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•     What is frets on Fire?
•     How to play?
•     How to add songs?
•     How to create a song?
•     Links
  

What is Frets on Fire?

     Frets on Fire is a guitar simulator. The idea is simple, you will play the guitar. You can use as
     a guitar your keyboard or then different guitars what you connect to your pc, like Guitar Hero -
     guitar, connected with a PS2/USB-adapter.

     The default settings is, that you use the keys from F1 to F5 to play the guitar and then the enter
     key to make the program to use the sound what you press by F1-F5.

     Different high scores to many songs can be found on the frets on fire homepage, but you cant usually
     find the songs from there what you or you friend have done. Making songs to Frets on fire is easy, but
     if you want to make a good song with the frets on places it can take time and possible you can need
     another program to create it.


     Frets on Fire doesn't need much time, so you can play it just if you have only 5 minutes before you
     have to go, but you can also spend menu hours with it and try to do new high scores or just having fun.
     In the start is the most difficult time, because some of the songs can be hard to people who plays for the
     first time. But with practise you can notice that you can play songs that you thought in the start that you
     could newer play. When you can play this game you can make your friends to wonder, how is that possible,
     when they try to play a song where you get five stars. But without practise you can’t be good. It won’t take
     much time that you can already play harder songs. Only few hours practising and you can play songs and
     when you play the songs you will start to enjoy the game so much as I do now.

                            Playing Frets on Fire                                       You can make the game look like this

                                                                                                     from the settings and mod settings

      How to play?

     The frets on fire is a simple game. The game includes a tutorial, what will explain you, how to play but the idea
     is very simple. When you start to play, take the guitar, like in the picture here. Then put your fingers to the
     buttons. As default these buttons are F1-F5. When the game starts you will see little "bolls" on the screen.
     The idea is to hold the key what belongs to the frets and press enter when the "boll" is at the button, what you
     see in the bottom of your screen. If the "boll" is alone you just press the F key and when it’s in right place you
     press the enter key and then release both keys. But if there comes a colourful line after the "boll" you need to
     keep holding the key down after you hit the "boll" and pressed enter. You can release enter but not the
     key, what belongs to that frets. If you miss the frets, you will lose your multiplier and you don’t get the point. When
     you hit a "boll" and everything goes right, you will get points, but also a multiplier point. When you hit10
     frets in a row, you will get multiplier 2. Now you get 2x points from every frets. If you mess up and miss a frets,
     the multiplier will go back to 1. There is multiplier up to 4x, when you get 4x points per one frets, what you normally
     with multiplier 1x would get.

                  It might be that you can see points                          ...when you play much, they looks like this
                               like this in the start, but...

     

      How to add songs?

     Adding songs to Frets on Fire is easy. The hardest part in adding the song, is finding the song from internet.
     The game includes only few songs when you download it so if you want to start to play this game for real
     you will need to download new songs to it.

     Adding the songs, as I told you, starts by finding the song. You can try to find songs by google or then you can
     see the links above this article, if you could find your songs from there. All songs can’t be found from the internet
     because there are so many songs and making a song takes time, so you can find only the most popular songs or
     songs, what people like that are good. If you can’t find the song what you would want to play, you will need to
     create it by you self. After you have found the song go to the Frets on Fire folder. From there go to the data folder
     and there go to the songs folder. Copy or move the song folder what you downloaded to this folder and then just
     run the game. If the song that you downloaded, have been made right, you can find it from the song list in the game.

     And for those who doesn’t want to read so much I put the guide here as a smaller format:

• 1. Download the song
• 2. Unzip the song if needed
• 3. Go to frets on fire/data/songs folder
• 4. Copy or move the song to this "songs" folder
• 5. Run frets on fire, the song should be there if you followed the steps and the song is made correct.

                        The song lsit looks like this.
     

      How to create a song?

     To create a song you can use the song creating program (song editor), what comes with the game. The program
     can be found when you start the game. To create a own song you need to have a song ready. That frets on fire would
     recognise song, it will need to be in .OGG format. To change the song what you have to .OGG format you can use
     audacity. When you have converted the song to .ogg you go to the song creating program in frets on fire. The program
     asks you, do you want to import a new song or edit the songs that already exist. If you want to create a now song, you
     press "import a new song" after this the program will ask you to make a name to your song (this can be changed later).
     Write the name and press enter. Now the program asks you the song. You can select the data folder or parent folder.
     if you have putted the song that you converted to the .ogg format with audacity to the frets on fire/data folder, select data
     folder, find the .ogg song what you created and press enter. Otherwise select the parent folder and find the song. After this
     the program will ask you the background track. Select here the same .ogg song as before. Then press enter

     Now you will start to make the frets to the song.  When you press the space key the song will start to play. When you
     think that this would be a good place to a frets just do as in the game. Press the frets that belongs to the line and then
     press enter. When you release the keys you got a frets. If the song is hard it can be hard to create a song with all
     frets in place. If you want, you can move with the arrow keys and then press delete if you want to delete a frets. After
     all frets are in place press esc and save the song. Now you can configure the thing to the song. Most important is to
     the beast per minutes. This effects on the speed how fast the frets comes. You can also do the other setting. In the end
     just press save song button and then exit the editor. Now you got a song.

                This is what the song editor looks like                                         You can't hit every frets:P

     And in simple format the guide how to make the song:

• 1. Download audacity
• 2. Install audacity and open it
• 3. In audacity press open and then open the song what you want to make
• 4. When the song is opened, press "take the file to .ogg format and same it to frets on fire/data folder
• 5. Open frets on fire
• 6. In the first menu on frets on fire go to song editor
• 7. Add a name to your song ( can be changed later)
• 8. Add the song by choosing the data folder (if you saved the .ogg file to the frets on fire/data folder) and the
•    press enter
• 9. Do  this again so you get the background song (same song)
• 10. Now press space and the song will start to play.
• 11. Now just do as you would be playing. By pressing the keys and enter you get frets
• 12. After this press esc and save the song.
• 12. Now set the beast per minute by pressing set beast per minute or but estimated beast per 
•       minutes.
• 13. Now you can set the other settings to the song if you want
• 14. When you are ready, save the song and quit the editor.
• 15. And now just play the song you just made

     Frets On fire offical website. (includes highs-score etc.)

        © Leevi and Pauli