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kentaku_sama
May 3rd, 2011, 06:34 pm
I transcribed the 9th opening of naruto shippuuden: lovers for piano with video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UTtZnpxXbY
It sounds good and some people have wanted the music but I took it my piano teacher to play it and she said it's not that difficult to play but reading it is difficult. It's not that the score itself is sloppy but it's the way I've notated my sheets which makes them hard to read. Anyone have any tips on making my sheets easier to read?

Nyu001
May 3rd, 2011, 06:44 pm
Maybe we can help you with suggestions if you show us the sheet music here?

brncao
May 4th, 2011, 09:56 pm
What Nyu said. By "read" you mean "sight-read"? I'll just shoot in the dark and say it probably has something to do with accidentals. People who are arranging for the first time usually think D# and Eb are the samething in notation, which is not. This is generally what sight-readers complain most about when a first time arranger hands them his arrangement.

The other one has something to do with syncopations. If you make it look complex for the sight-reader to count note durations, then that's a problem.

Taemond
May 6th, 2011, 04:30 pm
Sometimes changing the time signature may help. Say there's many composite time patterns (such as triplets), so you put the piece in 6/8. The next section may include more even patterns and rhythms making it messy to fit into 6/8, it may result in some oddly placed slurs and notes been held over bars and ending at awkward times. It would be worth to try, keeping with the example, putting the piece in 2/4 and just use triplets for the first section, that way the more common time second section fits in with the even time.

This is just an example but I hope its easy to follow. Posting your transcribed sheet music would help a lot. :)