Community
Monthly Challenges
Five community-voted songs every month, what recording them pays, how nominations and voting work, and what happens to old boards.
Every month the community picks five songs, and everyone tries to record themselves playing them. It's the one part of riff.quest where other people hear you play, and it pays better than anything else in the app.
Three tabs: this month's board, the vote for next month, and the archive.
Playing this month's board
Five songs, chosen by last month's vote. Difficulty tiers are shown, so you can tell what you're in for
Any one of them. Nobody has to do all five
A phone camera is fine. Upload it as a video link and submit it against the song
Each accepted recording pays 50 points and 200 Fame
50 points
200 Fame+50 points
per song you record
+200 Fame
per song you record
+500 Fame
bonus for clearing all five
5 songs
on every monthly board
One recording per song per player, so a full board is 250 points and 1500 Fame.
Points pay for your first five songs on a board. If a board ever turns up longer than five, the extra recordings still pay Fame — the challenge is a Fame engine first, and it shouldn't be able to outweigh a month of practice on the season table.
Voting for next month
While one board is live, the next one is being decided. You nominate songs you'd like to see, and back the nominations you like the look of.
Don't recognise a nomination? Click it. The song opens with a player, so you can listen first and vote from the same place if you like what you hear.
- Nominate
- Put a song forward for next month's board
- Vote
- You get 5 votes per cycle to spread across the nominations
- Top five wins
- The five most-backed songs become next month's board
- Nothing is wasted
- A song that keeps missing out stays in the running for a while before it's cleared out
The archive
Old boards don't disappear. You can still record songs from a closed month and the recording lands on that board; it just doesn't pay points or Fame. Back-filling a year of challenges was never meant to be a shortcut up the rankings, but catching up on a song you missed is fair game.
The challenge board is the fastest legitimate Fame in the app. If you're saving for an Elite case, one recorded song is more than double the price of a Standard one.
Questions people ask
Do I have to play it perfectly?
No. This isn't judged or scored; a recording that exists counts
Where does the video live?
You link a video and it shows up in Recordings, where other players can watch, like and comment
Can I submit the same song twice?
No, one recording per song per month, so pick the take you're happiest with
What if I don't like any of the five?
Vote next cycle. Nominations are open the whole time the current board is live