I didn't really read the thread, but I bet Aqo told you to nofail lots of shithard songs or something.
Well, from my own experience, even if playing the easier songs first is a slower approach, in the end it gives you the benefit of consistency. A lot of people who jump right into higher difficulties will begin to have bad habits such as keyboard mashing or just moving crsor in the general direction, hoping to hit, shaky hands etc.
By doing the slower approach, you'd instead just build upon what you already can do, so you never start getting bad habits. You always build upon the basics after all.
Of course, variation is good, but don't focus only on one thing or the other; you'll just get bad at something else.
As for retrying vs. new songs, it's up to you really. Playing lots of different songs will make you decent at lots of different movements and hitpatterns, while retrying the same maps will embed a few different movements and hitpatterns into your muscle memory. At least from my experience, playing different maps will up your overall ability to play lots of maps, while retrying the same maps will make you much more accurate at specific type of patterns (for example squares).
Ah well, in the end, just play. That's what I did anyway, and I just got kinda good after a while.
Well, from my own experience, even if playing the easier songs first is a slower approach, in the end it gives you the benefit of consistency. A lot of people who jump right into higher difficulties will begin to have bad habits such as keyboard mashing or just moving crsor in the general direction, hoping to hit, shaky hands etc.
By doing the slower approach, you'd instead just build upon what you already can do, so you never start getting bad habits. You always build upon the basics after all.
Of course, variation is good, but don't focus only on one thing or the other; you'll just get bad at something else.
As for retrying vs. new songs, it's up to you really. Playing lots of different songs will make you decent at lots of different movements and hitpatterns, while retrying the same maps will embed a few different movements and hitpatterns into your muscle memory. At least from my experience, playing different maps will up your overall ability to play lots of maps, while retrying the same maps will make you much more accurate at specific type of patterns (for example squares).
Ah well, in the end, just play. That's what I did anyway, and I just got kinda good after a while.