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#1
Alright, I'm okay with points 1 and 3,
For point 2, from what I'm hearing the articulation is the same both times. But it's def staccato for the first 1/4 notes then legato the second time. I think I made a mistake while importing the XML the first time because my musescore file is written like what i described
For point 4 I'd opt for one key sig cos it's better to read on the sheet music. Since both scales/modes have Bb in them, I don't see much of a need for the key change. I think leaving everything in F major is fine.

Thanks in advance!
#2
Alrighty, I'm good with all those points! On top of that though, the staccato change (pt. 7) also carries over to bar 50-51.

Would appreciate if you could do the fixes, please! :D If I change anything the formatting implodes lol
Thank you!
#3
Oh that's good lol
Yeah, okay so the mordent thing is on my end. They're probably not supported by Notepad
#4
Sorry for also taking quite a while to reply lol
But almost everything looks good! I think it's on my end, but the mordent/prall isn't playing back still.
As for the grace notes, the slash affects how long you'd interpret those grace notes to be (acciaccatura vs appoggiatura). So yeah, at least re-adding the grace notes again with the slashes is necessary. I think the playback for them isn't so important.
#5
This one is from the DLC for SwSh:
This video's uploader apparently just gives guesses as to the names and composers for each individual track from the game, but I just listed the names as per the video anyway.

So... there's a lot of problems with the mus file as usual that I need help with:
- all the tempo markings can't be shifted by me without shifting their anchored notes so they're a bit of a mess
- the rit. and rall. lines should appear dashed and italicised
- tempo markings at the rit./rall. lines should be hidden
- m10: the phrase line overlaps with the bottom stave, need help to make the staff space larger
- m12: spacing at the last beat is too tight
- m37: i intended to have a 'play with left hand' mark on the Eb on beat 1
- m38: i intended to have dotted lines here (see the pdf below!)
- m42: unsure if i need it, but i wrote let-ring/laissez vibrer marks on the whole notes
- the D.S. at m53 should be bolded
- the pralls don't play back
- all the grace notes/acciaccaturas don't have the slash for some reason
- header text is also just manually placed by me so you guys might want to replace it with actual in-built headers.

(here's a pdf of the musescore file i created the XML with: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ffm1hbkj969kw2k/IsleOfArmor.pdf?dl=1)

Thanks in advance!
#6
(MOSTLY) NEW-BUT-ACTUALLY-OLD ARRANGEMENTS!
Another sheet dump of stuff I've worked on for the first half of 2020.

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time, Explorers of Darkness & Explorers of Sky
Dusk Forest (and Time Gear) (Concert Band) [mid/pdf]
YouTube
Deep Dusk Forest [mid/pdf/mscz]
YouTube
The Power of Darkness (Piano-Trumpet Duet) [mid/pdf/mscz]
YouTube
Treeshroud Forest [mid/pdf/mscz]
YouTube
Air of Unease (Piano Duet) [mid/pdf/mscz]
Youtube
Star Cave, Star Cave Pit & One for All, All for One! (Mixed Ensemble) [mid/pdf/mscz]



Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX
Gates to Infinity Medley (Oddity Cave) (Two Pianos) [mid/pdf/mscz]
Youtube

Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Medleys
Music from "Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team" [mid/pdf/mscz]
Youtube

Pokémon: Sword & Shield
Motostoke (Woodwind Quintet) [mid/pdf/mscz]

#7
NEW ARRANGEMENTS!
Once Upon a Time was submitted!
Also two more sheets.

[SWITCH] Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield
Once Upon a Time...

[mid][pdf][mus]

[NDS] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness
Treeshroud Forest

[mid/pdf/mscz][mus]


[NDS] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky
Air of Unease (Piano Duet)

[mid/pdf/mscz][mus]

#8
- After listening to it again, m21 sounds like it's doing a slight dimuendo. I didn't notice that. Imo I feel that just removing the accents on beat 4 would be alright, but I'm down for removing the F in m21 beat 4 too if you guys feel like it's too heavy.

- Yeah, they're not in the original (I told Lat that actually). How would you mark it though?

- I think that's on Lat's end... the files I uploaded before were at the correct tempo :p
#9
Okay, removed those accents too (I felt they showed the start of the phrases but there're phrase lines I guess)

Hm, I think I'd just go with your suggestion then. But I can't move the key sig without needing to re-write the entire mus file lol
Could you help move it when you're doing that formatting pass in the end?

Thanks for the checks; I've changed the things you mentioned -- yeah, the last bars aren't in the original.
#10
Alright, I think that's fair. My use of accents was mostly based on controlling the velocity midi playback, so I used a lot of them to emphasise main beats.
So I removed a bunch of them from the sheet, save for the ones where I feel the accented notes need to stand out more.

I fixed the misaligned G but I can't change the position of the key signature on Notepad...
Though I don't really agree with you on the key sig because the key change at m23 would already highlight the resolution to F major? Unless you meant that the F major actually starts at m25 and m23/24's a transition into it. Personally I felt the key change begun on m23. Nonetheless I guess having the time and key sigs coincide looks neater.
#11
I was trying to say that the detuned piano in the original had quite a mellow timbre and so the small intervals within that chord didn't sound as nasty as on a regular piano. On hindsight, it might just be midi playback that makes the thing sound so bad...

Thank you for changing the expression text -- notepad doesn't really have a snap function so I can't align things exactly.

Updated the submission files!
#12
- You're referring to the pitch bending in the original right? I only left the one D-Eb change in because it outlines the voice leading from Db to D♮. I don't know how to explain this properly because my theory's abysmal when it comes to chords.
- Changed.
- Fair enough, tbh I just ran a musescore plugin that set courtesy accidentals automatically and didn't check ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I also got rid of the flat on m9 beat 2.75.
- Re-wrote it so that there's a Dmaj in the left hand and the 7th on the right.

(also noticed I missed out one note bracket on m40, but now that I think about it, removing that bracketed note altogether is probably better.)
#13
- I think that's what's being played, but it sounds real nasty in that octave (and worse down one more). So maybe I'll add that but remove the D.

- I'd argue that the Bb there isn't very important because of the Bbs on beat 2.5 and the right hand. It's also because having the extra Bb would make it hard to hear the countermelody clearly, especially with the pedal. The (accented) Bb on 2.5 is already sustained and hitting the same note again causes a very 'murky' texture. I'd rather change the accents to be on 2.5 and 3.5 if we need to preserve the rhythm.

- I went ahead and added the detuned piano part (to m7/8/15/16), but omitted the F on m7/15 beat 2.5 because it sounded a little awkward. Anyway, there's an accented F on the right hand on that beat (albeit the two together are not gonna be recognised as an explicit chord/interval).

- When the A section repeats, the piano plays a slightly different bassline. The low F on m14 was a new addition, and so I decided writing that over the detuned piano would add to the variation in the second A section (i'd also rather not change it because that countermelody in the lower octave sounds very slurred with the pedal.

- I'll shift that expression text to be in-between the staves instead (the alternative would be to just write "Playful swing" instead of only "Swing" in the tempo marking, but I can't change it on my end).

Changes I've made are here:
mid: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhaldux45tehx9u/Yoshi%27s%20Crafted%20World%20-%20Main%20Theme.mid?dl=1
pdf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/u1g33rngss1vjba/Yoshi%27s%20Crafted%20World%20-%20Main%20Theme.pdf?dl=1
mus: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzz4ss0p1b64y9z/Yoshi%27s%20Crafted%20World%20-%20Main%20Theme.mus?dl=1
#14
Thanks! It's always an arms race to make covers/arrangements of new music, especially for more popular things.