw. i was getting really fucking hyped for that and then this happened. feels quite like a huge suckerpunch, especially when i read “…we’d give you some *real* oldies”
sigh…hopefully Moonlight Sonata and Canon in D will be on here at least
Moonlight Sonata is in, it’s right there. 🙂
thought that was just one that you were hoping or guessing would be in there. well if its confirmed, awesome. my favorite classical piece
I think all five songs should be correct, just not sure who is covering which piece and in what style it will be 🙂
This “extreme metalhead” approves. Especially of Wagner. 😈
That moment when you go on riff repeater website for the speculations on sundays and you are almost always disappointed, like every week.
This isn’t a Metallica request !
It’s a RATM or RHCP request for fuck sake !!
If this happens every week, maybe your musical taste is too narrow.
Try something else once in a while.
Who still uses a 60d? – lol.
Maybe Dan is now dropping hints for the 7d mark 2?
I really hope this is free, or cheaper. I like Moonlight Sonata but i doubt id get it if i had to pay regular price. Still an original music pack in terms of rhythm games 🙂
Intrigued.
Now that’s just silly
What is?
I can’t see this being free. The note trackers still need paid.
Also, any word on RATM yet?
Get this. That was never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever announced. That ad was never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever supposed to have been posted at that time. So why would there be “any word” on it`?
What time was it meant to be posted at?
Never
You work for Ubisoft?
Nothing yet, all we can do it wait
I’m hoping the fratrock quota was filled with that 311 mess a while back.
I wouldn’t consider RATM fratrock by genre but maybe by audience slightly
Ah yes, you are correct. I was in college in the 90s so I suppose that is my “enough already!” Let’s compromise and call it fratrock-ish-by-association then. 😀
Instead of “It’s not Metallica!”, we’ll get “It’s not Canon Rock!”
NO ‘Eine Kliene Nacht Musik’? This is BULL**IT!!!! 😉
Maybe cannon instead? The 1812 Overture more to your liking sir? 😆
yeah, that was how Beethoven originally intended to market the moonlight.
This is F!@#$n AWESOME!! Finally my favourite kind of music. Would be cool to get all of Bach’s inventions on here but all I can say is prepare to be challenged. Awesome!!
This better be free dlc since there are no artists to pay.
Yes and I’m sure it magically appeared for the good people at UBIsoft SF without any hard work as well…
I do plenty of pieces of work for which I am not directly paid for by my customers but to foster goodwill and as part of a professional relationship.
I have paid them plenty for the game itself, hundreds in dlc + extra cables etc.
Plus you know they probably enjoyed doing it? wtf is it with people who can’t do things for the love.
So, yeah. It should be free.
Well they did free DLC before, it’s not available anymore but you can’t act like it’s never happened.
https://theriffrepeater.com/a-very-rocksmith-christmas/
Is there somewhere where we can lobby to make this available again, even if we need to pay for it? I love me some God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and Carol of the Bells.
Yes they worked at it but it is game support. I have bought tons of dlc. It would be nice to toss your loyal customers a bone every once in a while. That’s how thing is supposed to work. They make us happy with a freebee and we buy more dlc later.
If it does turn out to be free that would be awesome. I’m just not expecting it.
Rockstar have been putting out free DLC for GTA 5 for almost a year now. The team that makes the DLC doesn’t get paid directly for every sale they get. They’re salaried employees who probably don’t even see any of the profits.
Ultimately this is a company decision by Ubisoft’s management. If they wanted to buy some goodwill and give us a free pack (given that no licensing is required) then they will. It already happened once with the original game. Why not?
That is awesome that they’re branching out like this. Doesn’t have to be well known rock songs every week
yay! always wanted to learn ride of the valkyries
I hope it’s free. Lord knows I’ve spent enough on DLC!
Would be nice
Picking this up.
Sky’s ‘Toccata’ is a great 70s rock version of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor.
Nothing wrong with the classics if done right.
Grieg’s ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ from Peer Gynt is my favourite suite to play on violin.
Looking forward to seeing how this DLC turns out.
If this is real, I hope it’s free. Otherwise, there’s no motivation to get it.
pleb
Well, I hope the covers are by well known artists instead of the RS hired artists, but we’ll see.
Rocksmith developpers are really good artists (you can tell by the bonus songs) and they won’t have to pay for the rights, so it could be a free pack…
You can’t complain 🙂
I suppose so. I haven’t unlocked all the bonus songs.
If you play songs on arcade medium it will unlock something nearly every time. you just have to pass the song.
https://theriffrepeater.com/the-bonus-songs-of-rocksmith-2014/
Also, is it just me or Dan “kinda” looks like Beethoven?
It’s you. My wife looked at the painting, looked at me, and said “Meh.” 🙂
I really hope Moonlight Sonata is in New Standard Tuning! I don’t think it’s likely, but I can dream 🙂
It’d be great if we got all five pieces and they were full length but then we’d need New Standard Tuning for Moonlight Sonata and they’re actually quite long, I don’t see us getting full length versions.
Well at least nobody can complain it’s not music xD
But yeah, this is gonna be one of the most epic DLC! Beautiful pieces! (Of course they could a 50-songs pack with this theme, but that would be kinda big)
Oh yeah here’s a beautiful music I really like from Camille Saint-Saëns, it’s called “La Danse Macabre” (The macabre dance): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71fZhMXlGT4
Enjoy! 🙂
“Well at least nobody can complain it’s not music xD”
just wait, someone will pull it off
Check the facebook comments above. We already have complaints from the usual suspect.