As requested (guest diff special rule),
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General]
- Try to find a nice custom normal clap, or just use soft-hitsound, the normal-hitclap really doesn't fit with this song
- Increase volume of hitsounds, some parts, only whistle / slider tick is audible, the soft-hitnormal hitsound isn't audible at all and make the hitsound feel rather empty.
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Easy]
00:00:139 (1,2,1,2) - Add a timing point on the slider tick and silent it (5%, but maybe do 10% or higher since 5% is really only for really soft part). Make the hitsound here sound much better to me.
00:10:259 (2,3) - Understand why you put on white ticks, but it sound much better to me on the red to follow the drums, how about two sliders (one begin on 00:10:078 and the other on 00:10:801)
http://puu.sh/kcy0? finish at both slider begin and perhaps use timing point to make the finish sound a bit different from each other (one higher volume, one lower volume)?
00:12:428 (slider tick on 4) - Silent this slider tick (5%/10%) as there is nothing in the music here.
00:29:054 (3) - Add a timing point to lower the volume of the finish? Sound a bit loud compare to the other hitsounds here, don't forget to add another timing point to put the volume back to normal.
00:44:958 (2) - Whistle with lowered volume at the begin
00:46:404 (4) - Maybe finish on the repeat? But not so sure about this since the finish in the music is on the red tick so it may sound late compare to the music.
00:40:621 (1,2,3,4) - Hear the drum tick at 00:40:982, 00:41:705, 00:42:428, 00:43:151? I think you should follow this with whistle, so whistle on (2,4) and remove all other whistle.
00:52:548 (2) - Remove whistle from end, sound like whistle spam to me when whistle are placed 1/1 in this song. Sound better to me to keep a space of 2/1 in the timeline for me.
00:55:078 (1,2,4,6) - Silent the slider ticks on these slider, the slider tick make this part sound like you put two whistle in a row, which as mention feel like spam and doesn't sound too good imo.
01:09:536 (3) - Don't think you should have whistle at end, song sound different here and it make me feel like the song is going to continue here, while the song is about to end here.
Slider tick is quite audible in this song, so be sure to make sure they all fit with the song and if they doesn't sound good with your hitsound pattern to lower volume / silent them. But map looks quite good, just don't hesitate to use red tick on easy, can make some part sound really a lot better.
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Normal]
Clap on the 2nd and 4 white tick, on the downbeat or 1st/3rd white tick for this song doesn't sound good. Also has to do with music theory, most song has snare drum on 2nd/4th white tick and clap is suppose to follow those sound. Taken from here, so read for a bit more info if you want
viewtopic.php?f=56&t=5895900:00:139 (1,1,1) - Silent these 3 slider ticks for the same reason as Easy.
00:25:801 (4) - No hitsound on this note, the normal-hitnormal sound fits perfectly with the drum sound in the background.
01:16:765 (3) - Clap on repeat and end to follow drums in background.
Can't mod hitsound on the part you did normal hitsound since the clap was distracting me. Definitely fit those clap to be on 2nd and 4th white ticks / do another hitsound pattern since I notice you have long sliders which will break this pattern and look for a custom clap for normal. Or if not, do soft hitsound for the whole song.
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Hard]
- Definitely +1 od, so low for the hardest diff in the map, and low compare to approach rate.
- Same comment about clap
00:00:139 (1,2) - I think you should stack (2) with end of slider (1), same for all similar pattern, fits nicer with the accent on the piano and you can perhaps even do jump on (3).
00:11:705 (2,4,6) - You can do jump for these 3 hit circles, to be honest feel weird without the jump.
00:32:669 (3) - Remove finish to keep consistency with how you've been doing finish every 4 white ticks.
00:34:114 (3) - ^ clap instead.
00:36:283 (6) - Clap at repeat and end, remove whistle at end. Follow drums.
01:18:211 (1,2,3,4,5,6) - This part is calm so whistle every 4 white ticks instead. Remove from (2,4) or (1,3,6)
Nice clean Hard, but be sure to experiment more with spacing, important if you want to map Insanes.
This map is quite good, you get a star from me, only thing I dislike is the hitsound (some part sound empty, normal-hitclap doesn't fit, weird slider tick sounds), fix those and I'm sure this map is very close to bubble/rank!