Legendary Etude [55 or 57]

[rayword45]

Looking in the Classical section, this is listed as a 55, while Tambourin Chinois is listed as a 57. This I cannot understand at all.

Legendary Etude was originally a 9, but it was one of the songs considered a cutoff along with songs such as OTFD (although LE is more of a technical file compared to OTFD's stream). The file starts off very tame. Some 16th gallops, and then 16th stream for a while (150BPM). While there are some runningmen and 3-fingered rolls, the BPM is really too slow for it to be much of a problem. It remains no harder then this for 3/4ths of the files.

Towards the ending, we have 2 fairly tame bursts within the stream, which some may trip up on, but again, not unreasonable at all for a 9.

Then we have sections like the first two parts of this image. [stolen from ilikexd]



48th grace notes are sprinkled generously, and they come out as 1-frame transitions, meaning hitting it as a hand or a 32nd burst both are risky of coming out as a good.

The third section of the image is the ending, omitting some rather tricky shorter 32nd bursts directly before it.

Compare this to Tambourin Chinois, which has less tricky bursts although there are more, and no grace notes.

Also, the song has only 148 AAAs compared to other former borderline 9s such as OTFD with 418 and Forsaken Neon with 358, while having more plays then both.

Thoughts?