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FOXY tips :

1) Moving farther away or closer to the TV is like changing the hispeed setting. The closer to the TV you are the faster the notes seem to scroll. If anybody watched me play at the arcade, I'd move back a little on higher BPM songs or move closer to the screen during slowdowns.

2) During complex parts of songs where all the notes cluster to one side of the screen, actually move your head a little so you are focusing on just that section. This happens a bit in Rinsei EX where you have these one handed rolls on the left or ride sides.

3) Get used to actually moving your hands to hit White Blues combos instead of trying it with one hand. You will not be able to hit this consistantly when you are just starting out. Try HoneHoneEX for an example of this.

4) Anything to the left of the red button is the responsibility of your left hand. Anything to the right is the responsibility of your right hand. HOWEVAR, you will need to learn how to reach over during more complex patterns. Hands like to play together and they need help every once in awhile :<

5) Hit the buttons. Hit 'em hard! It is much easier to stay on beat when you can hear the popping of the buttons over the music. Even at higher levels of play being able to hear the buttons pop is more helpful to me than hearing the song >.>

6) You can hit chords with one hand. Stretch out your hand and hit one button, then quickly slide your hand and hit the side of the other button. You will eventually get to know how hard you need to hit the side of the button to make it register. Playing on SRandom is a good way to practice this. SRandom will also help you learn to hit jackhammers, or at least double and triple taps.

7) Don't be afraid to hit extra notes on chords. Reading 3 and 4 note chords is hard, and it takes awhile to get used to the hand positions. See: The middle of Girls Band 2 EX, Vivid EX, Hip Rock 3 EX, the end of Athletic Meet EX. I always get extra bads here, especially on Vivid. Getting an extra bad is much better than actually missing the note. As you get better you will learn to read the chords more clearly and hopefully be able to cut out the extra misses.

8) Have fun. I almost forgot this rule myself.

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9) Learn to read the notes by the position of the lanes and their relative spacing to one another. A white is about |--| away from a blue which is |------| from the other blue on screen. This will help with your twitch reactions immensely. I can read the WhitePopkun-Ojama and Chara pop almost as well as I can read regular charts because of this. You don't really need to focus on this as it will probably come naturally, but playing with Charapop or the WhitePopkun ojama will help.