We understand it can be frustrating if you are used to a song being a certain way, only for it to change. That's why we try to avoid making changes to songs. We only make them if they're important.
Here are some reasons why we make changes to our existing songs...
Fixing mistakes. We try to be as careful as possible with all our songs, and pass everything through many reviews to catch errors. But sometimes, things slip through: an incorrect fingering, a typo in lyrics, or a wrong note. We hate to make mistakes like these as we know you need to trust us to get it right. If you notice anything wrong, let us know and we’ll fix it asap!
Adjusting the difficulty. The level system is very important at Yousician. We try to make sure everyone can trust the level as a useful guide, when choosing songs to play. So, if we learn that a song is too easy or difficult for the level – either via feedback from you or by anonymous performance data – we sometimes adjust the song, or change the level it’s assigned to.
Adding a new feature. If we add a new notation feature or playing technique to Yousician, we may add it to existing songs to improve them. For example, when we added notation for ‘bends’ on guitar, we edited some existing songs to show bends as intended. Unfortunately, these brand-new bends surprised people who were already playing the songs. Hopefully it means that players in the future have a better experience learning those songs.
Improving our educational impact. At Yousician we’re focused on becoming the best educators we can. This means learning from our experience. If we learn that an existing song or mission isn’t meeting our educational standards, we may change it. For example, we heard feedback from many of you that a guitar mission on movable power chords introduced new chords too quickly. Because of your feedback, we changed the songs and mission structure to offer a more gradual learning curve. Similarly, based on feedback from Yousician players we’ve occasionally edited exercises, when we find ways to write chords more clearly, or to convey timing more effectively.
We realize there is a difficult balance between improving things for the future and being consistent for existing players, so if you have any concerns or feedback please let us know!