(posted for Pizza69)

WIND SAMBALAND
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- Permissions, sync, metadata good.

- 11.995: Emphasis feels backwards here with the jumptrill for the 16ths and nothing to mark the 32nds.
- 12.348-23.642: I feel like highlighting the bloops you follow more explicitly with patterning would really go a long way if you want to keep your current layering scheme--yes, the little bloops you follow are more prominent than the ones you don't, but the song feels much more consistent than the chart and from a player perspective it seems like you just picked random notes to follow, because the patterning does not reflect and isolate those bloops. Similar note at 115.583.
- 25.406: Unclear patterning, recommend using different jumps for clap and piano.
- 37.053: The anchor starting here is to highlight the piano, yes? If so it should start on the next 8th. Something along these lines: https://i.imgur.com/yfRKhM9.png
- 48.348-70.230: Again, I see what you're doing by fading the 16th melody in and out of the chart depending on whether the piano's going, but I don't agree with it because the melody itself does not fade in and out of the song and the piano is not *that* dominant.
- 74.112: Why is this patterning so much more aggressive than 71.289?
- 75.877-80.818: Surprised to see the melody so little acknowledged--you do follow it when it's on a 16th with nothing else, but in places like 79.406 it feels a bit conspicuously missing, especially compared to 87.171 where you do follow it.
- 85.848, 86.201, etc.: After placing so much focus on the piano prior to this, I'm surprised to see no acknowledgement here (via a jump probably, since minijacks wouldn't fit thematically with the rest of the file).
- 105.877: OHT is weird PR for this and doesn't really fit the sound imo.
- 115.053, 126.347: Nothing wrong with these, but it could be cool to use more similar patterning in these two places. My go-to would be 24th streams for each but whatever floats your boat.

- I feel like this chart could generally be much more effective if it separated patterns by instrument a bit more. Things often feel rather arbitrarily done in terms of emphasis. There are places like 25.406 where neither the clap nor the piano is demarcated by a jack, places like 38.112 where both are, and places like 37.053 where it's really just not clear what the anchors are for because they go to different instruments and overlap where they shouldn't.
- Definitely a technically competent chart, but a lot of the patterning and layering decisions could be a bit clearer. [7/10]

(gold stinger notes)

WIND SAMBALAND (Ghost_Medley) [6.5/10]
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-[00:11.907] Should be a [34] 16th jump here instead of the following 16th, as ‘whistle’ instrument still exists here, and that gets jump priority.

-[00:12.877] From my understanding, what happened here is essentially a reduction of difficulty from the song since it follows constant 16ths, but in this 16th run, it’s missing the 8th here yet is not immediately noticeable when placing notes at 50% speed. Similar situation happens at 00:14.289, 00:15.701 and other locations that have the same 16th run.

-[00:41.642] In this burst, there’s a conflict of jump-to-instrument where the 4th single doesn’t get the jump because another instrument takes priority, but then there’s a hard swap to the whistle getting the jumps at the next 4th @ 00:41.995, mid-jumptrill which doesn’t particularly work given it’s two different instruments making the jumptrill. Overall, the section plays awkwardly as a result, and is going to become a common theme throughout the file since there’s hard cuts between one instrument and another involving the same pattern multiple times in the file.

-[00:49.054 / 00:52.230 / 00:54.701 etc.] Hard cut from piano to drums.

-[00:56.113] Also, not entirely understanding the theory behind the 16th singles layering here? They stop seemingly randomly at 00:56.113 for the measure change but musically these continue. If it’s for difficulty reduction, it really should accompany the entire area in which 16ths are present rather than abruptly stopping at a change of the measure.

-[01:00.348] This is fine imo since colour theory has a say in these kinds of abrupt changes.

-[01:03.348 / 01:08.818] Shouldn’t be colorized.

-[01:11.641] You’ve set a precedent for the first-half of the file by affirming jumps to whistles, and then this section throws previous file structure out the window to assert hands as cymbal crashes.

-[01:12.877 / 01:15.701] Cymbal crash on 8th but gets single note treatment. Should at least be a hand.

-[01:39.083 / 01:40.495] Missing 16ths (paired with 01:39.789 / 01:41.201)

-[01:45.524] Correct layering of jumps in the first-half of the file.

-[01:55.936 etc.] More of the same 16ths from the beginning of the file that should be included.

-Overall, the file as-is, is quite confusing to follow & play due to hard cuts/transitions between instruments that are utilizing the same pattern/jumptrill, as well as the abrupt structural change mid-way through the file encompassing hands for cymbal crashes that is not used anywhere else in the file. Some minor 16th issues elsewhere, but the pattern confusion is what’s doing it in for me.

-Looking at my score vs. Pizza's score, my judgment alone would put it in slight reject, so I'm going to move this to 'Fixes Required' instead with the goal of fixing the un-timestamped note at the bottom of both of our notes since we seem to be in agreement on the thing that's holding this file back.

This plays much better now and satisfies the CQ reason. Pushing this to accepted.