[Wii] New Super Mario Bros. Wii - "World 1: Grass Land" by skiaak

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Submission Information:
Series: Super Mario
Game: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Console: Nintendo Wii
Title: World 1: Grass Land
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: skiaak

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[skiaak]

STILL IN UPDATE MODE

For reference only.

[Tobbeh99]

You have come some way with this arrangement. The things that first of all needs to be done are:

1) The high guitar melody.
2) The marimba arpeggios in measures 12 & 14.
3) Formatting stuff.

There might be more to do but that's a good start.

[skiaak]

Yes, I have the acoustic guitar melody on measures 9 thru 10 and 15 thru 18. The other measures of the right hand were the accordion. I feared that adding the acoustic guitar melody thru those measures would make it too hard to play, but I can add them. Also, the left hand was playing the marimba part in measures 12 & 14, combined with the bass guitar stuff.

As for the formatting, I'm bad at that sort of stuff, but could you explain to me some examples that could use better formatting?

[Tobbeh99]

I suggest adding the guitar melody since it is very important being the main theme of the song. Then afterwards we can take a look at how to adjust the arrangement to make it both playable but also keeping the voices in by moving around certain notes, maybe play the accordion chords by the left hand since the accordion often plays on the beat the bass doesn't.

The marimba does, if I hear right, play straight 8ths (triplets) rather than quarter+8th, I thought it might add some variety having it in the LH rather than the bass in those measures.

Formatting: hmm, actually it looks quite good on the PDF. I just looked quickly at the MUS. It seems like the MUS got pno.s left but the pdf doesn't. But the PDF's metronome mark look a bit weird, having huge number but tiny note, in comparison to the MUS.
Those problems can easily be solved by a member with a high finale product, which there are plenty here who has.

Here some stuff you can do however:
1) Make composers on 2 rows like:
Composed by A,
B & C
this way it looks better since there are so many composers.
2) You got the copyright slightly wrong, it should be like this: http://www.ninsheetmusic.org/, with capital letters and a / at the end.

Also one formatting issue is the Measures per system. Now you got 4,5,4,5 which to me looks a bit odd and the notes looks a bit clustered. I'm not the best at this and you might want to wait for some updater voice their opinion on this, but I think it should be something like 2,4,4,4 making it more even and well-spaced.

One more thing I noticed:
I'm quite sure this arrangement should be written with swing 8th instead of a lot of triplets.

[mikey]

Does ninsheetmusic really need capitals? 

[Latios212]

yes otherwise MLF will hunt you down

[skiaak]

Okay, I will add the guitar melody. Okay, I will see about moving the accordion to the left hand.

About the formatting, I just asked MLF to help me convert to MUS, I have no readability of it. If you're wondering why...

Spoiler

I don't own the computer I use. Thus, I have portable apps on my drive though. Since Musescore is on the platform, I can only use Musescore, which does not support MUS files, but does support XMLs.

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1) Nice composer idea!
2) I have no idea what you mean by measures per system, sorry.
3) Wouldn't swing eighth look a bit weird?

[TheMarioPianist]

2) I have no idea what you mean by measures per system, sorry.
3) Wouldn't swing eighth look a bit weird?

2) System is the fancy musical term for row. So whatever numbers he said, put that many measures per row.
3) Swing eighth would look better; it would take out all of the triplets. Once you put in swing, you would be able to write those triplets as eighths and it would still sound the same. Once you get the updated .mus, I can show you what I mean.

[Altissimo]

Any reason for this being in B-flat major? At a glance I'm pretty sure it's C major.

[LifeMushroom]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's C major.

Also, the melody isn't there.

One more thing. I'm not sure about the title. There isn't really a name for this world. I think the title should just be "World 1"

[skiaak]

Yeah, I will change it to C Major. Also, on the Youtube Soundtrack, the title was World 1 - Grass Land.

[Sebastian]

yes otherwise MLF will hunt you down

You're dang right about that

[LifeMushroom]

Yeah, I will change it to C Major. Also, on the Youtube Soundtrack, the title was World 1 - Grass Land.

That's what those people think. There's no world name for the worlds. There are for NSMBU though.

[skiaak]

Edited song title. I'm sorry that I will have slower updates, with school starting, updates may be a week apart. Sorry.