Making Progress
Posted on: August 8, 2006, at 06:59:46pm

I'm nowhere near as good as the top players and probably never will be, but it's still nice to see some improvements. I've finally managed to FC Breaking The Common (twice). Maybe it's not the milestone it used to be, but I was happy to get the FC. I even managed one more PC. It was on a very easy song, but it's still an improvement. I've been improving my song ranks on a lot of the easy and mid level songs, too. I think I'm also getting a bit better at reading 16th streams as I practice. I seem to be hitting some of them better now than I used to, at least on the slower/easier songs, but some songs or parts of songs still get me.

I've also noticed that some songs aren't as technically difficult as they are tiring; Breaking The Common is one of them. I knew the pattern was simple, but I'd get tired and slip up. I guess I'm starting to build up some FFR stamina on top of whatever I have from playing piano for ages. Using only 4 keys in a small space kind of limits how much my piano practice helps here. My fingers and/or arm still gets tired, and tensing up during harder parts can't help either. (I seem to relax more, and do better, as I get familiar with the songs.)

So while I may not be great, I'm glad that I'm starting to do better. I'm sure I have a long way to go, I haven't even tried some of the hardest songs, but one step at a time. :)