Song and Event Tracking Spreadsheets

OK - I think I've sort of figured out how I can show you guys how I'm keeping track of my progress for now. This is an Excel spreadsheet that I made to track my scores on individual songs. Pretty self-explanatory as far as what I'm tracking. The green shaded rows are songs I've played in Events. Yellow shaded rows are encores. Pink is for the four songs I've got on deck for my next event (which I'm putting off until I get at least a little closer to really being able to play the songs well).

I apparently haven't filled in many of the blanks yet, but I will. This just gives you an idea of where I'm heading. I actually made a whole Excel workbook with individual pages for each event and each song. Here's what it all looks like, for those of you who are really interested in just how geeked out I can get:

Song	Artist	Qualifying Score	Current Score	Date First Played	Event #
A More Perfect Union	Titus Andronicus
Angela	Jarvis Cocker				4
Are You Gonna Go My Way	Lenny Kravitz	16400			6
Between the Lines	Stone Temple Pilots
Boss	Chris Lee
Boys Don't Cry	The Cure				1
Breed	Nirvana	28800			5
Burnished	White Denim
California Brain	RapScallions
Carol of the Bells	Seth Chapla
Chimney	Yellow Moon Band The
Do You Remember	Horrors The	61800			5
Freebird	Lynyrd Skynyrd
Go With the Flow	Queens of the Stone Age				2
Gobbledigook	Sigur Rós
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	Brian Adam McCune
Good Enough	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
High and Dry	Radiohead	25200			6
Higher Ground	Red Hot Chilli Peppers				2
House of the Rising Sun	The Animals
I Can't Hear You	Dead Weather The				3
I Got Mine	Black Keys The
I Miss You	Incubus
I Want Some More	Dan Auerbach				4
Icky Thump	White Stripes The
In Bloom	Nirvana				2
Islands	xx The
Jules	Seth Chapla
Me and the Bean	Spoon
Mean Bitch	Taddy Porter				6
Next Girl	Black Keys The				1
Number Thirteen	Red Fang				4
Outshined	Soundgarden				4
Panic Switch	Silversun Pickups
Play with Fire	Rolling Stones The				4
Plug In Baby	Muse				5
Rebel Rebel	David Bowie	19500			6
Ricochet	Brian Adam McCune
Run Back to Your Side	Eric Clapton
Satisfaction	Rolling Stones The				1
Six AM Salvation	Versus Them
Slither	Velvet Revolver
Slow Hands	Interpol				3
Song 2	Blur
Space Ostrich	Disonaur
Step Out of the Car	Boxer Rebellion The
Sunshine of Your Love	Cream
Surf Hell	Little Barrie				3
Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd
Take Me Out	Franz Ferdinand
The Spider and the Fly	Rolling Stones The
The Star Spangled Banner	Seth Chapla
Under Cover of Darkness	Strokes The
Unnatural Selection	Muse				4
Use Somebody	Kings of Leon				3
Vasoline	Stone Temple Pilots				3
We Share the Same Skies	The Cribs
We Three Kings	Versus Them
Well OK Honey	Jenny O
When I'm with You	Best Coast	31100			5
Where is My Mind?	Pixies				4

Here's my Event tracking spreadsheet (Typical for me, I switched color schemes mid-stream and encores on the Event tracker are shown in green instead of yellow. I might fix that.):

Event Location	The Mousehole
Date Played	1/14/2012
Song	Artist	Score
Satisfaction	Rolling Stones	73052
Next Girl	Black Keys	67211
Boys Don't Cry	Cure	32372
Event Score:	172635

And, here's one of my individual song tracking spreadsheets (songs are linked to all Event spreadsheets where that song was played):

Title		Satisfaction
Artist		Rolling Stones
Qualifying Score
Event		1
Date	Score	%	Streak	Notes
1/14/2012	73052
1/19/2012	72782
1/22/2012	73468
2/5/2012	74262	93	83
2/5/2012	74313	95	149
2/5/2012	76611	97	148
2/5/2012	108484	99	272	Master Mode Unlocked (Chord Arr)

I'm by no means suggesting that this kind of tracking should be built into Rocksmith! This is just for me. But, I would like to see something a little more than the Line Graph from Nowhere. I actually have some very specific ideas about what I would like to see the folks at Ubisoft add - but they'll have to contact me about that. I'm not giving my design up for some free DLC and an extra cord.

I get that progress is measured in RS partly by the number of pedals and guitars you unlock along the way. However, given that you never see the guitars (unless you dig through the menu to find them), those don't do a lot for me. My scheme would make those a little more visible to players.

I consider the tone unlocks and the whole Amp mode to be a huge selling point for RS. Where else are you gonna get that many effects pedals for $80? Still, for me, the pedals aren't very good in-game incentives or progress markers because, like the guitars, I never see them. They get unlocked and disappear into the Amp section where I don't go (yet). At least the pedals/tones actually DO something. The guitars are just eye candy. Cool eye candy, though.

At some point, I'd like something a little more visual and something that gives me a better overall sense of what I've accomplished in the Journey. And, if the folks at Ubisoft would like to talk to me about my idea for that, they're welcome to give me a call!