Onion's Arrangements

[Onionleaf]

Hi there, welcome! Have a cup o' tea and a cookie, take a seat and enjoy browsing these sheets.

✩ Link to my accepted NSM arrangements ✩


[NDS] Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Courtroom Lobby ~ New Prelude

MUS

MUSX

YT

[3DS] Bravely Default

Shrine Maiden's Prayer

MUS

MUSX

YT

[SNES] Chrono Trigger

Underground Sewer

MUS

YT

[GBA] Dragon Ball Z: The Legacy of Goku II

Sparring Arena	MUS		YT
Trunks' Theme	MUS		YT

[3DS] Fantasy Life

Happy Life (Duet)	MUS	MUSX	YT
Puerto Port Theme	MUS	MUSX	YT

[GBA] Fire Emblem

Girl of the Plains - Lyn's Theme	MUS	MUSX	YT
Opening - History Unveiled	MUS	MUSX	YT

[3DS] Fire Emblem: Awakening

But, Frederick, It's Nearly Dark!	MUS		YT
There are better places to take a nap than on the ground you know.	MUS		YT

[GBA] Golden Sun

Altin Caves (Replacement)	PDF	MUS	MIDI	On Site
Enemy Appearance	MUS		YT
Imil's Theme (Replacement)	PDF	MUS	MIDI	On Site
Mysterious Caves	MUS		YT

[GBA] Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Alhafra	MUS		YT
Battle! [Agatio & Karst]	MUS		YT
Battle! [Dragons]	MUS		YT
Festival in Izumo	MUS		YT
Freezing Kalt	MUS		YT
Izumo in Despair	MUS		YT
Kandorean Temple	MUS		YT
Scaling Mountains	MUS		YT
Sorrow and Regret	MUS		YT
The Sea of Time	MUS		YT
Village Theme (Replacement)	PDF	MUS	MIDI	On Site

[NDS] Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Festive Town	MUS		YT
Kaocho	MUS		YT
Sveta's Pain	MUS		YT
Tanglewood	MUS		YT
Te Rya Village	MUS		YT

[PC] Heroes of Might & Magic III

Stronghold Theme	MUS		YT
Waiting Theme 2	MUS		YT

[Wii] Kirby's Epic Yarn

Green Greens	MUS		YT
World 3: Treat Land	MUS		YT

[Wii] The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Leaping from the Clouds

MUS

MUSX

YT

[NDS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Detention Center ~ Jailer's Elegy	MUS		YT
Investigation ~ Opening 2001	MUS		YT
Jake Marshall ~ A Detective Without a Desert	MUS		YT
Reminiscence ~ DL-6 Case	MUS		YT

[3DS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies

Lively People

MUS

MUSX

YT

[NDS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Justice for All

Announce the Truth 2002	MUS		YT
Great Revival ~ Miles Edgeworth	MUS	MUSX	YT
Investigation ~ Core 2002	MUS		YT
Investigation ~ Opening 2002	MUS	MUSX	YT
More Happy People	MUS		YT
Pursuit ~ Questioned	MUS		YT
Shelly de Killer	MUS	MUSX	YT
Tachimi Circus	MUS	MUSX	YT

[NDS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials & Tribulations

Cross-Examination ~ Moderato 2004	MUS	MUSX	YT
Objection! 2004	MUS	MUSX	YT

[NDS] Pokémon Black/White

Dreamyard	MUS	MUSX	YT *NEW*
Skyarrow Bridge (Replacement)	MUS	MUSX	YT

[NDS] Pokémon Diamond/Pearl

Oreburgh Gate

MUS

YT

[GBA] Riviera: The Promised Land

Elegant Memories	MUS		YT
Encounter!	MUS		YT
Fierce Fight!	MUS		YT
Nelde	MUS		YT
Overture	MUS		YT
Picnic	MUS		YT

[PC] Runescape

All's Fairy in Love and War	MUS		YT
Food for Thought	MUS		YT
Nether Realm	MUS		YT
Norse Code	MUS		YT
Scape Cave	MUS		YT

[PS2] Shadow of the Colossus

Wander's Death

MUS

YT

[PS] Star Ocean: The Second Story

Feel Refreshed	MUS	MUSX	YT
Pyroxene	MUS	MUSX	YT
Rena's Theme	MUS	MUSX	YT
Rena's Theme (Music Box)	MUS	MUSX	YT
Resolution	MUS	MUSX	YT
The Dim Light of Dusk	MUS	MUSX	YT
The Venerable Forest	MUS	MUSX	YT
Weathercock (Duet)	MUS	MUSX	YT

[3DS] Stella Glow

Battle - Elcrest	MUS	MUSX	YT
Song of Ruin	MUS	MUSX	YT
The Eclipse	MUS	MUSX	YT

[PC] Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody

Dancing Water Spray

MUS

YT

[PS] Valkyrie Profile

Valhalla	MUS		YT
When a Person Changes	MUS		YT

[PS2] Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria

Overture to the Destiny	MUS		YT
The Chance That Becomes an Inevitability	MUS	MUSX	YT

Other
Simplified Arrangements (Legend of Zelda):
Minuet of Forest - [PDF]
Serenade of Water - [PDF]
Song of Storms - [PDF #1] [PDF #2]

[CLBGM]

Hi Onion! Welcome to NSM, and thank you for arranging the GSDD OST, one of my favorite games

The Passaj arrangement is kinda slow compared to the original, and you skipped some parts. But I really like the other arrangements

[JDMEK5]

Welcome Onionleaf!

I don't know these songs so I'll just give you some tips on making your sheets cleaner.

First of all, great job on formatting! Your quality level is exceptional for new folk.
So without further ado, let's jump in:

1) Passaj
-"Pno." abbreviation at the beginning of all staff systems (except the first of course) should not be there. Removing it may or may not be possible depending on which version of Finale you have.
-You can't have a dotted quarter note on the off-beat of the second beat. Any such case should be written as an eighth tied to a quarter. This appears for the first time in the right hand of measure 8.
-Don't forget a double bar line for the key change. (Measure 9)

2) Champa Camp
-"Pno." abbreviation at the beginning of all staff systems (except the first of course) should not be there. Removing it may or may not be possible depending on which version of Finale you have.
-"Lightly" note should be written to the left of the tempo marking.
-Second beat, right hand should be a dotted eighth as opposed to a 16th tied to an eighth.
-As before, you can't have a dotted quarter note on the off-beat of the second beat. Any such case should be written as an eighth tied to a quarter.
-Don't forget double bar lines for key changes.
-Your url is off: http://www.ninsheetm.us/

3) Festive Town
-Left hand, measure 25 onwards has some notes being tied into the next measure. I'm going to ask if that's necessary. If not, take them out. If they are, it's fine.
-"Pno." abbreviation here too.
-Don't forget double bar lines for key changes.
-Messed up the url again. http://www.ninsheetm.us/
-All rhythm groupings are perfect though. Way to go!

Overall, very impressive for first arrangements. Well done.

[Onionleaf]

Thank you for the welcomes!

@CLBGM: Glad to hear you also enjoyed the game! I was actually a little confused at first by your comment on the Passaj piece, but then realised that you may have been talking about the second version of the town's theme? The track that I arranged is played earlier in the game and has a sadder and slower melody (b/c of the change to a minor key) and was much easier to arrange because the two parts divided perfectly into both hands.

@JDMEK5: Wow is all I can say! Thank you so much for taking the time to go through the three sheets. Not everyone would want to use some of their leisure time to help fix a random person's arrangements, though I suppose that is what goes on around here! I understand the theory now behind all the points that you've made, so that is a good start, hehe.
I was recently working on a fourth piece that was a bit more dramatic and fast-paced, but the note groupings and rhythm confused me in so many places. You (or somebody else) are probably going to poke me for neglecting all the fine-but-still-very-important details. I have never had much experience with 12/8 time, so I still need to re-organise all the notes. *sigh*

Apollo Ascent
[MUS] [PDF] [MIDI]

[pumpy_heart]

Heya. Really great job on the sheets. It's always incredible to see a fellow Golden Sun fan around these parts.

Here's my take on "Apoji Islands" from back in the day. NSM asked me notate the rhythm that way (doesn't it look awful?). I'd definitely recommend replacing the trills with the tremolos. Sakuraba-san is mimicking Caribbean marimba/vibraphone playing. Feel free to copy and paste, then upload your own. Obviously mine was never accepted haha.

Really nice job with Kandorean Temple! The only slight suggestion I would make is layering the piece with dynamics. Since there's about 4 layers of music occurring at the same time, some are very clearly in the foreground while some are subdued. I would notate this with dynamics every time a line occurs. Also when a line changes hands such as measure 14 to 15, I would draw a line between the two, showing that the line simply moved to another hand.

Had to check out just one more. Very good job with Apollo's Ascent! Quick music theory lesson. Our system of chords are based on triads, 3 notes separated by a note in between. A C major chord would be C E G, as there is space for 2 notes (D and F) in between the three. You also only use the same accidental (sharps, flats) in each triad. 95% of the music on this site is based on triads. So from measure 17 for a bit onwards, the first chord should be F# A C# instead of Db F# A. 25-28 is just as keyless, where the motion is based not on functioning triads but common tone related triads (ignore this, or message me. but really probably ignore). Whereas the chord in measure 25 is Ab Major, m. 26 should be E G# B instead of E Ab B.
Also use a D# instead of an Eb in measure 4. Easiest way to explain this is that you don't want two notes with the same letter name with different accidentals in the same measure. There's a more complicated explanation, but this should hold for now (again, message if for some reason this interests you).

Great job! Are these your first arrangements?

[Jompa]

Had to check out just one more. Very good job with Apollo's Ascent! Quick music theory lesson. Our system of chords are based on triads, 3 notes separated by a note in between. A C major chord would be C E G, as there is space for 2 notes (D and F) in between the three. You also only use the same accidental (sharps, flats) in each triad. 95% of the music on this site is based on triads. So from measure 17 for a bit onwards, the first chord should be F# A C# instead of Db F# A. 25-28 is just as keyless, where the motion is based not on functioning triads but common tone related triads (ignore this, or message me. but really probably ignore). Whereas the chord in measure 25 is Ab Major, m. 26 should be E G# B instead of E Ab B.

I want to add that from measure#17 and to the end the song modulates quite a bit. In actuality you have the wrong key all the way from measure#17 and through the end. At measure#25 you do have a key change, but that is unfortunately wrong too.
Here are some corrections:
-The song starts off in Eminor of course, so that is right.
-At measure#17 it goes into F#minor. Don't worry about the F chord, this is just subdominant tritone substitution, so this doesn't affect the key.
-Then, at measure#19 it goes into Gminor.
-Then, at measure#21 it appears to me (I haven't heard the original) like it goes back to F#minor again.
-And just like how it changed into Gminor earlier, it does so at measure#23 as well.
-At measure#25, or where the repeat bars start rather, it goes to Fminor, which has four flats, not three. Don't worry about the E chord, it's just subdominant tritone substitution just like earlier.

And that's it:)

[Onionleaf]

@Thomas: Hiya, first off thank you for stopping by and lending a hand, always greatly appreciated.
I did change the trills to tremolos for Apojii Islands (I had no idea Finale even had that feature, I certainly learned something new today!) but all the ties/note groupings in your version confused me, lol.

Wonderful suggestion for "Kandorean Temple" (the whole piece is pretty much compiled out of four notes, it does need some differentiation between the voices). I haven't had a lot of experience with Finale (but I did use the NotePad version for a long time prior to this year), so I don't know if it is possible to add dynamics to different layers, but I'll try work something out, at least visually.

Triads.. oh dear, of course I should've know that, and the D# (and other accidentals) probably has to do with harmonic/melodic minors, right?

And to answer your last question, these are not my very first arrangements, though I only started arranging from the beginning of this year (my first ones were pretty horrible ^^").

@Jompa: Wow, thank you for the list! So many modulations might scare the pianist, but it looks like they all fit well. Every point that I read made me think "Ah, that's right.." -- in the back of my mind, I realise that I should be able to see what I have done wrong, but it's so very difficult when you've had little practice with music theory.

Thank you all again! I tend to add new arrangements like a ninja, so I definitely did not expect any responses, haha. I'll keep revising the ones that I have uploaded and maybe find some of those hidden mistakes.

[pumpy_heart]

NSM moderators at the time asked me to use that notation so it would get uploaded to the site. I too find it disturbing haha. Never made it. Glad you learned something!

Back to Ascent:
I wouldn't even use key in those sections that "modulate." They're common-tone related chords, not linked together by key. Each chord shares a note in common with the previous. Not diatonically based. Jompa's suggestion of key changes works in a diatonic context where scale degrees function to give motion towards a finale or resting point. However, with common-tone chords, this motion is offset. Common-tone related chords have been used as early as Beethoven to convey a sense of motion harmonically rather than melodically. With the past century's minimalism, common-tone chords brought a new sense of stability that tonality can not offer. Motion through common-tone chords create a harmonic structure that has no beginning or end. Can move freely among triads. See John Adams, Phillip Glass.

General overall:
I went back and listened to everything. There's a reason I picked Apollo's Ascent to look at your arrangements. Definitely the most complex harmonic structure of the soundtrack. Or so I thought. Tanglewood has some stuff too. He crafts it well.
In your 3/4 arrangements, sometimes you use a quarter note tied to eighth. It's okay to use a dotted quarter, then have an eighth tied to quarter.
When using crescendos and decrescendos, it's always a good idea to give a definite starting dynamic and ending dynamic. I got confused a few times reading your arrangement.
When your beams from multiple layers overlap, there's options to flip the beam direction if your finale is high enough. Definitely cleans up the sheet a ton. You want to strive for no collisions of any sort in your published arrangement.

All done. Sounds great. Please keep up the good work. Message me whenever you add more Golden Sun stuff

[Onionleaf]

I send this thread back from the Graveyard! And put it into Defence mode j/k
Well, I finally took the time to update my list of arrangements (which took more work that I thought it would *phew*), please have a look... whenever, no rush. The games that I pick are nothing as popular as Pokémon or Undertale, but I hope they're still of interest.

[Bespinben]

That's a TON of new stuff! Normally I like to just announce stuff 1 at a time and spread it out over the week, since I figure it makes it easier to digest. I'm not even sure where to start looking here, haha! (Maybe Runescape, can't go wrong with that)

[Onionleaf]

Oops, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to give anyone an upset stomach... I simply wanted to list everything that has been completed since the last time I was here. I obviously don't expect for any one person to look through all of them; just thought I'd add *new* tags in case those forumers who have passed through in 2013 will know which ones are the older arrangements. I would never ever be able to complete so many arrangements in a short time-frame, so such a large update is a one-time thing. ^^

[Onionleaf]

Howdy! Just popped in to say that I went through all my sheets, found Youtube videos for them and fixed up any mistakes that I found in the process. I wanted to get all my ducks in a row before submitting anything. It would be great to see some of my older sheets uploaded to the site, so here it goes! I think I'll just concentrate on four sheets at one time and once they are all completed, I'll pick another four sheets to fix up.

Please let me know if the following sheets can be improved in some way, and I'll start submitting them asap.

[NDS] Golden Sun: Dark Dawn
Passaj (Sad) - [MUS] - Youtube
Apollo Ascent - [MUS] - Youtube
Champa Camp - [MUS] - Youtube
Sveta's Pain - [MUS] - Youtube (Should I try adding "echo notes", or will it just clutter up the sheet?)

[Oronoco]

I'm super-excited you brought your thread back, and I wish I'd seen it sooner! I have spent a lot of time listening to these soundtracks, so I'm so happy to see more Golden Sun music!

I always like echo notes! In "Sveta's Pain", you might show the echo notes you did include (starting in m. 18) in a smaller extra layer. Right now, they don't look much like echoes.

Thank you for these great arrangements!

[Onionleaf]

Thank you so much for your kind words! (Took me long enough to reply, sheesh!) I'm glad you liked listening to these soundtracks. Golden Sun sheets was what brought me to this site, so it's great that I'm able to give back to NSM even more Golden Sun arrangements.
I'll have a look into possibly adding echo notes in a different layer some time this week. Once I tinker around with that, I'll ask for some feedback to make sure that I did it correctly.

Quick update: I've completed another sheet yesterday from the Riviera soundtrack. (If you played this J-RPG, kudos to you! I really enjoyed it ) This is the first time I've attempted arranging a battle theme, so the're most likely mistakes to find and passages to improve.

Fierce Fight! - [MUS] - Youtube

[Onionleaf]

*Bump!*

Came back from vacation to find that I need to do some serious spring cleaning - phew, all done! *wipes off sweat* Hopefully my arrangements list is now easier to read and navigate through. (The pretty-ful formats that I've seen in this forum inspired me to update my own list, so a big thanks to those members!)

I added 4 new arrangements, with more to come hopefully soon-ish. I want to focus on the Golden Sun soundtracks for the time being - it would be so awesome to see the NSM collection for this game series fully completed.