[NES] Mega Man 4 - "Title Screen" by LeviR.star

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Submission Information:
Series: Mega Man
Game: Mega Man 4
Console: Nintendo Entertainment System
Title: Title Screen
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: LeviR.star

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[LeviR.star]

Some things I thought I'd mention about this sheet:

- the custom NES reverb made transcribing m. 5 - 8 a little tricky, but I think what I got is accurate
- technically there is a scoop on beat 1.5 of m. 9, but I opted out of using a grace note(s) because of the glissando from beat 1
- adding onto grace notes for scoops ^^, for some reason I'm hearing a finalized pitch for the top of each scooped dyad as a D flat for all cases except m. 9's. Can anyone verify this?
- second layer from m. 15 - 18 is a little iffy. Tell me if that looks right or not
- there is a hidden third staff in order to make that last glissando possible for MIDI (because I like to overdo certain things )

[Libera]

- the custom NES reverb made transcribing m. 5 - 8 a little tricky, but I think what I got is accurate

It also made it difficult to check, but I think it's accurate too.

- second layer from m. 15 - 18 is a little iffy. Tell me if that looks right or not

It's accurate for sure, but I'm it's kind of awkward to play.  Maybe you could bring the D on beat 3 in bar 15 up an octave so it doesn't cross over the staff?  That one is arguable either way, but I strongly think that the second layer in bar 17 (beat 3 and 4) would be better up the octave since it still sits under the melody that way and is way less awkward to play.

adding onto grace notes for scoops ^^, for some reason I'm hearing a finalized pitch for the top of each scooped dyad as a D flat for all cases except m. 9's. Can anyone verify this?

This was messing with my head as well so I got out the old frequency analyser and I can confirm that you are not going insane.  For some reason or another the one in bar 9 stops at a higher frequency than the others and ends up closer to a Dn than a Db.

Other than those things, this looks great to me. 

[LeviR.star]

It's accurate for sure, but I'm it's kind of awkward to play.  Maybe you could bring the D on beat 3 in bar 15 up an octave so it doesn't cross over the staff?  That one is arguable either way, but I strongly think that the second layer in bar 17 (beat 3 and 4) would be better up the octave since it still sits under the melody that way and is way less awkward to play.

Ok, what I did was move those second layer melodies up an octave so it didn't interfere with the LH as much. How does that look?

[Libera]

Ok, what I did was move those second layer melodies up an octave so it didn't interfere with the LH as much. How does that look?

It looks....

awesome.

[Latios212]

Coolbeans, just a couple small things:

- I'd recommend spelling the G# in m. 6 as an Ab (neighboring accidental to the G)
- It seems odd that the grace notes are both in one layer where the voices are split elsewhere in the measure (m. 11/14/16), maybe split those out too? This would take a bit of manual adjusting but I think it'd look better

[LeviR.star]

Coolbeans, just a couple small things:

- I'd recommend spelling the G# in m. 6 as an Ab (neighboring accidental to the G)
- It seems odd that the grace notes are both in one layer where the voices are split elsewhere in the measure (m. 11/14/16), maybe split those out too? This would take a bit of manual adjusting but I think it'd look better

- good catch, fixed
- I thought about doing this during the writing of the first draft, but I couldn't get both layers to match up their grace notes' horizontal positions. This time around, however, I made my first use of the Note Mover tool, and now that's taken care of!

Thanks for the feedback, guys! One more thing to ask: for the lower melody moving from m. 17 to 18, I made the F at the end of it part of the first layer as opposed to the second, and flipped it. Does that work?

[Latios212]

No problem Yep, I think that works fine!

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