Song Details

Special
Garbage
Album
Version 2.0
BPM
132-0-132-0-132
File Completed
November 2001
File Release Date
November 2001
Current Version
1.5
Step Count
176 276 376
Max Combo
186 294 404
Average Density (steps/measure)
3.03 4.76 6.48
Jumps
10 18 28
Total Freeze Duration (beats)
42.5 6 6
General Comments

This was the first song I made that included "pauses" in the BPM. However, this was before I started making DWIs, so those pauses were simulated by slowing the BPM to about 5 and setting these BPM changes within a few 1/192nds of each other.
This song is also a rock song, which rarely have constant BPMs. Garbage's drummer has a decent sense of rythym, so the tempo fluctuates only about 1 BPM.
The combination of false pauses and an inconsistent BPM caused the file to be horrendously off-timing when it was converted from BMS to DWI. To correct this, BMP modifications were measured during intervals in the song, and the pause durations were measured using a sound editing program.

Basic/Light
Many of the steps, including the off beats in the middle, coincide with the guitar riffs.
Trick/Standard
The steps were made to follow even more closely with the guitars, and there are sections where the steps are patterned so that the player "walks" across the gamepad much like how one's fingers would "walk" across a fingerboard while playing this song.
Maniac/Heavy
The timing is more reliant on the drums in this mode, and there is quite a bit of twisting in the pattern of the steps.