Making No Progress - Surf Hell Challenge, Outshined Solo

Cell colors seem to copy just fine here. Will see how it posts and continue troubleshooting.

Song	Artist	Date First Played	Event #	Qualifying Score	High Score	Best %	Best Streak	Play Count
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen	Brian Adam McCune	28-Jan-2012	n/a	n/a	200279	94	96	61
Angela (Combo)	Jarvis Cocker	23-Jan-2012	4	?	200033	99	302	11
Run Back to Your Side - Chords	Eric Clapton	23-Feb-2012	6	n/a	197259	100	89	5
Do You Remember - Combo	Horrors The	26-Jan-2012	5	61800	132554	88	50	11
Next Girl	Black Keys The	14-Jan-2012	1	?	109775	98	158	6
Satisfaction, Chord Arr.	Rolling Stones The	5-Feb-2012	n/a	n/a	108484	97	155	5
Angela (Single Note)	Jarvis Cocker	26-Feb-2012	4	n/a	101103	97	126	11
Breed - Combo	Nirvana	2-Feb-2012	5	28800	101066	96	122	29
Satisfaction - Single Note	Rolling Stones The	14-Jan-2012	1	?	100299	97	155	45
Surf Hell - Combo	Little Barrie	19-Jan-2012	3	?	97762	96	152	70
Outshined - Combo 2	Soundgarden	22-Jan-2012	n/a	n/a	96609	90	88	42

Obviously time to update play counts. This doesn't include last night's progress - or lack thereof.

Don't know if I'm tired or what. Ran through the solo from Outshined 120 times last night in Riff Repeater and got next to nothing in the way of progress. Literally 120 times. 30 in Leveler, 30 in Free Speed, 30 in Leveler again, and 30 more in Accelerator. I bumped up my speed in Free Speed to 97.9 but that's it. Couldn't max the phrase. Even tried Accelerator thinking maybe the variety would help but that only proved that there's very little difference between Free Speed and Accelerator - at least the way I play it. At some point you quit beating a dead horse and move on, right? No idea what I'm doing wrong. . .

Moved on to Surf Hell and still couldn't break (or even reach) 100k. Improved on my Ubisoft/Rocksmith forum challenge score by a whopping 100 points and still fell short of my all-time best score on that song. So, I've actually gotten worse with practice! Ran through it a few times and called it quits on Surf Hell, too. I was actually having visions of throwing my Special II through the TV screen at one point.

Ran a few MM Performances of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen and had largely the same lack of success. This despite the fact that I have now memorized the song and feel perfectly comfortable playing it on my acoustic at the baseball fields where real people might actually hear me. First time I've pulled out the ol' Alvarez in a long time! I should bring a case and leave it open in front of the bleachers next time - maybe somebody will throw me some cash and tell me to get some lessons.

My plan has been to focus on the songs above until I get them all to Master Mode. But, in light of my recent apparently burn-out, I'm wondering if maybe I should just play some totally new stuff. The other night I went offline (i.e. playing without RS) and tried to work up some Green Day stuff with my son and that was sort of refreshing. I may pull some tabs off of the Internet and play around with that for a few days.