star #2: Tribal Style EX, x2, overhead, metal
3 greats
115 excellents
487 Fantastics
96.14%
all mines holds and jumps.

i know someone whose first (or maybe second?) was so deep mirror stealth

Wasn't one of ZZZ's first 10 AAA's LOM? Like seriously his 3rd AAA I think?

300 not lom

he liked that song as much as yasu did probably

Wow. I didn't know people actually did this. I thought you were supposed to start small
lol for AAA #1 = Kind Lady :V

I happen to like Kind Lady.

Kind Lady is easy. I almost AAA'd it on extra stage today. GJ though.

Yeah I remember him telling me that he likes and is good at the hard stuff and sucks at the easy stuff lol

Kind Lady has always been one of my favorite DDR songs. i still remember when I had trouble passing it on standard

I love 18th notes. ;P

And 18th note would mean you're playing 4 and a half notes per beat.

I've seen one song in my life with 18th notes.
I failed them.
It also had fuggin' 14th notes.
I didn't fail those quite as much.
The fact that I was playing this sightread w/ 8 mallets (2 bells, 2 xylo, and 4 vibe) in my hands didn't help.
Seriously, I don't know anyone other than me who could have played any ONE of those 3 parts right.
NOBODY could play all three at once.

Solid proof that my band teacher is crazy.

on topic:

My first AAA on da machine is gonna be on of the following:
-Look to the Sky
-Look to the Sky (Colors)
-Absolute
-Sexy Planet (nonstop megamix)
-A (heavy)
or
-Abyss

I should have those all AAA'd by summer.

You're not gonna AAA absolute because of the ending. And you won't AAA A because of A.

A's heavy chart is easy.
I'll AAA it.

I've AAA'd Absolute's ending 2 times at the arcade now, out of 5 tries.
The time I got 9 on it, 7 of them were in easy parts, one was on the note right before it slows down, and the other was on the second to last note.
I'll AAA it.

I flagged Abyss back in December 2004 and I still haven't AAA'ed it

BBH is awesome at gallops

A is not easy.
Getting greats on easy parts and "being able" to AAA one part of a song don't equal a full AAA. You have to be able to nail every single part consistently and get it all to come together in one run. It's really not that easy at all, especially not on Absolute.

Just AAA Kind Lady, jesus, the song is like not even a 7.

Was planning on getting my first AAA on dream a dream, just since it was the first heavy song I passed, but that's a good one to try too.

Easy AAA = songs that I whore.

I won't AAA Kind Lady 'cause I play it less than 4 times a year.

I play A and Absolute all the time 'cause I like them.  They're both easy stepcharts too; nothing in them is "hard" at all.  They're both a bunch of repeated rhythms with minimal/no crossovers, and easy speed changes. (The slowdown at the end of Absolute isn't hard, just tedious, and patience AAA's it)


Regardless, Look to the Sky (True Colors Mix) is gonna be my first AAA unless something comes speeding in from left field, 'cause it's the only song I can get a consistent grade on, other than A [oni], which is a consistent ~35 greats. (not in my AAA range)

I think it's harder to AAA if you haven't played/practiced all the heavy charts, because then one only can specialize in certain types of charts. Or maybe I'm being quick to assume that you only specialize in certain charts. Or maybe all that won't matter. Actually, everyone starts out with AAAing less complex songs, soo... since you aren't doing that, good luck and have fun with that, heh.

I actually AAAd something today. La Copa. Finalllyyy. Avalon's right side seems to be great. Huh.

1 great and maybe 8 perfects matsuri japan oni
2 greats and about 15 perfects sexy planet oni
then failed the course with 80 perfects, 85 greats, and 4 misses.  I don't know if I got more than about 5 perf/marv on ecstasy

AAA superstar
pass higher oni with davyn on my back
FEC cryosleep
FC typical tropical
both amazing accomps, fyi.

i raised my soapy bubble ex/double score awhile back... its like 96.xx percent or so.
MR#1 on Energizer Hard/double
and i was 4 steps away from passing ! ex/double last friday :C  i was pissed

11 misses For You nightmare
1 great 2 miss arch of darkness crazy
1 miss witch doctor #1 again
20 miss handsome character that pass crazy. no idea if this is a new record but i wanted to play something funny.

GOT ANOTHER STAR!
While the Record Spins EX
an a side note, I was pissed because 720 notes into vertex ex I got two random pad misses, and got the rest of the song. so iow i was REALLY FRICKIN CLOSE to a full combo. I tried again two and missed 3 of them randomly almost 700 intot he song. you have no idae how mad I am nao T.T

Some shit from today:

A [heavy] - 7.  OMG GUYS UR RITE I CANT DO IT
Look to the Sky (true colors mix) - 5.  HI DAR
321 Stars - 8 or 9.  Out of left field.
Holic - 8.  First time playing it since November.
Pop4 [normal] - 9 greats.  Wasn't quite good enough to get me on the high score board though. =(

I also cleared Freckles on Doubles (surprisingly difficult), and got about halfway through HVAM.  I'm finally starting to improve again on doubles.  Pretty much everything I do on doubles is sightread.  I'd go to Tilt! for double premium, but doubles is only 40 cents at wunderland, but I still don't play doubles often because 20 cents for singles feels so much more worth it to me. (4 A's/AA's for 20 cents is more appealing to me than 3 C's/B's for 40)

Shitty PA, but I also FC'd HVAM for the first time in forever.
For some reason, I still really suck at 10's.
I think I FC'd Cartoon Heros, but I'll have to check that.

I've also gotten a lot of my beatmania scores up.
I think I've passed every 4 and 13 5's on BMUS now.
I'm also within 10 of AAA on 3 or 4 songs in the 2-3 range.


Phylicia, I do sort of "specialise", but not how you're thinking.  I have about 80 or so songs that I play regularly, 30 or so songs that I play often, and maybe 10 songs that I play every time I go to the arcade.
Today was the first time I ever really played seriously; normally I just pick songs I like and never play the same song twice in one day.

Hey hey, you're getting good. Soon those low SDG's will turn into AAA's!

AAA #46- Pink Rose
Also passed my first oni, Soul 6, mostly no bar.
Also two on Little Bitch oni.

Wow, we've all made great progress this weekend!

I too have made some notable movement this weekend. I'm RIGHT on the cusp of my first AA on the Expert level (called the Heavy level on earlier versions) for "Funkytown", a seven-footer. I'm within four-tenths of a percent from the achievement (about 94.6% the current score)

I also picked up my fourth and fifth AAA's on the Difficult level ("Let's Dance", "Kagerow (Dragonfly)") That brings my total AAA count to 139 (69 Beginner, 65 Basic, 5 Difficult)

Sincerely,
Noah Eaton

have you tried Shivers (Radio Edit) on standard yet? that was my first (and only) standard AAA.
Anyways, went to NT to get some new scores, and $22.00 worth of tokens (prize from tourny) was stolen, so not much new in the arcade score area. V.V