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		My finger charts come in two categories - four-arrow charts and eight-finger charts. Four-arrow charts are designed to be played as "Single Play" charts for two or more fingers (as opposed to feet usually because of speed, complexity, or length.) These kinds of charts most people will be familiar with. Eight-finger charts are designed to be played as "Double Play" charts for eight fingers in a straight line across the keyboard corresponding to the arrow display as it reads left to right. These play more like 14-key on IIDX on white keys only. I remap my keys on SDFG for the P1 side and JKL; on the P2 side, but each keyboard has to be treated differently because of how many and what keys can be held down at the same time. As far as I know, i am the creator of this stepmania paradigm, my first attempt being Dark V in October of 2003. I have plans to develop this unique form of stepmania chart by creating easy/medium/hard difficulties for the stuff that i've done to train more people into the eight-finger paradigm, but at the moment that's a low-priority project. Charts are sorted categorically and then chronologically, newest to oldest. -- Four-arrow Charts Hiszekeny by Venetian Snares Single Heavy Steps - 23 Nov 05 This song just screamed "stepchart" as soon as i heard it. It practically wrote itself, and i really like it, proving that just because a chart is straightforward doesn't necessarily mean it's crap. Vordhosbn by Aphex Twin Single Challenge Steps - 15 Feb 05 I wanted to follow up on what i felt was a successful chart (cock/ver10) with something similar but with a few new experimental ideas. The ending of the chart is reminiscent of what I was trying to do with Dark Sync, but in a way that was more straightforward and less cluttered by too much attempted complexity. Most people have crfticized it for being too out there, and i thought so at first too, but i kind of like it now, and i'm honestly too lazy to go back and think seriously about revision. Dark Sync by TaQ Single Challenge Steps - 12 May 04 This was a submission for a finger stepmania tournament held in Eugene in the summer of 2004 and it creeated a lot of controversy and griping for the participants. I wanted to take the complexity of the IIDX 7key Sync chart and fit it into a 4-arrow chart. The resulting complexity made it incredibly cluttered and difficult to figure out. I'm leaving it up here because i want to document what i was trying to achieve and how that led me to evolve my 8-finger charts, because this chart showed me how much an 8-finger concept has no business being in a 4-arrow chart. cock/ver10 by Aphex Twin Single Challenge Steps - 6 May 04 This was also a submission to the stepmania tournament. I'm incredibly happy with how it turned out, and it's been received very well by those who i've talked to that have played it. Currently there are problems with the sync-ing on it, which i'm working to resolve. Come On My Selector by Squarepusher Single Challenge Steps - 6 May 04 SIngle Heavy Steps - 25 Dec 03 Even though i had done The Rusty Arm and Dark V before this, this chart marks my first attempt at making my own flavor of a standard and typical finger chart. The Challenge steps were written as an 'enhancement' to the Heavy steps for the aforementioned stepmania tournament. The Rusty Arm by Mendel Lee Single Hard Steps - 17 Nov 03 Single Standard Steps - 14 Nov 03 This was my first attempt at a finger edit. It's based on a drum cadence that I wrote for the [Jersey Surf] in 2000. The Hard Steps emulate a lot of the original drum parts in terms of their rhtyhms and in some cases their rudiments. The Standard Steps were written as an easier version, something that could perhaps be feetable. -- Top -- Eight-Finger Charts Piano Phase Remix by Steve Reich, remixed by D Note (no, not me) Challenge Steps - 11 Jan 06 This is by far my most challenging eight-finger chart ever. I think it's a lot of fun, but i can be pretty masochistic. It incorporates the idea of metric modulation and also a strange sort of "blink-like" visual aesthetic designed by doubling the tempo and then putting small pauses in compact note intervals. It's fun to watch on autoplay with tornado or tipsy or one of those sorts of mods on. zamami by Plaid Challenge Steps - 16 Jan 05 One of the things that makes this chart so successful to me is the fact that the song is so quiet. I wanted to exemplify how the eight-finger paradigm could lend itself to more delicate sort of things and still be complex and successful. I'm happy with this one. All Is Full Of Dark by Bjork, remixed by Plaid Challenge Steps - 20 Nov 04 This is a great remix of the Bjork song "All Is Full of Love". I think it's *sort of* hard because of the seven-against-four section towards the end, but after a while it became muscle memory for me, and i think that most people could get it with practice, and the rest isn't so bad. Love Is Eternity by kors k Heavy Steps - 9 Sept 04 These were steps I created for a stepfile contest on DDRInfinity. Even though i had done Dark V before this, Dark V was more of an experiment, a test to see what was possible, a "this could be neat!" sort of idea. Love Is Eternity was my first truly serious attempt to refine and hone the eight-finger technique both in terms of composition and idiomaticism for the fingers after reaching only limited success with this sort of complexity in the 4-arrow chart 'Dark Sync'. There are feet charts associated with this as well. Dark V by TaQ Challenge Steps - 14 Oct 03 The chart that started it all. This is obviously a pretty young effort, but it still has its charm. -- Top --

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