The Journey: Live Another Day with additions

This is a video that combines all of what I've written of The Journey: Live Another Day.

In order, the excerpts that appear are:

1. The Awakening
2. Walking down the 737 aisle
3. Carolyn and Lucy
4. The Aeroplane Song

Walking down the 737 aisle revisited

I put in a poco accel. (short for poco accelerando- get faster little by little) starting at about 30 seconds in. I think this might help me put in a climax later. What do you think?

Another reason why The Journey: Live Another Day won't get finished on time

I suck at 4-part vocal style writing. Majorly.

I'm okay at writing perfect and plagal cadences (a cadence is just two chords pretty much). The difficulty comes in writing choral music (and other cadences which I haven't learnt about).

I'm going to have to learn a truckload more before I can finish this song. Oh well, there's nothing stopping me from taking the finished parts on the plane with me in 78 days. The finished parts are well over 2 minutes long, combined. So far what I've done can be broken up into four parts:

1. Introduction- 54 bars long, or 1 min 38 seconds
2. Walking down the 737 aisle- 20 bars long, or 54 seconds
3. Carolyn and Lucy- 8 bars long, or 32 seconds (it's slower than the other two sections)
4. The Aeroplane Song- 3 bars long, or 11 seconds

That adds up to a total of 3 minutes and 15 seconds, if I added correctly.

Now for a little more info on what each of the sections are about- except for the introduction, because I don't really know what it's about either.

I've already done a post about "Walking down the 737 aisle." Obviously, it's about me walking down the aisle on the Boeing 737 on the way home.

The "Carolyn and Lucy" part is about a couple of flight attendants living in my imaginary world (both loosely based off real flight attendants). When I was nervous about my flight home, I imagined Carolyn and Lucy calming me down and I felt better. This section has a soprano solo (Carolyn) and an alto solo (Lucy), as does the next section, "The Aeroplane Song."

I've imagined that section of the song to go something like:

(Kayleuetski):
You sang to me to calm me down,
And your words were...
(Carolyn and Lucy):
Aeroplane, flying high,
Aeroplane, in the sky

I've also imagined another part of the "story." This part is a little weird since it involves a talking (or to be exact, singing) aeroplane toilet. I guess that bit will just have to be sung by a human, probably a male voice.

(Choir)
... and it said to you...
(Boeing 737 toilet)
I can take away your fear,
But you will have to flush me first...

Yes, I know, I imagine the weirdest of things.

All the same, that's what imagination's for.

Another excerpt

Another excerpt from The Journey: Live Another Day- this time from the beginning of the piece. This section isn't completed yet. I'm not entirely sure what, exactly, was this section meant to be about in the first place, though. Whatever, it's pretty. (In my opinion.) Do be aware that the music in this excerpt is pretty quiet, like the last one.

Instruments and Singers (in score order):

Flute (solo)
Harp
Soprano
Alto
Tenor
Bass
Violin I
Violin II
Viola
Cello
Double Bass

I think that perhaps I should change the string parts. At the moment they're almost entirely the same as the singers' parts.

Walking down the 737 aisle

Here is an excerpt from The Journey: Live Another Day. It's me walking down the aisle to the aeroplane toilet on the Boeing 737.

My cousin took that photo of the flush button some time back. (Funny how when I went on a plane four years ago I didn't notice that the toilet lid was closed in the picture. Now I know to close the lid- the hard way.)

The reason it's saved as a video is because there doesn't seem to be a way to upload just sound files on Blogspot, but then again I'm not really looking too hard. If I can find a way to suggest stuff to the people who make Blogspot then I'm going to suggest it as well as suggesting a "countdown" widget.

Making the video was unbelievably messy. For starters, Sibelius can either export files as midi or wav. Wav. files are supported by Windows Movie Maker (I think) but they take up loads of memory. I tried using a midi to mp3 converter on the Internet but the sound quality got worse, so I searched around and found that iTunes can convert wav files to mp3 files. It took me ages to figure out how.

Bleh. Anyway, enjoy.