Day 7: See You Dance by Star Salzman
A mere 4 AAA’s on last night’s song. Told you it would be the toughest so far. But be warned…it’s definitely not the hardest of the 12 Christmas songs 
Today’s song is another song by Star Salzman, who also did the FFR Misc song Platypus. As Tass said yesterday, we’re taking a break from our steadily increasing difficulty to bring you a song that’s nearly as easy as Day 1′s song: See You Dance. Like Day 1′s relatively easy Christmas song, See You Dance is also stepped by dore, and is around a 2 on the 6-point scale, employing nothing harder than a scattered few 16ths and some longer 8th runs. It should be a fairly simple FC for almost anyone, and an easy AAA for any of the vets. You can find See You Dance in the top left corner of the Misc section.
(Tass has had a bit of a long day today, so I’m doing today’s news post instead, for anyone who’s curious).
Happy FFR’ing,
Day 6: Classical Insanity by DM Ashura
I gave everyone a clue in the FFR General Talk thread… but it would appear nobody noticed. Classical Insanity is an awesome mix by our favorite remixer in the whole wide world, DM Ashura. And of course… stepped by everyone’s favorite stepfile artist (except for EHHS, GGC, etc etc etc) Shashakiro. 1 part Revo, 1 part Moonlight Sonata, 1 part Rondo, 1 part HD5, 1 part B-Virus, 1 part FotBB (and 3 other not as cool parts because they aren’t seperate files in FFR… yet) = Classical Insanity, for sure.
Definitely a solid 5 on the difficulty chart between long streams at 175bpm (few jumpstream) and those DREADED running men. Will be difficult for the average FFRer to even pass and the great FFRer to FC. Don’t expect a AAA unless your name is Shash, Baha, JX, or scottish (maybe a few other uber FFRers). Although, we’ve steadily gone up in difficulty over the past 6 days… tomorrow we go back down to the easy file; the cake AAA.
Oh yea. It is located in Classical (duh). 3rd row, middle.
Enjoy the insanity,
Day 5: {Firestorm} by cornandbeans
OK guys… I want you to go HERE right now. What is it, you ask? It is cornandbeans‘ music page. All of you need to listen to his stuff, that is how good it is. {Firestorm} is an Ethnic Techno / House song that has a very unique sound to it. It is stepped by newcomer Silvuh, who I don’t know very well, but it just goes to show… you don’t need to be an FFR God or a forum regular with 5000 posts to get your stepfile onto FFR. Once again, you can find the file in the lower left hand corner of Dance (expect a few non-Dance in the next couple of days, I promise!).
Also, expect a few more of cornandbeans’ songs appearing in FFR over the next few weeks. You can read and post comments about his songs in this thread. If you are interested in stepping a song for FFR, please read the information in this thread.
This file continues the trend of each file being more difficult than the one before. It is 2:38 long and has 1010 arrows. A 4.5 on the 6.0 scale, IMO. Basically… we’ve gone from 100+ AAAs on Come With Me to 58 on Horizon to 38 on Kick It to 9 on Palindrome… I’d be shocked if we have more than 5 or 6 on {Firestorm} after 48 hours.
Until we repeat this dance again tomorrow night,
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Cheers,
Synthlight
Day 4: Back to Sanxion7
Since everyone liked Horizon so much, we’re giving you another shot of Sanxion7. Palindrome is yet another very unique sound. On Sanxion’s website, he says that the song is inspired by TaQ, and it does have a bit of a TaQ sound.
This file is also pretty unique, and I hope we don’t have that strong of a negative reaction to it. It is EXTREMELY repetitive, but it is done that way on purpose to fit the song. Personally, I like the way our 1st Lady of FFR, Kit-, stepped it… but I can also see how some people wont’ like it. My advice: make sure your right arrow isn’t broken; you’re going to need it in this file.
You can find it in the lower left hand corner of Dance. I’d say that it is a 3.0 or 3.5, although definitely harder to FC and AAA because of the 32nds.
Discuss it here. Brag about it here.
I’m running out of stuff to say in these daily news posts,
Day 3: Kick It by 4ERO
Moving right along, Kick It is a bit harder than Horizon, with a few small 16th trills at 160bpm. Still only a 3.5 or so. You can check out 4ERO’s songs here. Steps are by KgZ. You can find it in the lower left hand corner of Dance.
The interesting note about this file is that we originally rejected it. I then was sent another version of the file by BLAZZE, and tested the old one vs the new one, and realized that I actually liked the old one. So we moved it from rejected into queue. From that, you should be able to infer (correctly) that Kick It was NOT one of the songs slated for 3rd style. It is the 1st release for the 12 Songs of FFRmas to be from our normal queue.
Short story tonight as I’m running a bit late.
Day 2: Horizon by Sanxion7
Woo Hoo! Holy heck… 95 AAAs of Come With Me at the time of this writing… ALMOST 100 in 24 hours. So close. Well, I think this one will prove to be a wee bit harder. While Come With Me is a 1.5 on the Chardish scale, tonight’s song is, IMO, a 3. Horizon, by Sanxion7, has an amazing sound to it. To me, it sounds a bit middle eastern, yet more alive or festive than your stereotypical piece. We are labeling it as a Tribal Trance piece, and in an attempt to help keep Dance down, we’re putting it into Misc. You can find it in the 2nd row on the right, between Ball of Malt and Platypus. Oh yea… it’s steps flow perfectly, just like every file by my main man Jimerax.
Again… file discussion here. brags here.
Enjoy,
The 12 Songs of FFRmas! Day 1: CanBlaster – Come With Me
Welcome to the 12 Songs of FFRmas! I laid hints all over the forums that we’d be doing something EXTRA special for the holidays this year, and this is what it is. For the next 12 days, we’ll be releasing 1 new song per day. For the most part, they will be getting more difficult as the days go on, but it will not be a completely linear progression by any means.
Now what makes these files even MORE special is that almost all of them were slated for mass release along with 3rd Style. But, we figured it was a waste to let so many excellent songs sit and gather dust when they could be put to such awesome usage this festive season. Alas, this does not mean that 3rd Style is just around the corner, either. As Synth would say, 3rd Style is still expected to hit the shelves somewhere around April 31st.
Today, Thursday the 14th, we’re starting off with our easiest song of the 12 days: Come With Me by CanBlaster. The file is by dore, and is QUITE easy. I expect a few hundred FCs by the end of day today, and at least 20 or 30 AAAs. It can, as with all new Dance releases, be found in the lower left hand corner of page 1 of Dance.
In the forums, we will be keeping discussion of ALL 12 songs to ONE thread in FFR General, here. And brags of ALL 12 songs to ONE thread in Brag Board, here.
Happy Holidays,
Tasselfoot & the FFR Santa (who is a distant cousin of the Turkey God)
Off Topic But .. The Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight and Tomorrow
Yes, admittedly I am a geek. Not assuming that any of you are, BUT for those of you that may or may not find it interesting, the Geminid Meteor Shower will be peaking tonight and tomorrow night. Saw some last night .. nice fireballs those. This is not a massive shower, but generally has good size meteors that come out of this one and can really light things up.
Catch the shower early before the moon comes up and good luck, as some of you mid-westerners may miss out because of weather. Those of us on the east coast may too as a front moves in. Maximum activity for this shower can produce over 100 shower meteors per hour seen from rural locations.
For additional information have a look at amsmeteors.org for more Geminids information..
Have fun
