Did reading arrows just sorta......click?

xpguardian · Trick Member Joined: 11 Mar 2005

When you first started playing DDR, did it take time to learn to read heavy arrows, or did it just sorta click? Like, i was thinking about trying DDR so i was at the mall one day watching people play and all of a sudden it just clicked on how to read the arrows and i could read the arrows on heavy. Of course it took about a week of playing every day to get my feet where they needed to go. so my did this happen to anyone else?
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[D.C.]-{dJ_DDR} · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: Chi-town

It sort of clicked, it took me a while to master heavy and learn the steps, but I kept on practicing.

Props to you on learning so fast, not many people can do that, good job

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tis kelly · Trick Member Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Location: dairy day

Yes it definitely does click after a while.

T33J4Y · Trick Member Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Location: Macedon, NY

i remember the first song i ever did was la copa loca on light, and i was really good i didnt need anyone to explain how to play it. If you ask me, it's a relatively easy game to play. Plain and simple.

DAF · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Location: In CP

It did for me. But reading arrows is easy as long as you know the rythmn and the sound it makes when you step on the arrows at the right time.
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Pandemonium · Trick Member Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Location: Swansea, MA

Try reading Orion.78 ameuro mix on heavy 1x.
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xpguardian · Trick Member Joined: 11 Mar 2005

orion .78 ameuro is on of the first songs i learned. its wasnt that hard for me cause i started out with no speed multipliers or solo or anything so reading dense arrows was never a problem.
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-Manic- · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 6:58 pm Post subject:

I had to play with a controller for maybe 2 weeks straight before i could read them. Actually learning to move my feet that quick is another story.
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t3h 3d · Trick Member Joined: 17 Jun 2004

When I first started playing , I accually read the arrows " UP , DOWN , LEFT" now it's like a pattern .

NegFactor · Posted: Thu May 12, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject:

Heh...Orion .78 Ameuro on x1...I'm the only person locally here who can do that. Everyone else does it on x2 or x3 (mostly x3). Of course, for all my ability to do that on x1, Bag utterly terrifies me when I try to read it on x1.

As for the clicking in your head of how to read arrows, that's about the way things worked for me. I have a gift for pattern recognition in general, so it helps a lot for me. There are still a few sets of note patterns that my brain will lock up on...but just as logic would dictate...if you play something enough times, you're going to start to notice things about it that you might have taken for granted before...so yes, keep up your practice and everything will fall into its right place.

phonyreal · Trick Member Joined: 17 Mar 2005

I really don't read individual arrows too much anymore. I have all the common step sequences (butterfly steps and its variations, crossovers etc) memorized so I read more like phrases of arrows. However, I'm good at individual arrow reading if I have to anyway.
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Dj Sway · Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

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xpguardian · Trick Member Joined: 11 Mar 2005

yo leo las flechas en pautas, en vez de leo flechas individualmente.

ya but this is an english board so no spanish. haha
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bxv2 · Trick Member Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Location: Kailua, Hawaii

It just comes with playing easy songs first. Im sure you noticed, but heavy songs many times have steps that you would find in basic songs, except that they are linked together, or put off beat.

Doing Boom Boom Dollar on basic 1000 times on basic like I did helps eventually ;D
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Love.you · Basic Member Joined: 08 May 2005 Location: SOFLA

I remember my very first heavy(expert) song on DDR. It was PYFIM on the old school DDRUSA. I had been playing on standard for a while, and after watching the local guys play expert, I decided to give it a shot. I was relatively young at that time (I think 11 or 12) and it took me a few tries, but I eventually got the hang of reading the longer strings of notes.

I took a break for about a year after that and am currently working on passing max300 heavy

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