Popular Guitar Hero Abbreviations
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- 1, 2, 3, 4: This refers to the 4 fingers that are used to play Guitar Hero. 1 is the index finger, 2 is the middle finger, 3 is the ring finger, and 4 is the pinky finger.
- 1st position: This refers to the finger positions that are commonly used. 1st position puts the 4 fingers on the first 4 fret buttons (GRYB).
- 2nd position: This refers to the finger positions that are commonly used. 2nd position puts the first 4 fingers on the last 4 fret buttons (RYBO).
- 3rd position: This refers to a less-used finger position that puts the first 3 fingers on the last 3 fret buttons (YBO). Commonly used for trills on YB or BO.
- 4th position: This refers to a less-used finger position that puts the first 2 fingers on the last 2 fret buttons (BO). Commonly used for trills on BO.
- -x (where x is a number in the comment section of someone's scores): Indicates that they missed that many notes in that particular song.
- x-x-x (where x are numbers, such as 1-2-3 or any variation thereof): Indicates the Star Power path for the song mentioned in context. For example, if the Star Power path for Free Bird is 1-2-3, that would mean that you should gain 1 SP phrase, activate, gain 2 SP phrases, activate, and gain 3 SP phrases, activate.
- -C: Song_GH3_MinusCelsius Minus Celsius∞
- 3&7: Song_GH3_3sAnd7s 3's and 7's∞
- 17: Song_GH80s_Seventeen Seventeen∞
- 18&L: Song_GH80s_18AndLife 18 And Life∞
- 1FTR: Song_GH2_OneForTheRoad One For The Road∞
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- G: Green fret button
- GenR: Song_GH3_GenerationRock Generation Rock∞
- GH: Guitar Hero
- GHI/GH1: Game_GuitarHero Guitar Hero 1∞ (for the PS2)
- GHII/GH2: Guitar Hero 2⇒ (for the PS2)
- GH2-360: Guitar Hero 2⇒ (for the Xbox 360)
- GH80's/GH:E/GH:RT80's: Guitar Hero: Rocks The 80's⇒ (for the PS2)
- GH3: Guitar Hero 3⇒ (for the PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC/Mac)
- GH4: Guitar Hero 4 does not exist as of this post. If people are using the term GH4 in context, they are most likely referring to Guitar Hero: World Tour (GHWT⇒)
- GH:A: Game_GuitarHeroAerosmith Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (for the PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii)
- GH:OT: Game_GuitarHeroOnTour Guitar Hero: On Tour (for the Nintendo DS)
- GHWT: Guitar Hero: World Tour (for the PS2, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii)
- GHG: Guitar Hero Game, or the official GH site. Also referred to as the GHG forums.
- GR2R: Song_GH1_GetReady2Rokk Get Ready 2 Rokk∞
- GS: Gold Star(s)
- GSSOD: Green Star Streak of Death. This is the long section of green SP notes found in measures 130-133 of Raining Blood on Expert, which can be seen here∞.
- GTF: Song_GH3_GoThatFar Go That Far∞
- Guitar God: This title is obtained when you 5-star all career songs on Expert, though many people generalize it to mean that you've 5-starred all songs on Expert (including bonus songs).
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- S2/SII: Song_GH80s_SynchronicityII Synchronicity II∞
- S&D/SaD: Song_GH2_SearchAndDestroy Search and Destroy∞
- SatD: Song_GH2_ShoutAtTheDevil Shout at the Devil∞
- SBTD: Song_GH3_SheBangsTheDrums She Bangs the Drums∞
- SCOM: Song_GH2_SweetChildOMine Sweet Child O' Mine∞
- SCM: Song_GH1_SpanishCastleMagic Spanish Castle Magic∞
- SDM: Song_GH1_SharpDressedMan Sharp Dressed Man∞
- SFAIII: Section of Song_GH3_ThroughTheFireAndFlames Through the Fire and Flames∞, containing the infamous "Red Snake".
- SG: The PS2 guitar controller that came in a bundle for GH1 and GH2. The controller is modeled after the Gibson SG, hence why it is called the "SG".
- SH: ScoreHero
- Sightread: This refers to the first time you ever play a song, such as when you first obtain a new GH game. Since it is the first time you have ever played the song, you are mostly "playing by sight", or "reading the notechart" based on sight, not practice and muscle memory.
- SMBH: Song_GH3_SuperMassiveBlackHole Super Massive Black Hole∞
- SMK: Song_GH3_SuckMyKiss Suck My Kiss∞
- SO: Song_GH3_SchoolsOut School's Out∞
- SOD: Song_GH1_SymphonyOfDestruction Symphony Of Destruction∞
- SOML: Song_GH1_StoryOfMyLove Story of My Love∞/Song_GH3_StoryOfMyLife Story of My Life∞. Yes, I know there are two songs for one acronym. There really isn't much you can do about it, you'll just need to discern which song they're talking about through the context in which it's given. If they're talking about GH1, they're talking about Song_GH1_StoryOfMyLove Story of My Love∞. If they're talking about GH3, they're talking about Song_GH3_StoryOfMyLife Story of My Life∞.
- SOSAD: Song_GH3_SameOldSongAndDance Same Old Song and Dance∞
- SOTW: Song_GH1_SmokeOnTheWater Smoke On The Water∞
- SOYL: Song_GH3_SunshineOfYourLove Sunshine of Your Love∞
- SP: Star Power
- Spread: The spread, a column seen on the ScoreHero leaderboards, is the amount of points between that person and the person above them. For example, if the spread between you and the top player on Song_GH2_Jordan Jordan∞ is 100,000, that means that their score is 100,000 points above yours.
- Squeeze/squeezing: Squeezing is a way to utilize a note's timing window in order to "squeeze" more notes into an SP phrase. To squeeze, you must activate SP as late as possible during a note's timing window (the note that you activate SP on), though still hitting that note under SP, so that you can squeeze the last note of that activation by hitting the note (the last one in the activation) as early as that note's timing window allows. If successful, you will have achieved more points by hitting more notes under SP. A more in-depth explanation can be found here∞.
- SR: Song_GH3_SlowRide Slow Ride∞
- Sx (where x is a number): Also known as a "skip", this SP phrase will be skipped as a result of one activation running over a SP phrase, such that it is "skipped" between other activations. For example, in Song_GH3_MyNameIsJonas My Name is Jonas∞ 2-2-S1-2-2-S1 SP path (which can be viewed here∞), the fifth SP phrase is skipped, as well as the final phrase in the song. This is sometimes referred to as an activation "overwriting" a SP phrase.
- SYSB: Song_GH1_SailYourShipBy Sail Your Ship By∞
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- UB: Upper Bound. The easiest possible explanation is to say that Upper Bound is the absolute highest score you can get for a song, according to debr's calculations. On debr5836's site, there are a large number of SP paths for people to use. For each song, there are multiple paths (Big Squeeze, Bigger Squeeze, etc.) that progressively indicate more difficult SP paths that you can execute. The most difficult paths to execute (Upper Bound) are calculated to be the highest scores that you can possibly get for that song, given optimal squeezing and an FC. Sometimes, players exceed that amount due to insane squeezing or (more likely) minor flaws within the calculations, which you will often see when people put comments such as "Upper Bound +4" or something of that nature.
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- X: Refers to the "Expert" difficulty level in all Guitar Hero games.
- X-plorer: The guitar that came with the GH2 for the 360 and GH3 for the PC. The controller is modeled after the Gibson Explorer, hence why it is called the "X-plorer".
- XR: Song_GH1_Crossroads Crossroads∞ (Would have been abbreviated to CR, but that acronym was already taken by Caveman Rejoice).
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