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Tutorials My Axe

Tutorials My Axe

Earn all Gold Technique Medals

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How to unlock the Tutorials My Axe achievement in Rocksmith - Definitive Guide

Many of these challenges are fairly easy, even for a beginner but you'll find that some of them can prove quite difficult not because of your skill but because the game has some trouble correctly registering some of the notes.

It may be the game's fault, or my guitar or whatever, but here are a few tips on how to overcome some of these flaws.

For Palm Mutes and Harmonics, sometimes, even though you hit the not correctly and hear that you have done so, it won't register.

A great workaround is that you can activate custom tones in challenge mode!

To do so, go into amp mode and configure a tone. Just create a tone with the first distortion pedal, I didn't try the other ones, but found that this one worked really good. I also put all of the pedal's values (distortion and tone) to 100. When you save you'll see it is assigned to a button, mine was X.

Now go back into the challenge, and when it starts, press the X button (or whatever button you have that tone mapped to) and it will change the challenge's tone for your custom tone.

The rest is up to you and practice, but for palm mutes and harmonics, I tried upwards of 10 times to no avail before trying this. Once I loaded the custom distortion tone, it took me 2 tries each.

The other challenge you will likely have trouble with is the Bends one. As much as I bend a note, it rarely registers when you have to go up or down a full step, even though I can see I bended the string enough or even more than enough.

The trick here is to do an hammer-on 1 or 2 frets higher. 1 for half step, 2 for full step. If you don't know whether it'll be a half or full, hammer-on one fret, then the second one if needed.

Since the game only analyses the sound you produce, it doesn't notice you didn't actually bend.

I didn't have any trouble with the other challenges, but if they have proven to be tricky for some of you, do tell what your tricks were so others can know about it too!
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30 Oct 2011 23:21

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The bends have a thinner ghost string that's not easy to see. When you bend the colored string, keep it over the second ghost string. If you see a thick string and a thin string, you are bending too much or too little.

A trick a friend and I discovered is volume. Don't have the volume control on the guitar maxed out. For some odd reason the game detects notes better if the guitar is not turned all the way up. I keep the volume about 3/4 turned up. I found this especially helpful on the double stops and palm mutes.
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By Solo P3T3R on 26 Dec 2011 09:41
Another thing for the bend technique, if you can't get the bend to register and are using the hammer on trick, Hammer on the next two frets, don't just hammer on two frets over. Got it to work great using this.
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By zszty on 31 Dec 2011 20:50
Yeah it doesn't recognise harmonics unless you really emphasise them, whereas normally you could play them with your finger remaining on the string, you really need to release soon after to make a fuller tone, it seems to recognise them then.
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By Acceleretto on 17 Oct 2012 14:21
definitely needs a patch for the palm mutes, either make it less fussy or not require a palm mute to be detected at all just the right note. as it is it just doesn't work and is so frustrating.
didn't try your guide as i struggled for about an hour yesterday and eventually got it but seems like good advice so thumbs up for that...
just wanted to get my frustration out lol.
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By JimboJambo86 on 17 Dec 2012 18:35
Haha understood, the palm mutes are one of the most frustrating things in this game!
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By Dr Worm Buffet on 17 Dec 2012 19:00
You guys said it best; the real challenge is getting this game to actually register your notes. 💀 Otherwise, these challenges are pretty much a walk in the park for most intermediate or better guitarists.
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By Brave Tanuki on 18 Jan 2024 09:46
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I had a lot of trouble with the palm mutes too. I think I may have found a little trick.

First, I used Dr Worm Buffet's suggestion about using a distortion pedal. It seemed to help.
Next, I just hit the note normally, and let it ring for about a half a second, then muted the string with my pick hand.

I had to play around with the timing a little bit, but doing it this way doubled my score.
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06 Dec 2011 05:24

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Muting with my pick hand worked perfectly. Thanks for the tip.
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By D4rthD4nte on 02 Nov 2012 16:49
Thank you SO MUCH made it a breeze
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By el teby on 03 Jan 2022 00:32
*for harmonics section*
no need for custom tones,just make sure you play the harmonic exactly over the fret bar.Once i sussed this out cracked it in no time.
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20 Aug 2013 18:09

From the main menu, select Techniques. There are 12 different techniques that are nothing more than tutorials that teach you how to perform the techniques. Each one has a bronze, silver and gold point level. You will start each one with the fewest notes possible so you may have to play each one a few times before you have enough notes that allow you to reach the required point total for gold.

The two most troubling ones are Harmonics and Palm Mutes. Not because of the difficulty in the technique, but rather, the inability of the game to correctly register the note when played properly. For the Palm Mutes, I found that quickly raising my right hand off the strings to let it ring slightly and muting quickly again will register the note.

The points needed for gold are

 

  • Sustain - 78,000
  • Shifting - 61,000
  • Hammer-Ons & Pull-offs - 66,000
  • Slides - 74,000
  • Bends - 95,000
  • Harmonics - 65,000
  • Palm Mute - 80,000
  • Tremolo - 33,000
  • Chord - 32,000
  • Double Stop - 34,000
  • Power Chord - 39,000
  • Barre Chord - 56,000
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Go to the Main Menu and scroll to “Techniques.” There are 12 techniques that you must receive a gold on. Some techniques are easy (such as the sustains challenge) and some techniques might be a challenge (like the barre chords challenge). 

It's very unlikely you'll get gold on the first try because you have to level up each phrase, so play through the entire technique four times and all the phrases should be at a high enough level to hit the high score. Just practice and practice. You’ll unlock this eventually. 

Again, if some techniques are too hard, try the pause method mentioned in the roadmap.Also, save yourself some time, look at the list below. 

Points needed for Gold.

  • Sustain: 78,000
  • Shifting: 61,000
  • Hammer-Ons & Pull-offs: 66,000
  • Slides: 74,000
  • Bends: 95,000
  • Harmonics: 65,000
  • Palm Mute: 80,000
  • Tremolo: 33,000
  • Chord: 32,000
  • Double Stop: 34,000
  • Power Chord: 39,000
  • Barre Chord: 56,000

If you didn't reach that score, press  and Restart. You'll avoid having to tune the guitar again and avoid the loading screen.

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It is necessary to obtain gold medals for technique in all 12 exercises.

Some tests are easy, while others can be challenging. Moreover, first of all, related to the features of your particular guitar, i.e. The game will not always correctly register what you are playing. Some tips for passing:

  • The main problems are with Palm Mutes and Harmonics. To pass the tests, you can use the trick of activating your own custom tones. Those. in the menu in amp mode we make a tone with the first distortion pedal (distortion and tone parameters are 100 each), save it to the button. Next, after the start of the test, click on this button and turn on this lotion. It will become much easier to play.
  • That concerns suspenders (bends). The game will not always correctly register your brace, so you can use the hint for the Giant trophy! Namely, use hammer-on on higher frets (1 or 2 frets higher, 1 for half step, 2 for full step). If it’s not clear what it will be, you can first make it hammer on the 1st fret, then on the second, if necessary.
  • If there are errors in the game's detection of the notes you play, check the guitar's volume level. Sometimes lowering the volume to 3/4 of maximum can significantly improve the situation.
I passed all the technical tests myself without any tricks. In addition to careful attention to performance technique and a certain amount of training, an important feature was strong playing of the strings. Those. often the performance of a technique or chord was not recorded because he was not playing loud enough. I started playing the strings harder and started gaining more points.

Number of points required for gold:

  • Sustain: 78,000
  • Shifting: 61,000
  • Hammer-Ons & Pull-offs: 66,000
  • Slides: 74,000
  • Bends: 95,000
  • Harmonics: 65,000
  • Palm Mute: 80,000
  • Tremolo: 33,000
  • Chord: 32,000
  • Double Stop: 34,000
  • Power Chord: 39,000
  • Barre Chord: 56,000
If you don’t get the required number of points while performing, it makes sense to press restart so as not to reload the test and not set up the guitar.
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31 Jan 2012 17:25

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For those who have problems with harmonics - in Russian they are called “flajolet” and by this word you can find a sea of ​​descriptions and performance techniques.

The higher the fret, the louder the harmonic will be. Accordingly, of the standard ones, it is easiest to play it on the 12th fret and most difficult on the fifth.
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By dlormidal on 09 Feb 2013 17:21
I’ll explain it briefly in hardcore terms. The game picks up jamming well and your bends and other things, the fact is that the bends must be reached, and jamming must be done not only with the right hand when playing on the frets (the fingers of the left hand that are on the frets must be raised! Then there will be correct jamming, see for yourself Having played both options. On open strings, of course, you don’t need to do this. As for bends, stretch the strings, the game just doesn’t catch the bends, so it’s extremely difficult to do this with a tired hand. just listen to the music and you will understand everything.

Fuglets are also easy to play on the 5th fret, you just need to know how . This video explains perfectly why you can't play them on the 5th fret.
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By Omgbbq on 28 Mar 2013 15:02
Of all the techniques, only the harmonica technique turned out to be a headache. but only because, in my opinion, the game does not have a good enough description of how to perform it correctly. so it’s better to look for training videos on the Internet. in principle, everything is extremely simple: we touch the string directly above the desired fret (exactly the fret, i.e. exactly above the metal fret of the fingerboard, and not between them as in normal playing!), and there is not much choice there - the harmonic is played only on 5, 7 and 12 frets, then we pluck the string and extract a sound; it should be loud enough to be recognized by the game.

All sorts of tricks with the 19th fret, unfortunately, do not work quite correctly, with them you can count on a maximum of silver, and even more hemorrhoids - if done correctly, it turned out to be much easier to get gold.

that's all. I scored more than 100 thousand RSP literally 10 minutes after I understood how to play the harmonica correctly.
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By Fomich on 07 Sep 2012 11:16
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