[Phynx]

Originally Posted by dore

it's a lot easier to learn a music game if the columns have some sort of separation from each other. if you were to go about that by having GH/PIU/whatever style bars with a different color for each column, that would work too. but I think arrows are good to have, because until people get the muscle memory to play 6 key as opposed to 4 key it's nice to have some sort of easy distinguishing factor so that it's harder to get disoriented.

Agreed! I support that fact to based on how biased my ability to play arrows over other skins is. I don't want to downplay notebar but I DO use it on occasion in SM, rarely but still do, so I'm not completely out of its loop but my ability to play with notebar fell sharply as opposed to the arrows.