09-8-2014, 12:53 AM | #801 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
HAHA MY LOVE IS A BULLDOZER ARE YOU KIDDING ME
that album was awful and vsnares has a huge discography, you couldn't pick anything actually interesting? |
09-8-2014, 12:56 AM | #802 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
well Group H is imo the best song, very similar to group E song
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09-8-2014, 01:07 AM | #803 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
fuck 2 hard 2 choose i can't go on rippu :<<<<<
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09-8-2014, 01:14 AM | #804 |
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so
cool beans? yeah |
09-8-2014, 01:31 AM | #805 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
Palms read is the best choice at first glance. Kinda stupid that they'll all be judged together though. Song preference is going to play a huge part in it when it shouldn't play as big a role
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09-8-2014, 01:39 AM | #806 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
There is an element of risk in picking songs that are harder to score on than others. I was an advocate for selecting the best 3 charts from each group to represent the Top 9, but then people will get shafted if they happen to be in an especially large group.
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09-8-2014, 01:41 AM | #807 |
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PMs sent out, with a feature-length cd-quality version of Palms Read (all posts updated too), with the guitar intro to Limb From Limb at the end. Shoutouts to T-Force!
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09-8-2014, 02:52 AM | #808 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
W/e. song choice for a last round is underwhelming to say the least.
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09-8-2014, 03:55 AM | #809 |
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I was not expecting to get to the finals. That feels kinda good even if my scores are mediocre.
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09-8-2014, 04:18 AM | #810 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
can we say what song we are stepping or is that a no
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
I think I spent at least five to six hours the first night the songs were released coming up with a layering scheme and patterning it to be playable. Over the week, every day I spent several more hours either playtesting and tweaking this one file or working on my batch judgements. Ironing out awkward patterns, testing some different layering, trying different minijack locations to make sure they were all relevant, revising the PR, making sure the vocal rhythms play properly (referencing the lyrics and seeing where extra notes to repeated vowels do and don't work, shifting notes when the rhythm isn't straight and keeping them looking nice) and testing over and over, over many days until everything was where I wanted to be, feeling fluid in playtesting. And I made some color gimmicks to the pitch/instrumentation of those two sections to help make the file unique and made all the minijacks 150 BPM to prevent them from converting as two-framers (with the correct BPMs to keep everything in place, of course, but the conversion messed it up by making the beat drift somehow.)
Anyway ... it hurts to see someone laugh at the effort they put into their file when it gets the most positive reception, better than something I tired over the whole week. I knew I had to work hard because of all the competition and was worried I wouldn't make it. And when, in two rounds, the first and only comment I receive is "weird intro, quit out early," I was very disheartened. (Yeah, mine was E2.) But I passed, and my file was actually acceptable this time, so that helps bring some confidence back. Nothing to do now except keep working at it ... It shouldn't have taken until the last round for everyone to give it their all, and I hope that's not too much to ask for this time. Quote:
To make song choice a gradeable factor in this competition, it would have made more sense to pick tracks in the same genre with different levels of maturity and stepability. One really could judge based on song choice that way. But now you have to be even more careful that a judge's musical tastes don't get in the way of fair judgements. Quote:
It might be nice to have one more round with the top ten and only one track. Actually, what might be more worthwhile is, for this round, make everyone step all three tracks and average their scores. Test everyone's ability to step different genres and in doing so eliminate the song choice factor. That'd be something. (And the deadline should be extended to give some more time for each file. I wouldn't want to be rushed to send in something that's not my best. I try to be my best.) |
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09-8-2014, 10:00 AM | #812 |
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Re: 2nd Official FFR StepCon!
I know one comment in that post was directed at me so I want to clarify, I don't mean to insult anyone by being surprised at my rating.
If anything, I echo your sentiment because I dont think I had the best file. I expected to be second or third in this group at best. A sense of perspective is important. Judging can be fickle and subjective; be proud of your own work. I always feel this way and I will say it whether I win or place dead last.
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09-8-2014, 10:04 AM | #813 |
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Also to be clear I did put several hours into my file as well. I definitely didn't put the same effort into some parts I did into others (lol) but don't mistake me joking about the JS sections I admittedly rushed on as me being completely dismissive of the competition and the effort it takes.
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09-8-2014, 10:42 AM | #814 |
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Lastly I just want to agree that I would love to step all three of these songs.
For example, would I be allowed to make a 6 minute "course" for FFR of these three songs? Like a 2 minute part of song F, 2 minutes of song G, 2 minutes of song H all in one audio file, then submit that 6 minute file as my one submission? It's technically not against the rules as far as I can tell (just a really creative interpretation of "being able to cut the songs as you see fit"), but I want to ask before I go and put that much effort into something that won't be accepted. I know which I will step if we can only choose one, of course. Sorry for triple post, edit feature doesn't work right on my phone. EDIT- wtf now it does
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09-8-2014, 11:00 AM | #815 |
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There's too many varying factors that come into play for something like this. It's all heavily based on opinion. I thought I did much better on E than C, but it's discouraging to find out it's just one point above my previous piece of garbage. I mean, I guess I should spend more time on it, but I wouldn't know what to do differently. As horrible or as good as I may think it will be is completely irrelevant.
I'll stick to Stepmania stepping. Not even sure if I want to pick any of those at the moment. |
09-8-2014, 11:06 AM | #816 |
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nice tourney
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09-8-2014, 11:08 AM | #817 |
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09-8-2014, 11:14 AM | #818 | ||
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e: nevermind, listened to track H, don't wanna +1 anything that would make me have to step that bullshit
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09-8-2014, 11:26 AM | #819 |
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yo also if you guys were gonna pick a vsnares song off my love is a bulldozer why the hell wasn't it Amazon
at least that track would've offered some kinda challenge in terms of stepping, not to mention, it's actually uhhhhhhhhhhh interesting lmao
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