Until recently I've always played one handed. I've been a member for a little over three years, but have spread out less than 3000 songs over that time, so you can see I don't play all that often. Until recently...
Anyways, I've been experimenting with different setups. Indexes came ever so naturally, and I found my comboing CIA Rave better on my first try (with index) that I ever could with one hand. That's not true anymore...I've since been working very hard on making my fingers faster.
So, with that little introduction done, I have a series of questions for all the best one handers.
What patterns, if any, give you the most trouble? What songs give you the most trouble? About how long would you say it took you to make your hands fast enough for songs at ~Gradeus speed?
I'm not really looking for advice, since I'm continuing to improve my speed on my own (I've actually just about matched my finger speed with my reading abilities for certain patterns). I'm more or less just looking to here in more detail the experiences of top-tier one handed players
Edit: Looked at the picture guide thing for names to certain patters. I decided it was silly to ask these questions and not describe my own problems. The Running Man thing gives me trouble, but I've only recently encountered it and it's only especially difficult when I have to continually press up while alternating between down and either left/right (same problem if continually pressing down, etc etc). Also, trills between up and down of any length are horribly difficult. When I'm lazy, I just press up and down at the same time (like after playing Max Forever a few times). But that's terrible technique, so I try not to. When I'm not lazy, I slide my finger up and down between the two keys...I don't have time to lift my finger. I've been able to fully combo long trills of this type with all perfects using this particular technique, but I find it difficult to "come out of". Meaning, after the trill is over, I find it particularly difficult to continue a stream of different arrows (ie. 8282828268246824)
Anyways, I've been experimenting with different setups. Indexes came ever so naturally, and I found my comboing CIA Rave better on my first try (with index) that I ever could with one hand. That's not true anymore...I've since been working very hard on making my fingers faster.
So, with that little introduction done, I have a series of questions for all the best one handers.
What patterns, if any, give you the most trouble? What songs give you the most trouble? About how long would you say it took you to make your hands fast enough for songs at ~Gradeus speed?
I'm not really looking for advice, since I'm continuing to improve my speed on my own (I've actually just about matched my finger speed with my reading abilities for certain patterns). I'm more or less just looking to here in more detail the experiences of top-tier one handed players
Edit: Looked at the picture guide thing for names to certain patters. I decided it was silly to ask these questions and not describe my own problems. The Running Man thing gives me trouble, but I've only recently encountered it and it's only especially difficult when I have to continually press up while alternating between down and either left/right (same problem if continually pressing down, etc etc). Also, trills between up and down of any length are horribly difficult. When I'm lazy, I just press up and down at the same time (like after playing Max Forever a few times). But that's terrible technique, so I try not to. When I'm not lazy, I slide my finger up and down between the two keys...I don't have time to lift my finger. I've been able to fully combo long trills of this type with all perfects using this particular technique, but I find it difficult to "come out of". Meaning, after the trill is over, I find it particularly difficult to continue a stream of different arrows (ie. 8282828268246824)
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