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er-chan1

Pokebis wrote:

Note: I'm just putting this together at the moment and it most definantly not where it will be eventually, I will add Tips by songs and more directions and such. You can still use the guide but it will not be perfect at the moment.

Have you just started osu! and downloaded a song you like to realize you're terrible at it? Plenty of people pour in with this problem so I'm offering a solution- A simple guide that direct you to songs that will help improve your skill level. In other words, Beginner's Training.
Basically I will show you good maps to learn from so you can progress into the magical world of osu!
I will put this together in steps each step doesn't need to be followed precisely, but is a general blueprint of how to get started and practicing.


In steps I will list maps in an order, by no means you actually have to play in order but this is what I suggest.

STEP ONE: The Beginning
Welcome to the osu! Hotel!! My name is Pokebis and I will serve as your guide! :)
If you're new to osu! and have no idea where to start Step 1 is certainly the right direction!
Here you will learn general beat hitting, hitting to rhythm, hitting to vocals, and some minor mouse control.
Welcome to the world of osu! :D
Your Rhythmical adventure begins here.

Also remember to look at the mode I'm suggesting, these are all easy maps.

1) ORANGE RANGE - Ikenai Taiyou [Beginner] --This is a really good welcome map to your wonderful osu! journey! Click the circles when the shrinking circles overlap; those are called beats. The circles that extend are called sliders; they do the same thing except a ball comes out; keep your mouse button held and move the cursor over the ball in till it reaches the end! When a large circle appears on the screen hold down the mouse button and spin the cursor in circles, this is called a spinner and if you are fast enough you may pick up some bonus points! Also when none of the things I mentioned earlier appear and a painted circle or X appears don't do anything, it's a break you can rest.This song is good to learn the basic skills, if you find it too easy you can skip to #4.
2) Silvertide - Devil's Daughter [Easy] --This map is good for practicing spinners.
3) Steel Angels - Kiss Kara Hajimaru Miracle [Easy] -- This map is a really good foreshadow of what's to come. Try to click to a repeating beat.
4) Catherine Warwick - Pollyanna (I Belive In You) [Easy] -- This is where the real fun begins. Try to find patterns within the song to help you follow them.
5) Neon Genesis Evangelion - Cruel Angel's Thesis [Rei (Easy)] -- Really listen to the music in this map as it goes along. This is where the beats are really relevant to the song and you need to listen to the song to know when to hit them. This map also introduces double beats which are beats on top of each other. You'll know when you see them.] Also watch out for 1-2-3 combo's that go back and forth, they can be tricky. Also the notes are smaller now, but still pretty large compared to harder maps.
6) Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey [Easy] -- This map is a really great display of how to follow the tempo of a song.
7) Nights: Journey of Dreams - Dreams Dreams (Will Version) [Easy] -- This map teaches you how to follow vocals in a song. Try and tap when they say words.
8) KOTOKO - agony [Easy] -- This song has a lot of sliders that repeat. If you haven't learned by now, when there is a bent arrow on the end of the slider that means to keep holding onto the ball the other way.
9) BrainCells, SnappleMan - Scrambled Eggman [Beginner]Mini-Boss alert! -- This map may seem a little tough, but if you can beat it that means your making some progress! If you have trouble go back to some earlier maps and brush up (also you could try and improve scores while your at it!)
BOSS) Hyadain - CRASH!! (Let's do it) [Easy]Boss alert! -- Now it's time to put what you learned to the test. Apply what you learned earlier as this map has a lot of just that!
BONUS CHALLENGE) Initial D - Running in the 90's [Easy] -- Here is another nice beginner challenge map, try it whenever you feel.
Step Two: The beat begins
Refresher) Arashi - Love So Sweet [Easy] - Use this map as a nice refresher for what was covered in the last step. Pretty Easy. Note that the heart-shaped slider starts going to the left. An arrow will pop up to help you know which way to start on that slider.
1) All American Rejects - Swing Swing [Easy] - Now you may want to start taking into consideration beat spacing. Beat spacing usually is a very helpful way of knowing when to hit a beat. If beats are closer together, you should try to hit them within a shorter amount of time. If beats are far away. allow a longer amount of time to hit them. Also allow spacing to help you identify patterns that may occur in different ways. Also note the little circles that connect each beat. They always follow to the beat right after it, so use this to identify the order in which to hit the beats.

2) Alestorm - Nancy The Tavern Wench [Teatotaller]
3) Hatsune Miku - Miku Miku ni shite ageru [Easy]
4) The Wingless - All the World in One Girl [Easy]
5) The Black Mages - Battle Theme (Final Fantasy VI) [Easy]
6) Michiru Yamane/Masahiko Kimura - Bloody Tears [Easy]
7) Animal Crossing - DJ KK [Easy]
8) Hatsune Miku - THIS IS SPARTAAA!!! [Easy] Mini-Boss Alert!
9) TAITO - Snow Melt Into Water (JET de GO!) [Easy]
BOSS) Puffy Ami Yumi - K2G [Easy] Boss Alert!!
BONUS CHALLENGE) Jakazid - Cillit Bang (Hardcore Mix) [Easy]


General Tips
  • If you're ever having trouble figuring out how to hit some beats or how a combo is spaced look to the side of the screen on song select. There you will see scores that are either local or online. There is a button that looks either like a man or a chi-symbol at the top of the screen; it toggles local and online scores. Click on one of the scores to view the score page and click Watch Replay osu! will then begin replaying what that person did! Also when you finish a song, unless your computer has barely any space at all I recommend always saving your replay as they can deem useful to not only you, but others as well.
    Also If you're ever having any problems, feel free to drop into chat (F8) and talk to us, we are a really nice community! (As long as you don't say something dumb)
    Also Check the FAQ for more general answers.
Beatmap Packs
These packs are the maps in each step so you don't have to download them seperatly.You'll need Winrar to open them, don't worry it's free. Just extract the .rar folder in your osu! songs folder and you should be ready to go!
Step One
Step Two
Esperfaint
Trying it out,just started,so i'm pretty bad at this game.Thanks for the song list! :)
Mykeul33
Thanks for the amazing job ! started some days ago and i just finished eggman in normal, it's plain fun !
KudWafu
Nice work with the tutorial, recommended it to a friend.
Pilesos
I started with this tutorial about 3 months ago and i have to say that this tutorial was really helpful.

Unfourtunately something went wrong and i started only playing one certain hard Beatmap in order to pass it for days. ^^

The rest is history
mattitomatti
im gonna dl this thx
Pawsu
This is great, thank you for putting this together!
[ LuCiel ]
Thank you for the information! Really helpful :)
Delts_old
Is there any post like this, but to help make a better transition into higher difficulty?
Infernocash
Just started this game and wish I saw this earlier lol, still cant seem to get the repeated sliders though :|
Sheepsticks
Thanks! Great song list.
MrBakpao
good tutorial
Lvl 1 Magikarp
Nice tutorial, only wished i saw this when i was a newbie :p
JeremyTechnika
I will download this if I'm still a newbie
evora
Thank you thank you thank you this helps sooooo much!! :)
Santeri
wow thanks, i would've never survived without playing these maps
WildFury
I have to admit if it wasn't for this guide I might have just tried Osu for a few hours and given up even (Just like with the Korean DDR Beatmania) even though I'm playing on a tablet pc.

(I'm glad I stuck with it though even if the learning curve was like 1-2 days before I could actually keep up with the song's beat).

So Thank You Very Much For This Awesome Beginner's training Guide POKEBIS!!!

I'm really enjoying myself even if I can't help but think whenever I listen to music now, no matter if its on an mp3 player or in a Anime Music Video on youtube could I possibly find/play a map for that in Osu?



Anyway I would like to point out for other newbies like myself........

1.Stick with songs with the Easy Difficulty from this guide! Even if Orange Range seems to be moving too fast at first lol.
After you earn a C rating on this song branch out an select what ever song you want to play from Step 1 of Pokebis's Guide, because there is no certain order to play them.

(That's what I did and now I can last for half if not an entire song on difficulty normal even if I'm not making A's or B's yet but I am slowly getting the S's for the songs 1-5 of the guide's Step 1 even though I'm still struggling on Code Monkey/Nights/BrainCells/Hyadain Crash even though I have already gotten an S on Kotoko Agony!)


2.Practice and Practice to the point that you start humming/ singing the songs when your away from the PC! (Even if you can't tell in the 1st day you will be able to see a difference by day 3 or 4.)

3.Do not be a perfectionist ! Just bother to make it through one of the song's 4 sections! (An before you know it you will be able to make it through 2 of the 4 sections with no mistakes.)

4. Never Ever Click on that Skip Button on the bottom right corner! (Use this time to listen to the song/take a deep breath to calm down/take a sip of your drink/wipe your graphic tablet or tablet pc off with a tiny drop of water using a micro fiber cloth of course to get rid of any dried up sweat).

Warning: If your playing with a Graphic Tablet or Tablet Pc cover your screen or play area with a transparency to protect them from the spinners (That's what I'm doing) .


5.At this point you should be able to at least follow the tempo of a song like Catherine Warwick's Pollyanna/ Steel Angels Kiss Kara Hajimaru Miracle by lightly bopping your head/toe tapping/light knee rocking while playing through 1 of the songs 4 sections (My brother was absolutely astounded when he found me head bopping but side to side as I played through Steel Angels Kiss Kara Hajimaru Miracle's sections lol)


6.After your able to complete Steel Angels Kiss Kara Hajimaru Miracle following the beat with mistakes still present or not! Try finding some more anime themes you enjoy (Since those are not very long they will help build up your endurance for longer songs such as Jonathan Coulton Code Monkey/Nights Journey of Dreams Dreams /Initial D Running in the 90's /Kotoko's Agony.



My Recommendation for a Easy map for beginners that can play the Initial D's Running in the 90's map from this guide should check out

IceBeam's map for Rasmus's In the Shadows (Yeah, I enjoyed this song so much in a vampire knight amv over at youtube I just had to try it in the game.)

Also maybe other newbies like me would want to use a skin instead of seeing those boring slider balls in the game (I switched mine to the vampire knight skin with yuki punching zero back lol).
BrianH0_0
Thanks for the guide, hoping to get a high score on a song in the Top 50 ;)
Furasaki
This is amazing .-.
zorosmart96
thanks a lot i was strugling in with some random maps but now with your list i am getting better (y)
Reaper16_old
Thanks!! ^_^
Ananda
I want to know everything.
Female

Cindy Miky wrote:

I want to know everything.
then digest as much information as you can when playing games
Ananda
okay. thanks
Dreamgate
i did everything etc but im still bad any halp????
Klockwerk

[timefrozen] wrote:

i did everything etc but im still bad any halp????
Moar kpop for pp pls
MiaxPls
6 years ago you made this topic and it helped me and my friends a lot with starting few days ago. I thank you very much in my name and theirs! :)
Miku Maekawa

Klockwerk wrote:

[timefrozen] wrote:

i did everything etc but im still bad any halp????
Moar kpop for pp pls
yes
ClawViper
I started osu! using this. Nostalgic. Can't believe its already more than a year...
akitoApocalypse
This guide really helped for me. Thanks a lot!
Even though it's only been a month I am already getting better!
Though I have a long way to go before I get good... :o
RivenDaddy
What you want to do if your a beginner is just to practice everyday on song that you can play. if you can master them play harder songs <3
Fatal3ty
This Map have a Problem: https://osu.ppy.sh/?p=beatmap&s=2434


No matter how many times I try, I always fail at the same place! I can try 1000 times, there is nothing better. I catch the wrong Circle permanently and no matter how many times I watch replays does nothing. I despair! :cry:

It involves quite of the map, where Circle appeared confused. Since I'm never coming back! :cry:
Pilesos
This beginners training appears to be really outdated. I used it myself to get into osu in 2013 but now i feel it needs to be updated as the mapping style of some of these maps feels almost a bit too oldschool.
sayonara_sekai
yep. If I could start over I wouldnt touch this thread. The maps are really really bad and almost made me not want to play this game when I was starting out.
Bayley
I agree
FGKY
If you're using this guide, stop.
d3athl3lad3
Thank you sooo much , i was looking for something like this to start out :)
StampySenpai
TEST :):p
Kouya-
I finished all your maps sensai, what now ?
SomeLoli

Kouya- wrote:

I finished all your maps sensai, what now ?
you're ready for big black
Yuudachi-kun

SomeLoli wrote:

Kouya- wrote:

I finished all your maps sensai, what now ?
you're ready for big black

There is no loli ready for the big black.
SomeLoli

Kheldragar wrote:

There is no loli ready for the big black.
never underestimate a loli :oops:
drflash55

SomeLoli wrote:

Kouya- wrote:

I finished all your maps Sensai, what now?
You're now ready for "The Big Black".

*Clears throat*
Not in a million years.
Masaki Ren
This really help today's my first day playing and after play these songs I feel that I can now play more difficult songs now. :)
Meetra_old
theres maps are harder then harder ones. Which makes no sense but the circle closes so slow its easier to click faster ones
Kher
Nice songs, I'll have to try them out :D
MomoPrecil
I think the beatmaps which suitable for newbie nowadays is beatmap which has Lanturn's Beginner :D
Haila1801
Thanks for the beginners pack....It help me a lot to improve my osu skills.. :lol: :P :) :D
Amb_r
Google led me here for nub beatmaps, thanks for this :)
Barusamikosu_old_1

Khelly wrote:

These maps are old and bad

Pokebis wrote:

BOSS) Hyadain - CRASH!! (Let's do it) [Easy]Boss alert! -- Now it's time to put what you learned to the test. Apply what you learned earlier as this map has a lot of just that!
Burai's Insane is pretty fun tho. ;)
jaraxus_old
Thank you for maps с:
Arief Santosa
thanks for beginner map, download 'em now ;)
SS-Senpai
I like this guide ! Good Job
Pituophis
This should be unstickied/unpinned/whatever-it's-called or at least updated. I don't think this is good training for beginners today. idk, im a scrub.
Y0uR_N1GHTC0RE
Thanks a lot !
Big help for me :D
SoFast
Nice guide!
Want_old_2
20
buny

Frostmourne wrote:

20
nice multi
ZenithPhantasm
Bump for necro
Zipko123
guys is there any map to help me move on ar9 ? :D @3-3,8* map player :S
Endaris
There's no point in specifically learning higher AR(and especially not AR9).
Reading higher AR is linked to your eyes and the way your brain perceives and uses the information given by your eyes. The quality and speed of that process will get better if you play anything and mostly the highest common AR you're comfortable on - which is most likely AR8 for you.
Some day it will just make click in your brain and AR9 feels natural, no need to force it through specific AR9 practice.

That being said, you can search for maps with AR between 8 and 9 by utilizing the external site http://osusearch.com and setting an AR-limit there(for example 8.1-8.7) to find maps that bring you closer to AR9 without playing AR9 itself.
Zettaiken
Good Training for newbies :) And nice tips but for me the best tip to get better and better is just playing harder maps than you can pass with NoFail mode its really helpfull and after practicing you get more experience in osu! :)
horohorogame
I train on 4-5* maps + dt :D It very improve my reaction !
DeletedUser_1503728
Are there any good triangle training maps? Preferably 4-5 stars, any AR
Axenchia Mica
great thread, thankyou! :)
Poku
this was 7 years ago D::

Wow, even in today's standard's that is a pretty good tutorial tbh
sevuan
This helped me a lot, thank you so much! :D
Coward
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klepon_old
Thanks for sharing.

There are good beatmap for newbie. Easy to learn and This Is Sparta is totally SPARTA!!!!! 8-)
SumoPower
Do I still need to practice those maps? I have been already playing this for a month.
It is hard to manage to get perfect on easy versions and pass on hard ones.
F4yde
there are some good maps out there, you just need to search around :D
TRU3PER
I should have checked this out when I was a noob. Now I hate that kind of circles.
AllianceS_old
That's so great for new players ... Thanks a lot. The easy mode for a random track is actually NOT easy for me :p. So again thank you for that
Axon
oo thx for this m8
Arch Boy
Thanks for the tips
Scarlet Evans
If some maps are unavailable, try searching for them here: http://bloodcat.com/osu/

Don't worry with Korean language :P Just type in the song name, artist or some other key word and search, like here:
http://bloodcat.com/osu/?q=kalafina+madoka&c=b&s=&m=

Green triangles in upper left corner means that beatmap is Ranked and will give you Performance Points for completion :)
Ronja
this helped me a lot when i started lol
but back then i didnt know how to make posts :^)
Lincher
Probably no one new gets into here xD
Anyways good maps for FL plays ;v
Insolar
tyvm, im pretty new so these will be very useful
DreadfulPretzel
I got better in a week or 2 by doing this guide completely wrong! The first one for the beatmap Ikenai Taiyou I saw "if it's to easy skip to #4" I thought it meant do the hardest level on that beatmap. I DID ALL THE BEATMAPS AT THE HARDEST LEVEL POSSIBLE AND WAS ABLE TO DO 4 STARS AFTER! 8-)
IIITesTerIII
Thanks for the advices! This tutorial is very useful and helped me out! :D
pott3r
Good job!
Helpful guide for beginners, for me aswell :D
NixumMe
Just w8 so it isnt bad doing 3.5 stars in 2 weeks? Because I can't find an other way to improve....
I hope someone can help me find some maps that can help me improve :P
I'm actually a faster type of player. I mean that I seek maps with really much doubletapping etc. cuz Im bad at it. :? :(
NiceChaos
Thanks a lot for this guide! Thanks to your beatmap list I could practica in a good way. I started playing osu! yesterday evening and now I'm able to play All Americans Reject- Swing Swing [Easy] with a 92% accuracy but I know I have still ways to go though.
- Mha -
guide for 5* please im stuck there
ZodiacLyfe
This is actually really helpful lmao. I only started osu! yesterday and I can say that I'm doing all right 8-)
Giai tich 2
Thanks. You've done a great job.
Caput Mortuum
someone should update this lel
Buster

Eraser wrote:

someone should update this lel
who cares the maps are perfect for training
PolluxK01
Thanks for the guide.
It's helped me a good bit.
Lhahein
this was 9 years ago...
If there was a version for the more recent kinds of mapping (because 2009 mapping is pretty outdated), that'd be cool.
Moon Sugar
It is still helpful and there's a reason why it's been a sticky for (probably) 9 years.
Caput Mortuum
yes the reason is nobody bothers to remake it
putranenjap123
This may works for me... :) :D
Lhahein

Moon Sugar wrote:

It is still helpful and there's a reason why it's been a sticky for (probably) 9 years.
Helpful if you want to become WWW and FC old maps
But mapping has changed over 9 years and the maps here are different from the maps of nowadays. Also yes, I might plan to make a remake of this.
FlipSide82

ThunderQX wrote:

when i unpacked to songs... i cant lauch it in osu game what i can do?
u have to find the file at the end that says like .osu or somethin XD
:lol:
FlipSide82

putranenjap123 wrote:

This may works for me... :) :D
hopefully it does cuz i really don't need this advice XD idk why but XD
8-)
Discuz

Conicalegbert wrote:

Moon Sugar wrote:

It is still helpful and there's a reason why it's been a sticky for (probably) 9 years.
Helpful if you want to become WWW and FC old maps
But mapping has changed over 9 years and the maps here are different from the maps of nowadays. Also yes, I might plan to make a remake of this.
As a player of this new generation, I can say that old maps are quite interesting to me.
misjebaka
I used to be suck at osu... but after I found this guide, now I only suck at osu mania! :)
7ambda

misjebaka wrote:

I used to be suck at osu... but after I found this guide, now I only suck at osu mania! :)
Nah, you still suck at both.
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