Tbh (and I apologize if I come across as rude--I really think it's just a difference in opinion) I don't want sheet music like that with my name on it. I remember coming to this website when I was fourteen and finding a LOT of arrangements of video game music that were ridiculously difficult, and just getting really frustrated because I thought my ability as a pianist was lacking. In truth, this website has a lot of arrangements (including those that are currently being accepted) that are even now are far too difficult for me to play without spending a lot of time on them, whether because of some strange musicianship or an insistence on including what I consider to be too much of the original music. And I don't mean to come across as arrogant, but I say that as a fairly advanced pianist, or at least one who has a good working knowledge of music, performs a LOT of classical music, and sight reads most pieces with relative ease.
I'd like to be known for creating piano arrangements that are both accurate to the original music and playable within reason. If I arrange something, print it out, and find that I don't want to spend the time it takes to learn it, it's back to the drawing board to make it more accessible. I want to create sheets that I myself would have fun with and have a desire to play. Most of the pianists we get here are going to be nonprofessional musicians, and I'd like my arrangements to be less demanding so that these people can play the music they recognize and love. I find that it's easier to embellish and add to a simple arrangement than simplify an overly difficult one, and I don't want to scare anyone away from my arrangements by making them too involved. I apologize if that comes across as me being lazy, or stubborn--I promise I'm not trying to be either of those things. I just think that there's a place for these sorts of musical demands, and it's not this website. I've been of the opinion for a long time that we need to make a bigger effort to create arrangements that, while not necessarily easier, don't compromise playability for the sake of a technically perfect arrangement.
Don't get me wrong, though--there's a difference between perfection and professionalism. I'd say the majority of criticism from the mods on this site is absolutely great and necessary, and NSM certainly has come a long way since five years ago when I first joined. All of our sheets look incredibly professional, and we've beefed up our library with high quality sheets that are very impressive. I just think sometimes we lean too far on the "perfectly musical" side and forget that the objective is to make a sheet that people will want to play.
I didn't mean to go on a rant there, oops. I really appreciate your feedback, honest. I just run into this sort of thing a lot while submitting sheets and, in the case of my most recent submission (the arrangement of Furio Tigre's theme), accepting the required changes resulted in a sheet that I wasn't comfortable with; it's not my arrangement anymore, but not accepting that means it won't be on the site at all. It's just a weird dilemma.
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Topic: [NDS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations - "Prologue" by Jordan Knapp (Read 1679 times)