Debate topic for next Tuesday: Are cannons truly valid instruments for an orchestra? Or should they be replaced with something safer, like Tesla coils?
In addition to the other Dr. Mario sheet, I decided to do a non-replacement sheet from the game too. This one was a bit of trouble to transcribe due to all the time signature changes and stuff like that, but overall, it was a fun sheet to make!
Dr. Mario - "Endings" | PDF | MIDI | Sources: "Low Difficulty" "Hi/Med Difficulty"
-You could hide the second layer rests in bars 2 and 4 if you want to and stem the first layer normally on beat 4-5. My reasoning is that this is a practical rest rather than something that's actually happening in the piece so you can tidy it up if you want to.
-The RH part in 9-12 is kind of weird. It's kind of hard for me to make out the first beat of each bar (i.e. the first two notes) but it kind of sounds to me like the first two notes should be the other way around i.e. C# -> F# down a fifth. I'm not super sure though because it seems very quiet. It also seems like the part you wrote in is too high compared to the original, particularly these really high notes in bar 12, but again it's kind of hard for me to make it out perfectly.
Anyway, nice work on the sheet! For the glissando in m6, I think I'd prefer something written out rather than a glissando. The glissando either implies a black key glissando, which would just be G# and A#, or a white key glissando, which would include Gn, An, Bn and Cn. Both of these are easier if played normally than with a glissando.
If we're going to write something out, you could also make a chromatic run sextuplet (instead of 32nds like in the original)
It's quite fast, but still playable at speed.
Other than that, I don't have any drastic stuff! The only thing I could say is some optional stuff about the slurs:
-In m3, 5 and 9, you could also start the slur at the C# on beat 4 of m2, 4 and 8. In m7 you could maybe start it at the stat of the chromatic run in m6 beat 3, or just at the F# in m7 beat 1.
-In m11, you could start the slur at beat 1.
-In m15-16, you could slur these phrases the same as in m11-12 (so m15b1 or m15b2.5 to m16b1 and m16b2.5-m17b1)
Huh, interesting development. They look perfectly normal on the PDF but on Finale it's a different story. Maybe it's just my version of Finale then.
Just the slurs and ties. They seem really far apart from the notes. Everything else looks good though!
Probably the only thing I have to say is that the 8va in m. 16 and the 8vb in m. 17 both start too far to the left. I think we've talked about this before, but the beginning of the marking should hover over the first note it applies to, very slightly left if there's an accidental or something. The current placement of the (8va)/(8vb) is a good reference for where to start the marking.
