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MSTK
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 Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: Hm...does this help anyone else? |
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To get the timing right I find it helpful to sort of "bounce" your hands on and off the numpad, just slightly, on beat. For example, every beat, I take the numpad a little bit. And when I'm supposed to make a movie, I press the correct button on my way down.
This makes it easier for me to get a little spin while dancing. It just hepls me keep the rhythm.
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe you find it helpful, but i just put my trust in my in-born dancing talents  |
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fossaman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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I usually tap the beat with the hand that's not on the numpad. That way I don't hit any keys accidentally and my hand stays in the correct spot. I may have to try it your way, though...I'm always looking for ways to improve my dancing prowess.
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rupertlittlebear
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| fossaman wrote: | | I usually tap the beat with the hand that's not on the numpad. That way I don't hit any keys accidentally and my hand stays in the correct spot. I may have to try it your way, though...I'm always looking for ways to improve my dancing prowess. |
Why am I laughing myself to death?
Guess who won the Dancing contest!!! |
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fossaman
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:16 am Post subject: |
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I think that's enough from the peanut gallery, Rupert.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Yea, Who's gonna make me!!
You and what army??
Oh yes, you still got those fossa marines don't you?  |
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Airsaw
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:27 am Post subject: |
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| Guru wrote: | | Maybe you find it helpful, but i just put my trust in my in-born dancing talents |
What? You stomp on the keyboard? MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Seriously, folks....ahem. Keyboards vary. The springiness of the key, size of the key...like in other areas of romance...OOOPS!
I've played rock and roll, and blues, most of my life. The only music I've played that is dead on top of the beat like this dance music in the game is bluegrass. I'm just not accustomed to it. I feel it's kinda...yuppyish or something. Too well dressed. Makes me want to sit up straight in my chair. Ew. I'm used to a backbeat that's narrow and hard to master...thanks Jim Morrison.
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Guru wrote:
Maybe you find it helpful, but i just put my trust in my in-born dancing talents
What? You stomp on the keyboard? MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Yeah, actually, i find it much easier than anything else |
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Karnik
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Airsaw wrote: | | I feel it's kinda...yuppyish or something. Too well dressed. ... I'm used to a backbeat that's narrow |
Heh, interesting that when you play, you normally cue off the backbeat.
From what little I've seen and done of English country dancing, this stuff fits right in with the music of the period it's supposed to be. But I find the timing of the footwork in the dancing to be not always "right", as in it's not when I would put my foot down if I were dancing. Fractionally off, but still off. But the timing is, indeed, rigid, so if you notice that you have to step a shade before the "beat" or a shade after the "beat", that's consistent through that dance. It varies from tune to tune, certainly. It may vary from one time through the tune to the next time through that tune (which I suspect is due to something else running in the background which pushes the synchronization of the music and the "footwork" so it's a little off). |
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Guru
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah, i've noticed that too, although i think you generally have to step a shade after the beat to get the pirouets. Another rhing i have notices, is that on swashbuckler difficulty, one of the dancing tunes changes the tempo all the time while you dance, thus making it even harder to follow  |
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Airsaw
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| Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Seriously, I finally decided to cue from the lady's movements. I am dancing with the lady, and I use the music secondarily, because I noticed that glitch, too. The AI's idea of a beat, and the beat of the music aren't precisely in synch. Once I get a flourish, or spin, then I use the movement of the dancers visually more than I do the music.
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Hayashi
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:29 am Post subject: |
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Trying to keep time by counting out loud helps too. |
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oldman
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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Actually... I have turned off the music all together... so I rely only on the movement.
I found music to be distruptive at time... as Airsaw already pointed out. |
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Guru
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| Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:27 pm Post subject: |
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I think the music helps alot, oldman 
With it on you can notice tempo-changes and get the overall "feeling" of when you must press the buttons, but i assume everyone has their own preference  |
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