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Files have been updated.

How does it look now?

Thanks for the response! I thought I was abandoned.

Please give me a few days to revise the arrangement. I will let you know when I update the files.

Thanks!

- Those sextuplets would be better notated as triplets.
- Missing tempo markings.
- The whole note A's in m. 5, 7, etc. seem pretty redundant from a piano player's standpoint.
- m. 37: That's a lot of ledger lines. Perhaps an 8vb? You might also want to move this system down a bit to give the top voice and direction more room.
- Last measure - Try redistributing the measures per system so that you don't end up with a super stretched one at the end.

Ok, files should be updated.

---I changed the sextuplets to triplets but I kept the notes beamed together because the piece has an alla breve feel. What do you think?
---Sorry, forgot to put the tempo mark. It's there now.
---I would like to keep the whole note because I am trying to show that that 'A' should be accented a little. In the original music there is a trumpet that  sustains that A tone.
---Ok done. What do you think about the placement of the "loco" marking though?
---Done

Checked over it several times and yes I think they were just 5ths! Files should be updated now.
Thanks!

Thank you so much Brassman for taking the time to look through the arrangement!

I intended for mm. 35-36 to be rolled. I felt like marking a roll wasn't really necessary but maybe I should. As for mm. 37-38 and similar measures, the octaves in the RH are held with the pedal so it can jump up to play the descending tuplets. I have read through the arrangement at the piano several times and everything is perfectly playable.

Yeah you are right I can definitely clean up some of the layering. I will get on that.

Thanks again!

[Counterattack]

Hello all!

1/4/17:

I have been working on "Counterattack" from Shadow of the Colossus. I started it several months ago but had no time to finish it until now.
It is in the polishing stages now and it would be very helpful if someone could look at it to look for any issues with formatting or whatnot before I submit it to the site.


Shadow of the Colossus: "Counterattack" [MUS] [MUSX] [PDF]


I know some of the slurs need adjusting, I will get to that...


Some things I would like people to look for:

• Are there any incorrect notes/harmonies/rhythms?
• Is there any notes that could be added? (ex. filling in harmonies, adding missing notes)
• Any notes that you think are completely unnecessary?
• Was my choice of hiding most of the tuplet numbers to make the score look cleaner okay and would it all make sense to someone reading the score?
• How can formatting be cleaner?

If there is anything you notice that could be fixed please let me know!

Thanks for any help!

ops didn't notice that, lol.

Haha. It's ok, I know the low post count probably tricked you.... I never really used the forums. I have been coming to NSM for video game sheets for the past 11 years though.


Ok to the arrangement now.

huge chords

-I changed some of the notes in those LH chords but they are still kind of big... I don't have much of a problem playing them on piano though.

placing of rests are confusing

-Ok fixed!

Audio problem

- So I have been using the wrong tool for arpeggios for 8 or so years?!?!?! LOL. Thanks for letting me know! For some reason the playback and the midi file doesn't hold those LH chords now. Those chords are getting abruptly cut off now. I don't know how to fix it...

different tempo mark on your pdf file

-Oh I accidentally uploaded an older version of the PDF score. It is fixed now.

double-check these notes: The LH chords, M.1 RH: the high chord, M.2: the chromatic notes in the RH, notes 3,4,5

-Ok I deleted some notes in the LH that didn't seem to be in the recording. That chord in the RH in m.1 seems correct to me except for the high D. I deleted that D. Yeah those chromatic notes were not right. I think I have the correct notes now but a second opinion would be good.

missing some notes in the RH in measure 3

-Oh you're right! Ok I added them in.

I am still not 100% confident that I have the correct notes in the LH chords. If someone with a really good ear could check those LH chords that would be great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIcp1L0uI0Y

Deleting it would also mean making the dotted half note in m4 a whole note to take up the rest of the space in that measure.

Oh I did do this but something went wrong I guess. The files updated correctly this time.

A pp marking in the middle of measure 4 would make it clearer that the following phrase should be played quieter (as it is in the original). Right now it looks like it's getting louder than mp.

Ok take a look at what I changed. Maybe it's being a little too clear now (too many dynamic markings)?

-Ok thank you! I have had so many issues with Finale's built-in PDF export. I installed DoPDF. PDF looks to be clean now of any random numbers floating around.

-Thanks for taking the time to listen closely to m.5. I was never 100% sure if I had the right notes there. I also removed the left hand part here. I know that technically the left hand part was not really in the recording but I felt that by adding that lower octave it more closely matched the timbre of that instrument playing the arpeggio. The right hand alone sounds a little thin to me but I guess it works...


Alright if there is nothing else then thank you for yours and Sebastian's time and contributions to this arrangement!!!

You'd be surprised how many sheets on the site have them, mine included. It's just because it's a cleaner and simpler way of notating it.

Haha, yeah I have definitely seen them in music I have used from this site, but this site has been one of the only places that I have seen them outside of Baroque music. Mordents may make the score look cleaner but in terms of readability I much rather see something written out as notes than a mordent marking when I am sight-reading music. There is more translation steps for my brain to go through with mordents which slows down my reading...

-If the LH changes notes on the last measure, should it be tied?
-Little nitpick: I don't know if that molto accel will get cut off when someone tries to print it, as it's so close to the page margin.
-Even more nitpicky: 117 is not a valid analogue metronome marking. 116, however, is.

-Oh, good eye! That was a mistake.
-Ok I moved it over a little and did a print test and it was fine.
-Yeah that is true. I changed it to 116 but is it necessary to always stick to tempo markings that are on an analogue metronome? I just want to know for future submissions...

Thank you! I have been a fan of this website for about 11 years now and I am excited to soon have arrangements of my own on this site!!

[Maelstrom]

Ok thanks! I updated the files with most of the changes you two suggested.

I decided to leave m. 5 the way it is (no clef changes), being a pianist I much rather read it the way it is now.

Maelstrom, thanks for your help! I kept those "mini trills" written as 32nd notes not only because of what Sebastian pointed out but also because mordents seem to be an odd sight in music after the 18th century...

Sebastian, thank you, you have a good ear! I didn't catch that those notes were wrong.


So how does the score look now?

I couldn't see the pictures but I kind of had an idea of what you were saying. So I updated the files with some changes. What do you think now? Yeah I actually don't like staccatos being on the stem side of the note. I went through the score and changed them where I could but sometimes I could not put them on the notehead side because of another voice in the way, and also sometimes I felt that it just looked better on the stem side.
Thanks for your help!