Black Magic Woman

**JCirri** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 4576

**40757** · Joined: 03 Mar 2007 Posts: 1131 Location: Orlando, Florida

**Barbaloot** · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 1583

I believe this one is better if you can hit the orange stuff.

Black Magic Woman optimal FC path
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**eraser2224** · Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 679 Location: Panama City, FL

if you can't hit the O stuff, i find it's actually better to go 3 for the first activation (as it is in the chart) then 2 (i do them immediate but i'm sure they can be tweaked--i came up with this path before the charts were out) for all the rest. i find myself with about 3k more points at the long B and O holds shortly before the O part if i go that way.

**smokyprogg** · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 2418

Because my path is profoundly different from Barbaloot's, I believe I am obligated to post it.

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EDIT: Forgot to write in an activation... There should be one @ the B after the G - Y alternating phrase. All else is right.
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**Barbaloot** · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 1583

Our first, fifth (which is 2 measures too short on your chart), and sixth activations are the same. Our second activations are essentially the same, but you would get more ticks by moving it to where I have it.

This leaves the 3rd and 4th activations as the main difference between our charts.

Your 3rd activation gets about 1998 points under SP (though I can't imagine it lasts as long on that G hold as you have it marked).
My 3rd activation gets 1725 points under SP, assuming you don't get the first blue note in. (It's probably possible, but I've never gotten it and still gotten the 3-note hammer at the end.)

So far your path is better by up to 273 points, but the fourth activation remains.

Your fourth activation gets 1200 points, assuming you activate on the blue note in measure 119 and the activation lasts all the way to the end of the GYB hold in measure 124.
My fourth activation gets 1603 points.

So my path makes up 403 points on your path, edging it out by 130 points overall in the third and fourth activations.
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**Rishi** · Joined: 28 Aug 2006 Posts: 2118 Location: Hull, UK

barb, on the 4th activation, would you not get more points from activating a measure and a bit earlier? so that the SP is activated at a bit before measure 118 or so and would finish just after hitting the orange?

maybe i've missed something, but i would have thought getting an extra measure of SP on a 3 note sustain is better than the 1 note sustain.
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**Barbaloot** · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 1583

In GH3, 3-note sustains are worth the same as single note sustains. You could, however, get a tiny amount of extra ticks if you activated so the SP finishes just before the orange note, then hit the orange note early right as SP ends.
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**panteraddict** · Joined: 15 Apr 2007 Posts: 416

**pspsean** · Joined: 03 Nov 2007 Posts: 21

i just activate whenever i get a half bar, whammy everything, you will hit every phrase. that's what i used when i fc'd it

**Mr.Fluffs** · Joined: 16 Mar 2007 Posts: 11 Location: Oregon

I didn't know the 3 note sustain thing was different until I went back to 80s for awhile.

I noticed I'd get 13k or so from the last sustain in Electric Eye. Yet only a few K in most final GH3 3 note sustains.

Also. Great path Barb. If I could FC it I'd have a pretty score with that one. But, that Orange part is killer.
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**PieGuy** · Joined: 01 Mar 2007 Posts: 2836 Location: Long Island, NY

**yksi-kaksi-kolme** · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 2803 Location: philly skramzzzz

Barbaloot, for your path, you CAN push the second activation forward to the red. It's insanely hard to squeeze the

if you do, but I've done it a few times and it gives you 200 more points than the people in first place right now. IF ONLY I COULD STOP CHOKING

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