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[[GCN] Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest]

Wow, first few months on the job have flown by, can't believe I finally get to see the updating console room!

*creeeeak*

...boy, it's dusty in here. And what a mess! Half-finished sheet music, overturned monkey cages, broken seashells... whoever was last in here must have left in a hurry.

Oh, and the window's broken too, lovely.  Wait, is that... a meteorite embedded in the floor? It's still smoldering... There's something written on it:

FINALE TERMINATION NOTICE
"Attention all Nin Sheeters: Due to recent and unforeseen circumstances, I have decided to end support for Finale, effective immediately. Thank you for understanding. Sincerely, NoteMan."

...Could this be the cause of all this devastation?

Oh, looks like the updating console is flashing. "Update Queued: 16 Sheets Ready"? Hmm, I wonder what this giant red button labeled "Let's Update!" does...

*click*

[GCN] Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest
"Theme 1" by SlimyWyvern

[NES] DuckTales 2
"Last Stage" by Fullmetalgrudo

[MUL] Genshin Impact
"Down by the Forgotten Gardens" by Latios212

[MOB] Len'en 00: Book of the Cafe
"Mnemonic => Extraction" by BlueKirby

[SW] Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE
"Melancholy - And..." by Bloop

[NES] Mega Man 2
"Air Man Stage" (Replacement) by LeviR.star
"Heat Man Stage" (Replacement) by LeviR.star

[SNES] Pac-Attack
"The High Life" by Nine Lives

[MUL] Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo
"I'll Be Close By" by Metamyrrh

[N64] Pokémon Stadium
"Gym Leader Castle Battle (Trainer) (Two Pianos)" by Yug Guy

[3DS] Pokémon X & Pokémon Y
"Trainers' Eyes Meet (Roller Skater)" by Kricketune54

[3DS] Rune Factory 4
"LAFS" by Static39

[3DS] StreetPass Mii Plaza
"Kidnapped!" by Cashwarrior1
"Your Garden (Flower Town)" by Latios212

[GCN] Super Mario Sunshine
"Sludge Plant Battle" (Replacement) by Fantastic Ike

[MUL] Wanted: Dead
"Venomous Grace" by Static

[accept]

No worries on the delay, thanks for checking again! Looks great, I will now accept.

[accepted]

Looks great! Yeah the system distribution wasn't the issue, just the spacing between them, which it looks like you've corrected. Great work, and congrats on your first accepted sheet!

Oh I didn't even notice the last measure was shortened lol, the lack of a timesig change there threw me. The repeat looks great, but looking at the sheet now I'm noticing that you have the page size set at 120%, was that intentional? I think it looks a bit cramped (the second page especially), and would benefit from being resized to 100%. You can do this with the Resize tool by clicking on any blank space in the margins of the sheet. Doing this messes up the spacing a bit on the 4th and 6th systems, for the 4th you can change it back with the Page Layout tool by right clicking the upper left box on the system, selecting "Edit margins," and copy-pasting the "Bottom" value from the 3rd system. For the 6th, you can just use the Staff tool and drag it until it looks right.

[accept!]

Awesome, I shall accept!

What a lovely little piece! My only comment is that I think you could add the D pickup to the final measure on beat 3, and place a repeat after the pickup in m1. This is partly so that the performer doesn't have to look back at the first page to realize there's a pickup, but also because the way you have it right now implies that there are 4 beats before the loop, whereas I hear it as just a slow 3.

Maybe the bottom of the arpeggio line in the last measure could end a bit higher, since it's a bit low

Agreed with this, also maybe a fermata in the last measure? Looks good otherwise!

[nice work.]

Got nothing to add, nice work. Also how is this our first and only Flower Town sheet?? That can't be right... I'll be sure to rectify that sometime soon.

[accept!]

Nice, with that I will accept! We'll change the sheet title for this and your other sub before they get uploaded to the site.

[approve!]

Looks great, I will now approve! Leaving these for the next updater to get a second opinion on:

-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.

[approve]

With my newfound powers I will now approve based on implementation of my previous feedback.

bump

I know a majority of the accidentals in this piece are flats, double flats and naturals, but writing that part without the sharp leaves a lot of clutter that I feel the performer could do without. Just my opinion, of course

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree here, I think in a chromatic passage like this it's important to spell the diatonic notes normally so that the nondiatonic notes are clear to the performer. Using a sharp here obscures that the enclosed An is outside the key signature, and is especially confusing given that G# is enharmonic to a diatonic note (Ab) that you've already used earlier in the measure as part of the same motion (Ab to An). Plus, going from G# to Fn in the next measure creates an awkward augmented second interval. I'd highly advise using flats here for all these reasons.

Hmm, I would sure hope the performer was familiar with the original before seeking out my arrangement.

You'd be surprised, what with Twitch sightreaders and people just browsing random sheets. Ideally all of our sheets would be legible and performable for anyone even if they've never played a video game in their life, but I'm not going to press it any further haha. I'm fine with keeping it in to maintain consistency with your other sheets.

Apologies for the long wait! Nice job arranging this for two pianos.

-Shota Kageyama arranged this particular track, so you should credit him by either adding him to the composer list or adding a separate line with "Arranged by Shota Kageyama" and then "Arranged for piano by amc"

Piano 2 LH m8-16: I'd recommend changing the low drum hits to G#s rather than C#s since G# is the tonic; making it the 4th adds harmonic info that isn't there in the original.

-Piano 1 LH m16: I like the idea of incorporating the conga fill here, but it sounds a bit more chromatic in the original. Maybe change the last 3 notes of it to C#-Cx-D# or E-E#-F#?

-Piano 2 LH m17-31: The bass here isn't just 8th octaves, there are some syncopations and other notes you're missing.

-Piano 1 RH m24, 25, 27, 28 & 29: I'm not hearing the 16ths on beat 1.25 and 2.25 here, and it sounds like the ones on beat 1.5 are G#s instead of D#s.

-Piano 1 RH m26: The 16ths on beats 1.25-1.5 and and 2.25-2.5 both should be D#-G#.

-Piano 1 RH m30 & 31: The 16ths on beats 1.25-1.5 and and 2.25-2.5 should be D#-G# and B-D# respectively.

-Piano 2 RH m24-31: You've made quite an admirable attempt, but believe it or not for the glockenspiel/chimes here I'm actually going to recommend that you take a look at a MIDI rip of this song to figure out the notes (which I've attached below). Why? Several reasons:

1. MIDI rips for DS and other types of sequenced tracks can be a useful tool to check your work against, especially for very dense and complex songs like this one.
2. The glockenspiel is in a pretty low register and has an extremely strong, out-of-tune overtone that overpowers the fundamental pitches, making it very difficult to tell what the actual notes are. All of the notes you have transcribed for this part are actually a 7th lower in the original track's sequence data, which I probably wouldn't have realized without checking it.
3. The part appears to have been composed at random, with no discernable repetition and borderline nonsensical use of notes, and I don't feel like it's worth either of our time to figure it all out by ear and then type up an insanely long post with all the individual corrections lol.

Alrighty! Feel free to re-upload your Super Mario 3D World sheet too, since it was pretty close to being accepted ^^

Also want to make sure you didn't forget about this.

Also hearing this as written, the pedal lift at 0:11 especially makes me hear that as the downbeat.