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Do you happen to know if the music in the beginning of the linked recording is the intro music for every stage? Or is it stage specific? Just wondering if that small piece could/should be added to this arrangement

It is the introduction for the Marrakech stage itself, but I feel like it'd be more suited for a short themes collection because this isn't the only music to play in the level. If I had it here, I'd feel obligated to put the other music in too, and that's a bit much.

For m1-4 LH, I think you could remove the staccatos. While there is a bit of reverb, it does sound like the notes are longer and not staccatoed.

The non-square wave is drowned out during this section, but it plays the same line it does in the next eight measures and so forth in the bass clef, staccatos and all. I wanted to keep the rhythm of the bass consistent for the entire piece and I wondered if the square wave in the song was supposed to be staccato too and just didn't have the capability to be or it wasn't programmed correctly. This is also why the bass in measures 13-16 and similar are played shorter than the squares in the source.

For a little while I went back and forth thinking there were 8th notes after the clusters in m14 and 16, but I think it's just reverb. Assuming you also went back and forth on this as well (I think how you have it is correct)

It's not so much reverb as it is the Es being played for longer than the Gs and Ds/Dbs. I wanted to keep the rhythm more in line with the other two notes because I thought holding the E sounded a bit strange and maybe another case of the square not being able to staccato.
Also, while we're on those measures, the longer A in the left hand on count 4 of measures 13, 15, 21 & 23 was a personal touch that I thought would sound better than resting on the "and" of 1 like it does in the source. I'd like to believe that was the intention if the limitations weren't there.

Starts at 0:08.

All of the above should be taken into account.

Taken care of!

[[SNES]]

Here are a couple of sheets as an early Christmas present. Hope you like them!

[SNES] Final Fantasy IV
"Troian Beauty" | PDF | MIDI | Source
[32X] Knuckles' Chaotix
"Seascape" | PDF | MIDI | Source

Done.

I edited most of the above with a few exceptions.

-m1 RH beats 2-4.5: There's a fair amount of other harmonic voices you don't have included here, I'm assuming for playability reasons (which I'd agree with if that's the case).

-m3 RH beat 3.5: missing a G on bottom; if you omitted it to avoid repeating the LH note then that's fine.

-m7 RH: Beat 2.5 is missing an E-G-B triad on bottom, beat 3 is missing an E-G dyad, and beat 3.5 is missing an E. Feel free to leave out some of these to make it more playable, on beat 2.5 especially.

-m14 RH beat 1: You could potentially include the downwards gliss here.

• For measure one, I wanted to make it not only playable, but I also wanted to put focus on the beats of the measure because it sounds like there's an emphasis on those in the original piece as well.
• Measure three's missing G was indeed removed to not clash with the left hand and I wanted it to be a bit more easier to move to the next chord.
• For measure seven, aside from playability, I wanted it to have this build up to the first chord of the next measure, since I hear it have that impact in a not-so-crescendo sort of way.
• In response to the glissando for measure fourteen, I hear what you do for that, but I'm thinking it's best left simplified for this arrangement.

Everything should be accounted for. I also removed the E from count 5 of measure 5. I thought it'd seem a little out of place.

I keep hearing "Take me out to the ball game".

I hear a little bit of that and "In the Good Old Summertime."

All done!

• m14 RH You could move this slur a little bit upwards so it's not so close to the LH stems, and also smooth the shape out afterwards so it still maintains its curve.

Not sure how smooth it looks now, but it's adjusted.

Everything above should be accounted for.

• the return point symbol for the D.S al Fine at m5 is out of the margins, maybe move it to the right of the treble clef at m5, same height?
On a separate note, does the DS al Fine section only exist so that the grace note in m3 isn't played on this phrase? I think the fact that you're supposed to go on from m26 the first time through could be indicated a little more clearly, might I suggest adding (second time) to m26's Fine?

I decided to just go with the simple repeat bars and put the grace note at the end of measure 2, so it's a bit more obvious it isn't played on the second time around.

The DuckTales 2 sheet is up to date.

I should have the above updated. If anything came up from the chromatic transpose, let me know.

["The Bermuda Triangle"]

For this update, I've brought two ship-related themes.

DuckTales 2
"The Bermuda Triangle" | MUSX | Source

Mario Party
"The Wide, Wide Ocean" | MUSX | Source

The files have been updated.

- m20 beat 2+ sounds an octave lower

It is, but I thought I'd make them higher so it'd be easier to jump to the dyads in the next measure and would be less awkward to play compared to having the notes cross staff where the higher of the octave is played as staccato eighth notes while the lower notes are to be held longer.