Re: who the hell is this guy????
Hello, this is AJ's apprentice. He's absolutely right about what you need to do. Go play on easier Expert songs, since its much easier to focus on your own body and making it do what you want it to (using heels AND toes, not just toes). You'll quickly see that it becomes very boring and hardly any effort. When this level is reached, go play harder ones, trying above ALL else, including getting good scores or even passing the song, to keep this mindset and preserving your form. At first, you'll probably get a lot of misses/pad CBs and such, but try not to go back to using just your toes. Eventually, you'll get the hang of it and start being able to focus more on timing and energy preservation, which will in turn raise your scores too. Once you keep getting very good scores on the same songs, you'll want to go higher. Lather, rinse, repeat.
To truly improve, you have to find your threshold of pass difficulty. Say that you can go for about 8-10 measures of stream @ 140bpm. Well, go ahead and try Loituma out; it has 2 separate 16 measure streams with not much rest in between them. Will you fail out your 1st try? Absolutely. Will you fail out for 2 weeks straight? More than likely, yes. Hell it took me almost a month and 30ish plays to finally pass Infernoplex. But finding this threshold, and playing stuff thats beyond it, will wear you out MUCH faster, usually to the point of failing the song... but that's what you want! As your legs are giving out, you will notice that you move less and less the closer you get to breaking. By sitting at this breaking level, you're getting your legs trained to use less energy, and move much less distances. Yes, I can pass 13s, but I cant lift a crapton more weight with my legs than I could when I was stuck on 10s, or run a mile faster than ever before or run for longer distances. Granted, I have a lot more endurance and stamina now, but if I tried using just my toes on stuff like I can pass now I would blow out very quickly... technique REALLY is all that important!
It will take some time too. Even with the fact that I get all my tokens for free and I went to the arcade 3-4 times a week, it took me about 3 months to go up a degree of difficulty (say, from 10s to 11s) and over a year to get where I am now (passing a great deal of 13s and on my way to 14s). Hope this advice will help you on your way to getting better at ITG/DDR!
PS: To be fair, I can only pass the 2 easiest Dragonforce songs out of the 25 officially stepped files... not that I'm complaining about them ;D
Hello, this is AJ's apprentice. He's absolutely right about what you need to do. Go play on easier Expert songs, since its much easier to focus on your own body and making it do what you want it to (using heels AND toes, not just toes). You'll quickly see that it becomes very boring and hardly any effort. When this level is reached, go play harder ones, trying above ALL else, including getting good scores or even passing the song, to keep this mindset and preserving your form. At first, you'll probably get a lot of misses/pad CBs and such, but try not to go back to using just your toes. Eventually, you'll get the hang of it and start being able to focus more on timing and energy preservation, which will in turn raise your scores too. Once you keep getting very good scores on the same songs, you'll want to go higher. Lather, rinse, repeat.
To truly improve, you have to find your threshold of pass difficulty. Say that you can go for about 8-10 measures of stream @ 140bpm. Well, go ahead and try Loituma out; it has 2 separate 16 measure streams with not much rest in between them. Will you fail out your 1st try? Absolutely. Will you fail out for 2 weeks straight? More than likely, yes. Hell it took me almost a month and 30ish plays to finally pass Infernoplex. But finding this threshold, and playing stuff thats beyond it, will wear you out MUCH faster, usually to the point of failing the song... but that's what you want! As your legs are giving out, you will notice that you move less and less the closer you get to breaking. By sitting at this breaking level, you're getting your legs trained to use less energy, and move much less distances. Yes, I can pass 13s, but I cant lift a crapton more weight with my legs than I could when I was stuck on 10s, or run a mile faster than ever before or run for longer distances. Granted, I have a lot more endurance and stamina now, but if I tried using just my toes on stuff like I can pass now I would blow out very quickly... technique REALLY is all that important!
It will take some time too. Even with the fact that I get all my tokens for free and I went to the arcade 3-4 times a week, it took me about 3 months to go up a degree of difficulty (say, from 10s to 11s) and over a year to get where I am now (passing a great deal of 13s and on my way to 14s). Hope this advice will help you on your way to getting better at ITG/DDR!
PS: To be fair, I can only pass the 2 easiest Dragonforce songs out of the 25 officially stepped files... not that I'm complaining about them ;D
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