PA is not my strong suit (I've got 389 FC's and a mere 22 AA's), yet, much to my surprise, I just got 7 goods, no averages/misses/boos on a Very Difficult that I wasn't paying the slightest bit of attention to. I get these scores frequently when I realize midway through a song that my mind has been somewhere else the entire time, but I'm never even close when I'm paying attention. Anyone else have this?
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Re: It seems I play better when I'm not paying attention
It's pretty much called mind block. It gets the lot of us.Best FGO: Time To Eye{3-0-0-0}
Best SCORE: Husigi Usagi Milk Tei {16-1-2-8}
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i noticed this when i was playing guitar hero, trying to full combo some song, and as soon a i started i wasnt even thinking then suddenly i realised i was still playing and i was FCing everything...i didnt even notice i was playing, i just naturally strummed every note without thinking.
its very strange, meh
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It's probably because you're so used to something, you can day dream and be able to do without thinking. It's like walking, you can walk without thinking because we do it so often. Same with riding a bike.
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yeah but its not like we memorize the notes or anything...we're just thinking about something else and somehow we're hitting all these notes.Comment
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Bolth is right. You can sightread AAA something when spacing out, but if paying attention, you'd get 8 goods.
This same thing is true for me. I seem to play better when I'm "spacing out", but it's a special kind of zone you go into. You can't just decide "man I need to hit some perfects so I guess I'm just gonna sort of SPACE OUT." It just happens. The things on the screen sort of become one conglomerated blur in your vision, and you hit the arrows while thinking about something else.
At least, that's how it happens for me.Comment
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That's funny you mention that. I was whoring Megane De Ne or whatever it's called, and I started to space out and somehow erased my mental blocks. Then when I started to focus on the notes again, I mental blocked again lol.Comment
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You perform a skill commited to muscle memory better when not consciously thinking about it, because then you start to overanalyze it (How am I doing this? Is this the right way? Could I do it better if I...) and the processing required or the need to verify that you're doing this unconscious skill correctly makes you start to falter.Patashu makes Chiptunes in Famitracker:
http://soundcloud.com/patashu/8bit-progressive-metal-fading-world
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Best non-AAAs: ERx8 v2 (14-1-0-4), Hajnal (3-0-0-0), RunnyMorning (8-0-0-4), Xeno-Flow (1-0-0-3), Blue Rose (35-2-0-20), Ketsarku (14-0-0-0), Silence (1-0-0-0), Lolo (14-1-0-1)
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Someone mind explaining what a mental block is? I'm not quite sure I actually know...Comment
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A mental block is when you consistently misread a particular section of the song for reasons irrespective of its difficulty. They occur because you're consciously overthinking the song, looking for patterns you can exploit, and creating a mental image of the song that is inaccurate and playing closer to that than what you're reading unconsciously.Patashu makes Chiptunes in Famitracker:
http://soundcloud.com/patashu/8bit-progressive-metal-fading-world
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Mechadragon/smallpackbanner.png
Best non-AAAs: ERx8 v2 (14-1-0-4), Hajnal (3-0-0-0), RunnyMorning (8-0-0-4), Xeno-Flow (1-0-0-3), Blue Rose (35-2-0-20), Ketsarku (14-0-0-0), Silence (1-0-0-0), Lolo (14-1-0-1)
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Huh. Weird. Thanks for that nice definition. I get it, and I don't get it at the same time, haha.Comment
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Well, imagine you have a song where the same pattern is repeated, only slightly different between the two times. While playing it, you remember how they flow but mix up the locations of the two, so when you play again you anticipate and try to hit the second one's patterns on the first.Patashu makes Chiptunes in Famitracker:
http://soundcloud.com/patashu/8bit-progressive-metal-fading-world
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/Mechadragon/smallpackbanner.png
Best non-AAAs: ERx8 v2 (14-1-0-4), Hajnal (3-0-0-0), RunnyMorning (8-0-0-4), Xeno-Flow (1-0-0-3), Blue Rose (35-2-0-20), Ketsarku (14-0-0-0), Silence (1-0-0-0), Lolo (14-1-0-1)
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I've noticed I play better when I space out. By no means am I insane good at this game but I play better when I am not trying to. I can actually force myself to space out sometimes.Comment
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Ah, that actually makes a lot of sense, considering I've done that before, haha. It's easy to get over though. I've seen people say "Oh yeah I have mental blocks on this song so I CAN'T PLAY IT FOR X AMOUNT OF TIME." That made me think it was some severe psychological problem or something.Comment
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