Halloween 2k19 Update

[Static]

-I think the B in the third layer in bar 19 should be a C#.

There's a C# and B playing simultaneously there, but I left out the bottom C# because of the one that comes on beat 2 of layer 1. If I added both notes, I think playing layer 1 would be a little more awkward, so I just kept the B. This way, the chord voicing stays open and all the chord tones are accounted for.

[Trasdegi]

Trasdegi - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward - Portentousness
Before Latios takes a look at those accidentals, I have a couple things:
- m5: The last note in the sextuplet should be E natural like in m1.
- The accidentals in the 2nd half look good to me generally speaking - the intervals are all consistent. I think the Bbs and Abs in the 2nd layer should be A#s and G#s though, since they fit in the chords better.

-Oops, the whole sextuplet in m5 was intended to be the same as m1, so the 3 last notes are wrong.
-It's definitely possible... However, that makes it look even less clean, so I think I'll wait for note-checking before trying to find a way to fix all accidentals and making it look not too unreadable...

[Yug_Guy]

-The right hand notes in bars 6-8 aren't entirely correct.  Here's a picture with what I can hear (note that the second two bars are identical to the first):

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-Also in bars 6-8, you could move all the Ds in the left hand chord up to the right hand and that way those chords will be much easier to play.
-The D in the dyad on beat 4 of bar 32 should be a C.

Fixed.

-Personally I think it'd be best to cut the bass down to a single octave in bars 17-24 (the lower one).  Why?  Well I think that to play those phrases smoothly in octaves is going to be borderline impossible, whereas if it's a single octave it'll be much easier to shape the phrases correctly.  Also, since the right hand is so simple it's not hard for a single note bass line to come across really clearly over it which means that octaves aren't strictly necessary.  Just my thoughts, anyway.

Performers can also choose to simply play a single octave.

-The D -> F -> D jump at the end of bar 33 is kind of crazy; is there any chance we could move the F an octave down?  I don't think it'd affect the line all that much, but it'd be much easier to play.

Fixed, though the D's have been moved an octave up to keep with the general-upwards motion of the bassline.

-Leaving out the top octave of the Bb on beat 4.25 of bars 13 and 50 is kind of strange.  If it's for playability, there are other places in there that are much harder to play in octaves. 

Already mentioned here:

There are two organ parts that play the melody for this section an octave apart. In m.13 one of the Bb in that section drops an octave while the other stays. If you listen to the original again you'll probably hear it.

-Like you do in bar 38, you could include a crescendo for the right hand in bar 5.

My only thought is that the sixteenths in m5 don't really crescendo the same way they do in m38. Heck, you could say they almost don't crescendo at all.

-The left margin on page 3 is too large (just set it to what you have for the other ones).  Also, everything on page 3 could come down a bit and be spread out more I think.

I must have forgotten to reset the margins when I added the third page. For whatever reason it defaults to the default setting & not what the rest of the pages are currently at. Fixed.

-Also, I know you included it at the request of others, but I'm not sure that I could stomp my feet that quickly (at least not in audible way).  Still, I guess the performer can choose how they fulfil that percussion queue themselves fairly easily.

Well, I can certainly do it. And, as you mentioned, it's up to the performer to decide what they do for that measure.

Super Castlevania IV [SNES]

"Simon Belmont's Theme"

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[Libera]

Static - The Witch's House - Rumour

There's a C# and B playing simultaneously there, but I left out the bottom C# because of the one that comes on beat 2 of layer 1. If I added both notes, I think playing layer 1 would be a little more awkward, so I just kept the B. This way, the chord voicing stays open and all the chord tones are accounted for.

Fair enough then, I can see that reasoning (although I think the B sustains and the C# is the note that moves to the E later.)  I shall accept.

Yug Guy - Super Castlevania IV - Simon Belmont's Theme

All looks good then, I shall give it an accept.

[Latios212]

Static - Promise
- Super small thing - I'd recommend moving the repeat numbers (1 and 2) a bit further to the left to align with the notes.
- For m. 33 and similar I'm not really sure I heave the A's in the lower layer? The accompaniment seems to move from Em to Cmaj7.
- Give the pp at the end a bit more space.

Static - The Park
- m. 9 beat 2 sounds to me like the same dyad as beat 3 instead of beat 2 of m. 5 (i.e. B flat over an F)?
- Small suggestion - might be nice to align the LH swung note with the triplet in the last measure.

Libera - VS. Nightmare
Looks good!

Zeila - Battle! (Team Skull)

Ah ok, I changed the 32nd notes to sixteenth notes and updated the dyads here

Cool, looks good. I slightly adjusted a couple of slurs in m. 15-16 and the star of the 8va in m. 26. Accepting! (Libera's resetting the articulation positions in Finale.)

[Static]

Static - Promise
- Super small thing - I'd recommend moving the repeat numbers (1 and 2) a bit further to the left to align with the notes.
- For m. 33 and similar I'm not really sure I heave the A's in the lower layer? The accompaniment seems to move from Em to Cmaj7.
- Give the pp at the end a bit more space.

Fixed all the things. I don't remember why I chose to use As in those spots, but it sounds off so I changed them to Es.

Static - The Park
- m. 9 beat 2 sounds to me like the same dyad as beat 3 instead of beat 2 of m. 5 (i.e. B flat over an F)?
- Small suggestion - might be nice to align the LH swung note with the triplet in the last measure.

Fixed these things too.

[Latios212]

Looks good!

Static - Promise
Approved

Static - The Park
Accepted

[Static]

-Oops, the whole sextuplet in m5 was intended to be the same as m1, so the 3 last notes are wrong.
-It's definitely possible... However, that makes it look even less clean, so I think I'll wait for note-checking before trying to find a way to fix all accidentals and making it look not too unreadable...

Yeah, I am quite unsure about those accidentals myself. What I said I think fits the chords better, but it looks very sloppy.
The m5 thing though has been fixed.

[Latios212]

Levi - Basement Melodies
- I think the last note in m. 7 and 11 might be better spelled as F# because that's where it leads to harmonically in the following measures.

Levi - Transylvania (Beta)
- I'd suggest moving the start of the 8va/15ma right a bit more in line with the first note in each phrase
- Maybe spell the Fn in the last couple measures as E#?

[LeviR.star]

Levi - Basement Melodies
- I think the last note in m. 7 and 11 might be better spelled as F# because that's where it leads to harmonically in the following measures.

Levi - Transylvania (Beta)
- I'd suggest moving the start of the 8va/15ma right a bit more in line with the first note in each phrase
- Maybe spell the Fn in the last couple measures as E#?

- I like that idea. Fixing

- I agree, it's a bit too far to the LH right now
- you got it!

Final files updated.

[Latios212]

whee

Levi - Basement Melodies
Levi - Transylvania (Beta)
have the accepts


Zeila - Battle! (Team Skull Admin)
- Needs more varying dynamics
- m. 5 doesn't just repeat the usual melody, beats 3-4 are C#-D
- m. 16 beat 4.5 RH - align the B with the D (probably gets messed up whenever you touch the measure)
- m. 18 beat 3 RH - hearing F# in the middle, think it's a power chord like the others
- m. 19/21 LH the Bb sounds like it should be Eb instead (same Eb as beat 1)
- m. 20 I'm hearing the RH as two eighth notes instead of a triplet, and without the D on beat 2
- m. 34 beat 4 LH - B instead of A?
The rest looks good!

Also, I messaged AwesomeYears and he's been busy so his sheet will be missing out on this update (will be submitted again later through normal submissions though!)

[Libera]

Latios212 - Lavender Town

Looks great, accepted.

Maelstrom - the executioner

-I think the piano run in bars 90-93 is slightly different then the previous times, with the last three quavers before the high C being F C F (rather than Gb Bb F).
-The bracket on the E in bar 79 needs fixing.
-I'd consider removing the second semiquavers in bars 102-104 that coincide with the C Ab dyad in layer 1.  I just think it'd be a whole lot easier to play that way and wouldn't change the overall rhythmic effect at all.
-Maybe add in another note in the right hand chords at 114-121?  It sounds like there's an extra/doubled voice in the original there and might help give that finish a little bit extra.  Up to you though.
-I'd give the accidentals a little more space on the second chord in bar 38 by moving the gliss slightly to the left.
-All the Dbs on the bottom of the right hand chords in bars 114-121 should be Dns like before, at least I'm pretty sure that they should be.
-For semibreves in bars 17-32 I'm hearing a lot of different notes/harmonies.  Perhaps I'm just listening to the wrong parts but you might want to double check this bit again.
-For the buildup to 66 some of the voicings here are pretty taxing on the right hand.  Particularly, the F A C, F Bb Db but they're all quite out there.  Also the final two bars I'm hearing quite differently.  I came up with some suggested voicings for what I can hear, but you might want to mess around with them to make it fit with the preceding bars.

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[Latios212]

Trasdegi - Portentousness

Yeah, I am quite unsure about those accidentals myself. What I said I think fits the chords better, but it looks very sloppy.
The m5 thing though has been fixed.

Thanks guys for looking it over. Notes look good and accidentals (though a bit strange) look easily readable so this gets an approval from me!

[Th3Gavst3r]

Th3Gavst3r - Cave Story - Halloween 2
- m8, 36, 40: I think Bbbs should be A naturals. These look like Cm6 chords with the A on the bottom.

Th3Gavst3r - Cave Story - Zombie
On the repeat of m5-8 of the original, some extra percussion joins in. I think you could represent that with some extra LH 2nd layer notes or something.

Implemented both of these things. In case of percussion, smash octaves

Got a couple more Cave Story sheets done

[MUL] Cave Story

Halloween 2
Zombie

[Latios212]

Static - It's Time for Revenge
- Any particular reason you have an 8vb in the playback but not visible for the sheet?
- I think it's a bit odd to omit the lower layer C in m. 25/26 that sets it apart from m. 21-22, but your call
- m. 28 I'm hearing the bass pickup as F#-C-F# ascending instead. Same with 30 and 32/34 (transposed)
- I suggest flipping the RH octaves in m. 31/33 similar to 27/29 to give the sfz more space
- I suggest flipping notes in the RH of m. 32/34 so that the repeated chord looks the same. I'd recommend flipping the first two groups, but alternatively you can flip the last
- I think it would make sense to invert the chord in m. 38 up once, as the octaves highlight the voice that I feel isn't the melody