Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (Storn42) [6/10]
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10.934/15.295/17.476 - ghost?
20.747/20.884 - there are guitar notes here but they're pretty faint so it's understandable to leave out but slightly jarring to leave out
43.782/46.916/113.566/122.153/repeats in last verse - guitar note?
76.357/77.447/(+nearly all repeats until 83.853) - ghost?
90.941 - leaving out the little drum fill here?
113.566/122.153 - guitar note?
169.445 - Excellent stylistic choice, I approve
182.942 - no vocal here, reduce from jump

Needs a great deal of clean up before acceptance. There are a lot of ghost notes, some missing guitar. It's likely some sections were copy-pasted, and errors were compounded from that. I'm sure some of my notes in one section also apply to each repeated section. I can see the overall structure you're aiming for, and it's perfectly fine. This one is tricky with the guitar(s) not always being clear/consistent so I understand the difficulty.

However, this file is just so long and more detrimentally, repetitive. The best approach, if you want to get this in game, imo will be to cut out either the first or second verse + chorus. This is a case where the file is sound/logical (with assumed fixes) but the song is so reptitive and relatively uninteresting that I think player interest will wane while playing. The cut I suggested will help a bit, but I'll be completely honest and say I don't think a good file can come out of this song.

In an official sense, this one needs too much clean up for acceptance. Unofficially, I'm not sure this song is suitable for rhythm games due to repetition and same-y-ness.

*Ratings are not final until both judges have posted their notes and the file status is updated.*

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Title changed: Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated => Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (FFR Cut)
MP3 Length changed: 4:14 => 3:04
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Note Count changed: 1683 => 1163
Chart Length changed: 4:04 => 2:54
AVG NPS changed: 7.10926 => 6.96685
Hand Bias changed: -13 => -11

trumaestro

10.934/15.295/17.476 - ghost?
- yup, its a bit hard to hear all of the notes switches but you're right. Def a note at 17.476 though. i can hear a clear strum

20.747/20.884 - there are guitar notes here but they're pretty faint so it's understandable to leave out but slightly jarring to leave out
- i cant hear the note at 20.747, but i've added the one at 20.884

43.782/46.916/113.566/122.153/repeats in last verse - guitar note?
- I noticed this after submissions closed so i never got the chance to fix it. Done.

76.357/77.447/(+nearly all repeats until 83.853) - ghost?
- yup. Listened closely and fixed all the errors

90.941 - leaving out the little drum fill here?
- i'm sure it'll mess many people up, but i'll add the 32nd :)

113.566/122.153 - guitar note?
- added

182.942 - no vocal here, reduce from jump
- the full lyric here starting at 3:00.897 is "Quiet comfort they invite" this is the in of invite

Visd

39.147 I know why this and the following 16th are jumped, but because the instrumentation hasn't marked a musical shift yet, this played pretty strangely to me, as it felt like denser layering out of nowhere. If I were you, I'd remove the jumps on here and 39.283, have a hand on 39.556 to begin the new section with a crash, and then you can go about with the jumps-to-vocals layering afterwards as you do.

- while the music instrumentally hasn't changed, the vocals clearly have, and i find that reason enough to keep it how it is. This small section is the transition to the next part which is why i feel its important its charted how it is. I do really like the idea of a hand here though. added

Which, by the way, I think is an inspired choice, and one that not enough people utilize even when vocals are the dominant instrument, as they are here - great work on the following section. I'd like to go one step further even and have hands on places like 43.917 & 48.297 (dropping the jump on the previous 8th in cases of the latter) where the singer is not only shouting but also holding that note for a long time - it helps to give these sections even more flavor and helps the player understand/feel the song even more imo. Pure suggestion, ofc.

- this is an interesting idea indeed. I like it conceptually but does it fit with the chart? Yea i thik it does. However i disagree with trading the jump at 48.143 for a hand at 48.279. i feel it would be better if the hand was just ignored here instead.

Anyway you can see how well this idea works for this particular song starting 57.002, because the file "organically" gets harder to match the more intense feel of the song at this moment, as your layering choice was already set up to take advantage of the changes between these two sections. Really good choice here.

1.14.448 jump? you have it @ 1.15.539 and 1.16.629 etc., when the latter doesn't even have the cymbal crash

- yup. 100% agree

1.31.485 what's with all these jumps? The only accented sound here is at 1.31.894 and this is a new musical section with a new layering scheme to jumps on snares only as evidenced afterwards
- The same as all the other jumps in the section up to this point. Its the the guitar, which plays all 4 notes here just like at 1:29.305.

2.24.642 I admire this as a stylistic choice to not step all this stuff here, until 2.32.956.

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Given the response, clearly you think the chart is too long. I'm biased to charting longer things like this, but i get it. With the need for a cut i've chosen to cut the section from roughly 1:14.039 to 2:23.824 out as i feel that creates the best overall chart. And now we can call the chart "Rumors Of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated (FFR Cut)" for a total of 59 characters, which unless i'm mistaken (or beaten), will be the new longest song name in FFR