Making Charts in Different Difficulties
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HARD levels generally focus on the main melody, not the underlying beat behind the vocals. Any underlying pattern may be replaced with hold note and visible hold mids. HARD charts, unlike EXPERT or MASTER, do not have tap notes accompanying the beginning or end of hold notes. When a hold note happens, no other notes will happen simultaneously, unless it is another hold note and they last the same amount of time. This also means generally, hold notes won't come one after the other.
The end of hold notes lines up with the end of a lyric statement or beat. Directional flicks are not usually common. "Spam" parts have breaks in-between, and they're usually not too fast. If there is a fast part, it will be replaced by a hold note with hold mids/steps, or it will be relatively short.
When it comes to the difference between EXPERT and MASTER charts, the difference is not only generally higher difficulty, but patterns that are harder to read too because there are no limitations other than the difficulty of your chart. MASTER (and APPEND) charts are the only charts with cross-hand patterns, implying that your fingers cross over each other, but you can cheese those patterns. Regardless, they are still fun to play and interesting to watch.
APPEND is the 6th difficulty which features charts meant to be played with more than three fingers (*). The notes usually comes in a 4-lane formation, hold notes usually end with a trace note, and occasional cross-hand patterns. (*) You can sorta use two fingers and achieve FC/AP if you're crazy enough to do so.
Place at least 2 different note types on a 3+ notes chord, this way the player knows what fingers to use with no guesswork involved when sightreading. Here, in the example below, it is obvious that you need to use 1 finger on the left hand to hit the short hold notes, and 2 finger on the right to hit the other.
While cross-hand patterns can be done without crossing hands, it can be very satisfying to hit if it's made in a way that flows well. Experienced charters usually take finger's inertia into consideration when placing notes in the example below, so that each taps change hand positions in an natural way, creating that flow sensation.
