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[Here]'s a file with the systems shifted a bit to make use of the page better.

Couple of things before I check notes:
- What's the long diminuendo in the first system for? Everything plays at constant volume in the original there.
- Go back and check your note durations. Eighth notes vs. quarters vs. staccato'd quarters, make sure each note has the right duration and articulation.
- Would recommend condensing the tempo/swing marking at the beginning, it takes up a slightly awkwardly large amount of space. Perhaps something like this.

Let us know if you need help doing the last thing in Finale. You should be able to address the others.

[Looks good to me!]

Looks good to me!

[Octopath Traveler]

Another Octopath sheet! This one has a really nice piano part, and the rest of it translates over to piano surprisingly well as well.

Octopath Traveler

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The Frostlands

[MUS] [MIDI] [PDF] [Original]

Right? Such a great song

Sounds good, I've bumped up a few rests a notch or two in places. As for the added eighth note in the singing part, I like that! It adds more drive to the melody of the section, making it more lively. However, I've left 45-52 as is for some variety and because that section "winds down" the liveliness of the previous section, if that makes any sense.

Thanks for the compliments and for checking it over, and great ensemble arrangement you made too!

Sorry for the wait! Haha no need for the Dropbox link, the file's safely stored away in the original submission post

I've made the following edits for you:
- General layout poking and prodding
- m. 35-36 arpeggios were a bit off, some pitches were supposed to be C (D7 chord)
- Moving eighth note rests back to the normal height where appropriate (like m. 29)
- Edited the last measure to avoid unnecessary hand-crossing (it also leads into the next section better by putting the LH and RH closer to their normal registers for at the beginning of the loop). The ties Insig mentioned would be the best way to write a figure like that, but I don't think that's the right figure to use here. See if you like what I wrote in for the end - it fills in the last chord a bit other than just playing two G's.

Further changes I would recommend (and can make for you if you'd like) -
- Courtesy natural on the Bn in m. 40 (since it directly follows a similar pattern containing a Bb)
- Editing the note durations in the melody to be more accurate to the original (for example, the last G in m. 10 and the E in m. 11 are cut short and aren't quarter notes in the original)
- Adding articulations to the melody (similar to the above)

Good to gooooooooo!!!!

Hang on there, I'm not finished yet but you guys have done a real good job polishing this sheet up! Last page in particular is creative and works great.

Ended up throwing the second A's and G's down an octave instead.

I'm not convinced how much value this adds to the arrangement. To keep the triplet, you're introducing a stray note an octave lower which sounds out of place - a quick "plunk" on a lower note while the melody dances around up high. Besides that, it also makes fingering a lot more difficult, because again the melody doesn't move around a whole lot and you're forcing the right hand to dip down low really quick to grab the note. At the speed this song is going, I suggest simply replacing the triplets with regular 16th notes like in the rest of the figure - barely any audible difference from an extra note squeezed in there, and it keeps the melody straightforward to play.

Besides that, a few small things:
- Composer info takes up way too many lines. Can easily condense it to 2 or 3 lines. (Also, is there any source that narrows down the composer?)
- Page numbers are outside the preset margins. (I can update the files if you like.)
- I'd recommend a chord in m. 17 beat 3 similar to how the last measure is written. Beat 3 loses its power by octave doubling the G instead of finishing the series of chord-pounding that the first two beats set up an expectation for.

Ahh, a great sheet for a fantastic song... really nice work! Only complaint I really have about the arrangement is that the bassline is repetitive and can get somewhat dull at times, but it's not a big problem. I think the sheet still works.

So, just some small things from me!
- Bass notes in m. 4, hearing G#-B-C# at the end. (However, I do actually hear m. 44 as you wrote it.)
- You missed a couple of embellishments in the melody that add a good amount of spice to the song. Measure 22 beat 2.5 could use a mordent, and beat 4 of m. 40 have F#-Fx grace notes leading into it (although that makes it a bit more difficult to play so it'd be fine to leave them out).
- Flip the tie from m. 22-23 so the upper layer continues to point upwards.
- Beat 1 of m. 35 in the melody is shortened in the original. Probably not a big deal in a piano adaptation, but thought I'd mention it anyway.
- Watch the ties from m. 47-48; flip the inner ones.
- Not 100% sure about the run in m. 57-58; I'm hearing a D# in there somewhere. Maybe m. 58 beat 1? I'd suggest double checking this part just to be safe.
- Fix the rhythm grouping in m. 58 to show beat 3.
- Adjust the tie at the end of m. 59; it's awkwardly shaped.
- Fix the ff placement at the end to not collide with the accents.
- Clean up the pedal markings a bit; their positioning is a bit all over the place.
- For m. 16 and 56, I'm hearing just a Gn instead of the 16th Cn-D in the bass. Maybe you're using a different part there? I think what I just mentioned is more prominent, or at least it is to me.

Thanks Deku!

We should put https moving forward. However it's probably not worth trying to change all the old ones, as the http link should redirect fine.

[Octopath Traveler]

Haha indeed they're great ^^ Thank kopikostar for another one!

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Battle II

[MUS] [MIDI] [PDF] [Original]

Violin cover by kopikostar (YouTube)!

[Where the Wind Rustles]

Awesome to see more Echoes stuff! There's been so little of that around...

Just calling out a few things I'm seeing as I browse!

Where the Wind Rustles
- Unfortunately I don't know of any listings of the soundtrack that provide specific composers per track, but I do know that some of the tracks are arrangements of Yuka Tsujiyoko's original Gaiden compositions, like this one is. This site generally seems pretty accurate with their listings per composer as far as I can tell, but take it with a grain of salt since I don't know how to verify it.
- You don't really need a forward repeat bar at the beginning if it's just a simple loop. Also the Pno. markings.
- I'd suggest splitting up the lower layer half rests into two quarter rests to make it a bit clearer (although the way it's written right now doesn't really impede reading).
- Quarter-eighth triplet in m. 13/15/17 - consider making that eighth-rest-eighth?
- Notes overlap between hands in m. 20. Perhaps introduce other harmonies? (But you don't have to.)
- I'd personally suggest a double barline between m. 20-21.
- Rest collides with note in m. 22.

Truth
- Double barlines could work well in this one too.
- Adjust the dynamic in m. 22 so it's not so close to the articulation.
- For m. 23+ split the dotted quarter into eighth-tied-quarter since we're in 3/4 here.
- m. 31 perhaps consider moving the Ab to the upper staff for the RH to play instead?

A Soothing Strain
- I think this song sounds a lot more unnerving than it does soothing... haha
- Use expression text instead of plain text boxes so they'll automatically be attached to the staff instead of the page in case stuff moves around.

The one theme I've heard by far the most in game. The combination of violin, percussion, and bass carries over to piano really well - was surprised how easy of an arrangement this turned out to be!

[IF]

We tend to not remove something from the site if there isn't anything wrong with it, though challenge replacements for good sheets come very rarely so it isn't something we deal with a lot.

However situations like this can arise where someone else makes a sheet that's different but also perfectly valid. It doesn't seem totally fair to reject a submission based on the premise of "we already have a sheet of this" IF (and this is a big if) it brings something new to the table. We've had some on and off discussion amongst the staff regarding hosting multiple arrangements of the same song on site, and it seems like a good proposal to me, but there are a few kinks that need to be worked out that worry me a bit. (I can elaborate later if you want.)

(As for this actual sheet, I haven't had the time to do anything more than take a quick glance but I'd be down to discuss differences and arrangement decisions when I get a chance!)

Those are my thoughts, anyway.

I don't mean to bash Brassman's sheet or anything, it's great, but "improvements" is subjective. We just seem to have made different arrangement choices.

[I approve here]

Yay finally fixed haha

I approve here

Nice one! Though we could (should?) save this for the DPPt project so you can submit something else in the meantime.

While I'm here taking a look though, copyright year (2008) is incomplete, and the tie between m. 23-24 flips at the system break.