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Personal thoughts: I really like this song, like its one of my favorites, the nhato remix also to me sounds at least as good as the original, so I have my patterning opinions about the song, and would like to share them. You can disagree/agree or apply/not apply, but applying them might be a bit troublesome since it mostly parries your concepts, in fact i might end up mapping this song lol.
So bad apple is primarily a vocal driven song. Vocals land right on white/red and end mostly in a 1/2 interval. Which means that a lot of notes are included, and nomico did very variable intensity through out the vocals that follow some kind of a melody. And my concern is that it isn't really shown in the map. While playing, I didn't feel anything except consistent rhythm and nice aesthetics by playing. Will now explain my thoughts:
00:58:215 (1,3) - these two are like the peak of the vocals. And i'd scale everything else related to that. If you follow vocals it gets really spicy, and less repetitive . Intensity goes up and down. This is basically the mod i received not long ago from Naxess, and when I tried it, the sections had so much more life. I mean you probably know that you were following the pitches and such.
02:21:693 - if you listen to this section, i think that you should understand how emphasized the double drum hits really sound. Since everything is really kinda quiet and trippy, the drums are strong and really stand out, they happen on regular intervals. Which is why I think they should have bigger spacing and much more emphasis than you already did. And what's more, you even sliders on such notes, which i don't find apporpriate for this song.
http://i.imgur.com/EawTEP7.jpg this is the kind of patterning that I would use.
I shall now proceed to mod less subjective things.
00:04:519 (2,3) - would be cool if you used this slider shape only when there will be 1/4 after slider, 00:06:041 (1,2) - and this when there's 1/2 after slider.
00:08:650 (5) - would prefer if you place it here, having the most comfy flow really makes jumps on this bpm actually feel nice imo xd
http://i.imgur.com/6kFdWMZ.jpg00:17:345 - following 1/8 feels really nice on such sounds.
http://i.imgur.com/uvliHUt.jpg. Now that I think about it, maybe making (3) not stacked to the two sliders actually fits? Think it could be justified that way, since it sounds like it would need more emphasis. That goes for all similar patterns in the section.
00:22:997 (7,8) - feels really overspaced, please nerf, i hit always 100's on testplay ;d
00:41:910 (6,8) - 1/12? Both will end on same beat, so i think its fine.
00:45:389 (6,7) - mm i'm a bit skeptical about this. It doesn't fit your usual structuring of no overlaps, so I suggest not an overlap this dense.
http://i.imgur.com/nbaM585.jpg something like this should fit your structuring more.
00:47:128 (6) - I see no particular reason to make this slidershape different from others.
00:50:389 (5) - ^, if you're emphasizing the third beat, you should also do for previous pattern 00:47:345 (7) - , not second beat.
01:07:128 (2,3) - obligatory blanket fix
01:06:802 (9,1) - this spacing is a bit random. If you want to make bigger spacing on (1) to stand out, i suggest something like this
http://i.imgur.com/ganOheq.jpg01:01:258 (6,7) - as these two have same shape so should these 01:08:215 (6,7) -
01:12:889 (5) - placing it here should look better
http://i.imgur.com/aZpzrwQ.jpg01:16:910 (7,8) - Wish that your patterning system was a bit more planned tbh, it all looks nice but I think it should have the same shape as other finishing 2 kicksliders.
01:18:541 (6,7) - One play i think its 1/24 the other I think its 1/2. So i suggest you do something about it, like stacking xd
01:22:128 (7,8) - wish you'd do some huge spacing for these two, just listen to the vocals, they're screaming for justice ;d. Also slidershape is not identical, so i suggest copy paste inverse you know.
01:24:737 (3) - Ugh, think this deserves the biggest spacing, imo it is the most intense.
01:25:606 (7,8) - same for here, needs more emphasis.
01:57:237 (6,1) - another example where you could add to the intensity of the song. Since both the blue ticked circle and the downbeat are of similar intensity, so should they be followed by something
s p a c e d01:55:280 (5) - also its probably okay to have this also have bigger spacing to make contrast with the section. You're keeping slow sliders, which the section deserves, but it is also a nice option to make contrast, making it more fun, I believe it would be a nice idea to make this also a bit spaced.
02:37:345 - so here i basically don't understand at all when it should be stacked and when spaced, i get no intuition.
02:38:215 (5,6) -
http://i.imgur.com/MJUUMP1.jpg doing some inversion and rotation, it seems you could make a better lookin pattern.
Also, I think you should make some kind of a rule in this map for kickslider shape choices. I agree it all looks nice, but I don't recognize patterns.
03:15:171 (7,8) - it is kinda spottable that they're not the same shape. Use rotation inversion etc to make such shapes look identical, I don't think that its much of a chore.
03:16:041 (3) - Like i mentioned on a similar sounding pattern, this also needs more spacing imo, it sounds like the strongest note, at least stronger than 03:16:258 (4) - .
03:33:215 - hm since you mostly focus on techno part, following this wub would be a nice addition 03:33:650 - if you can think of somethink.
03:38:976 (5,6) - blanket a bit messed up
03:57:563 (2,4) - also following this in form of 3stacks should suit your rhythm choices in the song.
04:09:084 (4,5) - please the vocals, i'm crying, more emphasis, if it were me, i'd do this xd
http://i.imgur.com/z29ibXa.jpg05:01:476 (3) - think that this broke my headphones, reduce volume?
05:17:128 (7,1) - blanket fixy
05:22:563 (1,2) - ^
05:12:997 (7,8,9) - this seems curved, think it needs to be straight.
05:22:128 (7,1) - hm the overlap, think i mentioned it on start.
05:36:476 - i'm a bit sad that you didn't make the rhythm denser, making use of 05:36:910 - , instead you always skip it. Suggest in making denser rhythm ;v
Well this ended up a bit longer than i wanted it to be, love the hitsounding, and aesthetics. Other things are probably just subjective, so good luck, seeing another bad apple ranked is good. Oh yeah, one more thing, "Rotten" is a rather crude name for a difficulty i suggest putting something from bad apple lyrics idk.