Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

[dore]

Re: Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

All you have to do is get some free midi analyzing software (even FL will work too) and use that to figure out BPMs.

[hi19hi19]

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http://www.perfessorbill.com/midi/rhapsody.mid

Eubie Blake masterpiece. Perfect for stepping.


EDIT- Dore... I've tried that. I used Finale 2005 and FL and Sibaleus, it's not as easy as you'd think. In addition to the BPM changes, the notes of a live recorded session put into a MIDI hardly ever fall on the beat. So even if you have the BPM if the MIDI file itself, it hardly ever does you any good. At least, for me, it wasn't turning out right.

[Tasselfoot]

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i'll try stepping this after i finish la campanella

man. i was trying to get Reach to step La Campanella 2+ years ago... back when I had asked him to do Turkish March. That and Lost Penny.


But... yea... this and really any other of Bill's MIDIs... you need a high quality stepfiler to do the chart. the BPM changes are likely quite rough.

As someone else said... test out DDReam. That's what jx used for the OMW v2 BPM changes, and that turned out real well.

[behanjc]

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Does anyone have a very good method of analyzing all of a midi's BPM changes. So far, the best thing I've found is Sibelius. If you show hidden objects or something, it will show the BPM markings on the sheet music from the imported midi. However the presentation is hardly ideal (I.E. the BPM markings will be something like increasing from 118.94594, 129.32094, 145.235436456, but all in close proximity and overlap each other. Kind of hard to explain.)
Also, it doesn't indicate the exact second at which the BPM change takes place, rather it marks it on sheet music and often comes between 2 notes and the exact timing is indistinguishable.

If anyone could report a very good method of finding the BPM changes in a midi, I would appreciate it.

[lxDestinyxl]

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i'll try stepping this after i finish la campanella

... It better be good. It's one of my favourite pieces on piano. I can play most of the song on piano too.

Also, how are you stepping the right hand of page 4? If done properly, I'm guessing LOTS of runningman and jacks + jump jacks.
I can't wait.

[who_cares973]

Re: Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

... It better be good. It's one of my favourite pieces on piano. I can play most of the song on piano too.

Also, how are you stepping the right hand of page 4? If done properly, I'm guessing LOTS of runningman and jacks + jump jacks.
I can't wait.

there's lots of all that lol

i gotta stop working so i can finish stepping D:

also scott tested what i have so far and he said its coming out good :3

hope you can trust his judgement

[hi19hi19]

Re: Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

Does anyone have a very good method of analyzing all of a midi's BPM changes. So far, the best thing I've found is Sibelius. If you show hidden objects or something, it will show the BPM markings on the sheet music from the imported midi. However the presentation is hardly ideal (I.E. the BPM markings will be something like increasing from 118.94594, 129.32094, 145.235436456, but all in close proximity and overlap each other. Kind of hard to explain.)
Also, it doesn't indicate the exact second at which the BPM change takes place, rather it marks it on sheet music and often comes between 2 notes and the exact timing is indistinguishable.

If anyone could report a very good method of finding the BPM changes in a midi, I would appreciate it.

Like I said, I've tried a bunch of programs. Perhaps there's some like, "pro MIDI analyzer software" that can do these things.

[Tasselfoot]

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http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=51802

[Zap_Track]

Re: Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

I gonna try it.
Since I dont have anything other to do....

[Xandertrax]

Re: Anyone Wanna Step Some 1920s Novelty Piano?

Fruity Loops shows all midi bpm changes without that much hassle, you just have to go along with the midi while you're stepping. I did that for SQuF, and it worked out fine.

And you don't even have to illigally download, the demo does it perfectly fine.

Also, Zez Confrey? Any Dizzy Fingers? I've played that one on the piano, and it would be fun to step. I might try this.

And converterwise, the easiest way i've found is itunes.

[Tasselfoot]

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my dad is crazy about Dizzy Fingers. that's the back story on how I found out about Confrey in the first place. So he tells me about DF, I find Bill's site and listen to it... only to see that it's basically all scales. So, that would probably be fun and impressive on a piano... but doesn't seem that great for stepping. So I listened to a bunch of other Confrey, and found some of his other novelty pieces more suited for stepping. Such as this or Kitten on the Keys.

as of now, this is our only permission. Can seek more from Bill on an as-desired basis. The other, bigger, issue with Dizzy Fingers is that it's from 1923... and, as such, is still copyrighted.

edit: re-listening to dizzy fingers... not all scales. and man, it would create some crazy weird runningman patterns, from the sound of it.

[Heartseeker7]

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This stuff sounds awsome!
I can't wait to try it out on the game.
Hopefully it doesnt come out as a skill token requiring me to like fc every classical song.

[dood gone krazee]

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Ohhhhh myyyy gooooood the song hi19 suggested has so many changes its ridiculous. Would take a lot of dedication man, jx should step it.

[robertsona]

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ok ddream sucks i'm not stepping this

[dood gone krazee]

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ok ddream sucks i'm not stepping this

Are you serious? DDREAM is most likely one of the best step editors out there. Way better than SM Editor. You're probably just saying this because you have no idea how to use it.

Try it out. READ THE TUTORIALS. This program is amazing.