AAA training

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I just got 100 total AAAs today! (I finally did Alpha Helix too. That song had been bugging me a lot - I've had a black flag for like two weeks and tried a few times almost every day, and since 1000+ people had gotten the AAA it was one of my worst songs on the level rank.)

I wouldn't say that 100 is THAT impressive by itself, but the interesting thing is that I think I'm learning to hit notes accurately in a way that I never really did when I was playing Stepmania. I'd always play songs that were relatively difficult (say 9+ in the FFR scale), so my goal was pretty much to get AA (or to pass in the case of much harder ones). But now that I've started spending time on FFR, I'm playing a lot of easier songs, and instead of just comboing the patterns I'm really focusing on hitting them accurately. It surprises me how much my attitude towards songs has changed - I'm paying more attention to reading irregular steps carefully, I'm listening to my arrow taps a lot more, and I'm having more fun playing slower songs. My PA is also a lot better than it was a month ago. I think this is a pretty interesting effect; has this happened to anyone else when they first started caring about AAAs?