Challenged :P.

[Sanjixcon]

Re: Challenged :P.

well I would probably take the d7 guys advice lol but I don't think it's that big a deal. the faster your scroll speed the higher up on the screen you'll probably look.

[Soundwave-]

Re: Challenged :P.

I have like, 3 different options here. Don't keep your eyes in the same spot, still, but wander, as if I were driving, and stare at a fixed area. DX. I guess it's pref.

Depends a lot on the song and patterns. If you're playing lots of quickly varying patterns (as you tend to in the increasingly complex songs as you approach D7) then yeah, you stare dead center at a height that depends on scroll speed, reaction time, and personal comfort, being sure to not fixate too hard on the center, lest you miss notes in the 1st and 4th columns passing by.

But certain patterns can be made easier by using different vision patterns. For example, especially with long, fast streams containing few jumps, I tend to visually follow the stream. I find that it helps increase accuracy and prevent drifting, while gearing peripheral vision, which is naturally more sensitive to change, towards looking for and reacting to approaching jumps and the end of the stream.

An aside, because I noticed it:

...but I'm more than certain I wont be able to do it. XD.

It's never about if you can do it. It's about when you can do it.

[rushyrulz]

Re: Challenged :P.

Few things:

@Dinglepost: That's one approach, but my advice on jumpstream is drastically different. Master stream until you can do it in your friggen sleep, then when you progress into jumpstream (you should have at least some JS practice by this time), you actually want to focus on the jumps. The stream part is so mindnumbingly easy since you've committed it to muscle memory that the jumps are the only new thing you really need to worry about. I still use this technique when I play files with complicated jumpstream patterns such as Etude for the Sinners.

@Where to look: Should be a fixed position, any drifting should be completely subconscious because you're adjusting to denser (or less dense) clusters of arrows.

Soundwave is absolutely right in saying that you don't want to play any one song too many times in a row. Mindblocks are nasty and you're particularly susceptible to them at your current skill level.

[Soundwave-]

Re: Challenged :P.

Master stream until you can do it in your friggen sleep, then when you progress into jumpstream (you should have at least some JS practice by this time), you actually want to focus on the jumps. The stream part is so mindnumbingly easy since you've committed it to muscle memory that the jumps are the only new thing you really need to worry about.

Only thing about this approach, which comes down to practice (huh, there might be a theme here), is that if you're not really smooth slipping in and out of streams, focusing on the jumps will punctuate your streams to an extent that it becomes difficult to follow them through a jump.