[GCN] Kirby Air Ride - "Light" by mastersuperfan

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Submission Information:
Series: Kirby
Game: Kirby Air Ride
Console: Nintendo GameCube
Title: Light
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: mastersuperfan

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[mastersuperfan]

I made some adjustments in translating things over to piano, including the following:
- I lowered the RH an octave and raised the LH an octave on the first page so that the chords would sound better in the middle register (rather than too high/too low).
- I changed the pickup pattern from a sextuplet into a 5-tuplet for ease of playing.
- While m29 and m31 have whole-note Layer 2 chords, I used a single layer and a quarter-note chord in m27 because I didn't think pedal usage would sound good in m27 compared to m29/31.
- I'm not totally sure whether there is actually an Eb in m38 RH and a Bb in m39 RH in the original, but I added them anyway in because I thought the chords sounded better with them.

[Static]

I don't really have much to say here, your adjustments make sense. As for m38 and 39, the Eb and Bb do in fact exist.

The one thing I would change here is to make m24 LH beat 3 a dotted 8th note followed by a 16th note A tied to the first A in the quintuplet. I think it sounds closer to the original, especially since that little flourish doesn't really start on beat 4.

[mastersuperfan]

Edited m24 LH so that the pentuplet is instead a sextuplet with the first note tied over from beat 3.

[Static]

Looks nice

[Latios212]

I really like how you kept it very playable, especially how you wrote the pickup and m. 24

Just a few tiny things to add:
- Looks like your staccatos (in m. 9 and similar, where there are two layers) are centered a bit left in the PDF export - not sure if this is the export's fault or it looks like that in your Finale file too
- Inconsistent tie direction between m. 20/21
- I think the tie between m. 23-24 might be better flipped downwards?
- It'd be good to have a dynamic in m. 37 to indicate how quiet to get during this part.
- Eighth rest in m. 31 move up a tad?

Nice work!

[mastersuperfan]

- Looks like your staccatos (in m. 9 and similar, where there are two layers) are centered a bit left in the PDF export - not sure if this is the export's fault or it looks like that in your Finale file too

Huh, is it not supposed to be like that? I always thought that staccatos should be centered over the stem if they're closer to the stem than the notehead, and Finale does it that way by default.

All other changes have been made.

[Latios212]

I'm pretty sure it's a v26 default, as I'm think I never started seeing that on my or anyone's sheets until recently, on some sheets made with v26.

Anyway, I looked this up in The Book™, and here's what it says:

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I still think that centering around noteheads seems most natural (and consistent with everything we have on site), but since both are okay I guess I'll leave it up to you. Let me know and I'll accept.

[mastersuperfan]

IMO centering around stems is easier to read and looks more natural, so I think I'd rather keep it as is.

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This submission has been accepted by Latios212.

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