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#571
Need some help with layer organisation! ^^;
Thank you so much in advance! :)

Minish Cap - "Cloud Tops": MUS

There are rests on layer 2 that I can't move! Just need a little re-org.
- b. 7, upper part
- b. 13 - 18, lower part
- b. 30, upper part
- b. 38, upper part

#572
Quote from: Altissimo on June 14, 2016, 06:30:36 PMDotted quarter, tied quavers, then a regular quarter and then a quaver. (The idea is you only necessarily need to show beats 1 + 3, which means you can put a normal quarter on the off-beat of 3.)

Mm! Fixed and ready to go.

Made changes to beaming, as well as some minor engraving fixes ^^
#573
Quote from: DS on June 17, 2016, 06:21:32 PMActually, I technically haven't had a formal piano lesson in, what, 7 years now? Your critique has been my first real piano advice from anyone for a while now, which I really appreciate ^_^

Ahhh. I see.

No trouble at all! ^^ Doing critical listening is fun and helping another performer with his journey to awesomeness is a perfect bonus :)

If you want critiques on stuff prior to releases feel free to send some PMs! ^^
#574
Quote from: Onionleaf on June 16, 2016, 04:16:30 AMThat was great! Would love to hear more NSM performances from you. :)

Thank you so much man ^^

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Oh yes! I intend to do at least one quick-learn either tomorrow or on Monday. Currently completely open and undecided; if you guys have scores that you want read and you think are fun to play hehe that would be a nice bonus please feel free to drop me PMs with scores! ^^ Would love to read your sheets :)

#575
Quote from: DS on June 17, 2016, 03:40:25 PMLOL that was exactly what I was thinking XD

Ahh, so we have both come to the realisation that, you know, this part would be infinitely easier if we had six fingers. Which we do not. Thus making that little figure not pianistic (debatable) at all. Though it's played by a piano in the real thing, so how the heck does that work?!! Urrgh. Painful decisions.

Haha, i've got so much to rant about this buuut nah. It's still a beautiful arrangement ^^

QuoteI guess that's just a perpetual problem of mine where I need to take a few moments to think about what I'm going to play next before I do it

Hmm. In a typical Singaporean piano lesson this would be slammed as unfamiliarity aaand you'd go home feeling sad that you didn't practice more. But bleh, don't we all hate practicing? :p

That being said, I think that part (the A minor bit) warranted at least some working. ^^ It's quite tough because the left hand spreads much wider. And the right hand gives you not much time to look at your left hand.

Also, this part might sting a little, apologies for that - I also noticed that you paused just a tiny bit before the high sparkles (for the lack of a better/less lazy expression) in the opening section. The pause is a little unnatural, but what I see in a kinda blanket-judgment way is over-carefulness. Your last finger's already on the D pedal point, soooo you don't really have to check to ensure that. I'm guessing that the way you naturally read this was to position your left hand, then check your right hand, then play. Which is kinda okay, but since you're speed-reading, you could have a tiny little more confidence in your left-hand positioning, especially since you made compromises to ensure your accuracy. Basically, focus on your right hand and take the liberty to play the left-hand blind. Maybe give it a shot when you have time; it's a useful skill (playing parts blind) that we as performers have to develop at some point, so yeah ^^

QuoteHowever, this reason is morely due to the fact that my fingers are so long that if I tried doing 5-x-1-3-2-1 then on the next arpeggio my pinky would overshoot the root note

"Fingers are so long"? Dang.

That being said, curl up your finger for that. Hehe. It's a standard technique - give it a spin ^^

QuoteDid you like the delay though? I couldn't quite get the right rhythm so I settled on something that seemed pretty close. I even added some stereo imaging for further sparkle :P

Errrm

I didn't notice the delay! ^^ I did like the sound though. So you did a good job :)

Can't judge the stereo effects because I didn't use earphones. Maybe I'll give it another listen soon and come back to you on that ^^

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Hope all the comments helped! :)
#576
Hey, I've tried the Midna's Desperation/Lament before! ^^ It's so tranquil and melancholic haha. Though the left hand part is awkward.

Mmm...it's not the best performance video you have. That's something I'll need to say for sure. Especially when you're recording, the one thing that you cannot afford to do is lose your pulse. And I think, especially in the last section (A minor part), you lost it quite a bit.

I understand it's the left hand, hehe. I've got small hands (too?)! And a figure like that is just urgh. But I don't think you have the best fingering for this. In the first section you did (at least for what I could see) 5-4-3-2-1-1. Consider using 2 on the last note of each set instead; it ensures that the legato is there and it's better for accuracy because you avoid the jump. In the last section you did 5-3-1-2-1-2 (or something), and I think a better fingering would be 5-x-1-3-2-1 (x: choose 3 or 2), once again for the legato and to minimise skips.

Lost your pulse a bit there, so that wasn't as awesome as I'd hoped. Also saw you almost hit a wrong chord at some point, hehe. Not your best work, but it's a mind-confounding piece that's not as simple as it looks haha. If you've got any questions feel free to drop a pm! Hope the suggestions helped :)
#577
Quote from: Bespinben on June 17, 2016, 05:09:23 AMEverything else is strictly in the realm of engraving -- layer management, beaming, stem direction, system spacing, measure distribution, white-space optimization, etc. Focus on the things that matter (visually), and you will get this result every time. Assessing the arrangement/music itself can be helpful to some, but, as a sheet music site, what matters most is facilitating communication between arranger and performer through highly polished musical typesetting.


Amen.

Will remember these golden words, man. ^^

That score looks beautiful, haha :)
#578
Quote from: Sebastian on June 16, 2016, 05:53:19 PMI didn't know the heat was turned on :P

Eep. Weeellllll then.

QuoteAlso, Ben and I have been working on this via skype. We should be done shortly.

Great to hear this though! ^^ Hope to see the final soon so i can promptly devour it and wash it down in flames nah just kidding i wanna play it :)
#579
Errm guys? Let's turn off the heat a little maybe?
Hehe.

Anyway, I saw a music debate, so you know. I spent my precious mobile data actually listening to the youtube track, and now I'm pretty sure of what goes on in that sacred bar.

I'm holding my stand at the point around halfway to Maelstrom's idea.

Quote from: Maelstrom on June 16, 2016, 12:29:11 PMbut the harp was nearly strictly chromatic and Seb's version was anything but. In fact, it hit the highest note of the scale a few beats to early.

No and yes! ^^ The harp is never chromatic because it just can't be (harps are tuned to diatonic scales usually). But yes, Seb's version did hit the highest note too early. It should be almost square on the third beat~

Quote from: Maelstrom on June 16, 2016, 12:40:52 PMCreative freedom should be used when needed, but not on clear-cut scales.

What I heard was a dominant seventh arpeggio leading up to a high A, which comes down in a diatonic F major gliss. So, yes, Seb's version did stray off the original quite a bit.

That being said, you can't do an F major gliss on the piano (plus it sounds like shite if you wanted the sound of a harp), and an F major scale at a harp gliss speed is tough even if you use two hands unless you're Prokofiev. Or Shostakovich. Or better than they were. And btw, they were angry Russians. *runs*

I would keep the flourish idea (not note-perfect though) in the first half of the bar as it is, definitely. But for this to be effective it shouldn't start on the first beat of the bar - in fact maybe leave an eighth rest before you fade in with the dominant seventh arpeggio. Let it somehow end up on a high A at the third beat, then descend on a A-E-C-Bb pattern (because that's a little ambiguous-ish). The closest example I can think of it Liszt's Rigoletto Paraphrase, which spams this fun little figure around the middle of the introduction.

If you don't get it I'll definitely try scoring it out...once I get access to a computer. But do consider ^^

Also, music is fun! Salt is not. Let's be fun people! ^^
#580
Hey! Happens that I'm playing Chrono Trigger for iOS, haha. I know this track! :D

Anyway.

It's a pretty good arrangement! Just a tiny point on presentation:

I don't really like the repeat on b. 5-8. The dal segno is actually kinda irrelevant (and unconventional) since you're going to be repeating to that point again and again. I'd suggest scoring these bars out in full (i.e. create four empty bars after and copy and paste those bars there). And, thus, ditching the end repeat at b. 8. That makes the entire "repeat for eternity" idea a lot clearer.

Yeah, you chose to ditch the repeats for b. 13-20, which repeats exactly immediately after. If you made that choice there, I'd say we can go with it for the above bars~

Other than that, I would add in the high blips a little earlier at b. 17, because I'm certain that the blips come in exactly on that bar. Would put the chord to layer 2, 8va the entire bar, and add in the blips on the second beat.

But that's your choice as an arranger! Just a tiny suggestion ^^

Cheers!
#581
Forum Games / Re: Ironic Wish Granting The Sequel
June 16, 2016, 05:29:19 AM
Quote from: FireArrow on June 16, 2016, 12:14:07 AMI wish I didn't have to wear glasses or contacts.

Granted! Kinda. You've been granted the power to grant that wish yourself! ^^
You know, you could embrace the ~natural way~ and take them glasses or contacts off. Just don't mind/ignore the blurriness.

I wish the people up there would pay me more.
#582
Pokemon DPPt - Snowpoint City

Done!...except it's in camp, I have zero access to any computer, I'm using nothing but my phone, and the score only exists in manuscript form. Hehe.

images!

Suddenly felt inspired to score Snowpoint haha, not sure why. I must have had them musical goosebumps at least ten times when I was listening to the playback and even while writing the full score. It's such a beautiful track. Dang.

Will hopefully clean this up by tomorrow! I might also update this page with the Minish Cap arrangements too~
#583
Quote from: Altissimo on June 14, 2016, 07:41:44 PMI'mma she!! and somehow I 100% missed this post. i'll go for the brackets lmao

edit: eh? PDF

Aaand i'mma blind. Sorry for that, fixed it! ^^; haha idek

Sweet! You did it! :D Just need to add the other side of the half braket thingies when you want the right hand to take over :)
#584
Quote from: Altissimo on June 14, 2016, 05:59:50 PMThey have, and for the most part the site prefers to stick to the "standard" music-writing convention of "show the beginning of each strong beat where it might be obfuscated". There might be some fuzziness about pieces in like strict 3+3+2 etc but I haven't seen any of that personally so I'd say go with the non-obfuscated version...

Ahh. Understood. Thanks for the clarification! I'll fix it on Friday night and re-upload the scores ^^

Soooo that means in a 3-2-2-1 scenario, we'd see a dotted quarter followed by tied quavers right?
#585
ahh, you did research for me! That should have been my job. Thank you so much, i'm humbled ^^

Quote from: FireArrow on June 14, 2016, 10:46:31 AMHmm, you know you're stuff better than I do and the interwebz seems a bit ambivalent on the matter so lets go with your way. Maybe someone smarter than me will come around and clarify ;3

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I do have a tiny bit of jazz experience, aaand it turns out that the fakebooks aren't in agreement with each other too haha. Oh well. The sheets on the site aren't in agreement too haha. Though they're from different years, and conventions might have evolved over time. Welp.

Thank you for digging the first example up though! ^^ Was looking for a counter-example to the one I had haha, so that was great :)

QuoteOh, I suck at sight reading music and didn't notice that. I'm absolutely 100% for not using 8va or 8vb if there's octave references, mostly because I forget to 8va things when playing and it ticks me off, but also because that's the way my chopin waltz books are notated. NSM might have it's own rules when it comes to 8va/8vb though so idk.

Believe it or not, I was thinking Chopin Nocturnes (and the Barcarolle) when I made that decision, hehe. Bloop! A point for both of us :)

Thank you for your time and for giving enough shites to dig up some theory! :) You're amazing.