"Battle! (Gym Leader)" Piano Arrangement | Pokémon Scarlet & Violet

An arrangement of the gym leader battle theme from the videogames Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

This was actually the first piece of music from ScVi that I started arranging when the game was released. However I only completed this now because of how intricate the majority of the piece is. Many layered and discrete melodic lines everywhere make it hard to carry over to two hands. So this arrangement is naturally pretty difficult! Have a go at it, if you DAREEE~

This sheet includes a little bit of aleatoric-ness because I notated multiple transition points between the different sections, as I wanted to mirror it to how it works in-game. In short, this theme has 4 main looping sections where a transition bar into the next section is triggered when the next pokemon in the gym leader's team faints.

That being said, there are differences between what I wrote down and the actual game triggers because I didn't think they sounded very natural. This was rather difficult because every rip I found of the music online loops at the end of the ripped audio file, which means there's no definitive list of every transition point, and sometimes the loops happen in the middle of the audio file, meaning it gets lost in these uploads (see phase IV, where I only found out while editing that the 4-bar melody repeats four times instead of two).

Original composition team for Pokemon Scarlet/Violet:
Minako Adachi, Junichi Masuda, Go Ichinose, Hiromitsu Maeba, Hitomi Sato, Teruo Taniguchi, Toby Fox
This piece was composed by Minako Adachi and Junichi Masuda.

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Sheets (pdf): https://www.dropbox.com/s/fhavd1bpxm3...
MIDI: https://www.dropbox.com/s/36y9lx9a1q8...
[EDIT: 21/3/22 - m24: 8vb shifted left to show the dotted line; m93 & 94: changed Fb to E.]
[EDIT 2: 29/2/24: updated to fit composer credits as in album release.]

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