IN DULCI JUBILO
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Song Name: IN DULCI JUBILO
Song Artist: Mike Oldfield
Song Length: 2:02
Genre: Electronica

Song Edit: By Wellian in Audacity
Graphics: Banner and background beautifully made using The Gimp
File sponsor: DDRextreme.co.uk - not only are they running Christmas Mix, but they gave me an incentive to finish syncing this thing to an approximate degree of accuracy and therefore not leave a large chunk of my life wasted. Either that, or made me waste two months of my life trying to unwaste the efforts of the previous eight.

Step details:

Single:

Beginner (1) - Max combo 71, Freezes 0
Warning: on some bars of this song you have to press an arrow three times! It's so painfully easy, the next stage down is a blank file.

Light (3) - Max combo 101, Freezes 42
Even for a three quite easy. Yes there is quarter note "stream" but it's a misnomer when the song is running at such a slow speed.

Trick (6) - Max combo 215, Freezes 30
Not much more than your standard six footer. The much more, if you're wondering, is the odd 24th.

Manaic (10) - Max combo 475, Freezes 23
IDJ >= bag = 10 feet. Therefore IDJ >= 10 feet. Yes I know both bag and this will be really easy to TEH 1337 PLAYAZ OMGWTFLOLBBQONKN when stuck on 2x but that's not the point. It deserves to be a ten because it's hard on 1x. It may look like it to those not used to slow 10 foot songs, but this is no way a KB file; at this time special time of year pray remember that retarded keyboard steps make baby Jesus cry.

Double:

Light (1) - Max combo 62, Freezes 9
It's around this time that you realise two things: firstly 1 foot doubles charts are very hard to make intersting, and secondly 1 foot doubles charts are just very hard to make full stop. So I put in as few arrows as I could get away with. Yes I'm being lazy, but heck, are the doubles steps even being judged? These steps are so easy SM rates them 1.04 feet.

Trick (5) - Max combo 179, Freezes 20
Stick arrows in left column of chart. Make sure beats make sense. Reorder arrows to make reasonable 5 foot step chart. As you can tell, not a lot of thought went into this either.

Maniac (10) - Max combo 459, Freezes 13
If you expected this to be all skippy then I'm afraid you're in for a shock. As only about two people will ever play this, I made it far more experimental, chucking in spins and unusual steps.  But then I decided that wasn't enough...

Challenge (10) - Max combo 443, Freezes 21
... and so made this as well. Well, to be more precice, what I did is take the Maniac steps, mirror them, and then rewrite five bars of the file, throwing in handplants and an ending which was blatantly stolen from Bend Your Mind. People who can't hit three keys at once on their keyboard should give up now... the end has, well, more than three. Between the two sets, it's very much an experiment. If it doesn't work you'll know why these sorts of steps don't appear in DDR. If it does work then you'll wish they did.

Random readme padding stuff type thingy: You really don't know how much trouble it was to make sure this song was synced properly. It was a complete nightmare, and that's why it's intended release date (namely TournaMix 5) went kinda out the window. The BPM has more changes than a one-man panto.  So it was a case of listening to this song at half speed for hours on end trying to get each bar individually synced, and if you're still reading this you must be kinda bored. Anyway, I knew DDRExtreme were planning a Christmas Mix, and so shortly after I submitted my file for Cheese Mix I slowly got back to work on this, having started and abandoned it many times before. Many mp3 cuts and dozens of #CHANGEBPM tags later you get this. I'm not going to say it's perfectly synced because it's not. It's as close as time and apathy allows me. And I even gave you four sets of doubles steps too, seeing as it's Christmas and season of goodwill and all that. So yeah, the song itself is a Christmas classic, it's that one which always pops up on Christmas compilation CDs but nobody listens to and yet sounds absolutely nothing like anything else on the CD. Oldfield's that guy who did the Blue Peter theme before they remixed it repeatedly. This is his 1993 take on a traditional song done using a variety of classical instruments and an electric guitar. And I quite like it.

About me: there lies an ONdigital remote, a mobile on charge, CDs of GTA and UT2004, a bunch of keys, contact lenses, a control pad, computer mouse, the TV with the news on, and a bowl that I couldn't be bothered to wash up after breakfast. Then on the floor there's some random stuff that I haven't had time to unpack from university, a radiator, my brother's guitars and my bed. Outside is a road, then beyond that another house, a chicken hut and an empty field to the east, and to the west a garden followed by houses and then a field. To the north is a church, and to the south more houses and field. Ooh arr.

Credits: Now in supply as my student loan came through. Just as I'm denied access to a machine. Typical...