Saria's Song from Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Please, take a look at the original.

Here is the sheet music for the arrangement you're importing.

See the dots above and below the notes? That means staccato. You're "writing out" staccato (I use quotes since you're actually just importing), which can be okay, except that you're doing it wrong. There are no thirty-second notes at all in this piece.

You write: S. T, dotted sixteenth followed by thirty-second rest. This is happening where the notes are close to 75% of their value.
You also write: S S, sixteenth followed by sixteenth rest. This is happening where notes are close to 50% of their value.
And on occasion, you also write an eighth note. This happens when the melody is a quarter note, but is getting divided up.

What you really want is:

1. Write eighth notes with staccato in the place of any "S. T" or "S S". Staccato defaults to 50% note value, but you can change that on individual notes if you really want, by clicking the "50%" in Guitar Pro. (I wouldn't, for this.)
2. Use two voices (press ctrl-1 and ctrl-2). Let the first voice (melody) have its quarter notes, dotted halves, and so on.

And later on:

3. Thirty-second followed by thirty-second rest should simply be staccato sixteenth notes.
4. Dotted sixteenth followed by dotted half note rest followed by 32nd rest (ugh!) should be a quarter note.

There are exceptions to this rule, but if you have dotted sixteenth notes, you're usually doing something wrong.

You can do a good job of this if you work some more on it. As it is, I would get rid of the PDF and delete all the note values (durations) from the text file, if you wanted it to be readable, as they're just confusing rather than helpful.

diralark

Joined: Dec 10 2009

Well I merged 2 tracks using Finale sofware then it creates 2 seperate voices. After that I exported by XML file to Guitar Pro. It was easy, xml format rocks with staccato notation (midi file doesnt), it sounds good like that & this is easy to play . Btw staccato doesnt appears on ASCII export. Thank u for help, I need work this big & interesting sofware called Finale, seems very complex for a non musician but it can show me what I need to learn :-p

here's the fixed notation & tab :

Saria's Song - Legend of Zelda : Ocarina of Time

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Joined: Dec 15 2021

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