You may be able to enjoy DDR more to know these terms.

- BPM

Beats Per Minute. Unit to express tempo of music. If you clap you hand at 60 BPM, it is 1 clap every second.. If the number gets bigger, music gets faster. DDR usually have songs from 90 BPM (Hip hop is about 90-100 BPM). If you are a beginner, start from slower song. Please find BPM display in song selection screen.

- Bar(DDR specific)

It is called "MEASURE" in general. If you go to TRAINING MODE, you can find bars separating linear sequence. 1 bar usually have 4 beats. Most of music have sections every 8 (or 4) measures. Please listen to the music carefully, you can notice that music changes at every 8 measure. For example, vocal starts from 9th measure in many songs.

- 4th note

It means 1 beat. 1 Major consists of 4 of 4th notes.

- 8th notes, 16th notes.....

Divide 4th notes in to half, quarter....

In DDR, arrow colors of 4th, 8th and 16th notes are all different. It may help when you play.

- Triplets (12th notes)

If 4th notes get divided into 3, it is called triplets. (I heard that triplets in old DDRs might be off beat, but recent versions have triplets working properly for sure.)

Arrow color of triplets is the same as 16th notes.

Hiro@LA