[1] The basic premise of Instant Jam was very similar to other music games, such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band.
The game was able to scan personal song collections on the player's hard drives, and match them up with entries stored in the database.
[3] Instant Jam's playlist gave the option to buy each missing song from Amazon or the iTunes stores.
[5][2] InstantAction created the note system for every particular arrangement, in order to provide as accurate experience of playing the guitar as possible.
[6] As an initial reference point, the team decided to use every song that appeared in Billboard Top 100 from the past twenty years.