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Haha, yeah, I love Sibelius. I have actually never used a sequencer in my life, so I'm probably not ever going to produce anythng as high-tech/quality as some of the submissions on here, unless I manage to write something with straight instruments that's good enough. Are there two Wily arrangements for piano here? I knew about Wily's Wedding, but I didn't know there was a second, or that either was live. I could have sworn that a sonata was simply a "played piece", not necessarily in the sonata allergo form... though, in retrospect, that would seem logical. Hmm... looking back, I see what you mean. I was really looking to change up the phrase, but I forgot to check the more global context. I tried to make the piece a bit different, but I'm not very... confident, shall we say, in deviating far from the written when I arrange. I suppose this will grow with time. It does indeed sound a bit mechanical, but I felt that the arpeggios and small-interval runs would be easy enough for an intermediate-advanced player. As for pedal, it seems that I used it in lieu of a phrase marking, or something similar. Thinking about it more, I understand (I haven't played a piano for a while, so I forgot the muddiness that runs can produce). The "tie to nothing" style is adapted from percussion notation: I'm primarily a percussion player/writer, so I tend to use my styles for percussion writing in other types of writing. This is also why I notated the tied eighth notes like so; it's generally easier to see a note or rest on every downbeat for percussion, so I adapted here. I'll fix this for future non-percussive works. I was actually debating with myself whether to use sixteenth rest-eighth-sixteenth notation or sixteenth rest-eighth-eighth notation. I picked the former because of my aforementioned percussion experience. I guess I chose wrong. I'll fix this too. Thanks a ton for your review! It was very helpful. I'll take all of this into consideration for (potential) future works.

Yes, I know that this song has been remixed about fourteen million times. Still, it's great, and even if it's mostly negative, I'd like to have some constructive criticism of an arrangement for solo piano that I wrote. MP3: http://www.mediafire.com/?ymj5jydzrcy Sheet music: http://www.mediafire.com/?wi5jmtyydwn This is only my third arrangement of anything, so please keep that in mind! That said, any helpful comments will be greatly appreciated, both with arrangement and audio. I strove to make this playable as well as aurally pleasing, so if anyone would like to assist me with playability, that would also be greatly appreciated! The piano sound used was the Piano sound from the Sibelius 6 Essentials. Thanks, Glenn