Training advice?

[KaBlammo]

Yo.
I've been playing FFR for a while now, but I haven't gotten much better at all lately. My biggest troubles are stream songs that involve a lot of combo notes either in a row, or thrown into the stream, and also the more difficult streams give me trouble, with or without combos.

I typically play on Very Difficult - Very Challenging level songs, but I'm not sure why I can't get the hang of it. Songs like Hardcore of the North and X-Dreamer Final Cut are simple, while ones like Hyper High-Speed Star are a big challenge.

Now, ITT:
What songs should I be playing, or what should I do differently to get better with combo notes and difficult streams?

[Commandersa1]

Re: Training advice?

How do you play? One-hand? Two-hand?

Mercury Lamp might be good for you. Try to find a song that has a lot of jumps or jumpstreams.

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

How do you play? One-hand? Two-hand?

Mercury Lamp might be good for you.

I play two-handed.
Where is Mercury Lamp?

[Commandersa1]

Re: Training advice?

I play two-handed.
Where is Mercury Lamp?

Dance 2, Page 2, Song 5.

It probably has more staircases, but I do not know the difference between staircases and streams.

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

Dance 2, Page 1.

It probably has more staircases, but I do not know the difference between staircases and streams.

Streams are just a series of notes in quick succession. Red-yellow-blue-repeat.
I'll try that song out real quick.

[Commandersa1]

Re: Training advice?

Streams are just a series of notes in quick succession. Red-yellow-blue-repeat.
I'll try that song out real quick.

Also try CIA Rave(Dance 2, Page 5, Song 1). If you play that over and over, you should better in a couple of weeks.

[Triplex72]

Re: Training advice?

Last time I checked, you put your fingers on the keyboard, then you start moving them up and down on the keys to the music...

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

Also try CIA Rave(Dance 2, Page 5, Song 1). If you play that over and over, you should better in a couple of weeks.

Naw, Mercury lamp was pretty easy for me. Didn't do perfect but I did really well.

CIA rave is one of the ones I have a lot of trouble, with, but I'll try that out and see if it helps. x3

[LLaMaSaUceYup]

Re: Training advice?

Seems like you're just playing songs that are too difficult for you.

Try training in Stepmania.

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

Seems like you're just playing songs that are too difficult for you.

Try training in Stepmania.

It's not that.
I do alright for a bit, but then I get tripped up on the combo notes and have to button-mash till I get back on track. Because I can just about full combo most Very Difficult level songs.

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

Here's my CIA Rave replay from just now. You can see where I get tripped up.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...play/16476651/

[Commandersa1]

Re: Training advice?

Here's my CIA Rave replay from just now. You can see where I get tripped up.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...play/16476651/

Use a speed mod. Start at 1.25 and go up until you are comfortable.

[KaBlammo]

Re: Training advice?

Use a speed mod. Start at 1.25 and go up until you are comfortable.

Wow. 1.25 speed helped bring my score on CIA rave up almost 200k

[Mookage]

Re: Training advice?

Wow. 1.25 speed helped bring my score on CIA rave up almost 200k

Speedmods helped me a lot too. They catapulted me from FC'ing standards to FC'ing difficults/very difficults. Also try songs that you can read most of but have a little trouble with, but not songs you have to mash on.

Try upping to 1.5 or 1.75 (I use 1.5).

[Sir_Thomas]

Re: Training advice?

Yo.
I've been playing FFR for a while now, but I haven't gotten much better at all lately. My biggest troubles are stream songs that involve a lot of combo notes either in a row, or thrown into the stream, and also the more difficult streams give me trouble, with or without combos.

I typically play on Very Difficult - Very Challenging level songs, but I'm not sure why I can't get the hang of it. Songs like Hardcore of the North and X-Dreamer Final Cut are simple, while ones like Hyper High-Speed Star are a big challenge.

Now, ITT:
What songs should I be playing, or what should I do differently to get better with combo notes and difficult streams?

Play stepmania.
Honestly. You will do 10x better if you get stepmania than for a month than a year at FFR.