Step creation

There is no rule or guide line on how to step a song (AKA make the steps of a song).

How to step a song

 * At the main menu, select the option (according to the Stepmania 3.9 default theme) "Edit/Sync Songs."
 * First, you have to select the folder or "pack" that the song you want to edit is in. Once you found that pack, keep it highlighted and go down one.
 * Scroll through the songs in the pack you have chosen. Once you found the song you want to edit, keep it highlighted and go down one.
 * Select which Type of steps you want to edit, such as Singles, Doubles, or Solo. If you don't know what any of those are, just keep it on dance-single and go down one.
 * Now, select the difficulty that you want to edit. You can choose Beginner, Easy (aka "Light" or "Basic"), Medium (aka "Standard" or "Trick"), Hard (aka "Heavy" or "Maniac"), Challenge (aka "Oni"), or Edit.
 * Since you have Stepmania downloaded and you're trying to either create your own stepfile or edit a pre-existing one, I'm sure you know the summaries and differences between each difficulty and shouldn't need an explanation of what each of them would normally contain.
 * Highlight "Edit Existing" and press Enter.
 * If there are pre-existing steps on a simfile on one of the difficulties but you want to create steps on a different difficulty or a different Stepstype altogether and there is no existing stepfile information for this difficulty + Stepstype combination, some more options are left for you.
 * "Create from Source by Copy" - It'll copy the steps from the Source Difficulty + Source Stepstype combination and place them in your edit. For example, if a simfile has steps on Light difficulty on dance-singles but you want to create steps for Heavy on dance-singles, using this option will copy all the steps from Light on dance-singles and put them in your Heavy edit and you can step from there.
 * "Create from Source by Autogen" - I'm not sure what this does. Somebody else needs to edit this and put in a little description and stuff.
 * "Create with Blank" - Gives you a nice blank slate to create a stepfile off of.
 * The grid in the center is the layout of the simfile, called a Step Chart. All the arrows, BPM changes, all the action a simfile has is right here. To the left of the Step Chart is the Help section (F1 shows a list of keyboard shortcuts. Comes in handy.) and to the right is the information on the stepfile.
 * Up and Down arrow keys take you up and down on the Step Chart. closer to the top of chart, closer to the beginning of the song; farther from the top, farther from the beginning of the song. Simple.
 * 1, 2, 3, and 4 make the Left arrow, Down arrow, Up arrow, and Right arrow.
 * Left and Right arrow keys scroll through the Arrow Timings (such as 4th or Quarter Notes, 8th or Half Notes, 12th Notes, 16th, 24th, 32nd, 48th, and 64th Notes).
 * F7 shifts the BPM down while F8 shifts it up.
 * Negative BPM is tricky . Try to avoid it unless you know what you're doing.
 * F9 shifts a BPM freeze down (if there's one there to begin with) while F10 shifts a BPM freeze up.
 * F11 and F12 both shift the Step Chart along the song. Even if the BPM is correct, the step chart could start too soon or too late in accordance with a song; that's what this fixes.
 * The very first things you want to do are to establish a BPM for the song and to sync the stepchart with the song.
 * After doing so, place the arrows on the stepchart using 1, 2, 3, and 4 and all the other keys mentioned before.
 * SAVE CONSISTANTLY!! Test your song often make sure all your steps are on beat.
 * Press escape and save your finished product. Congrats! Have fun with it.