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- I've used the footnote "triangle tom" in my chiptune Mega Man sheets for some time now. These are written in a way that they can be played with "substitute" pitches, or left out if the performer would rather represent them by stomping their feet or something. Leaving them out entirely would make the bass line feel empty, so that's why I do it this way

Ah I didn't realize you'd been using that footnote already. To me it still doesn't really convey what your stated intent with the X noteheads is, it just describes a timbral quality of the original track (which the performer may not have even heard). That being said it's probably worth keeping it consistent with all your other sheets, this is just my personal opinion.

- are you sure? Performers would have to nail that repetition consistently, is that manageable at ♩ = 150?

My personal rule of thumb for fast repeated notes with a single finger is that 2 in a row is fine, but anything over that is pushing it. Speaking of which, I didn't notice before but m13 has a few triple repeated notes in the RH and is pretty brutal at speed, thoughts on taking out the lower harmony there? The LH has the same notes so you wouldn't really lose any harmonic info.

- this leads back to the point above. Side note, I'm having trouble trying to figure out how to format this lol

Yeah I probably should have attached a picture lol. Here's what I was thinking (mockup in musescore ):

Appreciate the Matsumae credit on this one haha. I vaguely remembered hearing she worked on this song but didn't know the full story until looking it up now, very cute and funny anecdote (for those curious, here's the context).

-I'm not entirely sure what your intent is with the X notes, were you meaning to imply that they're optional or that they should be percussion? I get that they're toms made with the triangle channel, but I don't think the phrase "triangle tom" adds much useful information to a pianist, and could be a bit confusing. Maybe just "X notes optional" if that's what you were going for?

-m20 RH beat 1: The grace note here sounds more like a 16th on the downbeat to me, but it's pretty subjective.

-Even though it reduces the number of accidentals, the sharp in m20 threw me for a loop when I was sightreading it; I think it could potentially be more intuitive to spell this part with flats and naturals instead. Admittedly this is not my area of expertise, so I'm curious what others' opinions on this would be.

-The exact same tom fills from m29 & m33 happen in m27 and m31, I'd include them there too for consistency's sake.

-Tempo could be moved down a bit.

Great work on this one! Surprisingly playable lol.

-m5-10 RH beat 4: I understand the removal of the thirds here to make it easier, but I actually find the parallel thirds here pretty idiomatic (and fun) to play. Up to you though.

-m1-4 LH beat 1: I agree with simplifying the LH for the rest of the sheet, but I think you could get away with adding the second 16th here on beat 1.25.

-m13/14 LH beat 4.75/1: It feels a bit misleading to me to have a tied note here; since the RH isn't occupied you could put the A in the RH and then restrike the D on beat 1 in the LH.

-Tempo could be moved down a smidge.

For measure seven, aside from playability, I wanted it to have this build up to the first chord of the next measure, since I hear it have that impact in a not-so-crescendo sort of way.

That's fair. Would you consider adding just the G on beat 3? I think that would improve the playability without adding too many other voices, since it lets you distribute your wrist weight more evenly.

Cool piece! Only vaguely heard of this game before but the soundtrack is pretty nice.

-The tonic chord here is G major, so the keysig should be 1 sharp.

-m1 RH beats 2-4.5: There's a fair amount of other harmonic voices you don't have included here, I'm assuming for playability reasons (which I'd agree with if that's the case). You could maybe include the B on beat 2 though, since that doesn't add any awkward fast repeated notes like the ones on the 8ths would.

-m3 RH beat 3.5: missing a G on bottom; if you omitted it to avoid repeating the LH note then that's fine.

-m4 RH beat 3.5: missing a Bb on bottom.

-m5 RH beat 3.5: missing an A on bottom.

-m7 RH: Beat 2.5 is missing an E-G-B triad on bottom, beat 3 is missing an E-G dyad, and beat 3.5 is missing an E. Feel free to leave out some of these to make it more playable, on beat 2.5 especially.

-m10 RH beat 1: chord should be B-D-F#-A bottom to top.

-m14 RH beat 1: You could potentially include the downwards gliss here.

-m14 RH beat 4.666 & m15 RH beat 1 grace note: I think Fx would be preferable here (like in m11) since it's confusing to read a grace note on the same line as its parent note.

Radiak could you reshare the images? I do not see them it them and following the links says "content unavailable".

Whoops, apologies. Here they are for real this time:

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We're so cloooooose!!!!

-m70 RH beat 3: I'm not entirely sure what extra information is conveyed by having the F# in both layers at once, I'd vote for removing it from layer 2.

-m91 beat 1.5: Personally I think the layer 2 G here distracts from the melody and it's pretty quiet in the original, thoughts on taking it out? In our Discord sessions I recall removing a lot of other similar background notes that repeat melody notes.

- I forget if Radiak had any final thoughts about the "I miss you" in m. 89, but I'm fine with it as written.

Yeah, I still pretty strongly disagree with notating this as distinct pitches since it's just spoken and not really meant to be a sung/played line. I proposed these 3 options in Discord but I'll reshare them here:

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Not much to say here, really nice work! My only suggestion is to tie beat 2.5 to beat 3 in the LH in m7/8/11/12/16, since the kick doesn't hit on beat 3 there.

Whoops, yeah I agree with mp. Unfortunately since Xiao saved the file in a newer version the articulations are messed up when I open the file with NotePad, so I can't export without manually readjusting all of them. Would you be willing to add it for me?

Sorry, missed that! I updated the files with that and the spacing from above, lemme know if that looks okay.

Looks great to me, thanks again!

m14: You should probably mess with the spacing somehow to avoid the accidentals stacking like that, maybe just the accidental tool will be enough?
m16: I think the Ab should be G# (chromatics and stuff)

Got everything except these, I agree with both but NotePad won't let me do either even if I re-import from Musescore. If you could fix these, and also add an invisible swing command and replace the pedal marks in the last system with working ones, I'd appreciate it.

whoops I meant to say 8vb. It's fine either way though and the position looks good now

Oh huh, do we normally ever use 8vb? I don't recall seeing it on most sheets on the site and I've never put it in a sheet of mine before.

I think the notes and everything are fine as they are, I'd just make some manual adjustments to the heights of systems on the first page. See how you like the attached file~

Looks awesome, thanks so much! Not sure if you saw the thing about the pedal marks but if you could grab those too that'd be great.

Good catch on all of those, removed the notes in m3 and m8 and added a tenuto to beat 1 in m7 to make it more obviously distinct. Thanks for checking!

WHAT

LMAO it took me way too long to realize this as well, I think MSF might have pointed it out to me? Either that or I read it in a YouTube comment somewhere.