Anastasia - Once Upon a December

[tiago3m]

Helloo, I'd love to hear your opinion on my interpretation. It's a piano transcription from Sthephen Flaherty's Once Upon a December from Anastasia's soundtrack

Hope you enjoy

[perfect_pitch]

In terms of your arrangement - very, very nice.

In terms of your performances - just be careful that at ALL time, your right hand melody isn't drowned out by the left hand accompaniment. Also, sometimes your left hand semiquavers become rushed during the bar and it makes them sound slightly sloppy. I starts to happen at about 0:43 onwards, and I think the only reason it happens is because you then have to get to the bass note straight afterwards.

Do you have any intention of posting the sheet music? Would love to give this a play!!!    

[mikomasr]

I have no comment to make except that it's BRILLIANT! I too hope you'll one day share the sheet!

[mikomasr]

Actually, a couple of comments:
Once you share the sheet with us ( ) and I can play it, I'll add an F between the E and the F# at 00:30 (in your recording).

Also, at 1:15 and 1:25, maybe it's just me but there's something in the left hand (I THINK it's the left hand!) that bothers me: the A followed by a C one octave below. To me it would have sounded more "right" to lower the first note by half a tone, with  G#-C instead of A-C, and it would have echoed the right-hand C-F that comes just a split second before.

And at 2:19, after C#, I really feel like adding an E flat just above ).

PS: Please don't take my comments as criticism, I know NOTHING about transcribing techniques, I'm just describing what I experience when listening to you, and I wonder why I hear something 'odd' at 1:16 and 1:27, maybe you know the reason...

PS2 : I'm French so I'm not really used to using letters to refer to keys, hope I got it right...

[tiago3m]

Thanks for all your kind comments, I have to state however that I didn't made the transcription, I just found it online...

I play the piano and enjoy composing, but I never really tried to transcribe anything. I don't know who made this transcription, maybe it's from the piece's composer himself -  Stephen Flaherty. I heartly agree with the comments regarding 1:15 - 1:27,  however I think the problem lays more in how I played it... but your idea is a very good one.