DDR Terminology

[Drammy]

I've been playing DDR for about two years now, and I still don't know if I'm calling these arrows the right thing or if they have any name at all. The arrows I refer to are sequences of arrows in which there is a 1/4 arrow, a 1/8 arrow, followed by another 1/4 arrow and so on. Locally, I've been calling such a sequence "stacked steps", but I can't remember if that was the official naming of such arrows, something I heard on a forum, or something of my own creation. My question to you is: what is such a sequence called, if it has a name?

My second question concerns those arrows that veer off into the 1/16, 1/32, etc. range, excluding gallops. This is basically a combination of those steps, timed strangely. An example could be a 1/4 arrow, a 1/16, and then a 1/32, spaced out a bit. A good example of arrows like these are in chaotic songs(Burning Heat, anyone? [Shudder]). These I've just been calling "irregular steps", for how irregular you've got to step, timing-wise, in order to hit them. Any disputes on that term, or anyone have the proper one?

Drammy

[heyricochet]

I haven't been obsessed with ddr and in the scene since max2 came out(yes I'm old for ddr) but those never really had names.

[davidbrit2]

Hmm, I don't think anybody really has given any specific name to a group of 3 notes arranged at 8th note divisions. Long streams of them are typically referred to as "8th note runs".

As for Burning Heat, I think the song has some weird ass time signature like 12/8, and the step designer had to kind of fudge it by using whatever bizarre step timings matched up to the song. There's always been a lot of debate about what the time signature of this song REALLY is. Heh.

[rayearthknight]

When in doubt, consult the dictionary at DDR freak (http://www.ddrfreak.com/library/dictionary.php):


DDR Freak Dictionary

1/4 step Placed on the beat of the song. Most basic songs are composed entirely of quarter notes. Shown in the steps page on this site in red.

1/8 step Placed exactly halfway between the beats of the song. Shown in the steps page on this site in blue.

1/16 step Placed exactly halfway between 1/8 steps. Dynamite Rave Single Maniac has several patterns which includes sixteenth steps. Shown in the steps page on this site in purple.

1/32 step Placed exactly halfway between 1/16 steps. New to DDRMAX2 and beyond. First featured in Tsugaru Heavy.

1.5x/2x/3x/5x/8x See Speed Modifiers.

573 A number pattern which appears throughout the DDR series. The significance comes from Japanese wordplay. Here's how it works: "573" spelled out would be go-nana-san. "Go" is the sound produced when you add yoon to the letter "Ko". Often when counting numbers rapidly, Japanese will truncate the sound of multisyllable words to a single syllable -> "Na". The Kanji character for 3 is a series of three horizontal lines vertically arranged, which looks similar to the Katakana for "Mi". "Ko"-"Na"-"Mi".

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