Stardew Valley Piano Collections - Sheet Music from the game

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!

I absolutely love the Stardew Valley video game and music. I was hoping to learn them on the piano because the music itself is not very complicated and has an easy melody line. My husband got this for me for my birthday! I was super excited.The arrangements are not good and here are my reasons:1. Instead of changing the meter and tempo, the transcription prefers to use 32nd and 64th notes. The score is not reader-friendly. Everything could have been stepped down slightly with no detriment to the sound and make it much simpler theory-wise. (32nd notes to 16ths, 8ths to quarters, quarters to half, half to whole; slow down the metronome marking)2. The arrangement itself obscurs the music. It is actually hard to pick out the line of the music in the arrangement. It is hard for the sake of showing off, not complex to benefit of the melody. It's so complicated I can't look at the music and hear the song in my head.3. It seems to think it was arranged for orchestra and not piano: the arrangements do not pick and choose what details of the actual music to include and just includes every single detail. For example, Raven's Descent (one of the Fall songs) includes the pitter-patter rain sound throughout the first page, even when it is a barely heard detail in the beginning of the song and completely obscures the melody when played on a piano. The transcription could have included these notes as decorative notes but instead decides to treat them as a full-blown part of the melody.As far as music theory is concerned, the original music is not hard. As far as music theory is concerned, these arrangements are excessive. It looks like someone ran a performance through a transcription software and didn't stop to edit the score before throwing it on the internet to sell.Nice presentation, nice pictures at the front very cute. Ultimately, unplayable.

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.