Maya's Arrangement Sheet's (REVISED)

[mayastarr041]

Hi everyone. This is a modified version and I have a confession to make. CosmicProp made me mad by saying girls can't do this stuff so I became prideful and chose a hard Galaxy song. It was a huge mistake. NinSheetMusic is not a site where you post music because you want to be praised or congratulated. It is placed because you want to help others to play songs on the piano. I would like to apologize greatly for becoming prideful and dragging people to critique my work. I have decided to put Dusty Dune on temporary hiatus until I grow more advanced. I am going to start on something easy so I've taken down Dusty Dune. Again, I apologize for wasting your time and I hope you guys can forgive me. Here is Flip Swap Galaxy and I hope you can tell me how I did. Once again, sorry and thank you all. Love you guys!

Flip-Swap Galaxy, SMG 2
1) Original Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DViWavCNEs
1) Mus:https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4twxmg0ayofz63/Flip%20Swap.mus?dl=0
1) Midi:https://www.dropbox.com/s/54qmer9j8gv1iy1/Flip%20Swap.mid?dl=0

A Tense Moment, SMG 1
2) Original Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTzjEZmzKPI
2) Mus: https://www.dropbox.com/s/trpbxehrfg8dpmv/A%20Tense%20Moment.mus?dl=0
2) Midi: https://www.dropbox.com/s/4lex3hx5heopnus/Super%20Mario%20Galaxy%20-%20A%20Tense%20Moment.mid?dl=0

*IN PROGRESS*
A Wish, SMG 1
3) Original Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc40v7-YouM

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

It's a start. Good that you have; 'tis the only way to get better, after all! For now, I'll focus purely on arranging issues, and ignore formatting (though you should have a look at that here)
The song sounds like it's in F# something, so I'd put it in F# minor for the sake of the key signature. It's probably in a mode of some kind, I'm not a theory guru, but it would help with all those accidentals.
Speaking of accidentals, I'd avoid doing things like going up on the staff for the sake of courtesy accidentals (like in measure 14). In that measure, you go E# to F flat, which looks like you're going up. In reality it's the other way around; you could just put F natural to E (f natural since there'll be 3 sharps in the key signature)
You're missing the bass line in most all of the measures with the melody, so you'll need to add that in.
One trick is to, if you're using earbuds as opposed to a headset, take one out (or just take off one side of your headphones) to listen to the voice better, if it's a stereo recording.
In measure 4, the bass line comes in a little to early, I think.
In measure 2, you could clean up all those 32nd rests and replace them with an easier rest value (just easier on the eyes).
If you do the things there (especially adding the LH bass line), you're on your way to a much improved sheet (though by no means am I an expert- I'm sure the other, more experienced arrangers will also give great advice).
Also, I know you had a bad experience on your introductory thread, but you need not worry about flames The majority of the users here are friendly, helpful people, so don't worry about it!
You can write "Arranged by mayastarr041" in the composer box, maybe, but I usually (when I used notepad) would just make another text box and put it below.

[FireArrow]

No, not F# minor.
Key signature is A minor with a modulation to D minor at measure 22.
Both are harmonic minor scales and should be notated as such, so:
-A minor: A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, A, nothing in key signature.
-D minor: D, E, F, G, A, Bb, C#, D, Bb in key signature.

The only accidentals in this should be G# in the A minor section and C# in the D minor section, everything else is included in the key signature (any other accidentals you have, use the enharmonic that doesn't require an accidental.)

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

That's why I was thinking two or three sharps, but yeah, you're right. I just listened closer and he's absolutely right.
 

[mayastarr041]

Thank you guys! Greatly appreciated.

[Sebastian]

Welcome to the arranging team!
First of all, I would recommend taking a look at this: http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=481.0
The guidelines for what sheets should look like. So, you don't have to fill this in everytime you make a new arrangement, I would use a template and then edit the title, game name, etc.
You could use one of my arrangements on my page for a template if you like.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

There's a template for download on the link that we gave, MLF.
(I say we because I gave it first  )

[Sebastian]

(I say we because I gave it first  )

Whoops sorry. I didn't see you posted that.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

It's all good, lol, just giving you a hard time~

[mayastarr041]

No, not F# minor.
Key signature is A minor with a modulation to D minor at measure 22.
Both are harmonic minor scales and should be notated as such, so:
-A minor: A, B, C, D, E, F, G#, A, nothing in key signature.
-D minor: D, E, F, G, A, Bb, C#, D, Bb in key signature.

The only accidentals in this should be G# in the A minor section and C# in the D minor section, everything else is included in the key signature (any other accidentals you have, use the enharmonic that doesn't require an accidental.)

Sorry, I don't know what you mean. Can you clarify for me more please?

[Altissimo]

The piece is in A minor until measure 22 where it switches to D minor. The typical key signature for A minor is no sharps, no flats (same as C major), and the typical key signature for D minor is one flat. That being said, G#'s and C#'s are common in A and D minor, respectively. If you use these key signatures, then the only accidentals you'll need to worry about are the G#'s and C#'s. Then you won't have to have bits like the G#-E#-Fb that you have in for instance m. 6.

[mayastarr041]

That helps! Thanks! Also, I encountered 2 problems while doing it to a A minor. First, the notes get shifted either upwards or downwards, making it all the more confusing and I don't know how to change it to a D minor on measure 22. Does Finale Notepad allow it?

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

That helps! Thanks! Also, I encountered 2 problems while doing it to a A minor. First, the notes get shifted either upwards or downwards, making it all the more confusing and I don't know how to change it to a D minor on measure 22. Does Finale Notepad allow it?

Notepad doesn't allow key changes. You can go to this thread to ask for a new score with the specified key changes.

[Maelstrom]

Notepad does allow key changes. It just doesn't allow you to keep the notes the same. It's a pain, but it's still doable.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Notepad does allow key changes. It just doesn't allow you to keep the notes the same. It's a pain, but it's still doable.

What do you mean? I'm confused..