Welcome to PathStats

The data here is the foundation of my full band pathing, one of the biggest secrets to the success of my own bands, Barre Exam and Better Than You--v, as well as an assortment of other successful scorehero bands. This data has also been used for an assortment of other coop and solo configurations - I've personally used it extensively for guitar pathing, voxtar pathing, guitar/bass pathing, and I've even used it for solo drum pathing once.

Quick Note - Beatles

I'm not doing anything with the harmony tracks right now, so I'm only showing stats for if harmonies are turned off. While I have an idea, I'm not really sure how to best convert harmonies into score over time, so feel free to send me ideas if you have them.

Description of the Data

I've generated data about how many points there are, where overdrive and drum fills are, how many points are covered by drum fills, and how many beats of overdrive drain in each measure. I've also included the maximum possible BRE bonus for songs that have BREs and the total of all guitar/drum solo bonuses and vocal percussion bonuses - basically everything that contributes to your band's score is in there. Finally, I have the per-measure scores for each instrument broken out, so you can adjust the full-band per-measure scores if you're not playing with a full band (say, for instance, you're pathing for voxtar, or you have a guitar/drums combo you play with or something). In addition to the per-measure data, I've added data generated for half-measures or for 1, 2 or 4 OD beats.

Data Format

Each file has two tables, and the first line of each table has a "name" for each column. The tables are tab-delimited, and may not line up when you look at them in your web browser or text editor - the intent is that you paste them into a spreadsheet program like Excel (in fact, feel free to use my Excel spreadsheet templates linked below). For the first table, there are the following columns:

• Measure Numbers - The number of the measure. These should always line up with ajanata's charts, although originally they didn't because ajanata's charts sometimes handled time signature changes wrong.
• OD Beats - The number of beats of overdrive that drain in this measure. A full meter of overdrive is 32 beats. For most songs, this column will be all 4s, but a few are all 8s or all 2s. Still others change every once in awhile, or even frequently (especially if it's by Dream Theater or Rush). In ajanata's charts, these correspond to the number of red ticks above each row of the chart.
• OD Notes - A short description of overdrive-related events that happen in each measure (the ends of overdrive phrases and drum fills basically). Hopefully you'll be able to figure out what the notes mean, but that's a task for a different post.
• Points per Measure - The total number of non-bonus points for all instruments in the measure. This takes all four parts into consideration (although vocals is obviously an estimate) and also considers streak multipliers (assuming you don't break combo and only have to build up a streak at the beginning).
• Drum Fill Cover - If a drum fill intersects this measure, this gives the number of points covered by it if it shows up.

More Information

• My Guide to using pathstats data.
• Basic Pathing Steps guide by beingmused. This was posted in reply to one of many "Teach me how to path, because I have no clue" posts we've all seen on the scorehero forums.
• Excel templates: V3 (recommended - requires Excel 2007 or later), V2 (old version, Excel 2007 format), or .xls version (like V2, but works in older versions of Excel and probably other spreadsheet programs that read Excel files).
• Raunch99's Guide to full band pathing.
• Full Band Paths for Rock Band on scorehero.com, shared by myself and others.