6th Official FFR Tournament - Is over, Congrats to all our winners!

[Zekramcross]

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Have you ever tried a different key setup? That works sometimes.

Play something else in between. For example I (like just about everyone else) have a mindblack something fierce on the beginning of Rottel. But I can usually get through it the first time I try each time I sit down... so I just go and play other songs in between Rottel attempts and try to trick myself that I'm just sitting down for the first time when I play it again 20 minutes later.

I'm horrible at taking my own advice btw, I play things 200 times in a row and it's just like banging your head on a wall. Variety is the spice of life ~

I'm currently using a hybrid spread set-up of qsko since askl is awkward for me. I'll try it though.

I do play things in between, but it doesn't seem to help, well for me at least.
Yes, I do get the best PA in my first few plays of the day and my PA gets worse from there and mindblocks sets in.

[bmah]

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Even a similar setup that's not the same may help, such as axml. Being one row further up or down your keyboard is a noticeable difference as far as reaction time and reaching your keys is concerned.

[squeesfan]

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oh FFS. Was on 3 goods and a boo then hit 2 goods and a boo in the last 2 bursts. AGAIN. Tha's twice I've gone into the end of the song on 3 goods/3goods and a boo. FFS...

[Zakvvv666]

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I'm risking screwing myself over hard and getting eliminated, but I stopped playing the song after about 10 restarts last night, and I'm not playing again until tomorrow night hoping that my mindblocks will have gone away, whether they are gone or not though, I will start whoring the song more than before to make up for the time I haven't played it.

[Zekramcross]

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Even a similar setup that's not the same may help, such as axml. Being one row further up or down your keyboard is a noticeable difference as far as reaction time and reaching your keys is concerned.

I tried this set up suggestion and I instantly did better. Thanks Bmah!

[Evnoir]

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Playing Sambista as many isolated parts in Stepmania.

I'll get the AAA one day :3

[bmah]

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Oh that part...

If anything, one tends to get goods late in that burst, so the solution would be early preparation. Anything to get a slight head start for that burst:
- a slightly disaggregated [123] hand, then finishing off the rest of the burst
- a 24th jumptrill of [23][14][23]1
- or just mental anticipation and hitting the burst entirely as is (what I did because I know this file well)

[Evnoir]

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Thanks for the advice
I'm pretty much blocked on everything including and after that part - up until the part where there are only notes 234.
I can't do that M.A.M.A. part at all...

[bmah]

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That's weird. A lot of people are having trouble with that part, but that was quite easy for me to do. I'm fairly sure it has to do with the mentality in approaching that pattern.

What you have is an up-down trill with continuous right arrows spaced three 16ths apart. I don't know what people are thinking, but it might be the fact that they're separating the trills and right arrows in their heads and confusing themselves over that.

This is something subin would say, but emphasize the jumps created from this pattern. It helps maintain the beat of a repetitive pattern you want to keep track of. All you really have is something like this:
[34]23 then [24]32 then repeat
- and remember that those are spaced three 16th notes apart.

[34]23+[24]32+[34]23+[24]32+....

So it could be that you're either not familiar with the spacing of this particular pattern, or you're visualizing the pattern in an unnecessarily confusing way.
Looking at the pattern in a different light also helps. I've done this several times to get out of mindblocks.

[hi19hi19]

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I tend to his this part as 3 followed by a (12) (34) jumptrill. It's worked for me twice in the 50 or so runs I've put into this file, which is honestly not a very good success rate

[CammyGoesRawr]

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That "M.A.M.A." part screwed with me at first, but then i finally realized a poly rhythm that worked perfectly for me:

-The down is hit on every 16th note (excluding the 4ths and 8ths, as you can tell while playing)
As for the Up and right, it starts on the beat and goes: [34]_343_[34]_343_[34]_343_[34] ...

Personally, it's something i picked up from learning piano, called "breaking your hands" , where you train your hands to steadily play separate patterns. In this your breaking your hands so your left hand is playing the 2_2_2_2_2_2_2 on every 16th note, while your right hand plays the [34]_343..... pattern.

(Note: The underscores are used to denote a 16th rest.)

As for the burst being discussed, I just learned to hit it as is. But you could also try to use 24th jumptrills, as 3-[12]-[34]-[12]. (:



$0.02

[YoshL]

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the way cammy did his M.A.M.A part is how i did it.

as for that burst, i always hit it as a slightly split [23][14][23]1 jumptrill

[rayword45]

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I'm surprised this even made it.

[Zekramcross]

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Hey D2! There is a new cutoff!

[CammyGoesRawr]

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