Welcome to Kawigi's Paths
Computer-Generated Optimal Overdrive Paths for Rock Band Drums

These paths and scores are all computer-generated from a program written by me. While I'm fairly confident that the algorithm is correct, that doesn't mean there can't be bugs in the implementation or misunderstandings of the game physics - let me know if you find paths here that aren't as good as other known paths, or just don't work for some reason.

As of 3/24/2009, I've included paths for Rock Band 2 on-disc songs.

As of 11/13/2009, I've included paths for The Beatles: Rock Band.

Notation

In general I tried to follow the shorthand notation conventions in EaterOfCheese's quick reference thread for Rock Band. The shorthand notation is for people who are used to reading it, the verbose notation should be descriptive enough to be more generally understood.

A quick rundown on what the shorthand notation means:

Number of fills to skip --> 1/OG <-- front-end squeeze notes (description of front end squeezing here).

• E/0/xx - The last note of the second OD phrase you pick up before this activation may need to be hit early, otherwise the correct fill may not appear.
• x/xx/E or x/xx/SqIn - You may need to hit the last note of an Overdrive phrase a bit early to be sure to chain over an OD phrase that occurs right as you're running out of overdrive.
• x/xx/SqOut - The opposite of /E and /SqIn - hit the last note of an OD phrase late as you run out of OD to make sure you don't chain over it. You can hit all but one note in a "chord" and still squeeze the last one out and still avoid running over the OD phrase for maximum points.
• L/x/xx - The opposite of E/ - Hit the last note of the second energy phrase early to ensure the next fill won't appear.
• x/xx/L - This fill is directly followed by an overdrive phrase which may disappear, due to a glitch in the game, unless you hit the "activation note" at the end of the fill a little late.

I may notate the x/xx/E notation differently sometimes (although it may not affect any actual current songs). I use the shorthand "SqIn" to mean "hit the last note in an overdrive phrase under overdrive early to continue overdrive", and if you have to do it with N overdrive phrases because you'll almost run out of overdrive N times before continuing it (not a likely scenario, of course), I use "/SqInxN" instead of "/E". Also, I note the opposite of "/E" with "/SqOut", meaning that you hit that note late to make sure you don't keep overdrive going.

Known Limitations

I only calculate FC paths. If you want to find a better "miss" path (they do exist for a select few songs), you need to do it without my help :-) Here is a thread that may help you.

Measure numbers given will almost always correspond with measure numbers in Ajanata's charts, but sometimes they won't. In the past this has generally been bugs on ajanata's charts, but if you see something like this wrong, let me know.

I'm not really sure that all the PS2 RB2 paths are right. Actually, I'm reasonably sure that many of them aren't. They're based on research done the same way we've done it for the other paths, but it seems like the fill delay time for PS2 isn't a constant, or isn't measured in real time. If you're interested in helping to figure it out and you have RB2 for PS2, let me know.

This is a Work in Progress

If you have requests or suggestions, or just find something that you are positive is wrong, let me know about it.

Contacting Me

The best ways to contact me are scorehero PM (handle is Kawigi), XBox Live message (gamertag is also Kawigi) or email (kawigi at yahoo). Which of those will get the fastest response depends mostly on how active I am on scorehero at the time.