A question

[Zuke]

Well haven't been playing a lot of SM lately so after playing around the last few days I haven't been doing as well as normal (which wasn't much to begin with) but the thing I thought was wierd is on most of the harder songs I've been playing I'm getting roughly the same amount of greats and marvs, with my perfs being roughly half or 2/3 of either. I would've figured that with doing bad on a song you should have less marvs than the others or at the least closer to equal shares. Wouldn't that make more sense?

[T0rajir0u]

RE: A question

Having less marvs than perfs or less marvs than greats would mean consistently hitting notes off-beat, which is harder to do than just hitting them in a random pattern.

Basically, if you really did have less marvs than perfs, it would mean either that the gap of the song is off and you're playing the song by the music or that you sight-read really, really weird.

Problems with accuracy come from the fact that you hit too early or too late roughly equally (and do both often), which means, on average, you will hit a marv. That's why you still have more marvs - because, statistically speaking, you are more likely to hit a marv than anything else as long as you don't consistently hit too early or too late.