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THE NOTETRACKING FAQ
Q: Why doesn't "Song X" match the official transcription? Why don't you just get the official original transcription from the band and use that?
Mostly because there really isn't such a thing as the official, original transcription. Official published transcriptions that are sanctioned by the artists (or more likely by their publishers) are generated via a process not unlike the one we use, by transcriptionists with backgrounds not unlike ours. Only in the very rarest of cases is the original guitarist actually playing from tablature written before the recording, which is then submitted for publication afterwards. Even in those cases where the original artist does weigh in, there's no guarantee that they're remembering correctly how they played a song in the studio - we frequently encounter cases where the way an artist plays a song live has evolved significantly from the way it was originally recorded. When there's a discrepancy, we try to favor the way it's done on the recording over the way it's done live, unless there's a good reason to do otherwise.
But keep letting us know! Unfortunately, due to the way the pipeline works for delivering new game data across multiple platforms, it isn't a straightforward thing to simply correct a mistake in a chart and swap it out. However, we do keep track of these mistakes when we find them, and when opportunities do arise to fix them, we do.
Q: Why do you have this fingered this way, or played on this string, or played as an open note, or not played as an open note? Wouldn't it be easier if you did it the other way?
We're going for accuracy; we're trying to teach you how to play the song the way the original artist plays it on the recording. Sometimes, these players have idiosyncratic playing styles that result in them playing something in a way that is not quite the easiest way to produce those notes. Sometimes, on lower difficulty levels, we will teach you to play a passage with a seemingly unnecessary jump up or down the fretboard because that jump will become necessary on higher levels, and it's easier to introduce that move when there still aren't too many notes coming at you.
Often, it's a creative judgment call by the notetracker. When we can know for certain how it was done, we do it that way. When we don't know or it cannot be known how it was done, we make the best, most educated, most informed guess we can make, try to get a consensus from the team about how it should be, and then move forward with it.
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