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Nice catch, fixed.

Oops, fixed.

The only other comment I have is that the tempo increase is so minor in the first place that I don't think it's worth putting a new tempo marking for. Ultimately, a pianist isn't going to play q=77 vs. q=80 (or q=74 vs. q=76) noticeably differently (especially since this sheet has a lot of potential for expressive rubato), so I think it'd be better to use a more informative expressive direction (or none at all, since an increase in dynamics and in harmony makes it clear that there's a mood shift here, and the pianist is likely to capitalize on that instinctively). Adding the second tempo marking just invites the player to get hung up on unnecessary details.

Yes, you're right. I think a new specific tempo marking is overkill here, so I've replaced it with a 'poco agitato' which is probably more appropriate.

Strange—I'm consistently getting q=74 in the first half and q=76 in the final section (again, ignoring any ritenutos). Maybe it's a discrepancy between the tempo measurers we're using? (I use this one.) Maybe another person could check and see what they get. In any case, though, it's not an issue worth dwelling much on.

I put markers down on the waveform in transcribe and get an average from that, which is much less error prone than tempo tappers I think.

- I'm getting a tempo of q=74 instead of q=77 (excluding ritardandos).

Definitely 77, although in checking it I noticed that it speeds up very slightly in the final section to 80.

- It looks strange for the "poco rit." and "rit." to be between the staves and then "a tempo" to be above the staves in the following measures. For consistency, I think it'd be better for both of them to be above the staves.

That's what I do on all of my sheets.  The way I see it is as a distinction between temporary changes and persisting changes.

Other stuff should be fixed and new files are up.

Sure, files updated.

Sorry that it's been a while.  I've been very busy in the past few months and haven't had much time for arranging of my own.

Beloved One: [Musx] [Pdf] [Midi] [Mus]
End of Despair: [Musx] [Pdf] [Midi] [Mus]

I assume you're referring to hyphen versus colon, and I just took them from Serenes forest which has them all with hyphens.  The other things you mentioned should be fixed now.

That's odd, I find myself compulsively checking the forums more often than discord.

It was a mistake, that has now been fixed.  Thanks!

Looks good to me.

I opened it with Finale 2012 and they came out funny... Maybe I can clean these up for you tomorrow. I'm not sure why they're not behaving... but if they came out funny for me too I suspect they might do the same for the general public. Worth a try, maybe just running the clean myself will magically fix it. If not, oh well I guess. As long as the PDF looks clean then that'll be alright imo.

It's v26 and I'll fix at some point as always.  No need to worry about it.


While I'm here though I might as well add some things:

-Why does it say 'a tempo' in the first bar?
-I think there's an extra An in the run at the end of bar 16 (so it should start a semiquaver earlier as well).
-About the rhythm on the second layer in bar 2/6: I hear it as the dotted quaver semiquaver.
-Second bass note in 29 sounds like an Ab to me (like in 21).
-The second bass note in 37 sounds like a Dn to me, although that's probably too large a stretch for the left hand to have as is.
-The bass notes in 38 sound like Ebs to me.
-I feel like the 'march-like' section (41-56) isn't currently very ... march-like.  I think it could do with more bass and being a bit more bombastic, if you will.  The left hand at the moment isn't very pianistic for one thing, but it's also quite weak in a lot of places.  Maybe you could try swapping the offbeat chords in the right hand and the countermelody in the left hand, perhaps with octaves for the bass notes?  You might have to adjust some harmonies in the right hand.  I think that the end result will give you a sound that's much more reflective of the original, and potentially more fun to play as well.  Let me know what you think about this suggestion anyway since I think it's very worth considering.

Thanks for checking!

- I'd put courtesy Eb's in the LH in m23 and m49.

I'd prefer not to add courtesy accidentals there because its a really simple descending chromatic pattern that's copied from the previous 16 bars.  I only really add courtesies when I think it's particularly confusing and this isn't really.

- Perhaps add arpeggio markings to the octaves in the last measure?

Nice catch; I have no idea why they weren't there.  Fixed.

- This might be a little more stylistic/mood-based, but I think a "poco rit." in the third-to-last measure might be nice. It's fine either way, though. I would suggest putting the "poco rit." in the last measure if I could, but there's not really space for it there.

Hmm.  I'm not sure I hear much of a rit in bar 57...  For the final bar I think it's at least a little implied already by the rest and I don't many people are going to play that ending without loosening the tempo up anyway.  I think it's fine left as it is personally, and as you say it'd make that final bar really cramped with stuff.

[Just sneaking my approval in here.]