[NES] Mega Man 3 - "Boss Battle" by WaluigiTime64

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Submission Information:
Series: Mega Man
Game: Mega Man 3
Console: Nintendo Entertainment System
Title: Boss Battle
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: WaluigiTime64

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[WaluigiTime64]

Friendly reminder that I use Finale NotePad/MuseScore.

[Tobbeh99]

M.5-6 are correctly beamed, but not 23-24. Btw you could just remove the last 2 measures and make the repeat go back to measure 5 instead of 7.

[WaluigiTime64]

Thanks for that.

The submission has been edited.

[WaluigiTime64]

Bump because "Oh right, this exists".

[Pianist Da Sootopolis]

Not bad.
Initial thoughts:
- Add a musical direction with your metronome mark; something like "Misterioso" would work. Use it if you want, or come up with another one of your own! (I'll get this for you, and you can change it if you'd like)
- Bars 5 and 6- I wonder if you could more concisely notate this by having the sixteenths as slurs, and just having eighth staccatos as your main notes? The last beats, of course, are and should be rhythmically accurate, so you can leave those alone.
- Your page number on page 2 is far too close to the staff; same with the page title. You can just have that system moved down if you'd like. (I'll get this for you)
- Staff spacing; the first two systems don't need all that much space in between them. (I'll get this for you)
- LH throughout: There sounds like there are two voices a lot of the time. If you need help with this, let us know.
- System spacing; some systems have 3 bars, some have 4, some have 2. We'll have to have some variance on this sheet to make it work well, but just know that for the future. If you need things like formatting fixes, the best place to ask for that is your personal arrangement thread.

Here's your file updated with the stuff you can't do in Notepad, lol.

[WaluigiTime64]

I forgot to reply to this, sorry.

Most of the formatting I can accept, but I feel like Measures 5-8 are a bit too squished. I can't change that in NotePad (of course...), so I might have to get that fixed by someone.

Also I need to know what a good way to arrange that second bassline could be.



These are the normal notes (I think).

[Bespinben]

Get all the notes transcribed, then worry about arranging.



The passage here you had previously written as perfect 4ths, when really it's based on planing maj7 and diminshed intervals.

Seeing this, you might also want to re-consider the key signature to prevent having Cbb in the passage above.

[WaluigiTime64]

The key signature(s) is/are frustrating me so much. I feel like the first half of the main section is in E flat Minor, then the latter half is in A flat Minor, but I'm really not sure. I don't even know what key signature the intro is in. Damn chromatics.

Also: the full, unedited bassline.

Also is there a particular reason to be avoiding C double flat? If the key signature was different, but still had the C double flat, would that be fine?

[Bespinben]

Also is there a particular reason to be avoiding C double flat? If the key signature was different, but still had the C double flat, would that be fine?

Cbb diatonically belongs to the theoretical key Gbb major -- THIRTEEN flats down the circle of fifths. You've passed so many enharmonic equivalents by that point that if you haven't come back to the land sanity by then, you must be doing something wrong. That's why Cbb is a big red flag.

[WaluigiTime64]

Oh ok, thanks! (You learn something new everyday)

[WaluigiTime64]

Ok, transcribing should be good (I'm really not sure), but now comes arranging and formatting. Any ideas with the arranging bit? Just moving the second layer up an octave doesn't seem to work very well.

MUS

This is being more of a pain than it really should be. Sorry about that.

[JDMEK5]

This is being more of a pain than it really should be. Sorry about that.

If only you saw some of my earliest arrangements monstrosities. Correction is the foundation of learning. It's just gonna happen and nobody here has a problem with it so no need to apologize.

Anyways, correction time then (I haven't gone in huge detail; these are just some things that stood out to me) :
-Formatting: namely removing "Pno." from staves 2+ as well as adjusting those margins if you can so that the "Piano" on the first staff isn't so close to the edge of the sheet.
-Line 3 could be spaced a little more. That mezzo forte is looking kinda squished.
-Measure numbers could be awesome.
-Measures 8 and 12, RH, Beat 4.5 - Rather than A natural this should be B double flat. Using flats for descending chromaticism and it'll also eliminate the need for your courtesy accidentals in measures 9 and 13.
-All your staves on the second page should be spaced a little more between hands.
-I also feel like we could use a better system for the left hand. I think what I have in mind is some way to specify which hand takes care of what for optimal ease. This is gonna be a toughie no matter how you slice it.

I'm not sure if you have full Finale so just do what you can and we'll take care of the rest. Just let us know what you could/couldn't do.

[WaluigiTime64]

If only you saw some of my earliest arrangements monstrosities. Correction is the foundation of learning. It's just gonna happen and nobody here has a problem with it so no need to apologize.

I just considered it an inconvenience. Whatever's fine with everybody is fine with me (most of the time).

-Formatting: namely removing "Pno." from staves 2+ as well as adjusting those margins if you can so that the "Piano" on the first staff isn't so close to the edge of the sheet.
-Line 3 could be spaced a little more. That mezzo forte is looking kinda squished.
-Measure numbers could be awesome.
-All your staves on the second page should be spaced a little more between hands.

NotePad.

-Measures 8 and 12, RH, Beat 4.5 - Rather than A natural this should be B double flat. Using flats for descending chromaticism and it'll also eliminate the need for your courtesy accidentals in measures 9 and 13.

Done.

-I also feel like we could use a better system for the left hand. I think what I have in mind is some way to specify which hand takes care of what for optimal ease. This is gonna be a toughie no matter how you slice it.

Yeah, I don't know what I should do there.

I'm not sure if you have full Finale

Friendly reminder that I use Finale NotePad/MuseScore.

just do what you can and we'll take care of the rest. Just let us know what you could/couldn't do.

Basically everything. I was going to head over to the formatting thread, but this is good.

MUS

Should have that one fix.

[Maelstrom]

Formatting fixed and baseline adjusted, as requested, and files updated, and accepted.