I’ve run into something that I can’t decide on so I came here looking for advice. I am working on a song that has four primary instruments: Guitar, Bass, Violin and Piano.

The guitar is composed of four 8th notes at Two, Three, Five and Six in every measure while the bass has 8th notes that often alternate between One, Four and One, Four, Five, Six.

Seeing as how the music is played that way, I thought it would make sense to combine the two instruments into a single track in order to open up another track for the violin itself. My reasoning doesn’t stop there, this song can easily be played by hitting the bass notes in between chords on a real guitar.

Then next reason would be to have piano and violin track separated. There’s enough violin in this song to warrant its own track in the same way the bass track for Green Day’s Good Riddance was done. Putting the violin onto the bass track would help me chart the piano to pro. With enough time, I’d be able to write down what I hear onto sheet music and then put that into the game. I’m unable to do that with the violin very well.

I know the rules are sorta lax but I want to know what the community think about this kind of charting. Would you guys rather have some songs charted this way or with each their instruments separated? The song I’m working on is linked below.