This post is for those who use MIDIs and/or sheet music for their covers. Reading the sheet music can be like a second language, but I'm here to teach you some basic sheet music and will translate some of it into what I call "DIY Theory" for you!
Note: I will be calling the notes and other phrases by the names commonly used in Europe/the UK, not their American names.
The Stave and a Bar
The stave is the lines and spaces used in sheet music. In DIY Theory, our stave is the place where we pace our notes, like in real sheet music! It would look like this.
I tried making a template...
A Bar is four beats, so there are two bars per track. For example, there are 24 tracks in one song max, so that means there are 48 bars per song max.
Notes between versions
So I only found this out recently. In European copies of the game when you hold a note, it shows the letter name. So when I hold a C note, it shows a C in the little bubble. Like this!
Unfortunately in American copies of the game, the letters are replaced with "Do Re Mi". I remember a friend and I found this out a week before this post came out and a majority of people on Discord were shocked. So here is what each note means.
This still blows my mind and has given me so much more respect for American creators.
The Treble and Base Clefs
Okay, let's start from the very beginning with the Treble Clef. This is the most commonly used Clef in the stave (the lines and spaces). It looks something like this.
When translated to Warioware DIY's "stave", the spaces look like this.
While the lines look like this.
The Bass Clef is the same thing, except it looks like this instead.
G would be the bottom line, D would be in the middle and it would end with an A on the top line. Again, here are the spaces and lines translated into Warioware DIY.
Music Notes
There are a few music notes that aren't really needed in Warioware DIY, So I will only talk about the ones that show up a lot from longest to shortest.
Semibreve
The semibreve is the longest note that you'll see in a lot of sheet music and midi files. It is a whole note, so it is the length of all four beats in the bar. The note itself looks like this and below it is the Warioware version.
Minim
The minim is next! It is known as a half note as its half the size of a semibreve, so its two beats in a bar. The note itself looks like this and below it is the Warioware version.
Crotchet
We have the crotchet, the most commonly used note (I think). It is known as a quarter note, since it is a quarter of a whole note. Its only one beat in a bar and looks like this.
Quaver
The quaver is you guessed it, an eighth note since its an eighth of a semibreve. It is half a beat in a bar and looks like this.
Semi-quaver
You're probably getting sick of how all these notes work, but don't worry this is the last one. The semi-quaver is a 16th of a semibreve. It is a quarter of a beat and is the smallest note that fits in Warioware DIY (sort f, but I'll not confuse you further). It looks like this.
Sharps and Flats
You see the hashtags on the black notes? That's the symbol for a sharp note. Here's something annoying about Warioware DIY, they just called all their black notes sharps, while sheet music calls a lot of those black notes by their "flat" terms.
It was extremely annoying when I was starting out, so here is a piano diagram that shows both the sharp and flat terms for each black note. Remember that the "#" is a sharp while the tiny "b" is the symbol for flat.
Time Signatures
This is the last music theory thing I will be talking about during this post. A time signature is when the amount of beats change per bar. There are only two you really need to know about to start out.
4/4
4/4 is how I've been explaining the rest of the notes as its the easiest way to follow. The top 4 represents the number of beats, while the bottom 4 represent the actual kind of beat. So 4/4 means 4 crotchet (quarter notes) beats in a bar.
Examples of songs that use this time signature include;
- Smiles and Tears - Earthbound
- Fever - Dr Mario
I wouldn't recommend working with this time signature as a beginner, but I figured I'd mention it anyway since its used often as well. The 3 represents the number of beats, while again the 4 represents the actual kind of beat. So 3/4 means 3 crotchet (quarter notes) beats in a bar.
Examples of songs that use this time signature include;
- Mgicant - Earthbound Beginnings
- Zelda's Lullaby - The Legend of Zelda series
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