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Submission Archive / Re: [MUL] Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team & Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Blue Rescue Team - "Es
« on: May 15, 2023, 03:10:38 PM »- Thank you! I thought starting off with the sparse texture of the Blue version and then introducing the fuller texture from the Red version would be a great way to break up the repetitiveness of the piece. This replacement is of the very first piece I submitted to this site in 2011, so I wanna do it justice this time <3
- At the last chord in measure 15, I don't hear the Ab in the LH
I wanted to give a sense of finality to the loop. It also helps to keep the texture together, since without it, there would be a large gap between the RH ostinato and the final high F of the melody.
My NSM template is adapted from the workflow I use in my engraving and publishing work, which is based around having some items that are fixed size (headers, credits, copyright, etc.), and using the Page Layout tool to change the Staff Size (to exactly 6.5mm, according to Elaine Gould's recommendations for piano sheet music) instead of the Re-size tool to increase or decrease the size of the music staves and attached items. My smaller point sizes in the fixed text size items is to compensate for that, to arrive at a similar result as the NSM formatting guidelines which assume the use of the resize tool.
- A lot of your text sizes seem to be marginally off from the site's recommendations, could you look over those? Since the subtitle is pretty long I think it's excusable to have that set a little smaller, but that can't be said for everything else
- I would recommend using TempoMarks category fonts for the BPM marking, otherwise it looks like it's from MuseScore..
Additionally you could italicise the con pedale marking, though non italic is okay too
I'm using Finale's "Engraver Font T" for the note-head and Times New Roman Bold for everything else in the tempo marking. The default way that Finale only bolds the tempo expression and not the number is unfortunate — Musescore actually gets this right, and is much closer to Elaine Gould's recommendations. Also, I consider pedal instructions as technique text rather than expressive text, hence the lack of italics.
- Do you think it's clear to the performer that they should hold the pedal à 2 measures, rather than lifting it after each one?
Particularly the rests in the LH of m2 and m16 might cause some confusion.
With the con ped. marking, it should be clear that chords will be sustained over the whole rest bar, based on the texture. When playing IRL, I sometimes will even hold the pedal across the chord changes, especially to help the melody connect in m. 8-16.
