Appreciate everyone's input on this. I'll need to work on other things until late Wednesday, but given the pace of this board and that everyone's been waiting 6-7 years for the cursed HGSS National Park arrangement, I think a couple of days shouldn't be too much of an issue.
I actually had this in about the same status it was first submitted on April Fools day, and was super tempted to make the best April Fools day joke ever, but the performance simply wasn't ready. I knew that it was a must for this piece. The joke that could have been...
Really solid advice that I'm definitely going to trust because the sections you're commenting on were really awesome in your arrangement of this piece
This advice looks really good, but I'm struggling to understand it a bit. I'll ask you more about it when I have a bit more time, but I'll also probably run some of the things you mentioned by my piano teacher as well; he also composes.