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hopefully this was helpful, and gl ranking this! really nice map overall
[Taiko Stage]
00:05:641 (36) - make this a d? that way 00:05:244 (32,33,34,35,36,37) would be kkd kdd, emphasizing the decreasing pitch of the guitar melody across these two beats (from Gb to F, to be specific). additionally, this would highlight the K finisher at 00:05:879 (38) more by allowing it to contrast with a greater number of ds (hopefully that makes sense)
00:15:800 (105) - change to d for the same reason as above
00:44:847 (274) - also change to d, for sort of a similar reason on a larger scale; the chord progression from this measure to the next increases overall in pitch (from a D#m chord to F#M). while there’s already a greater number of ks in the second measure to bring out this change, the fact that there’s kkd in both bars sort of negates that. making 00:44:768 (273,274,275) a kdd triplet would thus a) create a more significant contrast between these two measures and b) allow the high note in the guitar solo at 00:44:768 (273) (it’s actually the highest note in this four-measure phrase) to be highlighted more sharply by having the patterning contain a single k instead of two (added bonuses yay~)
01:15:403 (467) - make this a k for the sake of consistency - throughout this entire section, starting at the end of the first kiai, you use ks to emphasize the last two notes at the end of guitar phrases (01:02:705 (381,383), 01:05:244 (398,400), 01:07:784 (414,416), 01:10:324 (431,434), 01:12:863 (449,451), and 01:17:943 (484,487) - sorry for the timestamp spam). this stands out as the one spot where that emphasis doesn’t happen, and there’s nothing about it that warrants the difference (ie it’s not the end of the section, a particularly different melody, etc.)
01:45:800 (645) and 01:55:958 (712) - change to ds, for the same reason as the third suggestion
03:00:558 (1086) - change to d; the reasoning for this is similar to the third suggestion in terms of creating contrast using kdd and kkd (the kkd being part of a quintuplet at 03:01:272 (1092,1093,1094) - ), but there’s another reason that would justify this. if you listen at 02:59:368 (1078,1082,1085,1090) and focus on the beats that occur where i’ve highlighted, there’s an instrumental part (piano? violin? idk orz) that plays really short notes on those beats (a B on the first note and an A on the other three). as such, changing 03:00:479 (1085,1086,1087) to a kdd would allow consistency by having all those beats be emphasized by a single k
03:21:907 - the section starting here almost entirely consists of ddkkd patterns and streams, so imo it could use some variety, especially considering how colorful the guitar solo is. to follow along with how the majority of my mod has been changing kkd to kdd, i’d change the four notes at 03:23:097 (1257,1260,1273,1287) to ds, thus adding some variations into this first half of the solo that follow its increasing pitch. as for the second half, 03:29:446 (1327,1335) could be changed to ds to make for a more interesting pattern that would still follow the solo moving up and down between three notes
03:55:478 (1507) and 04:05:637 (1574) - change to d, same as the third suggestion
04:11:272 (1612,1613,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618,1619) - ok this follows the rhythm but it was hard for me to sightread without spamming and hoping i didn’t miss (although granted i’m a scrub lol). if you added ks in at strategic points (04:11:589 (1616,1618,1619) would work well), the pattern would be more readable. moreover, not all the drum hits in this passage are the same - if you slow the music down and listen carefully, the hits increase in pitch over the course of the passage - so making those three notes into ks would bring that out.
i spent more time writing the explanations than i did actually going through the map oops00:05:641 (36) - make this a d? that way 00:05:244 (32,33,34,35,36,37) would be kkd kdd, emphasizing the decreasing pitch of the guitar melody across these two beats (from Gb to F, to be specific). additionally, this would highlight the K finisher at 00:05:879 (38) more by allowing it to contrast with a greater number of ds (hopefully that makes sense)
00:15:800 (105) - change to d for the same reason as above
00:44:847 (274) - also change to d, for sort of a similar reason on a larger scale; the chord progression from this measure to the next increases overall in pitch (from a D#m chord to F#M). while there’s already a greater number of ks in the second measure to bring out this change, the fact that there’s kkd in both bars sort of negates that. making 00:44:768 (273,274,275) a kdd triplet would thus a) create a more significant contrast between these two measures and b) allow the high note in the guitar solo at 00:44:768 (273) (it’s actually the highest note in this four-measure phrase) to be highlighted more sharply by having the patterning contain a single k instead of two (added bonuses yay~)
01:15:403 (467) - make this a k for the sake of consistency - throughout this entire section, starting at the end of the first kiai, you use ks to emphasize the last two notes at the end of guitar phrases (01:02:705 (381,383), 01:05:244 (398,400), 01:07:784 (414,416), 01:10:324 (431,434), 01:12:863 (449,451), and 01:17:943 (484,487) - sorry for the timestamp spam). this stands out as the one spot where that emphasis doesn’t happen, and there’s nothing about it that warrants the difference (ie it’s not the end of the section, a particularly different melody, etc.)
01:45:800 (645) and 01:55:958 (712) - change to ds, for the same reason as the third suggestion
03:00:558 (1086) - change to d; the reasoning for this is similar to the third suggestion in terms of creating contrast using kdd and kkd (the kkd being part of a quintuplet at 03:01:272 (1092,1093,1094) - ), but there’s another reason that would justify this. if you listen at 02:59:368 (1078,1082,1085,1090) and focus on the beats that occur where i’ve highlighted, there’s an instrumental part (piano? violin? idk orz) that plays really short notes on those beats (a B on the first note and an A on the other three). as such, changing 03:00:479 (1085,1086,1087) to a kdd would allow consistency by having all those beats be emphasized by a single k
03:21:907 - the section starting here almost entirely consists of ddkkd patterns and streams, so imo it could use some variety, especially considering how colorful the guitar solo is. to follow along with how the majority of my mod has been changing kkd to kdd, i’d change the four notes at 03:23:097 (1257,1260,1273,1287) to ds, thus adding some variations into this first half of the solo that follow its increasing pitch. as for the second half, 03:29:446 (1327,1335) could be changed to ds to make for a more interesting pattern that would still follow the solo moving up and down between three notes
03:55:478 (1507) and 04:05:637 (1574) - change to d, same as the third suggestion
04:11:272 (1612,1613,1614,1615,1616,1617,1618,1619) - ok this follows the rhythm but it was hard for me to sightread without spamming and hoping i didn’t miss (although granted i’m a scrub lol). if you added ks in at strategic points (04:11:589 (1616,1618,1619) would work well), the pattern would be more readable. moreover, not all the drum hits in this passage are the same - if you slow the music down and listen carefully, the hits increase in pitch over the course of the passage - so making those three notes into ks would bring that out.
hopefully this was helpful, and gl ranking this! really nice map overall