Songs & Library
Songs, Playlists & Difficulty
How the song board works, what mastering a song pays, what the difficulty tiers and Skill Power mean, and how playlists are shared.
Songs are the part of riff.quest that looks least like homework. You keep a list of what you're learning, drag songs along as you get them under your fingers, and the app quietly turns that into points and a difficulty rating for your playing.
Board is your own list. Explore is for finding new songs, Playlists for collections.
The board
Your songs sit in three lists, and every song is in exactly one of them.
Want to learn
Currently learning
Mastered songs
On the list, not started
A song moves here on its own the first time you log practice against it. It never moves back down automatically
You decide when a song is done and mark it yourself
Songs you've never practised show a dash in all three columns, which makes the list quietly honest about what you've actually been working on.
What mastering a song pays
Moving a song to Mastered pays +40 points, as long as you've logged at least 10 minutes of practice on that specific song first. Mark it earlier and the status changes without paying anything. Move it back out again and the +40 is taken back off. Either way, the change is mirrored into the current season's total.
+40 pointsPractise the song from its own page, because that's what builds up the 10 minutes, and it's also what tells the app which songs you actually work on.
Difficulty ratings and tiers
Anyone can rate a song from 1 to 10. Your first rating on a song pays +3 Fame (rating again is possible after a short cooldown, but only the first one pays). Everyone's ratings are averaged into the song's tier:
+3 FameLegendary difficulty. Reserved for the most technically demanding songs.
Expert-level pieces that challenge experienced guitarists significantly.
Advanced songs with complex fingering, speed, or expressive demands.
Intermediate songs requiring basic technique and consistent practice.
Great starting point. Simple chord progressions and beginner-friendly riffs.
A song nobody has rated yet shows a ? instead of a tier.
Skill Power
Skill Power is the app's one-number answer to "how hard is the stuff this person can actually play?" It's built from your 10 hardest mastered songs, weighted so the hardest counts most, with a small bonus for having mastered a lot of songs overall.
It's capped at the tier of your single hardest song, so a hundred easy songs can never out-rank one genuinely difficult one. That's why the app asks for songs as hard as the next tier rather than just more of them. You need at least 5 mastered songs before it appears at all.
Playlists
- Playlist
- A free-form collection: a set list, a genre, songs for one technique
- Path
- An ordered journey through songs, meant to be worked through in sequence
- Top
- A ranked list, capped at 10 songs
Public playlists show up in Discover, ranked by how popular they are, where someone saving a playlist counts three times as much as a like. Sharing pays: when someone saves your public playlist you get +20 Fame, and a like pays +5 Fame.
Questions people ask
A song I want isn't in the library
Add it from Explore, and anything you add becomes searchable for everyone else too
Why is my song stuck in Currently learning?
Nothing leaves that list on its own. Move it to Mastered when you're happy with it
Should I rate honestly?
Yes. Tiers are averages, so a few joke ratings get washed out, but the tiers are what people use to pick songs at the right level
Does practising a song count as practice?
Yes, it logs like any other session and counts towards your points, streak and skills