[NES] Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light - "Story 2: Each Map's Beginning" by Kricket

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Submission Information:
Series: Fire Emblem
Game: Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light
Console: Nintendo Entertainment System
Title: Story 2: Each Map's Beginning
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: Kricketune54

[Kricketune54]

Some might know this as the Fire Emblem Premium Arrange album's first track, or the Shadow Dragon Medley from Brawl. That's how I know it at least

Few things I wanted to note

• m9-12 I simplified the LH, the original part has 16th notes instead of 8th notes/tied 16ths on 1.0, 1.75, 3.0, and 3.75.
• m13-20 seemed impossible for melody and harmony to be played by a single hand, so I went with the structure I did of playing the held pitch at 1.0 as an 8th note, and then moving quickly to play the harmony.
• At m16 I am open to removing the parentheses if they are confusing on 3.0 and 3.25, as there is no way to play both the upper staff and lower with your LH. The idea was to use the RH for those 2 notes and to have the LH quickly jump down to play the An on 3.0

[Fantastic Ike]

Glad to see this getting a submission! I'd actually arranged the song myself before, but apparently I was missing an entire section? Good to see though.

[Kricketune54]

Glad to see this getting a submission! I'd actually arranged the song myself before, but apparently I was missing an entire section? Good to see though.

Did you post it? I don't see it in your thread

[Fantastic Ike]

I did actually post it a couple years ago here:

Though like I said, your version looks better lol

[Whoppybones]

Hey! Worth noting (as far as requests go) that while this song is featured in the SSBB medley, it isn't the entire medley. (Probably only I care about this in relation to requests, lol).

Seems fairly accurate. My thought on the parentheses is that when I see parentheses I think "courtesy accidentals" or, on occasion, "note in both staves". Idk site norms, but my personal preference would probably be to do a small notehead instead, as in my mind that implies more of "optional notes" than the parentheses do.

I also wanted to ask about m17-20. I noticed you opted to leave the harmony out there and just go for the octaves in both hands. I'm assuming that was for simplicity's/playability's sake? And if so, I'm curious to your reasoning behind the octaves instead of the harmony.

Probably I have no other feedback though. Good sheet.