SMASH: A New Stepmania Column

[Ohaider]

[Choofers]

this second article is so awesome haha, will respond after I go grocery shopping

do you really have files lost in oregon? I went to oregon for the summer of '08, and since the computer at the house only used dial-up, I made so many files using my cousin's music collection. I also restepped quite a few sharpnel songs (I can remember stepping pants and flower forever). I never saved them though, and I don't think she still has that computer, so they might be lost forever.

[dAnceguy117]

I forgot my password and had to register a new account.

rip plantsguy 2013-2013

[Choofers]

rip in pce )o: )o:

[stargroup100]

O.o

someone with a better computer should reupload a video of that chart with a notebar skin

[moches]

:'(

[stargroup100]

i just read this

fuckin cool stuff

[moches]

by the way new column coming either tomorrow or the day after !!!

hint: Dream Theater. G5 Project. Serenade. Liquid Tension Experiment.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by stargroup100

i just read this

fuckin cool stuff

thx mango :')

[Mollocephalus]

Moses, you have a talent with writing (among all the others things) this column is great, great job on all of it.

[moches]

Edition three is up!

Edition 3: Stepmania Music - progressive rock

Enjoy the shoutout, GLoVE :P

...“Universal Mind” structures its tangents into crystal-clear sections; it opens with a steady but sky-high guitar variation that opens the track at a high before seguing into chunkier riffs, slowing down to offer more focus on the piano, and later returning to the soaring guitar melodies that opened the track originally. It’s this combination of well-defined structure and delightful surprise that makes progressive rock so much fun to listen to and so challenging to capture through the art of chart.

1. Have you ever had a time when you were unexpectedly introduced to something you loved? Did you discover a passion for belly-dancing during detention? Did you find your favorite singer-songwriter when you were waiting for a vaccination?
2. Have you held on to any of your watershed objects? I still keep my iPod nano (and use it); maybe you have an old Gameboy Color lying around somewhere.
3. I was introduced to a completely new genre through a relatively accessible medium. Some people would argue that I wasn’t really experiencing the music and that the stepcharters who tampered with the original songs are guilty of dumbing the material down. Would you agree with that? Is there potential value to trying to make relatively obscure categories of art more appealing to everybody?

Editions four and five also focus on Stepmania music, and they should be relative quick-writes, so expect both to go up in weekly installments

[EzExZeRo7497]

nyessss

Also answered all of the questions. The answers are... pretty long lmao. Formatting fucked up somehow though >_>

A little off topic, how do you change your password? I can't seem to find a way to change password, lmfao.

[moches]

thanks to Gameoson and Eze for answering ) I'll make sure to respond to both comments later, they both looked reallllly good.

also I'd help you out with the password issue if it were working for me. sadly it's not working for me either, so sorry about that. did you forget how to log in?

[EzExZeRo7497]

No, I managed to log in. Just that I wanted to change my password because the password they gave me through the email is impossible to memorise, lmao.

[TheSaxRunner05]

cool stuff, I read the first three installments

[dAnceguy117]

I used a phoenix down on plantsguy


edit: and thanks for the introduction to Serenade, moches. incredible stuff.

[Wineandbread]

where g5 proj ):

nice 3rd writeup doe

[Arch0wl]

To a sheltered twelve-year-old with no experience with any music but the songs played at the mall, playing through GLoVE’s Universal Mind file...

there is no better indication of how much I have aged as a person than reading something by an 18 year-old who was twelve when this file came out; I remember when GLoVE's Universal Mind was new, and I had been in the scene for four or five years by that point

jesus christ

[moches]

Originally Posted by Arch0wl

there is no better indication of how much I have aged as a person than reading something by an 18 year-old who was twelve when this file came out; I remember when GLoVE's Universal Mind was new, and I had been in the scene for four or five years by that point

jesus christ

It actually wasn't new even when I was twelve! I think that was when ODIpack2 came out; by then, Universal Mind was old-hat, though I didn't know it at the time.

Anyhoo,

Edition four is up!

If Virt is the prog rock prodigy of the 8-bit community, she music (who again offers most of his music for free–chiptune artists seem to have less qualms about free offerings than most other artists for whatever reason) has full control of the dance floor. His music is simple in theory but complex in practice: he offers up stunning dance/electronica/rock hybrids with simple but irresistible rhythms and some of the lushest textures you’ll hear in the chiptune scene.

1. How would you compare and contrast the progressive rock and chiptune genres? Would the comparison differ in the context of Stepmania?
2. The chiptune community has managed to emerge with one of the most diverse scenes in music today–even though the only instrument used was a computer. Does limiting oneself help foster creativity? Might Stepmania’s inherent limitations have inspired evolution in the art of stepcharting?
3. If you agree/disagree with the above question, can you think of some examples outside Stepmania?

Another shoutout to a community member here; you'll have to read on to find out who.

Also I will reply to all of the comments on edition three soon, sorry about the delay! : ' (

[dAnceguy117]

yo moches I posted the same comment twice after messing up the formatting the first time. can you delete pls?

new edition is A+++++

[moches]

just deleted! thank you for reading <3 you're the best.

next edition is going to be about rhythm game/pop music and then we're taking a brief hiatus before diving into the philosophy unit!