PDS' Arrangements - (NEW 6/17/16) Kingdom Hearts 2; Friends In My Heart

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Welcome to the land of pokemon sheets!

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Runescape
Arabian- Click me!
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Fallout: New Vegas
Begin Again Click me!

Kingdom Hearts 2:
Sunset Showdown Click me!
Waltz of the Diamonds Click me!
Friends In My Heart Click me!

[Brawler4Ever]

This looks really good! General formatting stuff aside, I do have some comments.

-Measures 3-5 should repeat themselves before moving on to the rest of the song.
-In measure 17, the notes in the RH and LH aren't aligned, as they should be. If you change the 16th note to a grace note, that'll fix the problem. The same thing happens in the last measure. The first A of the RH should be a grace note. They should also end on the same beat as the first chord played in the middle staff. That can be done by changing both G's to a quarter note, instead of an eighth note.

[Tobbeh99]

Try using dropbox for sharing your arrangements. It works really well!

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

This looks really good! General formatting stuff aside, I do have some comments.

-Measures 3-5 should repeat themselves before moving on to the rest of the song.
-In measure 17, the notes in the RH and LH aren't aligned, as they should be. If you change the 16th note to a grace note, that'll fix the problem. The same thing happens in the last measure. The first A of the RH should be a grace note. They should also end on the same beat as the first chord played in the middle staff. That can be done by changing both G's to a quarter note, instead of an eighth note.

Fixed the issue in 3-5, but I'm confused about 17. Here's the original score:

Spoiler

https://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/015eb8650f4fb6874dd6d48e8a8e7dd4479b870d

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Do you mean the 16th note A to the B flat? Because in the original it is notated that way, though I can see xml files doing something weird to it. Either way, I'll take a look.
Also, I found an error myself, with the last two chords (timing was off).
Many thanks for all your input!

[Brawler4Ever]

This is what I mean.

Yeah, converting from xml removed your grace note. The timing was off in the original mus version that you posted. And it seems that the measure numbers between the mus and xml version are also different. In the original, I was referencing measure 19, but in the mus version, it's 17. Yeah, that conversion really messed with your sheet.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

This is what I mean.

Yeah, converting from xml removed your grace note. The timing was off in the original mus version that you posted. And it seems that the measure numbers between the mus and xml version are also different. In the original, I was referencing measure 19, but in the mus version, it's 17. Yeah, that conversion really messed with your sheet.

Ah, I see. I notated that originally, was changed during conversion. For now, I've removed that note entirely, as it isn't mandated, just a little grace that makes it feel slightly more jazzy. I'm going to work with someone (Xaoz) over Skype and see what I can do...

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

New stuff!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness
A Grand Tale of Time and Darkness- MUS MIDI PDF
(Now I wait for Bespinben to rip this one to shreds :3)

[Latios212]

(Now I wait for Bespinben to rip this one to shreds give it the magic touch :3)

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Personally, I feel that gives way too much credit to me, to even have something worthy of a 'magic touch'  It's not really that great XD

[Bespinben]

New stuff!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness
A Grand Tale of Time and Darkness- MUS MIDI PDF
(Now I wait for Bespinben to rip this one to shreds :3)

The shredder

~Ah friendly friends~
I'm going to try my best not to let my overwhelming nostalgia influence this critique (and by that, I mean I usually go overboard to the point of micromanagement when stuff like this shows up). Before I destroy your morale however, I do want to compliment you for having made, in my opinion, one of the most detailed sheets I've ever seen come out of NOTEPAD, of all programs.

The majority of this comment will focus on arranging issues.

1.) Unnecessary 3-staff notation ~ A skillful use of layers, solid/dashed lines, and other voice leading devices could have kept this all neatly on 2 staves.
2.) Lack of ornamentation notation (where applicable) ~ The figure in the LH of m. 1 leading into measure 2 is a flourish that could be abbreviated with a trill. This would prevent messy 32nd notes cluttering the score.
3.) Missing harmony/countermelodies ~ M. 8-13 have WAY more lines than just bass and melody unison. You started off strong in measure 7 with that bombastic AbM7 chord, but then it seems you quickly fizzled out after that.
4.) Registration of voices ~ Measure 19+ is where I have the most gripes. The ostinato just doesn't sound right at all transposed several octaves down as a LH accompaniment. A model I think would better reflect the serenity of that passage would be to have RH on the ostinato, and the LH playing the long-tone bass + melody + choir ahs.

Side-issues:
*There are 5 composers for this game (none of them being Tsukasa Tawada), namely: Arata Iiyoshi, Hideki Sakamoto, Keisuke Ito, Ryoma Nakamura, & Ken-ichi Saito
*For the copyright, I would recommend including Nintendo, Pokémon Co., and Chunsoft.
*Recheck your transcription of the trumpet lines in m. 4 leading into m. 5. The B should be a C.

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[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

The shredder

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Re-doing the sheet now.
Many thanks for the well thought out critique!
Disclaimer- the flourishes, I agree, should've been written as trills. The reason I didn't was because the program I'm using (noteflight) doesn't actually play out trills.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

New sheet- Es Cade's Theme, from Pokemon Colosseum!
(Y'know, that fat mayor?)

Plot of a 2003 game

HE WAS EVIL

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MIDI MUS MUSX PDF
Thoughts?

[Brawler4Ever]

I apologize for my musical ignorance, and I hope that what I am about to say will make at least a little sense. The only suggestion that I have is in regards to measure 2. In the actual song, there is a connection of notes between F and A, and then again between D and F. I believe that it's a glissando that connects them? Not entirely sure, and I can't recreate the effect with Notepad, for whatever reason.

I managed to (kind of) recreate the same effect with two glissandi on just the A and the second F. However, I don't believe that this is the "proper" way of doing it. Anyway, I hope this helps!

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

I apologize for my musical ignorance, and I hope that what I am about to say will make at least a little sense. The only suggestion that I have is in regards to measure 2. In the actual song, there is a connection of notes between F and A, and then again between D and F. I believe that it's a glissando that connects them? Not entirely sure, and I can't recreate the effect with Notepad, for whatever reason.

I managed to (kind of) recreate the same effect with two glissandi on just the A and the second F. However, I don't believe that this is the "proper" way of doing it. Anyway, I hope this helps!

I see what you're saying. I'm not sure how else I'd recreate that, other than what you did, but I'll play around with it in Finale.
Many thanks!

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

New arrangement!
Cipher Syndicate Theme- MIDI MUS MUSX PDF
(I know I didn't do any of the formatting stuff yet, just wanted to get general advice)