An appeal was requested and the file was looked over by TC_Halogen, here are his notes:

-[0:08.520] These missing notes are weird, should probably be included since they feel part of the main melody happening here, even though another instrument is involved and being actively omitted here.

I do feel like the intro is a little bit on the strange side personally; it feels a little odd with percussion being a bit more actively filled out and then kinda dwindling away briefly only to return with a buildup.

-[1:00.552] Main reason this file’s getting shot to CQ is for the 32nds throughout this song. They’re not ‘inherently wrong’ in their approach, but they are flawed in a sense that they could use a lot more BPM/colorization control for these patterns. Generally with these sort of patterns, there’s some level of control in pitch with what’s stepped to emphasize what’s happening here, but that doesn’t happen if all of it is 32nds. It happens throughout the file at locations like [1:19.770] & [1:28.677] but it is noticeably absent during 32nds. This is mostly the only knick on the file, but it’s pretty vast throughout the file so it’s CQ because of it.

-Commence example dump of locations: [01:03.833], [01:07.583], [01:11.333], [01:15.552], [01:16.489], [01:20.239], [01:23.989], [02:07.114], [02:22.114].

-CQ. If above note is looked at/fixed, then good to go. Don’t really care how it’s handled as long as similar patterning is used for the section & attention to pitch/usage of note-to-emphasis is followed.

Here’s the issue that I’ve got with this note -- when you listen to the bass wobbles and growls that are presented with the corresponding patterns, you’ve got a consistent application that exists from start to finish. The rising/falling of bass is always 32nds, with a generally forward moving pattern that very smoothly transitions to a generally backward moving pattern -- while the choppier dropping bass wobble is accented with descending triplet patterns to correspond to a lowering in overall pitch (343 -> 232 for first two instances, 323 -> 212 for next two instances, etc). Instances of extended synths accented with 32nds are utilizing similar pattern contours each beat to indicate repetition (1:16.489, 1:20.239, 1:23.989, etc).

This patterning breaks apart a *little* bit near the end, but nowhere near enough to indicate that there’s not any sort of deliberate intent. Colorization is an artistic choice that can add a stylistic flair which can easily be ignored -- however, the idea of changing BPM is also not necessary in this file either: this chart lets patterning convey the structure here and it’s pretty noticeable in a lot of the structure. I’m recommending this being moved from CQ to light accept.