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Okay, I arranged this and it's about 90% done. Those jazz chords are rather hard to identify! Please offer some feedback, thanks!

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It's pretty much perfect. The only things I might change would be:

-The staccato'd RH note in 13 is so short (shorter than 1/2 the note value) that I would write it as staccatissimo.
-The RH second voice in 18 should have one more E (16th) just before the B.
-The bracket in 18 should only have a top end, and an ending bracket if the RH is to play the rest of the notes.

See the image for this last point ("Song of Storms" from The Legend of Zelda Series for Piano: Intermediate-Advanced Edition). Something to note is the positioning: It instructs the player to play just the top note with the right hand. In the first image, the note is on a line, so the brackets' ends are positioned in the middle of the staff-space between the two. In the second image, the note is on a space, so they are positioned just slightly after the the staff line between the two.

I made some more changes for clarity. I got rid of some frilly parts in the right hand because they weren't doing much and just made it needlessly complex. I have determined the awkward time signatures to be [ 3/4 ~ 7/8 ] and [ 4/4 ~ 7/8 ], but since there are only four measures in each set I decided to keep them there explicitly - it's not persistent enough to warrant an additive/mixed time signature. I think the piece is playable now, and I'm quite happy with the way it sounds.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback!

I made some notational changes to Castle Bleck for legibility, like beaming and time signatures, but not much for pitches or times. I also added dynamics and articulations.

I made some more changes to Multi-Man Melee, but I also made Castle Bleck from Super Paper Mario. I'll be happy to accept feedback on either.

Castle Bleck:
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Okay, I used 6+7/8 time. The second part I realized isn't 8+7/8, but rather 15/16, all four measures. I changed the PDF to reflect that.

Well wait no longer, I did the rest of it, but there's still lots of room for improvement, in my opinion. Like, I'm not sure how possible it is even to play. Oh well, let me know what you guys think.

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So I have the official piano arrangement for this song (part of The Legend of Zelda Series for Piano). I must say, your arrangement is more than just better than the original submission: it's extremely similar to this published score! (that's a compliment to your arranging, not an accusation of plagiarism) =)

I want to be hesitant with my criticism so as to not make it sound exactly like the published score...but you should know there are really very few differences. I won't say anything specific that this book does differently, but I can say a few things about the arrangement that I could have told you without it:

• You should add dynamics.
• The right hand of 1-8 is unique; 41-48 and 71-78 are different from it (but identical to each other).
• The Eb in 50 (and similar figures) should be spelled as D#.
• The last three notes of 13 and 14 should be G-G-D, 39 and 40 should be C-C-G.
• Consider wrapping up 17-24 in a prima volta, and 33-40 in a seconda volta, just like the volta system later in the piece.

There are also a couple of aesthetic differences, and perhaps some very minor inaccuracies, but I don't think I can divulge them. Besides, there's already very little room for improvement with this arrangement, in my opinion. Well done!

(Okay, I'll mention ONE thing that you were concerned with: despite the piece's interior repeats, the book says D.S. at the end with a Segno marker at 9.)

So I'm trying out Castle Bleck, and after I think 3 hours, I only have the first 11 measures after the intro. I don't really know what I'm doing...this one is really difficult.

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Thanks JDMEK5! I made some changes after some critique from my piano-playing colleagues, some guidelines from the music typesetting reference book Behind Bars by Elaine Gould, as well as just some careful listening.

• I deleted some rests in 8-9 and 52-53, and made it easier to read and play. (The player would probably just use the pedal anyway, but without one, RH now only stretches to a 9th)
• 16 is now up the octave, and I fixed some wrong notes in 18.
• I put 6ths and 3rds in 16-19. A really skilled player might be able to play the passage at tempo, but most would probably opt to just play the top line.
• 33's glissando is notated better
• 46 and 48 have fuller chords, as in the recording (and your suggestion)
• The cluster chord in 54 is now written with rectangles instead of the notation I had before.
• 59 now has a crescendoing tremolo.
• I fixed the URL.

I don't know about adding fermatas to the score; there doesn't appear to be any in the song (except maybe at 33, but that notation would be a bit confusing)

I'm pretty happy with the way this turned out, especially considering I'm not an experienced pianist and this is my second piano arrangement ever. If there's no other criticism, I'm going to bring this to the submission page!

-Those pizzicato fills in 2, 4, and 6...they sound like half an octave too high. I think it actually goes C-G-C-G-C, B-G-B-G-B, A-E-A-C-E, respectively.
-The Ab in 22 and 32 should be written as G#, because the underlying harmony is E(m) -> Am, and an E chord is spelled with a G#. Also gets rid of that courtesy natural.
-You can get rid of almost half the measures by writing the whole thing with two volta systems and writing D.C. at the end.
-The Bb in 21 and 31 should be written as A#, since it's a sort of passing tone for a melodic progression that B natural is a part of. (If it's a downward chromatic scale, then it's okay to use Bb, but here it's not)
-I might write the F in 4 with a natural, since it's used very similarly to the F# in 2 (just like what you did in 25).


Very nice!

Well I did it, or at least I tried. Let me know what you think!

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I decided to try out SSBM's Multi-Man Melee 2, as requested by MrKyurem. I don't know if it's any good (and at this tempo, if it's even possible), but it's certainly a good jumping off point. Cheers!

Super Smash Bros. Melee: Multi-Man Melee 2
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(Measure 54 doesn't render properly in Finale for me, but the PDF is okay.)

EDIT: I removed a note from the bass in 12 and 16, added a chord to 27, made some embellishments to 34-39 and brought the right hand up an octave, added a glissando to 56, and a tremolo to 59.

-I think there's an F# under the right-hand A in 7.
-I think the second chord in 8 also contains an Ab.
-I think there's an E under the right-hand G in 9, just like in 1.
-I think the first arpeggiated chord in 15 has an Ab instead of an A.
-I think the last beat of 14 and the first beat of 15 should have have a G and an A, respectively, in the second voice of the right hand.

Other than that, it's pretty spot on!

"Solemnly" isn't exactly how I'd describe the feeling, and it would imply a slow tempo like 60. Perhaps "Maestoso" (or "Majestically" if you want an English term).

I'd add a grace note D to the E in 14.

I'd write the tied note in 15 as a dotted half instead of a half tied into a quarter.

I'm not sure if the F's in the left hand actually change octaves. Could those chords all be just moving fifths?

EDIT: I don't like using slurs to connect two notes of equal pitch because they may look like ties. Rather I'd use tenuto marks.

Perhaps you can include the missing voice in the intro by using the left hand? Just G's, in octaves during 3 and 4, like this: