Change Yourself [Heavy] :: FFR Batch Submission
bmah - Change Yourself [Heavy] - ARM × kradness [7 / 10]
Sept/Oct 2020
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Permission: ARM is IOSYS [blanket]. This song is not a compositional collaboration of two artists, as it is composed solely by ARM; kradness is just the vocalist.
- This file is a collaboration between multiple authors / stepauthors.

Simfile Folder Name

Change Yourself [Heavy] (bmah)

Note Count

1538

Chart Length

1:59

Average NPS

13.3972

Estimated Difficulty

84.56

First Note

0:04

Ending Note Delay

0:01

Hand Bias

x -4

Framers

0 - 0 1 - 0 2 - 1 3 - 44 4 - 31

Jumps

x 416

Hands

x 56

Quads

x 0

Color Jumps

x 0

Color Hands

x 0

Color Quads

x 0

Most notes in:

1/3 of a Second
11 - 33.00 nps 0.5 Seconds
16 - 32.00 nps 1 Second
26 - 26.00 nps 2 Seconds
46 - 23.00 nps 5 Seconds
100 - 20.00 nps 10 Seconds
187 - 18.70 nps 30 Seconds
505 - 16.83 nps 1 Minute
911 - 15.18 nps

Color Count

x 474 (30.82%)
x 398 (25.88%)
x 3 (0.2%)
x 616 (40.05%)
x 4 (0.26%)
x 27 (1.76%)
x 7 (0.46%)
x 0 (0%)
x 9 (0.59%)

Largest Note Gaps

1.53s1.17s0.97s0.97s0.6s0.4s0.4s0.4s
35
28
21
14
7

Change Yourself [Heavy]
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- Permissions, sync, metadata good.

- 19.376: May want to follow the 32nd triplet here; this is an aggressive sound, much more so than just the mix of vocals and percussion where you had jumpgluts earlier, but plays easier
- 25.280: What does this jump go to? Seems like there should also be one at 25.473, or neither should be there.
- 25.860: Similar enough to 25.570 that these should both be jumps imo.
- 34.086: For more effective patterning, the column 4 anchor should stop here and switch to a trill on other columns
- 54.118: Very long column 2 anchor here, recommend breaking it up somewhere.
- 62.247: PR's more accurate if this is on column 4.
- 63.505-69.699: Really don't agree with using such dense layering here considering the song is building up and is not particularly energetic here--this being denser than 25.957-30.989 is weird.
- 85.183: Piano is higher here than the next 16th, shouldn't be just a minijack--recommend [14][12]
* 86.441: Pretty gnarly OHT, suggest changing.
** 87.505: yikes. If you really want an OHT here, clean up the transition into and out of it a little, because this is pretty gross; alternatively, move 87.554 to column 2.
* 92.925-102.215: This seems like pretty much the most obscure layering scheme you could possibly have picked here. It's consistent from what I can tell, but on a regular 1.0 playthrough I have no earthly idea what pretty much any of the yellow jumps go to.

- The chart is mostly technically fine, but it has a couple spiky one-handed trills that should be addressed, and I often found the jump usage to be confusing or straight up strange--the worst offender is the first half of the ending jumpstream. The chart's also a little top-heavy (barring the very ending) but that's not really an issue. CQ is only on the 87.505 note, but I highly recommend you change the two *'d notes as well. [7/10]

A new chart file was uploaded with the following changes:
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Note Count changed: 1537 => 1538
AVG NPS changed: 13.3885 => 13.39721
Hand Bias changed: -1 => -4

"- 19.376: May want to follow the 32nd triplet here; this is an aggressive sound, much more so than just the mix of vocals and percussion where you had jumpgluts earlier, but plays easier"
Nice catch - I didn't even realize this was a 32nd triplet.

"- 25.280: What does this jump go to? Seems like there should also be one at 25.473, or neither should be there."
The jump at 25.280 goes to the bass hits, similar to 24.41s,24.70s,24.99s. The bass hit does not occur at 25.473. You might argue that this last bass hit at 25.280 is really represented throughout the entirety of the 32nds but I think that's debatable.

"- 25.860: Similar enough to 25.570 that these should both be jumps imo."
See above. Quite possible you're following something different from what I was thinking.

"- 54.118: Very long column 2 anchor here, recommend breaking it up somewhere."
Sure. Changed 54.51s to a [14] and now the down anchors should be broken.

"- 62.247: PR's more accurate if this is on column 4."
True, but then what do you make of the melody's PR directly following that? It would still create a repeat of the same notes for descension - this is just the result of a limitation of representing PR with four arrows. Anyways, I changed the patterns up a bit here.

"- 63.505-69.699: Really don't agree with using such dense layering here considering the song is building up and is not particularly energetic here--this being denser than 25.957-30.989 is weird."
I'd say the degree of density is the same as around 20.15s in the intro with around the same kind of intensity of the song. It's basically the intro round 2.
That said, I really wanted to differentiate this file from the other two charts I did. This one was meant to fill the gaps.

"- 85.183: Piano is higher here than the next 16th, shouldn't be just a minijack--recommend [14][12]"
It's possible you might be miscontruing pitch with loudness - the notes here are all playing the same thing, much like the subsequent [13][13] at 85.76s.

"* 86.441: Pretty gnarly OHT, suggest changing.
** 87.505: yikes. If you really want an OHT here, clean up the transition into and out of it a little, because this is pretty gross; alternatively, move 87.554 to column 2."
Indeed this is a gnarly af part of the file. So what I've decided was that for the bursty 32nds I generally wanted to at least do a triplet pattern in each instance. Although I kept the part at 86.441 (I feel it's pretty doable and the variety is nice), I changed the pattern a fair bit around 87.505 - there is no OHT in this part anymore.

"* 92.925-102.215: This seems like pretty much the most obscure layering scheme you could possibly have picked here. It's consistent from what I can tell, but on a regular 1.0 playthrough I have no earthly idea what pretty much any of the yellow jumps go to."
The yellow 16th jumps (and other related jumps) follow the repetitive synth melody that actually has been thematic to the entire song right from the very first notes. But more importantly - this is an important distinguishing factor from the [Standard] difficulty in which I already have a 16th stream with jumps on the 4ths.

"- The chart is mostly technically fine, but it has a couple spiky one-handed trills that should be addressed, and I often found the jump usage to be confusing or straight up strange--the worst offender is the first half of the ending jumpstream."
I am guessing from your notes that the ideal file for you would have probably fit into a difficulty that is in between my [Standard] and [Heavy] difficulty charts. If I made only one file for this song, that very well may have been realized, but as it stands, in contrast to other existing files it probably would have been a tad too similar to my [Standard] chart. That might be a potential pitfall for populating a single song with multiple charts.

I can definitely hear a high note at 85.183 that's not present on the next jump, it's not just loudness, but good to go.