Warming up

**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

Does anyone else find they have to warm up before they really play well? Like I usually find when I start playing that I play like a bag of asses for a few songs before I really play like I actually can. I didn't realize it was so simliar for warming up on a real instrument.
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Yeah, I normally play a few songs on Expert before trying to get my 5-stars on Hard.

Playing on a higher difficulty than I need to is like a turbo warm-up for me.
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**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

I do find this to be the case. But I also find that my playing peaks and then goes down again if I continue playing nonstop without small breaks.

For example, back to the day before I got 100% on SOML, the first few times I played it that day I missed several things that were easy and I knew I could combo. So I kept trying and over time I eventually got to the point where I could not combo the R-O-B-RY parts a single time which was extremely frustrating because it's so easy and I never missed them once in my beginning attempts. The very next day I got 100% / 1st place in just a few attempts (after having warmed up on other songs).

So I don't know if it's a mental or physical thing, but I know my scores could be much better if I could learn to always play my best.
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**JHetfield0816** · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 2230 Location: New Jersey

Amen to that, JCirri...amen to that.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

sometimes i feel i have to warm up

other times i feel im right up for it, i switch it on and 5* songs straight away, like when I done BATM on Expert and completed it, I was shocked I done it, it was the second song i played im sure
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

Yep. The day I made my BatM video, I woke up, picked up the controller, and played BatM just to see how I would do. This was the first time I played BatM as my first song, and to my surprise, the song seemed to move twice as fast as normal!

I definitely need a warm-up before playing to prepare my mind for GH.

**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

defintely...

i have to play two or three songs before i try TF, but then i just end up 4*ing it anyways, pisses me off

**Echelar** · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 1246 Location: Fort Wayne, IN

Usually I have to warm up.. though the day that I played my 100% symphony on hard, it was my first song of the day.

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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

I have recently figured out that the more I play a song, the lower of a note streak I get. However, I almost always improve my percentage by at least 1% with each successful runthrough. (Example: I've went from hitting Get Ready to Rokk with an 88% and a 250+ note streak to 95% with a 110 note streak.

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My score slightly improves every round too, which frustrates me even more because I know I have to keep going. If it were to drop I'd be fine, since I could just practice it another round. The fact that improves by a few thousand points a round just makes me really angry.
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