Practice=memorize?

[jorallepat]

ok, when you say practice, isn’t that just memorizing?

I beat a song I had never been able to do before, am I better? or just know the song?

[VxDx]

no, the key in bemani games is never memorization, it's pattern recognition. Memorization is just an after effect of playing a song a whole bunch, and even then, you only really memorize the beats, and not which key/pad is actually being hit.

[Freak83]

Welcome to the valley of the dead jorallepat.

We don't really memorize arrows, ok you might have a better idea of when to press arrows in a song once you've played it many times. But if we played it with our eyes closed we would definatly still fail.

And if you have beaten a song you have never been able to beat before... yes, you are better, I guarentee it. When I was new I could never beat FF7 then I finally beat it... then again after a few tries, and then it wasn't a problem anymore, etc, for different songs too. So yes, you are indeed getting better.

[jorallepat]

Maybe I am just dense, but I don’t get it.

I mean some of those songs! That seams humanly impossible to look at the arrows that fast

[Brainmaster07]

Nah, it's just practice. When new songs come out, say a level 8, people can FC it their first try just beause they're able to interprete the arrows. Give it a week or two then you'll be a whole lot farther then you thought was possible originally.

When I started I was like "WTF? BTC is like impossible, how could anyone pass that" and now I'm second on For FFR and can get 150+ combos on revolutionary.

[eyespewgreekfire]

personally, i see arrows in groups of four usually and sometimes two, three, or seven. When I see a right, then down, then up, then left arrow, i dont read each one alone. I see them together as a common pattern. If youre a really good bemani player like Reach or Volkov, you may even see larger patterns (I dont know)

[jorallepat]

Ok thanks, but now I have another stupid question. How do you close full screen?

[jimerax]

Alt + F4.

[jorallepat]

thanks, back to dancing! err... button pushing

[vvolkov0073]

It is easily possible to memorize songs, I have memorized a bunch or crap on stepmania (ie, i can do it just as well blinfolder/with the mointor off, as I can reading the arrows)

max300 is a big example...stealth...

- Volkov

[makaveli121212]

whats the point of that

[hydrojakep]

welcome jorellepat!

[Yanah_God]

i have yet to memorize a song

i just see the arrows and my fingers move subconcsiously

[Takisho]

i have yet to memorize a song

i just see the arrows and my fingers move subconcsiously

Good, I'm not the only one.