When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

[Sherry C]

Hi friends,

I'm posting this here for Ralph as we've had some technical snafu that I'll have to work out when I get home (I'm in Bellevue now with Mark's family).

WhenJohnnyComesMarching.mp3

Grace and peace,
Sherry

[rrayner]

Due to technical difficulties on my end, I've asked Sherry to upload the MP3 file for this song. The reason for adding the MP3 file is so folks can hear what the arrangement sounds like when using the midi choices I made for my Clavinova. I have finally come to understand that if I want you folks to hear what I hear, I should be using General Midi (GM), not changing to midi sounds I want to hear on my final target for the song.

For this score, the only two non-GM tracks are the flute, which seems to play okay on my GM sound card, and the drums, which, on my PC, sound correct except for the drum roll in the intro and closing. The flute, in my Clavinova midi selection, is much breathier.

So, the MP3 file, whereas not as full as a WAV file, produces a more true sound of what the song sounds like on my Clavinova.

Ralph Rayner

[Sherry C]

Howdy Ralph,

Due to a lot of things I've only just now been able to sit and really listen to your mp3 rendering of your piece. Wow!!! If the mp3 version is that good, I'd love to hear the wav version! Better yet, this would be an awesome live piece - I do hope someone picks it up

You did a fantastic job with the playback capabilities of Composer in getting a really good performance out of the file, as well as some (to my humble eyes anyway) excellent sheet music for it. Kudos on a piece well done!

ttfn,
Sherry

[rrayner]

Sherry has put together a very nice video of this arrangement, and posted it on You Tube. My wife Cynthia and I provided a number of the pictures and Sherry added some more pictures and put the entire piece together for online. She used the WAV file (converted to MP3) that was created on our Yamaha Clavinova (CVP-405) from the Notation Composer MIDI file as the audio. We hope you enjoy it.



Ralph Rayner