The Official FFR PICTURE Dictionary

[dancingmaniac3]

lol nevermind

[jimerax]

SDG has nothing to do with the number of averages/misses/boos.

[-Fallen-]

Originally Posted by SqNtz_xoombotvx

You should put like pictures of index styles, 4finger styles, and spread styles if you get a chance. Or at least, different finger setups that apply to ffr such as 4finger on the numpad etc. That information is always helpful.

Not a good suggestion. Why?

When you begin to play FFR or SM YOU start playing with whatever is comfortable at that moment. Besides, we don't need to gay another thread with an infinite of playing styles and a thousand noobs asking whether one style is better than the other.

[stlunatic0124]

lol this is true.

[XXXsmittyXXX]

Nice work x.X

[iggymatrixcounter]

Originally Posted by -Fallen-

Not a good suggestion. Why?

When you begin to play FFR or SM YOU start playing with whatever is comfortable at that moment. Besides, we don't need to gay another thread with an infinite of playing styles and a thousand noobs asking whether one style is better than the other.

[talisman]

chicken it has more to do with how they're written in music (in 4/4). eighth triplets are three eighth notes tied together with a little 3 over them. 3 notes in side an eighth note is three sixteenth notes tied together with a little 3 over them. Or something like that. It's been a while since I've had to read music.

[chickendude]

oh, I know what you're talking about now

[Telvanni_guard]

I finally know what SD means. Thanks.

[clocktower]

yeah, good job,:\

[bigsherm7272]

i suck.

[Dronak]

chickendude, I'm pretty sure standard music definitions label triplets by the length of the individual notes, not the total duration they're played over. So an 8th note triplet is three 8th notes, not three notes in 1/8th beat. Having grown up with music, this makes perfect sense to me. If it doesn't to you, well, I think you'll just have to remember that the definition isn't what you think it is. *shrug* I believe talisman is right, and triplets (by the music definition) are place within the next higher duration note. So 16th triplets are played in the duration of one 8th note, 8th triplets are in the same duration as a quarter note, and quarter note triplets take the same time as a half note.

One thing I wondered about the original post was in the Perfect Attack defintion -- "Having a good ratio of Perfects:Goods." What's "good"? People could have different opinions on this. That's not necessarily bad, but you could set a number to make sure everyone uses the term in the same way. For example, maybe a good ratio means >=90% perfect with <=10% goods. BTW, I assume Perfect Attack also means no averages, misses, or boos. I'm not sure if you want to state that for clarity or if it should be obvious enough, especially since you have a picture.

Nice stuff. I remember some of these terms from when I was playing a long time ago, but I think there are some new ones and it's good to have some screenshots to go with the definitions.

[Shashakiro]

PA isn't really a "grade" of its own, like blackflag or AAA is.

It's more like "I thought this was really good PA", so it's always subjective.

And PA has nothing to do with averages, misses, or boos.

[nanoman]

how do u change ur avitar?

[ckj846]

I always thought PA was Perfect Accuracy but I guess I'm wrong. Wouldn't that make more sense though? Just a thought.
O_o

[stlunatic0124]

lol no it's Perfect Attack. And like Shashakiro said, it's completely subjective. It's what you think is good. Sadly, I think a good MA in Stepmania is 10:1, but a good PA for me in FFR is ~100+:1, depending on the song.

[sertman]

You forgot spins

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These are impossible for indexers to do without double-tapping

[stlunatic0124]

What song are they in? I don't really pick up on patterns because any kind of pattern is easy for me, being spread.

[ebs2002]

I just graduated with a minor in Music Composition, so I figured I'd lay the whole "triplet" thing to rest.

Dronak is correct: a triplet is three notes of one duration played in the amount of time the next longer duration takes up. Divide a quarter note into three and you get an eighth-triplet. Stepfile creators accomplish this by creating a twelfth (1/4 divided by 3).

The "triple" that is being defined is not a triplet. In music terms, it's a sixteenth-sixteenth-eighth pattern (or eighth-eighth-quarter). Scholars could call this a "one-ee-and", but the more common way to define it as a rhythm would be "tee-tee-tah".

Of course, you can call it whatever you want to. There is no actual musical term for this; it's certainly not a triplet. If triple works for the community, call it a triple. I don't really see a need to call it anything, it's not a common rhythm and it's not particularly difficult, so I don't see why it needs to even be discussed. *shrug*

[stlunatic0124]

Thank you for clarifying.