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 Rhythm Heaven Fever was released on the Wii in 2011, as the third Rhythm Heaven game (but only the second to make it to the west). It's basically WarioWare mashed with the Rhythm genre. It's weird. It's real weird. But it's also inventive, intuitive, and fun. As a musician, Rhythm Heaven is really interesting to me. This isn't Rock Band or something like that, where you're actually holding a physical (fake) instrument. Rhythm Heaven is in no way a simulation. It's pure video game, through and through. It's simple enough for anyone to pick up and play, and the way it uses music and rhythm is fantastic. Sure, I'll be playing each game in Rhythm Heaven Fever, but I also want to mix in some music theory as well, deconstructing each game, the rhythms they all use, how they use music, and throwing in some lessons along the way. Hopefully you'll learn something. Or at least feel smart because you knew all this stuff already. Music is way more complex and interesting than most people give it credit for, and Rhythm Heaven is a great way to show that off. Videos (Audio's a bit weird at the beginning there, but it gets better, I just had to move my mic on my desk.)  
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Apparently in PAL regions this game is called “Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise” which is a dumb name. I'm sorry Europe.
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Feb 11, 2015 01:02
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD_1tG4eSj0 Have the best Rhythm Heaven edit video none of the others matter.
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Feb 11, 2015 23:23
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Davin Valkri posted:I wonder if it's you could play it blindfolded, going by audio cues alone. You absolutely can and some games I can do better at by not looking. Some games even obscure the screen so you can't see the visual cues anyway.
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Feb 12, 2015 00:08
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Karate Bastard posted:Hmm... looks promising. One question, how deep down the rabbit hole are we going here? Like are we hitting the Skrillex depot before plunging through the main Dream Theater shaft to base jump into the caverns of Meshuggah, or will we just get a mild dose of Coldplay? Imagine if Weezer was still relevant in 2015 e: sorry for not tagging my nms
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Feb 13, 2015 20:34
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I was gonna put together another video but there are suddenly dogs in this house that will be here for several days and they are very noisy dogs. They'll be gone by the end of the weekend. Loop this 24/7 and you have my house
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Feb 14, 2015 08:17
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Specifically, it has English text but Japanese audio, if you so choose to play it (I did - I just prefer the original sound effects). Yeah, I really don't like the way this game handles perfects. They should be available all the time after you get a superb, it was a pain in the rear end to wait for them. I did a couple and was satisfied.
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Feb 14, 2015 16:04
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:I'm not even sure if there's a good reason why they're doing it this way? They must've had some reason for doing it this way, but I can't quite grasp what it could be. v  v just make you play longer I guess. Which is weird because it's a pretty good value anyway, I think this was a $30 or $40 game or something when it came out.
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Feb 14, 2015 16:53
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I dunno how I didn't know this, but there's a game in the Japanese version that never made it to the english version, because it was too hard to localize, since manzai is a real cultural thing and probably filled with a bunch of impossible-to-translate puns. Check these birds The raw bgm is great too
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Feb 17, 2015 03:21
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Audio's better this time, I think. Also I'm hopefully gonna bang these out a bit quicker in the future.
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Feb 19, 2015 06:09
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Jsor posted:The other time signature is going to be cut time, isn't it? Unless it's something completely bizarre like 5/8, but that's not exactly common. 
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Feb 19, 2015 06:22
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Davin Valkri posted:I do like the musical analysis and gameplay combo you have going here. But (not to be a pedant) I'm not sure if I agree with your conclusions regarding 3/4 and 6/8 time. 3/4 time CAN have each beat emphasized, but I'd say that different forms emphasize different beats. A waltz emphasizes the first beat of each measure, but something like a mazurka can particularly accent the second or third. And many of Johann Strauss Jr.'s waltzes have the 6/8 emphasis (ONE-and-a-TWO-and-a) while being written in 3/4 time. Case in point, the Blue Danube Waltz. It's especially noticeable around 2:48 or so. Yeah, there'll be outliers in any system, of course people will play around with the rules. It's why weird times exist in stuff like prog music, there's set conditions that most people use, but it's perfectly valid to bend them as well.
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Feb 19, 2015 08:53
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Re: Time signature stuff, yeah, you're all pretty much right, I should've taken a more general approach to it instead of saying definite stuff. Oh well! I'll probably put in some annotations in the video just to correct myself. I'm still feeling this stuff out I guess.
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Feb 19, 2015 18:57
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TheDarkFlame posted:Hey, has this been abandoned already? I would really like to see more of this game. Bluh, no, this month's been weirdly rough for me, I'll get back to it eventually, promise.
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Mar 27, 2015 13:35
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