Readme for I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers. Steps & Graphics by GoGoNaoki. For DDRExtreme.co.uk's 80s Mix

BPM: 132
Song Length: 2:07 mins
Year: 1988


Singles:

Beginner	 (1):	Steps: 148    Jumps: 41    Holds: 0

Light	 (3):	Steps: 226    Jumps: 40    Holds: 0

Standard	 (6):	Steps: 293    Jumps: 76    Holds: 0

Heavy	 (7):	Steps: 392    Jumps: 47    Holds: 0

Challenge (8):	Steps: 433    Jumps: 53    Holds: 0


Doubles:

Heavy	(8):	Steps: 372    Jumps: 53    Holds: 0


Summary: It took me a while, but I finally found a song from the 80s that I liked which wouldn't take me 20 years to sync - yay for constant bpms! The Proclaimers are a Scottish Duo whose musical career began in the late 80s, and this song was their thrid single, reaching No. 11 in the UK charts (it even has its own wikipedia page- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_Gonna_Be_%28500_Miles%29). If you don't like it, try listening to it while drunk, and attempt to mosh to it (this almost certainly requires you to be drunk) :).
	The steps have no freezes in them, and remind me a bit of 3rd-4th mix songs, apart from challenge, where i've played about a bit trying to follow some vocals and ended up with 24th triplets, which might not be such a good idea... 
	I've attempted a vaguely Scottish theme with the graphics, attempting to make a tartan(ish) pattern, which i'm still a bit unsure about, but my only other idea was based around using a road sign and seemed even worse. If nothing else, the fact they aren't overly good fits in with the 3rd-4th mix-ish theme.

Singles: Beginner and light are both fairly easy and shouldn't cause any problems. There are a few basic 4th crossovers in light, and some corner jumps which the steps lead into, but otherwise its an average 3. Standard starts to use 8ths in groups of 3 or 5 and is nice and jumpy. There are a few 8th crossover triplets, there to provide practice for Challenge. The streams get longer in Heavy, but are still easy patterns, and some 16ths are introduced for one part of the song (I'm still not convinced that this is definately right, but I've tried lots of variations and I thought they worked best). Challenge was originally only done for the extra points, but I actually think the crossovery streams in it play very nicely on foot. Again, i'm not too sure about the chaos section (24th triplets...), but it seems to play ok.

Doubles: Unfortunately I've only had time to do heavy, which is quite streamy with some crossovers and a lot of pad to pad movement.



Steps created in Stepmania 3.9.
Graphics created using Photoshop
MP3 edited in Nero Wave Editor.

Any comments are welcome - email/msn me at GoGoNaoki@gmail.com or PM me at DDRExtreme.co.uk or DDRUK.

Enjoy!