[Wii] Xenoblade Chronicles - "Main Theme" by Oronoco

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Submission Information:
Series: Other
Game: Xenoblade Chronicles
Console: Nintendo Wii
Title: Main Theme
Instrumentation Solo Piano
Arranger: Oronoco

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[Oronoco]

Such a simple, yet powerful piece. I hope I can do it justice, but I certainly can with help.

The stubborn "3"'s really plague the bottom of my PDF pages (not just this file). Is that something I can easily fix?

[Latios212]

I've really gotten to know this piece over the past few days while trying to play it. Looking at a couple of other solo piano renditions on YouTube, you do a better job at including all the voices. In those other arrangements the piano part sounds great but the strings melody is either sidelined or just lost entirely - and you preserve them very well. Lowering the piano part an octave to make room for that in many parts makes it sound darker and more powerful. I love it.

Oh yeah, right, things to change/fix. In the section beginning with 33, flip the ties on the bottom layer so they curve downwards, and fix the LH rhythm in 39-40. That's all I can spot right now As for the random 3s on the page, I had that problem with a couple of sheets too, so I exported to an external program (PDFCreator) and it worked just fine.

Oh yeah, and the D in the second to last measure: maybe keep it on top staff so it's visually tied to the D in the last measure.

[Oronoco]

All right! I really appreciate that you've taken the time to test it out. It makes your feedback so valuable. Make sure I did everything right!

I kept the middle D in the next to last measure in the bass clef. I like the way the four-note idea in the RH lingers like an unresolved thought, so I think it's important that the LH begins a new thought (starting on the middle D) that doesn't necessarily answer the RH, leaving an open question (on that open 5th, too!).

I changed it up a bit, but I think it's clearest to keep the D in the bass clef. See what you think, though.

[Latios212]

I like the way the four-note idea in the RH lingers like an unresolved thought, so I think it's important that the LH begins a new thought (starting on the middle D) that doesn't necessarily answer the RH, leaving an open question (on that open 5th, too!).

Oh that's fine! I think I just got confused because the slur looked like a tie. But yeah that was my fault for reading it wrong.

Aside from that... everything seems perfectly clear and sounds great when I play it! Though, is there any particular reason you don't use dotted halves in 27 and 31 or dotted quarters in 37 (RH) and 39-40 (beat 1 LH)?

This sheet is just so much fun to play.

[Oronoco]

Aside from that... everything seems perfectly clear and sounds great when I play it! Though, is there any particular reason you don't use dotted halves in 27 and 31 or dotted quarters in 37 (RH) and 39-40 (beat 1 LH)?

Nope. I was definitely just tie-happy. ) It should be better now.

That's so great that it's fun to play!

[Zeta]

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