Mmella's arrangements (Pokemon GSC Trainer Battle)

[Mmella]

Let me tell you, this was a pain.
I know people have wanted this one.
Hope you like it.

PDF
http://www.scribd.com/doc/53125002/GSC-Trainer-Battle

MIDI
http://www.mediafire.com/?sa0apq3p0s9kn5y

XML
http://www.mediafire.com/?j33gptnnu7z7z32

[JDMEK5]

Welcome! 

First let me tell you this looks great.

Second, do you have a music program of any kind?
If not, I'd suggest one of the finale products as it will be easiest to submit around here.
If so, which one, and I need the site address.

Third, I'd suggest you change the name of this topic to Mmella's Arrangements (or something like that).
Go look around other people's topics and learn how to do things.

I'm not trying to be critically mean or anything, these are just a few good suggestions.

Good luck! (and happy to get first reply )

[Mmella]

I'm new to the forums, so some advice will be appreciated.
For this piece, I used http://www.noteflight.com/ and just made the file a PDF.
I really like this program because it's not cluttered with hundreds of near useless options, plus it's extremely easy to use, with it's note dragging capabilites.
I may get Finale notepad sometime in the future.

Thank you for liking the composition.
I felt I needed to contribute since I've been greedily using NSM for a while.

[JDMEK5]

Noteflight wouldn't be able to make midis or musicxmls would it?

[Mmella]

It certainly does.
I'm adding them on the thread now.

[Olimar12345]

hmmm... its to hard for a solo, but its not a duet... what do u wanna do with this?

[JDMEK5]

This looks great. A very simple solution to olimar's point is to combine both of the treble clef staves after measure 2.
Then it's as easy as most battle themes out there. It would be great to see these on the site.

Just to let you know, (I learned this very recently) you can make just certain letters a link, just like this.
What you do, is copy your address or url, type [*url=ADDRESS OR URL here]TEXT here[/url].
Do that, and it'll end up like mine. It's just a simple solution to those freakin' long address lines that I hate so much.

(This symbol {*} is only there so you can see the layout and the code doesn't kick in, so don't use it in the code)

[Shadoninja]

1) it needs a key signature
2) one staff for the right hand. find a way to combine the treble clefs
3) beginning 16th note run needs an 8va

[Olimar12345]

also there is a time change missing...
and its at the top of the 7th page.

[Mmella]

1) it needs a key signature
2) one staff for the right hand. find a way to combine the treble clefs
3) beginning 16th note run needs an 8va

I already took all these things into consideration quite a while ago.
1) The piece itself has way too many accidentals that are both Flat and Sharp. This greatly reduces confusion.
2) I purposely seperated the part in treble. My original was all together and it was incredibly cluttered and impossible for two hands. I intended this as the game replica, not as a piano sheet.
This also makes it much simpler and usable for other instrumentalists.
3)I wanted to avoid using 8va because the piece fluctuates so much, but I may do it for the beginning as a later replacement, but now I'm busy orchestrating music.

[Mmella]

hmmm... its to hard for a solo, but its not a duet... what do u wanna do with this?

Depends on your definition of "hard."
Look at Flight of the Bumblebee.
Way faster and way more complicated, and yet people can still play it.

[Olimar12345]

yeah, but i meant for reading-i dont like sight reading 3 staves on piano. if each staff is played with each hand, which hand would you play the 3rd staff with?
...and flight of the bumblebee is written in two staves when written out for piano...

shado is right tho-combining the staves would fix ur piece.

[Mmella]

yeah, but i meant for reading-i dont like sight reading 3 staves on piano. if each staff is played with each hand, which hand would you play the 3rd staff with?
...and flight of the bumblebee is written in two staves when written out for piano...

shado is right tho-combining the staves would fix ur piece.

Like I said, It's impossible to play as one person unless you change it a bit, making it less accurate.
I made this to replicate the original, not as a Piano piece.

[JDMEK5]

Well, that's fine, but if you want this to make it onto the site, (which I think it should) you're gonna have to change it and..
#1 - Make it possible.
#2 - Combine the staves.
#3 - Use a key signature to significantly cut down on your accidental problem.
#4 - Make an 8va at the beginning like shado said.
#5 - Put in that time change at the 7th measure. (like olimar said)
These are just things you'll have to do before this is good for submission.
If you want to keep an orchestral version, that's just fine and dandy, but if you want this on the site, you'll have to go through this.
Again, were not trying to sound mean or anything, but show you what you need to do before this is clean enough.
(It's definitely accurate enough!)

[Olimar12345]

I made this to replicate the original, not as a Piano piece.

wow, um-do u know that the whole point of our site is to make sheet music for piano? sometimes that means editing it to be playable-but if ur good at it, u can still make it recognizable. thats where the "arranged" in the "arranged by _____" comes from.



here's a good way to combine them: