Monthly Archives: October 2026

Fretwork: Rating the marfGH Tiers with MATH

Posted on October 13, 2026 by mariteaux

I’m known for doing multiple thousand word spews on albums on Letters as of late, so I’m here with something a little more digestible and like how I used to use the blog: weird fixations! I recently learned of a community tool that can actually score Guitar Hero and Rock Band songs based on difficulty, giving at least a repeatable, robotic second opinion to the very fallible world of difficulty scoring and tiering. I happen to be in the final stages of putting together a new marfGH, and got in touch with the dev to get raw Guitar Hero II game files supported within this tool. What’s the data, and how’s my tiering? Let’s dig in!

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First Draft: Nirvana’s Nevermind

Posted on October 1, 2026 by mariteaux

Rarely do albums come out right on the first shot. Labels reject them, bands disown them, and they get added onto after release. Here on First Draft, we take a look at albums that got cut down or remade and see what difference the changes made.

Today’s First Draft concerns the studio sessions, rehearsals, and alternate mixes that went into one of the best-selling albums of all time, Nirvana’s 1991 smash hit Nevermind.

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