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Yeah I can make that change!

Thanks !

Okay, any reason why it shouldn't be included? Hearing that its a volume modulation, I imagine thats just a note with a lower velocity. I think the rhythm in m12 should still be considered, at least.

No, really, juste the same note maintained. It shouldn't be included because a traditionnal piano can't do that.

The "restrike" on measures 12 and 16 is actually a volume modulation, so not really a restrike.

About the swing issue... I don't know if I can fix that on Finale NotePad... Can you do it ? If you can't, that's no big deal to me... Maybe I could fix it on Musescore but that's pointless since I have to export files to NotePad eventually.

Finally accepted all the modifications.

Files modified by Kricketune54 have been updated.

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To be honest, I don't think any of the things I pointed out can be addressed within Notepad. It's been years at this point since I went from Notepad to full Finale, but I am pretty confident that barring basic note changes, dynamics, and accents, there's not much else you can do in it. Grace notes might be one of those things, if I recall that you can't do.

You can modify slurs and beaming, move text and lines... So a few things more (and I may not have find all of the (few) possibilities)

Just so I understand, you plan in the future to submit the Notepad files, and then make changes to MuseScore and make new Notepad files from that file to then update your submissions? Not sure how that's different from current.

It would be different because, now that I know how things work, I check and modify things after importing the musicxml and before submitting. Like moving stacattos, ottavas, text (subtitle, tempo mark...), dynamics, slurs, maybe changing notes (like this time)... All of this is because of NotePad's whims and therefore has to be made in NotePad. This changes in NotePad take time and if I have modifications that I must do in Musescore, I have to do all these things all over again before submitting. So I won't do them before submitting the first time. I will wait for the review and then I'll do them (so the approval will need at least two steps). The plan here is to correct NotePad's errors just once. So if you prefer the pdf from NotePad anyway, I'll send it (because that's what I'm supposed to do) but this pdf will not be good the first time (and so will be the mus and maybe mid) or else I can send the files from Musescore so you'll have something cleaner and close to the intended appearance. But in one case or the other, I'll obviously clean the mus file afterwards.

This sheet does have my approval, though I will be sending you on discord files with some minor rest updates (some stuff is out of position comparing my screenshot to your updates, specifically rest positions at m3).

I copy here my message from Discord:

In fact, I intentionnaly put the rests in m3 and m7 below the whole note because they are part of the second voice (and furthermore its melodic line starts below the staff)! But I can accept your modifications for the rests that are before the last eighth note in these two measures (but not for the first rests).
For the measures 4 and 8, I accept it too. In fact, I tried to do it but NotePad added automatically the rest for voice 2 even if I deleted it. So thanks for this!

I agree with your suggestions. I did all the modifications and updated the files! Thanks!

I had to deal with the double bar and the swapping of the voices in Musescore because I think I couldn't add the double bar in NotePad (but if I'm wrong please tell me how it could have been done!) and I couldn't just swap the voices in NotePad so I started rewriting them but I don't know how to write the grace note (once again, if you know how to do it easily, I would be glad to know it ^^'). So those changes were made in Musescore and I had to modify again things like the Gn's and the slurs ^^' I think that for my next submission, I will submit the "ugly" pdf from NotePad and I will wait for the review before making any change just in case those changes would have to be done in Musescore and thus avoiding redo all the painful changes that has to be done because of NotePad pranks x)

Update:

Changes made on Musescore:
- Changed the "Swing 8ths" from system text to staff text so it doesn't confuse the XML cleaner nor NotePad (Musescore doesn't render the swing anymore but it's not an issue for the sheet music). There are less error messages on NotePad and it knows how to deal with the Swing text (thanks to Cacabish)!
- Set 3 measures per system instead of 4 for the four first systems so it would have enough space for the beginning (especially for measure 2, 3, 6 & 7 that were crushed as soon as it has been imported into NotePad)
- Removed the beaming m1, 3, 5 & 7 b0.25

Changes made on NotePad:
- Corrected the Gb's generated by NotePad to Gn's
- Removed the 3rd pedal text (it didn't work well in NotePad)
- Corrected some slurs here and there

Files updated

Hi! Thanks for your review

About the G notes that haven't got the natural, it's an issue that happened when I imported the file on NotePad because the accidentals are there in Musescore :/ I don't know how to fix that. The naturals can't be added alone in NotePad. I have to rewrite the notes. I tried but that was messy... Maybe I'll retry later... And I have several error messages when importing the XML, maybe the solution is there somehow? Do you want me to report them here? Or should I report them elsewhere? I noticed also that the XML wasn't accepted by the XML cleaner (unlike my previous work)...

About the swing... In my opinion, if there isn't the swing when playing the midi, that is not an issue since we just need the sheet music, right? By the way, the swing is finely played in Musescore as it can be heard with the mp3 I've put in my previous post.

EDIT: I've figured out how to correct those Gn's on NotePad but I still have some issues to deal with, I'll do an update soon!

- Fixed issues n° 2, 3 and 4 by adding more space on the Musescore sheet before exporting the XML.

- Fixed issues n° 6, 8 and 9 by using the tools on NotePad (oh and I moved the ottava line a little bit upper).

About the other issues:

1. Title and subtitle are now horizontally centered on the page
5. There isn't enough space for the grace note on measure 5
7. Some slurs could be adjusted, like on LH on measure 4

I just decided these were not really worth the trouble ^^

And I uploaded mus, mid and pdf from NotePad !

I did the modification mentionned above about measure 1 and 13 and *rolldrum* I finally installed java and the xml cleaner program *applauses* ! And I'm taking time to watch closely the imported file on Finale NotePad. Firstable, I still have the following message when importing the .musicxml file:

"Attribute "type" with value "grace-cue" must have a value from the list "cue grace large "."

About what the sheet looks like, good news is that measure numbers are there, mini-title and page number are there on page 2, copyright is just on the first page as it's supposed to be, but there are several things that change from the original :

1. Title and subtitle are now horizontally centered on the page (whereas they were a bit shifted to the right on Musescore because I think Musescore leave a bigger margin on the left of the page maybe for binding purposes) but I don't know if it's an issue or not. I'm ok with both.

2. Subtitle is too close from the title.

3. Tempo marking is too far from the first staff.

4. The "1x only" is too close from the stem above.

5. There isn't enough space for the grace note on measure 5.

6. Staccatos measure 5 and 7 on beat 1 moved.

7. Some slurs could be adjusted, like on LH on measure 4, but it's not a big deal.

8. Ottavas are too shifted to the right and too long.

And it may be more... 

EDIT: found a new one! 9. Parentheses on the notes in measure 2 beat 1 disapeared.

NB: I've just remembered that Kricketune54 had made some formatting on Finale for the last upload fixing the ottavas (and adding a dynamic which I didn't put on Musescore). But since I modified my Musescore file, I should redo those modifications too.

Well... I progress, but now I have to try to fix all of those problems... I leave this post but I'm looking for help on Discord. See you later for more update ^^'

Obviously the original 8-bit song doesn't help but when it comes to play it... It's really hard to explain how I feel but for that measure, I don't see any reason why the second D# should be different than the first one on beat 3... Sometimes, using a 8th with a staccato makes it easier to read, like on measure 1 or on measure 2 beat 3 (the rhythm that I call "syncopette" but I don't know the english word, may be the same?). Sometimes it might also depends on the melody, like in measure 8, where the 8th notes with staccatos are parts of the same melodic line (which starts on measure 8 beat 1 and ends on measure 9 beat 1) whereas 16th notes would look more like rhythmic elements making the melody less clear. It may also be about the interpretation, where a 16th followed by a rest is a bit too mechanical whereas a 8th with a staccato on it sounds more lively although it's a bit subjective. But on measure 12, to me any of those reasons apply here and the 16th seems to be the best choice imo.

By the way, we could also use slurs for the phrasing but it's like staccatos, it's not clearly written in the original, it's more about how we hear the music and how we understand it. And that's why it's not that easy to all agree with each other.

Thanks for your feedback!

I agree for m1 and m13 but I prefer m12 and m17 the way they are. On m12, I like the idea of three 16th, like four with a missing one, where all three notes have the same articulation and with a short rest before beat 4. On m17, I consider the third beat as a C# diminished so Gn is fine in this case and more straightforward to read.

I will do the changes on m1 and m13 soon!

I don't mind! I'm ok with both!

Here is my transcription of Ducktales 2 - Last Stage by Minae Fuji!

MP3 from Musescore:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kdFWHCds9fJE2blRa-7GzcDG9gqMvc1q/view?usp=drive_link

Sorry for the bad quality of the .mus file... If someone is willing to explain to me how to modify it, I would really appreciate! The pdf was exported from Musescore but I used the NSM [MU4] v2.3.A4 style file though.

Original:

Fixed this along with:
- https in URL
- "and" in composer info
- Measure number positioning
- A bit of staff spacing and margin work
- Removal of octave clefs
- Corrected some incorrectly flipped notes
- Adjusted some rhythm groupings
- Removed 8va in left hand

All right! Thanks

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Your screenshots are not appearing for me. As far as the nsf files/what is there I'd like someone else to give us a check if we can't agree, but I won't let it hold up my approval. With your permission I will copy your musescore file and reupload Finale source files to this submission so that the next updater can review.

I changed the screenshots for links instead, maybe it works now?

I send you the Musescore file on Discord!

Thanks!