How to get better at FFR

[L0NEvvolf]

Re: How to get better at FFR

Ok...



Please don't. But I do have a reason why I don't include the more finer points of getting better at FFR. This is a fundamental base for starting off FFR. It is basically the essentials. The furthermore complex ideas on improvement will eventually come to the player, without the assistance of a guide. I don't think any more should necessarily be added to what there already is.

Agreed find what works for you, everyone has a perfered playing style. That you must find by playing long and hard.

[Blade2030]

Re: How to get better at FFR

i play spread cause its way easier than any other style for me although i do one hand as well some do index which is crazy for me to think about lol but yeah i play spread.

[digital love]

Re: How to get better at FFR

I AGREEE

[joescoolpub]

Re: How to get better at FFR

I just practice the same way I practice arcade style DDR...
Play like a total spazz, the more you play the more you get used to it and you can start trying harder things. ^o^

ohhh yaaa.... i definentily agree on that one

[joescoolpub]

Re: How to get better at FFR

hey, thanks for the tips, when i tried the index setting thing, i was a whole lot better, and then i went up to 1,5 or 1,75 arrow speed, and that helped even more. now i can even beat some tricky songs!!!! thanks so much

[lxDestinyxl]

Re: How to get better at FFR

Glad to help, young man. All I can suggest now is to read a little more in depth of the forum rules, and explore into the FFR forums a little more. You'll find that double posting isn't accepted except in rare cases, and using the "Edit" button in the bottom right hand corner of your post will take you a long way.

[ryanyoyoyo]

Re: How to get better at FFR

i'am preety good already!

[4_teddybears]

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1. There should be some notes about focus and distractions. This game requires a ridiculous amount of concentration and a conscious effort to keep yourself focused......

2. There are a number of different skills that require separate practice, in my opinion......

I agree. Different practice is required for different aspects.

(1)Time spent playing the game will Improve your ability to read the arrows.

(2)If you are new to using your fingers in the way required, pushing buttons will seem awkward at first, especialy trills with one hand; even more so if it is your left hand (for a right handed person). It will probably be a lot easier if you have played a muical instrument like the piano. If not, it will take time to gain dexterity in your fingers. I don't think it is so much about building up the muscles, but more about being able to control them precisely.

(3)I do not believe that time alone is enough to improve your PA. This is about technique and concentration. You may be able to happily FC a song in any environment or whilst chatting to someone, but it a calm environment with no distractions you will certainly get a better PA.

Now, here's the technique, asuming that you have sufficient dexterity and co-ordination between you hands and brain, I believe the best single piece of advice that anyone can give you is where to look when playing. Actually, more specific, where to focus.
The difference being that you do need to look or be aware of more than one thing, but you can do this while focusing on something else:

Your focus should be on the line of stationery arrows, and possibly track back and forth horizontally on this line, although I find that just keeping focused on one arrow, will usually enable me to hit all the others perfect too.

Don't try looking hard at one arrow and telling yourself not to look anywhere else though; you are likely to miss a perfect because you were not aware of the arrow's vertical position in you peripheral vision.

You need to be aware of the arrows as they come up, but you should not follow individual arrows with your eyes. Following the arrow will make you unaware of when to hit it and you will probably hit it early.
On easy songs, you will probably find yourself following the arrows up, but this is ok as long as your focus is on the stationery line. Although you are following the arrow, your eyes should jump ahead at the last moment and focus on the respective stator.

(4) It is also important to listen to the music, to get you hands moving in the correct rhythm. unless it's a song that is deliberately off beat (I can only think of one), In which case you may wish to turn off your sound.

(5) Though you can play with you hands resting on the desk or laptop, It is sometimes necessary to to re-adjust your hands. Whenever I do this while trying to AAA, More often than not, I hit a good. For this reason It it is important to have your hands in a comfortable position and also be sitting comfortably before starting the game.

During harder parts of a song, it sometimes helps to lift your hands away from the desk/laptop. This can be done without any disturbance to your PA. You may want to play the whole song with your hands removed (away from the keypad, not resting on anything. Not lopped off!) if it gives more freedom.

There are many ways you can setup your keys and hold you hands, but I think these are of no great importance. The most important thing is to keep you hands relaxed and don't get tense at harder parts of the song.


Thank-you for reading, I hope that this has helped.
<jokes>Most of this material was taken from the bestselling paperback "FFR for dummies". Credit to the authors.</jokes>

[Anbu_BluE]

Re: How to get better at FFR

Practice makes perfect thats all there is to it

[digital love]

Re: How to get better at FFR

Oooooooooooohhhh snap!

[who_cares973]

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i like to play around 10 games at a higher speed mod then go down to my usual speed. it seems to help my reading abilities but i dont know it could just be me

[Luigi186]

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i just play and im pretty decent lol idk mabey its just from playing guitar hero alot lol

[Ratchetlombax]

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Who here thinks Death Piano is too easy?

I have been playing FFR for three days and counting, and I have only watched one video of FFR before actually signing up. Despite having the For Guru's Only difficulty rating, the arrow patterns seem to be annoyingly simple to me. Does anyone else think the same? I wound up with about 300,000 points on my first try... and I'm trying to put up a petition for Xi to release a harder, Death Piano V2 to the public...

[Breakdown16]

Re: How to get better at FFR

Who here thinks Death Piano is too easy?

I have been playing FFR for three days and counting, and I have only watched one video of FFR before actually signing up. Despite having the For Guru's Only difficulty rating, the arrow patterns seem to be annoyingly simple to me. Does anyone else think the same? I wound up with about 3,000,000 points on my first try... and I'm trying to put up a petition for Xi to release a harder, Death Piano V2 to the public...

First of all, Xi is the artist of the song, not the stepfile. Secondly, you can't force the person who made the stepfile to make a v2. Third, I'm sorry, but I can't help but doubt your legitimacy if you've only been playing this game for three days and already can score higher than even many master players.

Edit: You made a typo there. You scored 300,000 points, not 3,000,000 points. In my eyes, not impressive at all, but that's still a very remarkable pass if you've been here for such a short while. Death Piano is not easy in the slightest. Try getting a 1000+ combo - can you do it? Then consider the insane skill required to FC, which some people have done legitimately. It's easy for me to FC most FMOs and lower, but FGOs are crazy songs that only the best can score well on.

Second edit: You didn't even pass it and you call it easy?

[Ratchetlombax]

Re: How to get better at FFR

First of all, Xi is the artist of the song, not the stepfile. Secondly, you can't force the person who made the stepfile to make a v2. Third, I'm sorry, but I can't help but doubt your legitimacy if you've only been playing this game for three days and already can score higher than even many master players.

I'm not FORCING anyone to write a stepfile. I'm just suggesting it, because I don't know how to create stepfiles, though if I did, I WOULD take the time to write a Death Piano II stepfile to one of my classical piano compositions of similar genre (Yes, I play piano, which is why I'm more interested in this than the hugely infamous Vertex Beta vROFL). If you don't believe I can rack up three hundred thousand on a supremely difficult song like this ON MY FIRST TRY, I won't blame you. I do think the stepfile is rather ingenious, what with NINE different note-colors in it, but I did have trouble at the wall of doom preceeding quad jacks. However, the fact remains I have a virtually superhuman reaction timing (fifty microseconds), as was demonstrated in one of my relatively well-known YouTube videos. I'm not saying I came close to AAA'ing it--no, I got lower than 500 perfects on it--but I just had a feeling it wasn't tough enough. DEATH PIANO is a name that is supposed to bring chills down someone's spine before they play it, and promptly burn out their fingers while they play it, as they stare in shock at the ridiculously high scores that FFR Gods and Goddesses have attained (of whom I believe MrRubix was the grand champion).

My apologies for my lack of indentation, spacing and paragraphs.

Edit: I keep losing after the yellow-red-yellow-red section following the second burst, but prior to that I find it too easy. The only real problem I face is that I have to double-tap some of my keysto get them to register, which winds up giving me boos and misses occasionally.

Second Edit: I DID INDEED complete it. My top score is now slightly over 810,000. Now that I have a working Fingerworks TouchStream I have NO TROUBLE getting the notes right.