Qipchaq

Qipchāq

Song Information

Qipchāq's jacket.

Artist: world sequence
Composition/Arrangement: Seiya Murai
BPM: 150
Length: 1:35
First Music Game Appearance: DanceDanceRevolution (2013)
Other Music Game Appearances:

• REFLEC BEAT colette -Autumn-
• REFLEC BEAT plus MUSIC PACK 48
• REFLEC BEAT + KONAMI MUSIC PACK 46

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections / Remixes

None.

Trivia

• Qipchāq marks Kiyoshi Murai's first DanceDanceRevolution original song under his world sequence alias.
• Qipchāq (also spelled Kipchak) were a Turkic tribal confederation, which conquered large parts of the Eurasian steppe during the Turkic expansion of the 11th to 12th centuries together with the Cumans, and were in turn conquered by the Mongol invasions of the early 13th century. Their modern descendants include the Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Bashkirs, and Tatars.
• Qipchāq was added to REFLEC BEAT colette -Autumn- on October 23rd, 2013 as a default song.
• Qipchāq's difficulty level change from DanceDanceRevolution A20 was applied to DanceDanceRevolution A on March 27th, 2019.
• Qipchāq is available in DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX's GRAND PRIX mode from January 30th, 2023, by purchasing the GRAND PRIX music pack vol.13 (グランプリ楽曲パック vol.13).

Song Production Information

Seiya Murai

For this new DDR song, I brought back my old alias for making fanciful ethnic music "world sequence".
I first discussed this song at the unveiling of the new DDR cabinet at the arcade show earlier this year.

Lately I've been receiving more and more requests to do non-pop songs and venture off a little bit into different rhythm songs, so I suppose this song falls into that category?
I was asked to make a song outside the typical dance song, so it was decided that I would make a song inspired by the marching of soldiers and that was combined with a folksy-color to the song to make it sound intercontinental.

Qipchaq was the original name given to the region of central Asia by the old tribes who lived there. You may remember reading about this tribe in your history textbook as part of Genghis Khan's Mongolian empire, but it seems that the tribe was filled with brave warriors and the region was often engrossed in battles.

I named the song Qipchaq because the song has the image of warriors wondering through the vast grass plains on their horses, although this title was added after the song was composed (laughs). Thanks to the title, I was able to learn a little bit about Chinese history.

I think that you can imagine traveling through the vast grass plains while you dance to this song.

Difficulty & Notecounts

DanceDanceRevolution difficulty rated from 1 to 20 from X onwards.
REFLEC BEAT to groovin'!! Upper difficulty rated from 1 to 10+, and from 1 to 13 in VOLZZA/VOLZZA 2. (Ratings and notecounts obtained from BEMANIWiki 2nd.)

DanceDanceRevolution

Game	Single					Double
	Beginner	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge	Basic	Difficult	Expert	Challenge
Notecounts / Freeze Arrows / Shock Arrows	88 / 4	139 / 7	231 / 20	309 / 16	- / - / -	143 / 7	229 / 14	307 / 16	- / - / -
DanceDanceRevolution (2013)→(2014)	3	5	8	11	-	5	8	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution A→Present	3	5	8	↑12	-	5	8	11	-
DanceDanceRevolution GRAND PRIX	3	5	8	12	-	5	8	11	-

REFLEC BEAT

Game	Level
	Basic	Medium	Hard	Special
Notecounts	53	137	314	-
REFLEC BEAT colette -Autumn-→VOLZZA 2	2	5	8	-
REFLEC BEAT plus	2	5	8	-
REFLEC BEAT +	2	5	8	-