BeginnerAt the beginning of the song (where the map starts) there are pairs of drum kicks that you've only mapped one of. For example
here 00:16:762 - and here 00:18:308 or here 00:21:710 - and here 00:23:256
I think you should map the second one as well as it's a key sound in the song and mapping both of the drum hits so they form a pair feels good.
Would look something like this
This does deviate from the "only notes on measures and half measures" which would make it more difficult but I don't think it's that big of an issue considering the next diff up requires you to hit doubles which is a lot harder than a non constant rhythm (source: me cause im bad at playing 7k)
I would rather focus on the main melody of the song for now before adding snare notes to it. I'd like to keep this difficulty be as simple as possible and be very easy to follow amidst the chaos.00:20:473 (20473|4) - Col 7 for pitch my boy
Alright.00:21:710 (21710|3,24184|1,25421|2) - This is a mirror of the first section so you can repeat the first two suggestions I made here, could even flip PR for that v a r i e t y
D o n e .00:34:081 (34081|2,35318|4) - These notes feel kind of weird, I'm not quite sure what they're mapped too. If it's the repeating piano chord there should be another note on the previous measure. If it's the strong drum hit, they should be 1/1 behind. I don't think keep the 48.5bpm rhythm is worth it in that case. Beginners are bad at the game but they're not 48.5bpm bad. As a test I got my
>gf to play this map as it is now and with my suggestions and her performance was the same in both cases. This applies to the easy as well.
Those ones are actually for the piano (in fact the whole beginning of the song mainly follows the piano), though it's pretty simplified in a way that makes the whole chart pretty spacious so it's not very cluttered. If it's not too clear, I'll add faint whistle hitsounds for it just to emphasize that it's following the piano.This is especially an issue because from the beginner/easy where you have this late note, suddenly in the normal you jump to having all of the sounds mapped instead of just the last one.
So playing up from beginner, you have two difficulties where you're accustomed to having this note on the measure and not another one for a whole bar and then suddenly you have a quick triple that starts 1/1 earlier than you expected and has an immediate note 8x faster than what you're used to.
A possible solution to this if you really really want to keep the "only on bar" notes for beginner is keep it that way for the lowest diff and then for the easy, shift them 1/1 back as a midway point between the beginner and the normal
Applying that once I get to make beginner harder, thanks.00:45:834 (45834|4) - This note seems like an odd inclusion. It seems taken from this stair here 00:40:267 (40267|1,40885|2,41504|3) - but the middle note in this stair fits because of the descending piano. In the aforementioned stair 00:45:834 (45834|4) - there's no piano sound. There is a snare but there's also a lot of snares that haven't been mapped. Probably best to just remove it or perhaps map the other snares too. It does break up the "single, single, stair, single single stair" pattern but I dont think it's worth keeping anyway.
That note's there to follow the piano. It does seem very faint because the main melody is a lot louder than that one and the fact that it has the same pitch, but it's fairly audible. I don't really see a reason to remove that since it kinda breaks the pattern consistency here.00:56:349 (56349|0,58823|4) - Should totally put synth hitsounds on these, would be sick
Sounds good.01:55:731 (115731|0) - Maybe put it on the spacebar to denote a new section like you did in the easy
Will add that once I renovate the beginner diff.02:19:236 (139236|6,139854|5) - Swap positions for PR
Think I rearranged it before but this should follow PR.02:57:586 (177586|1) -
something something spread issues
Noted, will try to come up with something later (and I will get back to you on that!)03:14:906 (194906|0) -
https://i.imgur.com/nI6j0mJ.png kiai is off for this long in the middle of the main kiai. This might be cool in the higher diffs but here its just kinda weird without any notes nearby. Even for higher diffs I think the kiai should stop here 03:14:597 - and restart here 03:14:906
I really don't think the placement matters that much, though. For mania, the kiai doesn't really do much other than make the playfield have some flair in it, and it only lasts for a second or so. I mainly used kiai for the flair (and so climactic sections of the song feel more intense), and the way I did it is so the kiai quickly 'reboots' and gives another flair to the next section.
I honestly don't mind changing it either way if you want to push this suggestion again, though.03:36:555 - piano here is just as loud and strong as 03:39:030 (219030|3) - so you should definitely put a note there
Will prooooooobably add that once I make beginner harder.https://i.imgur.com/qjTagIj.png o'er the floor is my favourite 5k map :blobsweat:
lots of PR opportunities I didn't mention, would be good to add them to break up the monotony of barstairs (this is my new term, also known as lithstairs because I made it up. It means stairs where the notes are on the bar lines)
Wait, where is the timestamp for those notes? beginner doesn't have any 2-note chords (yet) so I'm pretty confused.