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Combining O Gauge Trains & Classical Music can be very inspiring.

Turn the sound up on your computer or smart phone, watch and listen, and let me know what you think:

If you want to take a stab at this, all you need to do is play a CD while you shoot a video of your trains, and then share the video on this Post.

Arnold

 

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I wish I had the equipment and skills to produce multiple tracks of music so I can greatly reduce or eliminate the track noise and play the music even louder.

i’m simply turning up the volume of my boom box CD player, and running my quietest trains, and making videos using my iPhone 6 Plus camera. A little train noise might be good because a little clickity clack adds percussion and rhythm. I could reduce the track noise by running shorter trains, but I love the look of running the longest trains that my reverse loops will allow, which is between 10 to 12 train cars and caboose.

I agree that trains and music can be relaxing. It certainly helps get one’s mind off of life’s problems which can be stress reducing. But  I also find the combination of trains and music to be inspiring, passionate and emotional. 

Arnold

 

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Some years ago a local fellow produced a series of videos called Rubber City Rails; all about the steam/diesel transition in the Akron area.  The first video used classical music as the backdrop. There's something about seeing a B&O steamer in the cold of winter with Hayden's London Suite No.104 playing.

I still remember from the narration.....

"There is no greater sight of the inventions of man than that of a steam locomotive in the dead of winter".

Rock on!

Lou N

This next train video is accompanied by classical music that I find majestic. This music is what you might want to listen to after you have worked long and hard on your dream layout and are basking in the glory of running the trains of your dreams on it. 

The music is about 3 minutes of Royal Fireworks Music (Concerto Grossi No. 26 in D Major- Overture) by George Frederick Handel:

By the way, Handel, who was an early 18th Century composer, was a big deal. Unlike many other great composers, he was financially very successful.

Arnold

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Alfred E Neuman posted:
Dan Padova posted:

What could be more relaxing.  Watching trains and listening to the classics.  

Watching train videos with the track noise muted so the music is more audible?  

Recently rediscovered this tune begging to be the sound track for a model railroad video.

Maybe that Postwar or MPC set from one's early days.

What, me worry?

Alfred, thanks for sharing Teajn for Memories performed by Kathy Mattea. Excellent train song and beautifully sung, arranged, etc.

I agree that it would be great in a post war/vintage train video.

Arnold

Lou N posted:

Some years ago a local fellow produced a series of videos called Rubber City Rails; all about the steam/diesel transition in the Akron area.  The first video used classical music as the backdrop. There's something about seeing a B&O steamer in the cold of winter with Hayden's London Suite No.104 playing.

I still remember from the narration.....

"There is no greater sight of the inventions of man than that of a steam locomotive in the dead of winter".

Rock on!

Lou N

Lou, I will hunt down that Hayden piece of music, which I’m not familiar with. Thanks,

Arnold

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Arnold D. Cribari posted:

I wish I had the equipment and skills to produce multiple tracks of music so I can greatly reduce or eliminate the track noise and play the music even louder.

i’m simply turning up the volume of my boom box CD player, and running my quietest trains, and making videos using my iPhone 6 Plus camera. A little train noise might be good because a little clickity clack adds percussion and rhythm. I could reduce the track noise by running shorter trains, but I love the look of running the longest trains that my reverse loops will allow, which is between 10 to 12 train cars and caboose.

I agree that trains and music can be relaxing. It certainly helps get one’s mind off of life’s problems which can be stress reducing. But  I also find the combination of trains and music to be inspiring, passionate and emotional. 

Arnold

 

Arnold, when I take my videos I use my smart phone.  I then load them onto my computer.  Next, I open iMovie and load the videos onto it.  There, I do all of my editing.  I can add titles, scene breaks, even shorten or delete portions of the video that are not as good as I would like them to be.  Once I am satisfied with the video, I upload it onto Youtube.  Youtube also has editing tools.  One of these tools is allows me to add music.  With the editing tools I can either mute the train sounds entirely or allow them to be background sounds.  I can adjust the level of the background sounds also.  Youtube has a bunch of sound tracks and pieces of music.  I'm talking thousands.  When adding music,  the editor tool will find a piece of music that matches the length of my video, very closely.

Here's an example of one of my videos with music.

https://youtu.be/huetLHZVIec

Overdubbed your first video with the volume on the original track turned down, Arnold, to illustrate the difference.  Might have some blips where the music on both tracks does not match exactly.  Shazam app said the music on your video is Etude No. 24 In C Minor, Op. 25: No. 12.

[YouTube video deleted after Arnold Cribari's review.]

Offering assistance if you have any special videos on which you want to balance the sound volumes.  You probably have everything you need on your computer except software to rip your cd's or extract the soundtracks from YouTube Music videos as mp3's.  I use Nero, which allows you to do both and is available for online download at less than 50 bucks.

What, me worry?

p.s.  Plus what Dan Padova said while I was editing your video, and I will delete the video on YouTube after you have reviewed.

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Dan, that YiuTube Video with a medley of classical music that you made is fantastic. Your computer skills far surpass mine. I struggle with right click functions, relying on my part time legal secretary and my wife to help me with that stuff but they only do word processing and do not know how to work with music tracks. 

I strongly recommend Dan’s YouTube video with music to everyone. It is beautifully produced. Zero train noise, beautiful video shots, especially the second half where a gorgeous red garden railway smoking switcher pulls train cars on tracks that meander through a big piece of property.

I recognize, but cannot name the classical music in Dan’s video, except for what I believe is part of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony know as the pastoral symphony.

Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:
Lou N posted:

Some years ago a local fellow produced a series of videos called Rubber City Rails; all about the steam/diesel transition in the Akron area.  The first video used classical music as the backdrop. There's something about seeing a B&O steamer in the cold of winter with Hayden's London Suite No.104 playing.

I still remember from the narration.....

"There is no greater sight of the inventions of man than that of a steam locomotive in the dead of winter".

Rock on!

Lou N

Lou, I will hunt down that Hayden piece Irv music, which I’m not familiar with. Thanks,

Arnold

Joseph Haydn (Austrian composer) - Symphony No. 104 in D major, often called the "London Symphony"

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Alfred E Neuman posted:

Overdubbed your first video with the volume on the original track turned down, Arnold, to illustrate the difference.  Might have some blips where the music on both tracks does not match exactly.  Shazam app said the music on your video is Etude No. 24 In C Minor, Op. 25: No. 12.

  

Offering assistance if you have any special videos on which you want to balance the sound volumes.  You probably have everything you need on your computer except software to rip your cd's or extract the soundtracks from YouTube Music videos as mp3's.  I use Nero, which allows you to do both and is available for online download at less than 50 bucks.

What, me worry?

p.s.  Plus what Dan Padova said while I was editing your video, and I will delete the video on YouTube after you have reviewed.

Wow, that sounded great, Alfred. Thanks so much for sharing that with us, which I agree is a big improvement.

Arnold

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Dan, that YiuTube Video with a medley of classical music that you made is fantastic. Your computer skills far surpass mine. I struggle with right click functions, relying on my part time legal secretary and my wife to help me with that stuff but they only do word processing and do not know how to work with music tracks. 

I strongly recommend Dan’s YouTube video with music to everyone. It is beautifully produced. Zero train noise, beautiful video shots, especially the second half where a gorgeous red garden railway smoking switcher pulls train cars on tracks that meander through a big piece of property.

I recognize, but cannot name the classical music in Dan’s video, except for what I believe is part of Beethoven’s 6th Symphony know as the pastoral symphony.

Arnold

Arnold, it's the William Tell overture, otherwise known as the theme from the TV series, The Lone Ranger.

On a semi-related tangent, those of us of a certain age range undoubtedly remember the original Captain Kangaroo theme song. That song was called "Puffin' Billy" and was written in 1934 by Edward White; inspired by a steam locomotive called Puffin' Billy that he saw on a trip to the Isle of Wight. If you listen to the song all the way through there is a bit of a locomotive motif to it, but I never made the connection until fairly recently.

1934 isn't classical, admittedly.

dkdkrd posted:

Putting Richard Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" to any stunning train action...1:1 or 1:48...is pure Nirvana to me.  Witness...

Oh, yeah!!!.....

Better than a pacemaker for the ol' ticker!

IMHO, of course....

KD

Wow Ken, what a treat......seeing a big steamer running without diesel protection, great music and I even think I spotted Brünnhilde in the fireman's seat!

TJ

dkdkrd posted:

Putting Richard Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" to any stunning train action...1:1 or 1:48...is pure Nirvana to me.  Witness...

Oh, yeah!!!.....

Better than a pacemaker for the ol' ticker!

IMHO, of course....

KD

Was waiting for this piece of music.  Soon as I saw the topic of this post, could picture the helicopter scene in Apocalypse Now.

 

RickO posted:

No classical music but......I played around with the creator studio on youtube and thought this had a bit of a 
"time gone by" feel to it.

Rick, great video and song. The song had a very appealing western flavor and I loved the bass in it. 

Everyone, please feel free to share music of whatever genre you are in the mood to hea, in your train videos.

Arnold

PLCProf posted:

On a semi-related tangent, those of us of a certain age range undoubtedly remember the original Captain Kangaroo theme song. That song was called "Puffin' Billy" and was written in 1934 by Edward White; inspired by a steam locomotive called Puffin' Billy that he saw on a trip to the Isle of Wight. If you listen to the song all the way through there is a bit of a locomotive motif to it, but I never made the connection until fairly recently.

1934 isn't classical, admittedly.

I remember the Captain very well and also the theme song from when I was a kid. Never knew the name of it or the origination of it either. I always thought it was just made for the show. I'll have to see if I can find that on youtube or somewhere I can take a listen to it. Thanks for the trivia and watch out for those ping pong balls!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:
Lou N posted:

Some years ago a local fellow produced a series of videos called Rubber City Rails; all about the steam/diesel transition in the Akron area.  The first video used classical music as the backdrop. There's something about seeing a B&O steamer in the cold of winter with Hayden's London Suite No.104 playing.

I still remember from the narration.....

"There is no greater sight of the inventions of man than that of a steam locomotive in the dead of winter".

Rock on!

Lou N

Lou, I will hunt down that Hayden piece Irv music, which I’m not familiar with. Thanks,

Arnold

I was able to find the Rubber City Rails DVD...

http://www.trainvideodepot.com/show.php?i=RVQ-RCR1

Do note that other pieces include the Hary Janos Suite by Zoltan Kodaly.  The Entry of the Emperors and Viennese Music Clock are quite striking as background music.  

Lou N

PLCProf posted:

On a semi-related tangent, those of us of a certain age range undoubtedly remember the original Captain Kangaroo theme song. That song was called "Puffin' Billy" and was written in 1934 by Edward White; inspired by a steam locomotive called Puffin' Billy that he saw on a trip to the Isle of Wight. If you listen to the song all the way through there is a bit of a locomotive motif to it, but I never made the connection until fairly recently.

1934 isn't classical, admittedly.

Puffing Billy was a 2-6-2T.  PFM made it many years ago in HOn3.

And an equally long time ago I did a Guest Editorial in CTT about trains and Captain Kangaroo and did mention the piece by Edward White.  You can find Puffin' Billy on the CD British Light Music Classics on the Hyperion label.

Lou N

 

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