Letter From Ajax (Genshin Impact “Childe: A Letter to Snezhnaya“) Advanced Piano Arrangement

This is another arrangement I worked together with @JasperHu. He did the main arrangement and my job is basically to check and give suggestion or ideas for him to try and edit. And also I need to make it the best way for myself to play comfortably. I invited him this time to write the description (bit lazy and tired from recording and editing). The original music has many outstanding features: the complexity in rhythm (syncopation in 12/8 signature giving a 8/8 character), the rich texture, the interweaving melodic lines of different instruments (particularly, that acoustic guitar!), the contrast between intro/outro and the middle section, etc. We tried our best to keep as many instruments as possible, and it presents great challenge to distribute these voices between both hands while retaining the characters of the original instruments. 0:00 I struggled with the crescendo in strings, and decided to accommodate by delaying the bass notes. I was not sure how to deal with the cymbals, but Sco