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moches · 11-19-2012, 10:22 AM

a few guidelines:
1. find a balance between cramped and spaced. some people make patterns that are impossible to hit because they contain jacks/repeated notes over and over again, while other people make random ass patterns that are a pain in the butthole to hit, much less hit accurately. personally, what I like to do is "ease" transitions as such.

say you're patterning a stream that goes from left to right. what you could do is something like this...

x000
0x00
x000
00x0
0x00
00x0
0x00
000x
00x0
000x

see how I'm moving one note at a time? you want to give your players a connecting point to transition to different patterns. ideally, this means lots of 8th minijacks in your streams.

[14] patterns always feel more open than [23] patterns do.

try not to have [12]/[34] trills

don't abuse the staircase pattern, unless you can either put a fun twist on it (ie messing with mines, leaving gaps and switching up the steps) or the melody is actually doing that

reserve longer jack patterns (ie 12131214) for melodies that deserve them.

jack theory can be good when used sparingly (NEVER use in faster streams, though). look for tension points where minijacks would flow well.

11-19-2012, 10:22 AM	#2
moches FFR Player Join Date: Aug 2005 Age: 28 Posts: 3,996	Re: Ideal Stream patterns a few guidelines: 1. find a balance between cramped and spaced. some people make patterns that are impossible to hit because they contain jacks/repeated notes over and over again, while other people make random ass patterns that are a pain in the butthole to hit, much less hit accurately. personally, what I like to do is "ease" transitions as such. say you're patterning a stream that goes from left to right. what you could do is something like this... x000 0x00 x000 00x0 0x00 00x0 0x00 000x 00x0 000x see how I'm moving one note at a time? you want to give your players a connecting point to transition to different patterns. ideally, this means lots of 8th minijacks in your streams. [14] patterns always feel more open than [23] patterns do. try not to have [12]/[34] trills don't abuse the staircase pattern, unless you can either put a fun twist on it (ie messing with mines, leaving gaps and switching up the steps) or the melody is actually doing that reserve longer jack patterns (ie 12131214) for melodies that deserve them. jack theory can be good when used sparingly (NEVER use in faster streams, though). look for tension points where minijacks would flow well.