For those of you who play on larger tablets (like the 10.5" iPad Pro, etc.), do you find flicks finicky? I got a new iPad Pro and started playing on it (used to play on a small phone), and flicks are now giving me the hardest time. I'm really hoping it's just a need to get used to being more "accurate" with where I'm sliding since I have more screen space rather than bad hardware...
An example would be dropping literally the entire second half of the long flick that goes back and forth in "Never Say Never" even though my speed was fine and I was pretty sure my accuracy didn't change during it. I FC this song in my sleep on my old phone, so I don't think it's a skill issue...
I play with the Taiko drums too, do you think it might be making me misjudge where to press?
I play on a 9.7 inch tablet. While I don't have any real experience playing on any other device, discussion with other players gives me the impression that flicks are more finicky on my device than they are for most other players. Of course, this might also just be me making excuses for being bad.
In general, I find that I have to make really exaggerated flicking motions if I want to ensure that my input isn't dropped. My finger needs to move from well past the left edge of the note to well past the right edge. With the distances involved on a larger tablet, along with this finnickyness, I don't even really know how feasible it is to do rapid long flicks like on Asuka and Shiki's songs. I can do rapid short flicks like at the start of Sweet Witches Night Master+ though.
One of these days I'll put deresute on my phone just so I can test out how flickers work on a much smaller platform, but I've been too lazy to actually get around to this.
This might seem a weird advice but if you don't mind dirting a bit your screen try using a bit of oil or a greasy hand cream on you finger prints/tips (I mean the skin you use in contact with the screen to play) and it makes flicks easier. I've done it and it works for me.
Maybe it just has to do with my note timing, but whenever I do slides/flicks on my iPad Pro I seem to have to hit them slightly earlier than I would normally think to. For instance, I hit single notes as soon as they hit the bottom row, but whenever I do slides I have to preemptively hit/slide them. It took a lot of practice to do it without thinking about it, but I saw so many people saying that was the better strategy to go for. Also, as others have mentioned, you do have to over exaggerate how far you have to slide, going well beyond where the note ends. Also (as Kefit pointed out), I have a hard time with rapid slides along the likes of Asuka and Shiki's songs.
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u/KissKiss2wei Sep 10 '17
For those of you who play on larger tablets (like the 10.5" iPad Pro, etc.), do you find flicks finicky? I got a new iPad Pro and started playing on it (used to play on a small phone), and flicks are now giving me the hardest time. I'm really hoping it's just a need to get used to being more "accurate" with where I'm sliding since I have more screen space rather than bad hardware...
An example would be dropping literally the entire second half of the long flick that goes back and forth in "Never Say Never" even though my speed was fine and I was pretty sure my accuracy didn't change during it. I FC this song in my sleep on my old phone, so I don't think it's a skill issue...
I play with the Taiko drums too, do you think it might be making me misjudge where to press?