Improving your DDR skills

[Slowpoke]

[itrnottehpwnagetech?]

I have been doing 6s and 7s for a while now and they are getting boring in all honesty. I can do most of them with a B if not a A. Should I start doing Heavy 7s and stuff?
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[Slowpoke]

Absolutely!

[zeeke]

I have been playing on standerd and heavy for a while now but i still cant play really hard song on heavy(8s &9s)

[Shadow_Dragonz]

[Shadow_Dragonz]

[max,(comma)]

cross steps, practice practice. Songs like PARANOiA Survivor have alot of cross steps. Songs like the easier paranoia's, exotic ethnic, eotc, twinbee, freckles. the only cross step i have a problem with is in PS when it goes like. LULURURURU because in that part, im normally holding hte bar with both hands so i cant really twist that way.
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[Strider42]

Just make sure to do some workouts at home. Sit ups for your stomach muscles and squats for your leg muscles help out a lot. Also, standing on your tippie toes for a long time helps out with calfs. By the way, is there anyone who is good at the song Witch Doctor? it goes... oo eee oo ah ah.. tang tang walla walla bing bang. That's a cool song to dance to, it's just you have to step very fast when you hear "walla walla bing bang".

[DSforever]

When trying to learn hard songs... turn on handclaps and play it over and over and over for a few hours. this really helped me in Leading Cyber heavy, i was unable to tell when to step because the steps were so spread out and confusing. now when I go to the arcade I actually hear the claps in my head so i know when to step, like "Clap-clap-clap" or "Clap-clap-pause-clap-clap-clap"

Works miracles for me.

[Darkicarus]

[PKMN.YnoT]

Hi, a lot of you have posted that SM helps improve the arcade game play a lot, and I couldn't agree more, but some (few) here do not agree (and I MIGHT know why). I'm not sure if anyone mention this (I did not see it mentioned in the previous few pages of posts), but I think HOW you play on SM is also a big factor to your success at the real arcade.

When I first played SM, I used 2 hands, 2 fingers on each hand for each arrow, and I could AA just about any song any difficulty, even those that have hands and quads cuz there's a finger for each arrow, but I found that that did not improve my game play at arcade AT ALL (or at least very little... only on faster Reading speed).

Now (i.e. ever since I found out 4 finger SM was no good), I use 1 finger on each hand to play SM, so 1 finger on Left hand and 1 finger on Right, and they act like how I would play each song on arcade as if they were my feet, so I would do cross-overs with my fingers even on the keyboard, that seriously got things going... and passed PS on 2nd try (1st fail was due to lack of stamina).

*a side note though, learning how to double step while PAing is as important as learning how to crossover.
**2nd side note, someone a couple of pages back mentioned learning crossing over on quarter notes... and mentioned that it was a bit silly. On Single, it might SEEM silly, but then on Double Play, it is merely (almost always) good practice to cross over to the Center of the stage whenever you can... So, point I'm trying to make is, playing Double can ALSO help you learn crossovers, just try not to double-step your way from one pad to the next, and when u go back to Single, it should be much easier.
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[Alezay]

Playing SM with the assist tick on is also a nice help. After you learn the beat to the steps of the song, you can then practice getting the steps right. The problem with most people playing DDR and progressing to that "peak" is that they screw up because they don't know when to hit what steps because they don't listen to both their feet AND the music, but just the music. If you listen to others' feet when they hit the pad to songs such as The legend of MAX, it sounds much different then what some would picture because all they see is arrows and not the spacing between them. THAT, however would be a speed reading thing. The two biggest pieces of advice I could give a player that's just starting on DDR or is just beginning heavy: TURN & STEP AND LISTEN would be those things. If you don't turn, you'll never get crossovers EVER. and if you don't step and listen, you'll get a horrible PA. PAing is the next subject, ALWAYS GO FOR THE PA BEFORE YOU TRY FOR THE FC. If you constantly try to FC a song and your PA is bad, you won't get it. The better your PA is, the easier a FC will come your way. Take the below picture of my LoM score that I took today playing on my metal pad:



It's taken me a while to get to that point. But the real reason I'm at that point is because I did the above. And then some....However, the only thing I have left to add to the above is, PLAY WITH SOMEONE WHO IS BETTER THAN YOU ON THE SAME DIFFICULTY. USE THEIR METHODS (IF CORRECT) AND PRACTICE WITH A HOME VERSION. Now you're thinkin' "But no one cares what I can pass at home". That's because you would benifit much from putting the judge difficulty at 6-8. Then, if you make a mistake, you won't be coming back just like that. Once you can consistantly pass that hard song on an 8 difficulty with a C, at the arcade (which usually has the difficulty set at 4) you would probably obtain a B or better if you do well. (more or less so of your home version scores).

Well, that's my 2 cents.
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[Iconoclast0890]

I need to know how to double step really fast and keep a good PA on songs like Healing Vision (Angelic mix). Also foot speed... stamina is fine, my feet just won't move fast enough. If I go into Training Mode and put the speed to 1, I can AAA MAX 300, but if I turn up the speed anywhere past 3 I can't keep up. Also the 16th notes on V (for Extreme) Oni.

[Darkknight]

I'm a heavy player, and I'm horrible at PAs, any tips to help me get more perfects? Oh, and as for your problem, I would practice songs with 16ths, but kinda slow songs, and also, try stutter-stepping in place (y'know, like, stepping left and right as fast as possible)
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[boss matsumoto]

I give him props, I suck horribly at controller ddr and stepmania. I can pass max 300 on my feet, but not with the controller
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[Gunz]

I bear witness to a lot of people trying for the sole persuit of AAA's as opposed to overall skill. That's not a good way to get better. AAA's are a good representation of PA with x amounts of greats, but honestly someone that has like 35 AAA's and say 200/256 AA's shouldn't be going for them. I didn't get my first AAA until I had like 165 or so AA's, and I fluked it. I've always thought that eliminating weaknesses is the best way to get better. I'm getting to the point where AAA's are just coming out and they're not as hard anymore.
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