Data & Picard :: FFR Batch Submission
qrrbrbirbel - Data & Picard - Pogo [6 / 10]
Sept/Oct 2020
PublicEvents
Rejected
https://ffr.fandom.com/wiki/Pogo
Chill and fun song, probably around high 20s

Simfile Folder Name

Data & Picard (qrrbrbirbel)

Note Count

945

Chart Length

3:08

Average NPS

5.1266

Estimated Difficulty

32.69

First Note

0:04

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x 59

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 0 3 - 0 4 - 0

Jumps

x 307

Hands

x 7

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 0

Color Hands

x 0

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
6 - 18.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
6 - 12.00 nps 1 Second
11 - 11.00 nps 2 Seconds
19 - 9.50 nps 5 Seconds
41 - 8.20 nps 10 Seconds
75 - 7.50 nps 30 Seconds
206 - 6.87 nps 1 Minute
378 - 6.30 nps

Color Count

x 510 (53.97%)
x 356 (37.67%)
x 5 (0.53%)
x 52 (5.5%)
x 5 (0.53%)
x 6 (0.63%)
x 5 (0.53%)
x 3 (0.32%)
x 3 (0.32%)

Largest Note Gaps

3.5s2.5s2s1.5s1.5s1.43s1.33s1.33s
35
28
21
14
7

31.615 highly approve of the doubling down into jumps here, good conceit to carry through...
42.865 ...and you can see how beautifully it works into here.
55.365-85s Starting here - this section is my major quibble with this file. In the section right before this, you assigned jumps to every 4th, even when there were only kicks. That's fine, as a matter of chart and song progression. But here, you suddenly drop /all/ jumps on the 4ths (and only resume them at 71.365 when the vocal doubling theme returns), but the music is playing something quite different.
The kicks haven't gone away, and in fact, every other 4th there is now a clap along with the kick which dominates all other sounds, even the vocals.
Instead, you layer every 8th as a jump, all the way until the end of this section at 85.365, which I don't understand.
This sort of layering implies a syncopation on the 8ths which isn't there in the music - the only thing that is on the 8ths is the soft hi-hat, which was also present in the preceding section anyway.
Jumps at places like 55.615 and 56.115 where there are vocals too make sense as jumps, but 56.615 doesn't really parse well as a jump, and conversely the lack of any jumps on the 4ths, especially ones with kicks+claps+vocals or kicks+claps (e.g. 58.865, 59.865), play very oddly as a result.
71.365 vocal doubling conceit works well too here.
87.365 I see what you're doing with the numbers -> columns in this section, but it doesn't quite work for me. The main problems are:
1) "Se-ven" is distinctly two syllables and you're really losing out on a lot of interest from the 16ths by opting to stick to layer in this theme in this way instead of properly stepping the vocals. It's especially obvious next to vocals like 'tan-go' and 'char-lie' which you correctly step as two syllables -> two arrows.
2) Not too big of a deal, but there is a massive right-hand bias on this (and it's the hardest part of the file). I don't mind it too much, but lower-leveled players will absolutely question this.
In general I am a very big fan of incorporating clever little themes or tricks like the idea featured here, but unfortunately in this situation it doesn't really work for me mainly thanks to the misrepresentation of "se-ven" as a key repeating syllable in this phrase - which is a "solo" phrase for the vocals, since you ignore all other percussion and such.
117.615-118.490 not too sure what all these 8ths/16ths are going to
119.240 ghost
126.740 good use of repetition here
135.365-149.365 same as 55.365-85
151.365 if ever there was a fantastic excuse for very long anchors this section is it, given your fondness for them
I'm surprised you opted out of them, you could definitely do like 8-note long anchors here to go with the music perfectly

Not really a lot that was objectively an error in this file, and it was technically solid, but unusually I felt this file was somewhat lacking in interest or spice – usually your files are distinctively yours in that they always contain interesting or memorable portions/ideas, even if sometimes it’s more like the entire pepper shaker for spice instead of just “some” pepper : - ). That’s what I usually like about your files. In this case, however, it’s almost the reverse…? And the reverse of the last file of yours that I judged: that file had more technical errors, but the risks it took to be more interesting really paid off. Here, the attempts for interest that I can gather I strongly disagree with or just didn’t play well to me (the 8th syncopation, the numbers -> columns idea), and beyond those the rest of the file was just kind of flat, as it is limited to 8th jump-note-jump-note patterning with the occasional series of jumps for vocal gluts, and some 16ths here and there. Overall, this is a pretty hard song to make an engaging chart out of.