ffreak12323 is back! I have gotten way better at stepping simfiles, and I
PROMISE you that this pack will be a good one. Well anyways, let's get to the subject.
As the days have passed since my 1st retirement in bemanistyle.com, I have been focusing on stepping simfiles, and maybe even making another pack. A real pack! So as I was thinking, I thought that it would be fun to make a KEYBOARD HERO 1 for PIU on Stepmania 3.9! I made Beat It by Michael Jackson and I stepped it, checked it, tested it, and fixed it up, and it turned out to be a good stepfile for KEYBOARD HERO. I'll tell you all about it:
This is going to be a pack similar to Guitar Hero, but you use either a Guitar Hero Controller, a Keyboard, or a Rock Band Guitar Controller to play it, and only on PIU. It is going to contain of rock, metal, emo, country, etc. songs. There are some specific things that you need to know about this pack. These things are listed below:
Requirements:
If you are going to request a song, it has to follow the requirements listed below, so like I always say, READ before you DO!
First of all, you need to know what kind of songs you are going to be allowed to request. I will not accept any song that does not have a guitar player in it. This pack has songs stepped to a guitar, not a keyboard or a cowbell or drums (the cowbell would be pretty stupid). Some examples of songs I will not take are L.E.F, Fascination MAXX, Other Side (Radio Remix), etc. I will only take songs from the following genres:
Rock
Any Kind of Metal
Emo
Classic Rock
Country
Alternative
Gospel
Love Songs (Too Little, Too Late, etc.)
Soundtracks
If you want to request another genre that is similar to the following, please do so.
Second of all, you do not have to fret the songs. You can, but you do not have to. If YOU fret the song, it will have to follow the requirements below.
Editing the Charts: Make sure the BPM is correct. Before you think about fretting or doing a simfile, sync it to the drums. The drums are the metronome of band
. After your done with the BPM check it. If it is only off by 2 beats, and you request it, that's fine. I can fix that. If it is off by way too much and does not change when it is supposed to, I can't fix that. That does not mean that if you find out the bpm is only 2.3 beats off, you can say, "well, ffreak12323 will fix this." At least try to get it as synced as possible. Maybe go over the whole song at x1.0 speed about 10 times with assist tick on.
Make sure the low notes are near the notes on the left and high notes are on the right. For example, on Guitar Hero, all the low notes are on Green, Red, and Yellow, and all the high notes are on Yellow, Blue, Orange.
Make sure that the notes match the guitar. This is a guitar chart, not a drum chart.
Slow the song down on parts where there are to many notes at once to tell whether it should be on the low notes or the high notes. Take your time on solos and slow the song down to 0.5x or below.
Make sure that the song makes sense. Slow the song down and go through the whole thing about 3 times at a slow speed and make sure that every note is synced. For example, if on fast motion, a solo sounded as if it were a stream of 16th notes, you might be wrong. Like on Operation Ground and Pound, on the solo, there is a part that sounded like it was a stream of 24th notes, but I slowed it down, and it was actually 32nd notes. Please take your time.
Make sure that each difficulty follows the requirements below: Easy (Beginner): Only use Green, Red, and Yellow. Use chords rarely. Do not use fast strumming with 12th notes, 16th notes, 24th notes, 32nd notes, 48th notes, and 64th notes. (Acceptions: You can use fast strumming 12th notes under 85 bpm, you can use fast strumming 16th and 24th notes under 50 bpm, and 32nd, 48th, and 64th notes under 20 bpm.) On solos, do not go faster than streaming 8th notes. Fret this difficulty last.
Medium (Light): Only use Green, Red, Yellow, and Blue. Use 2-note chords in places where they are mostly needed. Do not use 3-note chords at all! Do not use streaming (fast strumming) with 12th notes, 16th notes, 24th notes, 32nd notes, 48th notes, and 64th notes. (Acceptions: You can use fast strumming 12th notes under 90 bpm, you can use fast strumming 16th and 24th notes under 60 bpm, and 32nd, 48th, and 64th notes under 30 bpm.) On solos, do not go faster than streaming 12th notes. Fret this difficulty 3rd.
Hard (Standard): Use all colors. Use chords where they are needed. Use no more than 10 3-note chords. Do not use fast strumming with 24th notes, 32nd notes, 48th notes, and 64th notes. (Acceptions: You can use fast strumming 24th notes under 70 bpm, and 32nd, 48th, and 64th under 45 bpm.) On solos, do not go faster than streaming 24th notes. You can have about 2 one-half measure streams of 32nd notes. Do not slow this down when editing. On this difficulty, you are only fretting what YOU hear on x1.0. Fret this difficulty second.
Expert (Heavy): Use all colors. Use any chord (except quads and quints) where it is needed. Use fast strumming with any note. Slow the song down and fret every single note. On solos, I don't know how to explain it, but I have a link at the bottom that might help. Fret this difficulty FIRST!
If you want to request a simfile, put it on the Simfile Database, and inform me so I can approve it.
Also, I cannot make this pack by myself. If you would like to help, don't hesitate to ask. Here are the jobs you can do for the pack:
President: Approves anything requested, updates the pack daily, edits the forum.
Vice President: Thinks of ideas for the pack, helps the President.
Noteskins: Helps make noteskins requested by the President and Vice President.
Themes: Helps make themes requested by the President and Vice President.
Reporter: Reports any trouble in the forum, reports any rumors about the pack.
President: ffreak12323
Vice President: open Noteskins: open
Themes: open
Reporter: open
If there are any other jobs that you think you might want to do, just tell me.
Current Songs:
Beat It
Michael Jackson
Updates:
7/19/2008- Beat It by Micheal Jackson made song list in Keyboard Hero.
If you have anything your not clear about, or if there is something that you need to know that is not listed on this thread, please ask and I will answer your question or problem ASAP!
Here are some links that might help:
How to (fret) a guitar chart for a song:
ScoreHero :: Log in
(Not mentioned on this link: Slow the song down and listen carefully!
The Be a Keyboard Hero Winner is: We Will Rock You by Queen
If you have a song you want me to use in the pack that YOU created, you can inform me by:
Private Message (include the entire .zip file)
MSN Messenger (include the entire .zip file)
Post a link containing the .zip file
Post the simfile on the Database and make sure I know about it
E-mail me at:
adam@mcgeefam.com
-or-
adamnmcgee@comcast.net 
Keyboard Hero I 
(Instead of using buttons 12345, use 56789, because when you use the 12345 configuration, there are some three and four note chords that are impossible to hit.)
