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[GoldenEye 007]

GoldenEye 007 [N64]

"Opening Theme"

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NEW!!

"Watch (Pause Screen)"

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Yeah, old news by now if you've seen the latest update. But, here they are!

(I'm not memeing, for the record)

Today's update added a total of 44 replacements, all of which were taken off of the spreadsheet. In addition, the following games were taken off of the spreadsheet entirely:

• Crystalis
• Dig Dug
• Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!
• Earthworm Jim
• Harvest Moon 64
• Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
• Radical Dreamers
• Touhou 6: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil
• Touhou 10.5: Scarlet Weather Rhapsody
• Touhou 13: Ten Desires

In addition, with this update we can now take three series off of the spreadsheet. Without further ado, let's pay tribute to these series:

#1

Chrono Trigger is FINISHED!!!

[close]

#2

Harvest Moon is FINISHED!!!

[close]

#3

Touhou is FINISHED!!!

[close]

Thank you to everyone that submitted replacements!

This has been your NSM Audit Update™. We look forward to seeing you next time.

I agree with that, but some of the staccato placements are still inconsistent. Why are they below the notes in m13 but above in m14, when both layers are in the same ranges? Other than that, looks good

I suppose that makes sense. Fixed.

[Endless Mines]

Endless Mines
RH:
-m5/9 b1.5 - lowest note here is a G, not an A
-I think there's a restrike on b1 of m11/15
-m21 - b3.5 chord - top note should be an F#, not a C.
-m23 b4.5 - I hear a 8th note on C here, no 16th on D on b4.75
-m24 b1 - I recommend a staccato here
-m33 I think there should be some rests here after the 16th notes ....
LH:
m27:

-Maybe lower 1st layer rests to a normal height in m33?

All done.

Buttville

• Watch your staccato placement for RH Layer 1. Since most of the time you have 2 separate layers going on, I would suggest moving all staccatos above the notes instead of below.

I think it's pretty clear which notes the staccatos belong to, so there shouldn't be any confusion on the performer's part. All your other stuff has been fixed.

[Endless Mine]

Endless Mine

• For that rhythm starting in m2 RH, the first 8th note sounds like it should also be staccato.
• Consider inverting the dyads in Layer 2 in m18-21 and 29-31, unless you want the player to hold down the pedal or something.

Done

- (My recommendation) condense the two lower voices into one for simplicity since most of the awkward intervals octave double the higher or lower note and do not add anything harmonically:
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I'm all for simplifying this arrangement. You can go ahead and use this version.

[The Great Pyramid]

The Great Pyramid
dotted tenuto

Done.

Bonus Victory
You didn't combine the rests?

I already did. At least, it shows as being combined on my copy.

Buttville
Did you change any beaming aside from 18? Not sure if I'm missing something or not. You aren't compelled to by any means, but I'm not sure what was tried here.

I see what you mean now. That sort of beaming doesn't really bother me. But, no harm no foul.

Opening theme
I mean this:

could look like this:

Up to you to keep or fix tho, I could see this going either way.
Reset the rest heights on b2.5 of m7 and the like. not sure why they're so low.

Done & done.

I suppose as a former drummer I can weigh in here...

For me, this song does not start on a pickup measure. Easiest indicator here is the hi-hat: a lot of drum grooves have it open on beat 4.5 as a pickup to the next measure. See these two examples. We can see that the non-pickup version has the open hi-hat on beat 4.5, confirming the theory. And while the snare doesn't land on beats 2 or 4 exactly all of the time, it's not uncommon for certain genres (esp. jazz & funk) to purposefully play the backbeat a half or sixteenth early or late. 

All this to say, I agree with Latios & Maelstrom. For what it's worth, I tried listening to just the piano part alone & still couldn't hear it as Static has written it.

[The Great Pyramid]

The Great Pyramid
This song desperately needs some articulations. Places like m6 LH just don't sound the same with the slur-staccato pattern. Other suggestions include a dotted tenuto for b2 of LH m4 and and staccatos for the RH.

I don't think the R.H. are staccato. I think they're somewhere in-between non-articulated and staccato. If you know what kind of articulation would be good for that, I would love to hear it.

Bonus Game Victory
Perhaps combine the quarter rests in the finale measure? The rest looks great.

Done

Bonus Game Victory
Perhaps combine the quarter rests in the finale measure? The rest looks great.

Buttville
I'd recommend following the conventions on 8th beaming (only in sets of 4 when all on the beat and no rests), but the beaming of stuff like b1-2 of m18 and 3-4 of m33 is something I strongly recommend changing, at the very least.

I tried it. See what you think

Opening theme
something about beaming over rests. there's no rest-8th-8th-rest so it's at least somewhat easier to parse but I'll still say it.

Not sure what you're referring to here? Unless you just mean that there's general clutter, which I agree there is.

m31-46 RH - I hear all top notes equally bended up, why are only some marked with grace notes?

But, I feel like having a grace note for every note would get annoying really fast.

m31 LH - I hear the bass guitar coming in on b1.5 here. Unsure if a restrike, but it feels like an intentionally delayed entry.

Nah, I definitely hear it on beat 1.

According to Wikipedia, the Eye in GoldenEye should be capitalized, and it appears like it should be on the boxart as well. You should change the titles on your sheets to reflect that.

Done.

Everything else not directly addressed here should be fixed.

WHAT

Yeah, this one's a little unorthodox. While I did this arrangement a long time ago, I used this transcription as a reference while polishing it up for submission this time around.

Absolute banger.

Haven't seen an official name for this track, so I went with what made the most sense.

gobble gobble

Today's updated added 1 replacement, which was taken off of the spreadsheet.

This has been your NSM Audit Update™. We look forward to seeing you when I wake up after this food coma.

Alright, I took a much more thorough look, and it is what you guys said it was. I have changed it.

It's not so much the quality, more that it randomly cuts out part way through the first loop which is a bit of pain.  Anyway...

Oh no. I didn't listen far enough into the original to know that it did that. I mean, I guess I could have just linked my own video, but I really don't want to be that guy...

Everything is fixed except for:

-The run in bars 8 and 16 should be G# -> A -> B -> C ->D -> D# -> E.

I'm still hearing what I have written there.

Done.