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This is a version of Casey Junior, a song from Walt Disney’s 1941 film “Dumbo”. The original song was written by Frank Churchill, with lyrics by Ned Washington.

The object of this assignment was to demonstrate knowledge of what is known as “step recording”, where someone draws in each note or sets things up so that every time a key is pressed on the (piano) keyboard, the note entered into the computer is always the same length (and sometimes velocity/volume). We could choose to either step-record something of our own design, or find some existing sheet music and translate it directly into Cubase. I chose sheet music of “Casey Junior” from “The Disney Collection” songbook, published by Hal-Leonard in 1992.

That’s how this song opens up. A direct transcription of what the sheet music read as, played by the piano. In the background, you can hear a train moving from the left speaker to the right speaker. This is done with automated stereo pan. The train is actually a sound effect that comes with General MIDI.

As the piano part ends, the tamborine comes in, and suddenly you have an electric guitar and bass guitar taking over the exact same parts as the piano played, only with a drumset added. To conclude, the Delay Lama makes a surprise appearance. You only hear him, though. As the song ends, the train passes from the right speaker back to the left again, and it’s all over.

Here are the original lyrics of the song, as given by (and quoted from) the piano/guitar songbook I worked from:

It’s Casey Junior, comin’ down’ the track
Comin’ down the track with a smoky stack.
Hear him puff-in’ ’round the hill
Casey’s here to thrill ev’ry Jack and Jill.

Ev’ry time his funny little whistle sounds. (Toot toot)
Ev’ry body hurries to the Circus Grounds.

Time for lemonade and cracker jack
Casey Junior’s back, Casey Junior’s back again.

Download a MIDI version here: http://dogman15.deviantart.com/art/Casey-Junior-MIDI-147713645

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i love love love this song, and i’ve wanted to do a cover of it since forever. i finally had time to practise it properly cos i’m now on school holiday yay!

i hope you like it

(it sounds best if you use earphones)

[ somehow i cant reply to any comments made on this video, so thank you all for your kind comments also, i got the sheet music from sheetmusicdirect.com ]

You’re in my arms
And all the world is calm
The music playing on for only two
So close together
And when I’m with you
So close to feeling alive

A life goes by
Romantic dreams will stop
So I bid mine goodbye and never knew
So close was waiting, waiting here with you
And now forever I know
All that I wanted is to hold you
So close

So close
To reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
And now you’re beside me
And look how far we’ve come
So far, we are
So close

How could I face the faceless days
If I should lose you now?

We’re so close
To reaching that famous happy end
Almost believing this was not pretend
Let’s go on dreaming for we know we are
So close
So close
And still so far

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The most accurate piano transcription of the movie on the internet:

http://www.mediafire.com/?hzwtgdjmmjz

1. Click on “Click here to start download”
2. Open, or save the file.

Tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcG0dJ_WKeo

Disney Pixar’s Up, I believe, was one of the greatest, most emotional film Pixar has made. The piano part touched me, so I wanted to learn how to play the main theme. And after hours of listening and converting it into sheet music, its finally done. And I want to share it with all. The music on my piano were the transcribed sheets.

-Married Life
-Stuff We Did
-The Ellie Badge

And, a little more to add, this version accurately depicts the scene of Carl and Ellie’s life. The slow section occurs when (if you haven’t seen the movie. I suggest you don’t look at what I’m about to say.) his wife finds out that she couldn’t bear kids. The last section takes place where Russel receives the “Ellie Badge” and also merges to the very, final ending phrase of the movie, until the credits start. It was at that point where I said to myself, I’m gonna make sheet music for this movie. haha

A question people ask me, “Why does the second measure of the main part of the song a ‘C’ instead of an ‘E’?”
I noticed most demonstrations show this, they’re not entirely wrong. However, I tried to make an extremely precise transcription of the music in the movie, and I spent a while listening to it many times. The arrangement is almost exact, and I know for a fact that it was an ‘E’.

© Disney/Pixar
Composer: Michael Giacchino

Just say thanks.

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