Improving your DDR skills

habersberger · Basic Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Location: tennessee

this is my first time ever posting. i have been playing about 7 months and all i ever do is practice at home and eventually after watching others occaisionally at arcades i figured how to to just about everthing. so thats the best thing i think you can do. and even though this is pretty much repeating what was said in the first post in this topic thinger, it is the most important.
so practice. a lot. and play at home. a lot. then go to an arcade and watch.
then practice more.
now that ive been the 87th person to say that here i feel as if im from the department of redundency department
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Warg · Trick Member Joined: 27 Jan 2003

What about this:
I can beat catas and stuff but I have trouble sometimes. See, the problem is, I don't get enough practice. I can only get maybe an hour in a day because I have a life! I don't wanna give up, but I wanna make my feet go faster in songs like Afronova and Max 300

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Tenaciousmonk · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 10:44 pm Post subject:

azvision2u · Trick Member Joined: 01 Jul 2003

dang, heavy mode is hard. i only can pass Dynamite Rave Down Sota Bird Mix, Candy (heart) Remember You, and more....

so do i need to really practice?
i keep on losing at the same spot...

Tenaciousmonk · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 10:22 pm Post subject:

People have different ways at getting better. The main thing is lay off the heavy songs you know you can do. Make sure to play with other people, it will only benefit you. Let them know that you aren't so good at heavy, and they will probably help you pick out some easy songs to play, and if they don't feel like doing an easy song, simply step it down to standard for that song.

Playing with others is the best way to get good, because you can listen and feel how their feet hit the beats, and sometimes you can even look over if you are confused (especially gallops, I didn't understand until I saw a friend do it, then I got it first try).

BuRnInThAfLo415 · Trick Member Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: In CaLi

Sorry If this has been asked before, but how do you improve your stamina? I can pass Dam Dariam KCPmix on maniac with a C...,but I get really exhausted afterward and I fail hero grandale on maniac...so can anybody give me tips please?

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Icculus · Trick Member Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Location: Somerset, MA

well, it takes a whole lot of stamina to pass Dropout on maniac with a B (suggesting that i did). So what i did was just keep doing songs that require stamina and keep practicing.

Nolaquen · Basic Member Joined: 28 May 2003

er.. I'm kind of stuck. I'm stuck between 5 and 6 footers. I've read all the improving gameplay stuff, but it still doesn't seem to work. can anyone reccomend some excersizes or a specific song I can work on that might improve my gameplay and help me advance further?
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God of Gambling · Basic Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003

Er, well I've been playing for a bit, and I can finally do 9-footers, but I'm still failing on hard 8's and stuff. This has sorta helped me a bit, but from experience I think that the only thing that can get you better is time. Eventually you'll just be able to do it. Er, now I just have to tackle 10-footers, and maybe get AAA on something... or even AA...

Commander A9 · Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 9:13 pm Post subject:

I'M BACK!!!

Yeah, I know I lurk, more like ghost, but whatever.

Yeah, chalk up something for me, too. Time to ditch the red foot, cause now I can do songs on the Maniac levels. Good ones are Brilliant 2 U, Burnin' The Floor, and Drop The Bomb. You'll never learn unless you do 'em, and I have and am still. Here to stay, here to dance.
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Glorious Maniac · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: ...

I don't care if what I have to say has been said, I'm too lazy to read all the posts.

-Listen to the beats and music in the songs, and what ones are accented, because a lot of complicated steps will revolve around this, such as Gradiusic Cyber and Spin The Disc.

-Look for repeated rhythms in step patterns, like Dynamite Rave and such.

-Play different kinds of songs a lot (fast, slow, high-Voltage/Stream/Chaos/Air/Freeze, balanced) because doing this helps you to recognize step patterns like individual gallops vs. jumps, gallop streams, step-jumps, and certain rhythms.
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DDRKirisu · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:41 pm Post subject:

BuRnInThAfLo415 · Trick Member Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: In CaLi

Man...just as I was begginning to practice and be able to pass Hero grandale...I go to tha movies and then I noticed the new green title DDR Extreme...dang...I played it anyways, but although a lot of people like Extreme I don't like most of the songs plus when I played last Wed. it froze then when I played on Saturday it froze twice! Century 20 shouldve stuck with 4th mix or upgraded it to 5th mix....well does anyone suggest any songs that they like playing on Extreme, so I can try out songs people like...k well thanks for your help....

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BuRnInThAfLo415 · Trick Member Joined: 14 May 2003 Location: In CaLi

Well...thanks a lot for your help ma fellow DDR people...I can do better on the maniac songs with a B such as Dam Dariam KCP mix

I used to got a C but I built up stamina to pass the song...allright ttyl peace....
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gooniegoogoo · Trick Member Joined: 06 Jul 2003

I learned to read the arrows first by playing with the controller. Reading the arrows became no problem. Then I bought a homepad to develop my foot and eye cordination. As I got better, I started playing more on the arcade. Playing on the arcade is sooooo much better cuz of sliding 'n stuff. Once you start getting the hang of all the 8th beats and blah blah, play Max300 on standard. It will increase your foot speed making the rest of the songs, like Healing Vision Angelic mix, slower. I use Max 300 as my second song to make me ready for a hard one on my third. And its good to keep your body still, not all swingish. Kinda like what Yasu does in video where he's playing max unlimited w/o the bar.

BuRnInThAfLo789 - On the machine (not pad), press both arrows on your side and it'll give you a list of more songs in alphabetical order. Some good songs are: Max300, A, Paranoias, Trip Machines

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Pants Pants Revolution · Basic Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: Georgia

Learn to play an instrument. The music is probably the most important part of a... er, song

. Learning an instrument will help you pick up the beat to a song, and your timing will drastically improve. I play bass guitar and drums, and even when I just started out, I have always been able to get a much larger percentage (75% or more) of perfects than most beginners on most songs.

Play on your toes. Not only will you be able to move faster, but you'll gain back some energy from your calf muscles, causing a "spring" that picks up your foot, so you won't tire your muscles doing so. On eighth notes that are all on one button, you can use this bounce to easily hit them fast enough. Once you get the hang of it, you'll have no trouble switching from note to note like this (like in R3).

Listen to some techno music. Go download some DDR songs online. Listening to the genre will give it a more natural feel, and you can identify the lines and loops of the instruments. This will also help you pick up the beats to DDR songs.

Learn to read notes. Vary the songs you play/order you play them in, and you'll learn how to sort out those difficult patterns that cloud the screen like storm... clouds

(like Orion .78).

Practice, practice, practice! Nothing works better than playing the game!
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OnIMaxX · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Location: paradise CA

YEAH MAN I'M A HARCORE CLARINET PLAYER AND IT HELPS ALOT.

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Pants Pants Revolution · Basic Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: Georgia

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Seriously, though, there is no top-secret technique. Just learn how to find the beat of the song a and read the arrows, and you'll be playing better in no time.
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DJ SODO · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2003 1:33 pm Post subject:

hi, i would say i am pretty good, i can do one Heavy song (Abyss-B,) most Standard songs, and all Light songs. the thing that keeps me from getting better grades is when there are steps like left, half-beat down, right, or right, half-beat down, left, and steps that are in one direction, but all half-beats, like in abyss heavy how there are all right or all left half-beats. i just simply cannot do those! i have a crappy third party pad with cardboard under it to keep it solid, but that doesnt affect how well i do, besides the fact that sometimes left doesnt press,

but still, i need to figure out how to make those steps or i will never progress in heavy mode!

BTW, i have DDRMAX and DDR Konamix home version.
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