Stardew Valley Piano Collections - Sheet Music from the game Paperback – January 1, 2018

This book has beautiful art and is a lovely one to enjoy!I'm a piano teacher, and I was enjoying the music my student brought it, so I bought this book to facilitate online lessons where we look at songs from her favorite video game. The music is so pretty, but rather hard to play.

The music is excellent. It’s on point, and it translates the music from the game into concert-worthy piano. That being said, there are 22 songs in the book, and maybe 2 of them are anywhere close to adult beginner level. You need to be at an advanced level to accurately play the vast majority of these songs, as they have large jumps with very little time between them, and make use of ledger lines with wild abandon. The music is wonderful, though. If you’re looking for something rewarding to work on, you’ve come to the right place.

The music is perfect. Delivered fast!

This is a nice collection of piano sheet music for almost all the music in Stardew Valley. The arrangements SOUND great. However, I had many frustrations with the notation of the arrangements. Not only is the print size smaller, but these arrangements are notated in strange ways that make them needlessly difficult and frustrating to play.For example, many of the arrangements have high or low octave notes that are notated on a ridiculous number of ledger lines instead of using the traditional 8va or 8vb symbols that make those types of notes much easier to read. There are also some instances where the right and left hands are playing different notes on the same staff with the other staff empty. Why not just use the other staff to have those other notes (two treble or two bass clefs), like you traditionally see? Lastly, there are MANY embellishes and flourishes such as complex trills, crossovers, or glissandos that while not displeasing to the ear, don't hold up well in the way they were notated.Because of all these strange notation decisions, a relatively simple soundtrack becomes needlessly challenging. It would actually be easier to listen to the arrangements and learn them by ear than read the notation, and that is saying something. I would definitely rate these arrangements as advanced, and even then you will likely need to practice them a bit due to the odd notation.

if you actually want to play this music on the piano, you have to have a few skills beyond simply playing the instrument, because the transcription/notation is so ridiculous.a simple example to illustrate the type of issue i'm talking about: the melody is three notes, descending a-g-f#. the right hand plays a-g....then nothing. while the left hand is suddenly playing that f# in the middle of what it was otherwise doing. the right hand was not occupied doing something else. those three notes are right there in a row. so... the software they had transcribing this was already pretty dopey, and the lack of a sentient human "fixing" it is kinda lame when you're making an otherwise great product and asking for my $$$.you could probably figure out that example on your own with minimal annoyance; but that same issue, in essence, occurs over and over in varying levels of complexity that get harder to decipher unless you have a little bit more of a background in music theory and a general sense developed through experience of how to find the melody that you heard in a piece of music on the pages in a score, even when it isn't immediately obvious like being the S line of an SATB harmony. really i think you'd want enough facility with improvisation on your own to be able, at least sometimes, to have the epiphany of "oh THAT's what he was doing..." and then just apply the concept without even paying that much attention to the score at all.also.... the lack of chord tab on the music is a rather bothersome omission. i'd want it in general, but it would be REALLY helpful to just be able to verify in a nanosecond that what's going on is an a-minor, rather than having to count ledger lines to figure out what the heck a note in the bass probably is :Pi feel like a good 50% of the pieces in here will present me with more frustration than i'm willing to wade through. a few of them, however, are really great arrangements, reasonably well notated, and totally worth it on every level.and, i mean, i know you're here for the sheet music. and i hope you have the supplementary skills to be able to play it if you want it. but i also want to say that the art is really, really special. lookin at you, kay belonus. more of that, please. i'd buy a book of it.