pitch relevancy

[cetaka]

in before stargroup

first of all you shouldn't really bother with pitch relevance unless there is a single clear melody that's easy to follow. if it's fast, (at least imo) you shouldn't use pitch relevancy blindly for the sake of pitch relevance while your file becomes a steaming pile of **** that nobody plays because the patterns are gay

but uh being able to discern whether a note has a higher or lower pitch than another is something that some people just can't do, so if you can't then you're basically screwed. if you can sort of tell then you should slow the song down to follow it, and have higher pitched notes correspond to arrows on the right and lower to the left (so a scale of four ascending notes could be placed 1234). but the trick is to do that while still changing the patterns up (so it could also be 1324 or 2134). once you practice it enough you'll figure out patterns that work with different groups of relative pitch. it's kinda hard to explain, you just have to mess around.

the important thing about pitch relevancy is usually when you have a repeating note (when you would use a jack) or when you have small groups of repeating notes (where you would pick a pattern of arrows that corresponds to the group, and use it whenever that pattern crops up). basically, consistency is the key.

oh and i'm not really jIvE with the amazing stepmania theoretical words that people are throwing around nowadays but I think compression is just layering lots of different sounds at once


this is probably incomprehensible but just read stargroup's inevitable post