How do you guys do stairs?

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When it comes to staircases that occur for longer than seven notes, you'll have an accenting point. 16th notes staircases would be accented on the first note of every six-note sequence, because you would be repeating the same tap over and over again. In the image you showed:



The left arrow repeats every beat and a half. The accent point should always be the first arrow you start at -- if you start on a right arrow, you're going to want to accent the right arrow repeatedly. For MASCARADA, the staircases are relatively easy to hold rhythm on, because the accenting point is every single beat. All you have to do is make sure you keep even intervals in between your steps that aren't accented. This is mostly a rhythmic guide -- doing staircases on one-hand involves a lot of discipline because it is -extremely- tempting to slide. Practice the motion of a staircase at a slower level so that you slide at all; I find it most comfortable to do a 1234321 one-handed using index-middle-index-ring-index-middle-index (etc).

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I warned you about stairs bro.

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I use spread and look at it like a slower version of a roll.

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I picture them as "24ths" too in terms of how I hit them.

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Is anyone else not able to do staircases on the keyboard unless they're playing to a chart?

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That is pretty much me when attempting stairs by keymashing.

Actually that helped immensely.

Thanks for the tips, everyone. Happy AAAing.

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Wow I think there's a criminal lack of staircase-focused easy files in this game.

Umm... Moogy used a lot of them. Delirium and Crowdpleaser come to mind but those are two terrible files that you shouldn't play lol

Then there's the classic index stream charts that Rebirth and I (along with others) made in 2007-ish.
Check out Roller Coaster Ride or Endless Dream or something?


Can't think of any real good staircase-centric file. This must be rectified next batch


EDIT- just checked the file, definitely Roller Coaster Ride! Happy practicing.

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You. You are awesome, thanks. : )

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It just takes practice, like everyone says.

First, middle, middle, ring, middle-slide-middle, first.

Is how I do it. If your keyboard is flat enough you can slide on the way up as well, which simplifies things a lot in faster files.

Other than making sure your fingers are a little sweaty or oily, being warmed up, and having high stamina for accuracy, there isn't much we can tell you other than play loads.

Cheers,

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I'm deff no pro at this game and no where near to good. But I can say, I do love me some stairs ;o

The best advice someone in my position could give, is try to get some tunnel vision goin on and keep practicing with how you rhythmically move your fingers. I've noticed that most songs with stair cases have the same pattern that OP posted as a gif, with some yellow/purp arrows in between.