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As of right now, the forums seem fine on my end.

EDIT: Alright, I hit a similar rough patch for several minutes until just now.

Yep. It was about 100 cents out of tune

100 cents flat or 100 cents sharp? I've read that one tuning that people generally accept was used during the Baroque period is A415, which sounds roughly 1 semitone (i.e. 100 cents) flat compared to standard ol' A440 (Hz).

I'd like to learn the whole thing, but the first movement is the one that really captures my attention.
As is often the case with Schumann, I can't justify learning a whole set of pieces when only two or three stand out, and the rest is mostly musical rambling.

Schumann's prone to musical rambling no matter your definition of "musical rambling": several of his pieces are associated with "Eusebius" (slower, dreamier, more introspective) and/or "Florestan" (faster, more extroverted, more impetuous, more passionate). Yes, and/or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasiest%C3%BCcke,_Op._12 contains an analysis of of Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 with some of the pieces tagged as both "Eusebius" and "Florestan".

Unfortunately, I'm a pretty big fan of "Florestan" music and am generally turned off by "Eusebius" music (although the "Florestan" sections of "Eusebius and Florestan" pieces generally redeem them in my ears). Probably my favourite "Eusebius" music (such as Liszt's Transcendental Etude No. 6 in G Minor and instrumental versions of Wagner's Pilgerchor) are ones with long melody notes and a very busy accompaniment (you can argue that the accompaniment provides "Florestan").

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Getting back on topic, Stephen Chatman's "Spring Celebration" was one of the etudes I had to play for piano exams when I was younger, and I think I've gotten a lot better at it since. It sounds pretty cool for a song with tons of accidentals, a blurry sense of key, and a vague C tonic. The below video does not do this song justice, IMO:

I personally play it with a strong progressive rock influence--snappier chords, stronger accents, and more aggressive drive.

Schumann's Kreisleriana took up my morning today. I might learn the first movement of that..

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I haven't learned the Kreisleriana yet, but IMO, Movements 1, 3, 5, 7, and 8 sound pretty cool. ...Except for Movements 1 & 3's middle sections and the end of Movement 7. (Yeah, I'm not a fan of slow music, although Movement 2 isn't bad for being that slow...)

Granted--your parents convince you to get a summer job for the month.

I wish I could listen to music and immediately figure out all chords used in them in order with 100% accuracy. (Despite having absolute (a.k.a. "perfect") pitch, I'm nowhere near being that good yet.)

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I don't know if it's the "official" way to do to it, but as far as I'm concerned if the tonic chord is minor (third lowered) then the key signature is minor.

I agree nearly all the time, but I have heard of some pretty corner cases:

Mario Circuit, Mario Kart Double Dash

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If the song fluctuates between a minor and major tonic chord, I generally listen for which chord dominates in cadences. In this case, I go with C major.

Wicked Thing, Bravely Default

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Until 0:45-0:55 (which is in B minor), the song sounds like it's constantly soloing on the dominant (V chord) of C# minor. You can make some good arguments that the tonic chord is actually a G# major chord and that the true scale used is Phrygian dominant-like. Despite that, I'd assign most of the song a C# minor key signature.

Arena Theme, Kirby Super Star

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For the longest time, I was convinced that the song was in A minor (probably because of the strong use of chords associated with A minor). However, once I started playing it on piano, I was playing far too many A major chords. I'm not sure whether I should use an A major, A minor, or even D minor key signature.

Contrast: True Arena Theme, Kirby Super Star Ultra

In contrast, the True Arena theme from Kirby Super Star Ultra is firmly in A minor, despite being clearly based on the Arena theme above. ...Though perhaps sharing a soundfont and rhythmic motives with Galacta Knight's theme pushes the True Arena theme towards A minor.

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Halberd is completed :3

"Halberd"
MIDI | MUS | MUSX | PDF | Youtube

I don't really know what to do about some of the ledger lines, and ik m19-26 are actually different the 2nd time, but I had it repeat for playability reasons and also to save space. There are other spots that are questionable, but if they're okay then great! If not, then I can take out some of the notes. Also, some enharmonic spellings are probably off

On the PDF's author, the Halberd's theme was composed by Jun Ishikawa and Dan Miyakawa (the composers who worked on Kirby Super Star, which is where the theme originally came from), not Tomoya Tomita. This version is arranged by Tomoya Tomita, though.

I'll claim all 3 battle themes pertaining to Team Galactic (Grunt, Commander, and Boss). Also, even though it's unlisted, I'll try my hand at Giratina Battle.

Wondering how you'll treat the polytonality (B major on top of probably C minor/G Phrygian) in Giratina's theme--you'll probably stick to one key signature for both staves throughout (i.e. not B major on top and C minor on the bottom), right?

(The song is predominantly in C minor/Phrygian, so at least key signatures will be fairly sane...)

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The oldest Request thread with zero replies (as of today) is from May 29, 2008. Here's a quote of its OP:

If I can make a request here, I'd like to see either Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light Medley or perhaps Pictochat.

Pictochat completed by GzGregory

You could be waiting for years until somebody notices.

Corners of the website are poorly cross-referenced: http://forum.ninsheetmusic.org/index.php?topic=4849 requests "Taking Over the Halberd" from Kirby Super Star despite the song already showing up on the website as "Halfmoon" here. Admittedly, the current arrangement on the website is pretty flawed.

If you like music that is from video games, I've made an arrangement of Necrodeus and his Skull Gang's themes! It's called Skull Ganged Up On, and you can listen to it here.

EDIT: If you like heavy corruptions of music that isn't from video games, I arranged Rossini's La Danza into sonata-allegro form a long time ago, called it La Sonata Danza, and published it today here. Thing is, it's now in E minor instead of A minor...and it's impossible to play for solo piano.

What time signature and key signature is this in? I'm creating an arrangement of this for a standard orchestra.

I think its E flat Major (my favorite key signature ever)

I third E flat major and second 4/4, although it definitely adds more flats to the key at times, and it's also syncopated.

Starting at 2:23, it really sounds like Ridley's theme if it were treated like Dark Meta Knight's theme.

Banned for not abbreviating "Humble" as "H".

I'm also interested in participating in the arrangement contest (more likely solo than collab).

...Though I'm probably not voting for BOSSA NOVA (don't know enough bossa nova music) or GIVE IT LYRICS (I gave up on completing lyrics for my first song in verse-chorus form).

Wondering how much of each rule set you'll give in the polls (e.g. the description of THEME + VARIATIONS as "Write a theme and variations on a VGM piece", "Write a...VGM piece--we will specify the VGM piece and desired instrumentation at the start of the contest", "Write a...VGM piece--each entrant specifies the VGM piece s/he will base his/her arrangement on and provides a Youtube link of the original", or whatever else).

I published my first slow drag today--D-Reamy D-Rag, which you can listen to and view here!

EDIT: I guess I may as well mention that I've written a piece for an instrument other than the piano: the trumpet. Beware: as this is an exercise to improve trumpet embouchure, and trumpet players should play it without changing their fingering at all, it basically has only trumpet C's, E's, and G's in it.