Where:
Ephrata - WA USA
Who:
Kelly Moore - Keyboards, and
all of the vocal and Instrumental parts with the exception of a few high
vocal speaking parts and the guitar tracks in "Inertia"
When:
2001
Why:
[..] "I
try to live life fullest treating every day."
What:
[..] "Just about anything!".
In
Short:
Influences are STYX, Chicago, Billy Joel, James Taylor.
What's in the car CD Player?: Nsync, Back Street Boys, Will Smith,
Aaron Carter (I have three daughters remember!), Diana Krall (to keep
the adults sane).
Gear: If I have the opportunity, I play my mother's Yamaha Baby
Grand but my songs were done from an electronic keyboard. I have a 73
key Fender Rhodes Suitcase Electric Piano I bought as a Junior in high
school I like to break out and play once in awhile.
Thanks: The staff at n-Track has been a great help with this process.
When I have a question, I email them and by the next morning, the
answer is waiting for me already. Thanks to Harold Geesey for the
great
guitar tracks in "Inertia". Thank you Sarah for
the part about the cat in "Life's Work", and to
Laura and Holly for the "Pledge of Allegiance"
in "Inertia". I would also like to thank my beautiful
wife Janice for the help with the high vocal parts (she sings better
than I do), and the inspirations
to make all this possible. Sorry I kept you all up late at night with
my silly back up vocal part recordings that didn't sound good unless you
were the one with the headphones on.
CD
- "Life's work" (2001) WIP
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Kelly
Moore
by Alessandro De Murtas
Featured
Songs:
Inertia
Be With You
We'll Be In Love
Life's Work
[..] "I was born in 1964 in a small
town in central Washington. I started taking piano lessons when I
was five years old. By high school, I was able to play by ear and
sing as well so I became
very popular at wedding ceremonies. They would give me a cassette
tape and tell me to play song #3 so I would listen to it a few times
and then perform it in the ceremony. They got off cheap too because
they not only didn't have to buy the sheet music, they could get away
with paying one guy to do both the piano playing and the singing.
I think I charged about $25.00 for my services.
In collage, I was accepted as a freshman to join the "Crimson
Company", a show choir designated as the good will ambassadors
for
Washington State University.
It was a great honor to be involved in the small group as a freshman
but I soon realized that I wanted a career outside of music so I chose
to go back into the family furniture business after I received my
degree. I now have a beautiful wife (Janice) of 15 years, three daughters
(Laura, Holly, Sarah) and a successful furniture store (Moore Furniture
Inc.) with my brother and business partner. I also enjoy life on the
wild side so I am a Freestyle Jet Ski Pilot as well finishing 10th
in the world last year but that's a whole nother web
site.
After realizing that Jet Skiing and music composition
don't mix well, I decided to try to get my songs on a CD before
I bounce my head off of a Jet Ski one more time. I started out with
the sound recorder that comes with Windows and about 30 seconds
later, I was on the Internet looking for a real program.
That's when I found n-Track Studio Software. Thanks to their free
demo-program, I was making music by the end of the night. I never
imagined I would be able to create sound like this without paying
thousands of dollars to a studio. What started out as an idea to
preserve my music, turned out to be the dream I had always hoped
for with my music... my own CD!
I try to live life too its fullest treating every day as if it's
my last but at the same time, I try to work hard to secure a future
for my family. I think that is why people have enjoyed my music.
I have 37 years worth of life's experiences to share."
Tips
and Tricks from Kelly Moore using n-Track Studio.
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Computer Equipment: AMD 700, 256 meg RAM, Sound Blaster
Live Card, 19" monitor (a big monitor is helpful with
song editing).
Recording Equipment: Tapco 6 channel mixer board, Zoom
RT-123 Rhythm machine, 2 keyboard, 1 microphone......that's
about it.
[..] "I started out with
my first song, playing the piano part and singing the vocal
parts all the way through from beginning to end. I guess that's
part of learning the program because now I only do things
once and then cut and paste.
What started out as 80% musical talent and 20% computer skills
has turned around and now I spend way more time on a song
at the computer instead of the keyboard. I've found that when
I record a song for the first time, I get the first verse
and chorus done and then I take a break from it and listen
to it a bunch of times.
Then I can figure out what I like, what I don't like and what
the song is missing. The problem is, by the time I get done
with the song, I have recorded the vocal parts over a series
of nights so the sound settings get changed (I have a four
year old remember). One time I even heard a train in the background
of one of my vocal parts. Therefore, after I get the song
about where I want it, I spend one night re-cutting all the
vocal tracks so that I have consistency between them. In my
title song "Life's Work" I cloned the lead vocal
track and then panned one to the left and one to the right.
I then offset them by 1/100th of a second so it sounds like
the sound is traveling around you.
n-Track Studio probably has something that does the exact
same thing built into the program already but I like the way
this changed the sound. I use the volume lines a lot to get
levels exactly where I want them. It's easier than re-recording
things if you don't like the settings you have your mixer
at. The hard part to remember is that if you cut and paste,
the lines stay the same. If you add on to the ending of a
song but you already faded the song out, you have to go change
those volume lines or you can't hear the new stuff. In the
song "A Hero" you will see that I used various sound
clips embedded in the song.I downloaded them off the Internet
and used Cool Edit to get them all to the proper format that
would work with n-Track Studio. I used the volume lines a
lot to get each clip to fade in and out exactly as I wanted.
I would also bring up the clip's "properties" and
adjust their offset by 1/100th of a second to get them to
fall on the beat. It was quite time consuming but it makes
the song."
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