[MUL] Shovel Knight - "Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)" by Joel Hands-Otte

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Submission Information:
Series: Other
Game: Shovel Knight
Console: Multiplatform
Title: Strike the Earth! (Plains of Passage)
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: Joel Hands-Otte

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[mikey]

sounds pretty awesome
but I was gonna do shovel knight D:

[fingerz]

You can! I just wanted to do this one and the Explodatorium, that's all.

[mikey]

*hiss*
fine

[cashwarrior1]

Yeah, this is practically impossible

[fingerz]

Excellent! I strive for accuracy over practicality. Besides, Maestro could play it.

[cashwarrior1]

Oh, well then. I'm not the best piano player out there. I can't play it, but that doesn't mean anyone can't play it. Good job, then.

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Checked the score; tough, but definitely playable.

[fingerz]

Thanks, guys! I'll just have to find someone to play this, I guess... XD

[Dekkadeci]

I'm not 100% sure how appropriate I feel posting here, but...

...Part of the reason why I thought transcribing Shovel Knight music was easy was because Jake "virt" Kaufman was kind enough to release his .nsf for the entire soundtrack, which is still stored at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/56073318/Famitracker/Other%20Songs/Shovel_Knight_Music.nsf. It's readable as sheet music of sorts if you download NSF Importer and figure out how to read Famitracker files.

After trying to transcribe "A Decisive Blow" and "The Schemer" later, I've found that the Shovel Knight soundtrack is surprisingly hard to transcribe for solo piano. I pretty much have to wreck the voicing to make playable versions of those pieces (at least if I want to play them with my 1-octave range in each hand), and "The Schemer" has very difficult octave flurries to play if I post an accurate transcription. (I've yet to post them because I haven't figured out my favourite ways to wreck their voicing yet...although, at a second glance, I can probably post "The Schemer" as long as I hold my nose about tenths in the left hand...)

So I entirely understand how difficult transcribing "Strike the Earth!" is.

With that being said, according to both Song 4 of the .nsf and my memory of the song, the topmost repeated (melody) notes of the eighth-note triplet in Bars 11 and 75 should be replaced with a quarter note. I suspect that the .nsf will reveal other, less glaring inaccuracies.

[Tobbeh99]

Nice Arrangement!

I wonder if it's not better to ditch the octaves at measures like measure 19. And instead have "single notes" staccato. I would be way easier in terms of playability.

[fingerz]

...Part of the reason why I thought transcribing Shovel Knight music was easy was because Jake "virt" Kaufman was kind enough to release his .nsf for the entire soundtrack. It's readable as sheet music of sorts if you download NSF Importer and figure out how to read Famitracker files.

Hi! Feel free to post away! I like it when people talk! Anyways, I remember hearing about this! Sadly, I'm no tech guru at all, so all of this goes completely over my head... I remember someone found MIDI files of the entire Pokemon Black/White soundtrack and I thought it was cheating, seeing as this is good practise for your ears.

With that being said, according to both Song 4 of the .nsf and my memory of the song, the topmost repeated (melody) notes of the eighth-note triplet in Bars 11 and 75 should be replaced with a quarter note. I suspect that the .nsf will reveal other, less glaring inaccuracies.

Oh yes, I remember that part! At the time, it was an artistic decision to make the entire beat triplet-y, but now that I look back on it, I'm not sure why... I'll get around to fixing that. XD

Nice Arrangement!

I wonder if it's not better to ditch the octaves at measures like measure 19. And instead have "single notes" staccato. I would be way easier in terms of playability.

Thanks, Tobbeh! That seems to be everyone's bug - those octaves. I guess I should change them too, seeing as people just can't get gud.

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