[3DS] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity - "Ragged Mountain" by Bespinben

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Submission Information:
Series: Pokémon
Game: Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
Console: Nintendo 3DS
Title: Ragged Mountain
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: Bespinben

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[FireArrow]

For the polyrhythm do you think you could just put the L.H. in 4/4 and keep the R.H. in 12/8. I've never seen polyrhythms arranged such that it's in a compound meter with the bass notated as straight eights, then again that's likely just my lack of experience on the subject.

Edit: Never mind I'm stupid.

[Bespinben]

The beginning of the song has 3 major lines - a syncopated bass, a wooden recorder (exchanged with the violin at m.12), and the duplet harp ostinato. The conclusion I came to was to base the left hand in m.4-11 on the harp part, playing the bass notes momentarily without the rhythm thereof, and then, from m.12, to base the left hand on the syncopated bass, with the rhythm.

In short, writing a separate "straight" time signature for the LH would obfuscate the fact there is indeed a compound time bass line that I had to omit for reasons of textural variation and practicality.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Great arrangement.
The only advice I could ever give at this point is one of personal preference. There are lots of fingering numbers that you've graciously put in, but IMHO at places like M.16, I'd always put the fingerings below the chords, as you've done in M.14, to stay consistent (and honestly, when you have finger numbers all over the staff(s) it can really clutter things).
Cheers!

[Latios212]

Here's a video of me ragequitting on page 3 trying this piece out.

My thoughts:
- Playability: it's pretty doable, I'm just not good enough at it yet lol. The sixteenth notes in LH from m. 20 onwards are tough but can be skipped while playing without detracting from the piece (I think).
- Fingerings: I found some of them helpful but disagreed with others. I personally thought not moving my right hand in the intro felt more comfortable, but hey, what you wrote is just as valid!

[Bespinben]

at places like M.16, I'd always put the fingerings below the chords, as you've done in M.14, to stay consistent
Cheers!

The reason for the seeming inconsistency is due to layer usage. In m. 14, only one layer was in use, so I wrote all the fingerings in the same place, in contrast to m. 16, in which I wrote the fingerings for the lower layer below, and the fingerings for the upper layer above.

And a cheer to you as well!

Here's a video of me ragequitting on page 3 trying this piece out.

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