Kevin Emmrich

Kevin Emmrich

JOINED:1 year ago
PROGRESS:19

LOCATION:Crozet VA
WEBSITE:http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=1144009
INFLUENCES:Americana, van morrison, the band, etc....

BIO:

Play guitar, little banjo and harmonica. Been writing songs since 2007. I have done 5 RPM's, 3 FAWM's and this is my 3rd 50/90. I don't know what I am going to do this time around, but hopefully I can coax my nephew into a few co-writes while he is here for the summer.

Songs: 19 ( + = Songs posted by a different Songwriter that you Collaborated on.)

		Title	Collaborators	Comments	Post date
1		Little Bit of Loving		19	30 weeks 3 days
2		One Way Street		17	30 weeks 2 days
3		I Was Wrong		16	29 weeks 4 days
4		It Don't Hurt Anymore II	kimberlyinnc	15	29 weeks 2 days
5		The Last Swallow		20	28 weeks 6 days
6		If The Truth Be Told		20	28 weeks 5 days
7		Unfettered (I really wanna know)		22	27 weeks 2 days
8		Alchemy		15	26 weeks 2 days
9	+	In Your Arms Tonight	Kevin Emmrich Dargai	14	25 weeks 5 days
10		Songwriter's Blues		14	25 weeks 4 days
11		Walking Away from Summer		9	24 weeks 5 days
12		Laugh When You Cry		8	23 weeks 6 days
13		Carolina or Bust (under construction)	alfalfa	3	23 weeks 6 days
14		At The Same Moment		9	23 weeks 5 days
15		Two Voices		11	23 weeks 3 days
16	+	angel	Kevin Emmrich Arthur Rossi	4	22 weeks 6 days
17		Touch The Sky		3	19 weeks 5 days
18		In The Dark		5	18 weeks 5 days
19		Google Bought Motorola		0	18 weeks 2 days

Soundboard

Hello!

T.C. Elliott

18 weeks 5 days ago

Very very rarely do i hit the FDP. There are lots of sites that don't guilt you into donating and are there out of a sense of community. I don't the particulars but it looked to me like the dude that ran that thing was trying to make his living off of it. Or at least use it as a part time job. Which is fine. But while most of the people were cool, I didn't dig the scene anymore. Of course it's been years and years since I really participated. I do miss the backing tracks but I never really did much with them anyway.

It's good to see you around, though. I've been digging your music this past year or more. Definitely good stuff.

Oh, and I still play Fender. I've a MIM Strat and play a buddy's American Standard through my own super reissue. Sounds good it does.

Izaak

19 weeks 4 days ago

Hey kevin, just had to leave you a shout about the weird rain sounds for my version of Touch the Sky... It wasn't a sample or a rainstick, it was the sound of tapping flute keys overdubbed eight times! (4x with the flute tracks, and another 4x with the vocal tracks). Thanks for commenting.

Matt Blick

21 weeks 23 hours ago

PS - thanks for leaving a comment on my piece of the Corpse (sounds wrong!)

blindkiwi

22 weeks 1 day ago

Thanks for the comments on my lyrics for "Your Song" Kevin, It was one of those ones that just tumbled out on to the page in about 10 minutes.

Dee

22 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for your comments and observations on Disappear.

Scribbler

22 weeks 2 days ago

Thanks for listening to Just Like That and the comment.

Arthur Rossi

22 weeks 2 days ago

Thank you very much for your kind words, Kevin!

segers41

22 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the kind words on Like Me. had fun doing my 70's 80's best there.

Paul Milne

22 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Kevin, thanks for the kind comment on "A Better Man Than Me". As you know Arthur's lyrics are a pleasure to work with, they make arranging the music almost easy!

Izaak

22 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for commenting on my acoustic blues number, Kevin! I'm glad you asked about the percussion stick thing, I always try to get interesting sounds when I can, just to raise those sorts of questions. In this case it was a drumstick strapped to my foot that I was supposed to be stomping on a wood box. It didn't quite turn out how I planned, and sometimes I forgot to use it, but it was fun. One of those tap dancer shoes on a wood floor would have been better. It also would have been better loud! I was sort of afraid I would wake up my wife or my son, so I didn't really belt the song out like it could have been.

Dreamscuba

22 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks very much for the comments on "Drifting" and for stopping by and listening to my tunes.

Dreamscuba

22 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks very much for the comments on "Cloudy Day". Much appreciated.

musicsongwriter

22 weeks 6 days ago

Your comment made me smile Kevin. Thank you so much reading my take on beautiful mistakes. I read a title, said no way I can write anything on this subject, went upstairs and had this idea in my head... So I went back to my computer... So glad you like it :)

Arthur Rossi

22 weeks 6 days ago

Kevin, thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much for this wonderful surprise! I only connected to see what`s new on the site and then I read your comment and listened to this gorgeous country-ballad… I love it so much! Great country music, beautiful harmonica in the background, too, wonderful performance full of empathy, I LOVE IT! Thank you so much for this excellent song once again, I really feel honoured…

By the way, at least for me, the record sounds absolutely flawless, I could not hear any disturbing airconditioner or chairs etc… Wonderful!

Matt Blick

23 weeks 16 hours ago

you only get the previous 10 seconds or so. I was surprised at the number of proggy/ heavy parts!

gerrybhoy

23 weeks 1 day ago

Hi thanks for taking the time to listen to "go to the river" an exercise in cliche's but a song none the less.

kylegreer

23 weeks 1 day ago

hey kevin! thanks for the kind words! :) i think you can do midi through garageband if you have a midi interface and plug in through a direct line into your computer. i'm doing it the "old fashioned" way ;) by selecting "software instruments" and inputting using the "musical typing" selection under the "window" heading and literally typing it in with my computer keyboard as a musical one. that's why it's a little clunky, but it's fun to play around with. :) i hope that helps!

alfalfa

23 weeks 3 days ago

Okay, then. I'll see about getting a second verse going sometime this weekend.

alfalfa

23 weeks 4 days ago

Note: Feel free to poo-poo any of my ideas.

alfalfa

23 weeks 4 days ago

Hey, Kevin. I'm liking what you've got going for "Carolina or Bust." I just had a thought about it... what if we structure it sort of like the song "Highwayman," written by Jimmy Webb. In other words, make each verse about a different person hitching to Carolina?

Dan Vaillancourt

23 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks Kevin for the comments... Very kind words. ;)

corinne54

23 weeks 4 days ago

Hi Kevin
Thanks for your comments on "At the Same Moment" - and the compliment on my piano playing. I am more a guitarist, but I'm pretty good and banging away at the keys - It's 'cause I'm mostly a rhythm guitarist, so I gots that rhythm in me :D

alfalfa

23 weeks 6 days ago

Nope, it won't let me access the song page. You could shoot me an email, if you like.

Das Binky

23 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for the skirmish comment! Those drums were the EZ Drummer Nashville kit, with some extra crispness coming from Izotope Alloy. Rock on!

alfalfa

24 weeks 3 days ago

Can't say as I know anything about James Dean, so that portion of the story would have to be up to you. How 'bout we start with the reason for his hitchhiking? What's he going to do when he gets there? Your serial comment earlier makes me think of an escaped prisoner going to get revenge on someone. Could be cool.

alfalfa

24 weeks 4 days ago

I can't really think of an unexpected direction to take the song, so here's what I've got for a more traditional story, starting with what you posted on my soundboard.

Verses 1 & 2 - talk about going into town, you're too young bit

Chorus

Verses 3 & 4 - talk about going to war, maybe, and the "you're too young" bit

Another chorus

Bridge - he does well, despite his age

Verses 3 & 4 - maybe him talking to a younger boy

Modified chorus to say that the boy really isn't too young.

It feels a little bland to me, but there are plenty of songs out there (mostly country songs) that use this kind of story. What's your opinion?

alfalfa

24 weeks 5 days ago

Interesting beginnings. It could be really cool if we avoid the "local boy makes good" type of ending. Nothing's coming to me right now, but it would be great if we could come up with a plot twist to keep everybody on their toes. Any thoughts?

alfalfa

24 weeks 5 days ago

How about a hitchhiking song? I've got this title sitting around "Carolina or Bust" that would be pretty good. The phrase "hey mister, won't you let me ride along" comes to mind. Seems like a good enough point to jump from.

Jane_ukey

24 weeks 6 days ago

Thanks for your feedback on "In My Town" Kevin :) It's something of a running joke that Brisbane has never quite outgrown the country town mindset and the six degrees of separation rule tends to be more like a two degrees of separation rule when it comes to Brisbanites. We can travel half way round the world and still run into people who live a block away from us back in Brisbane ;)

alfalfa

24 weeks 6 days ago

Hey, Kevin. Thanks for checking out "Yellow Diamond." Ostrich tuning is a blast to play with.

*gear shift*

Would you like to try a collab of some kind with me?

levesinet

24 weeks 6 days ago

Psst, about that orchestral style evoking Roman Africa or Egypt, here's an important and surprisingly early precursor to many contemporary soundtracks, by Ernest Fanelli who worked primarily as a timpanist in Paris. His Tableaux Symphoniques from the 1880s, based on Théophile Gautier's book The Romance of the Mummy. I say important not only because I have loosely imitated the use of drums but because some parts of Fanelli's work make use of rather impressionistic techniques usually attributed to later composers, Debussy in particular. Fanelli plays a controversial role in the history of impressionistic music regardless of his relative clumsiness in comparison to the renowned masters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngdlFQr78U0
The poor man couldn't afford to keep paying for his composition studies. And I'm worse, no composition classes at all, a mere amateur trying to teach myself. But I've used a lot of time the last few years; it can be a lot of fun making music! ;)

TomS

25 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks for the kind comments, Kevin! I do not believe that it qualifies as a one-chord tune, since it has all sorts of suspensions and whatnot going on. :)

Dreamscuba

25 weeks 3 days ago

Thanks for the comments on the collab with Mony!

kylegreer

25 weeks 3 days ago

hey kevin! thanks for the awesome compliments! i'll see if i can play with balancing the drum and vocal line parts in the mix. glad to add a little culture to your day ;)

Monty

25 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the comment on OhEightOhEight. I added the biab tag. I think that is a good idea.

staticcaptain

25 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for watching my video, Kevin. I always add a lot of effects to my voice because I hate it. If I ever do it again, though, I will back off the delay a bit.

Tom Slatter

25 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks for the comment, Kevin. I respectfully disagree what you said, but thanks for listening. :-) Tom

Vom Vorton

25 weeks 5 days ago

Well observed on the coffee front - not "a lot" of coffee as such, but one ludicrously strong sweet one that seemed to power me for the rest of the day. Unfortunately the other songs that it generated were pure, irritating gibberish that almost drove my girlfriend crazy - the skirmish luckily occurred just as I began to level out!

Dargai

25 weeks 5 days ago

Kevin, thanks so much for the accompaniment. What do you mean by not succeeding? I thought it sounded great! Msu be that VA air; you're only about an hour and a half west of me - lol. I'd love to post your version long with mine if you don't mind. Thanks again, man.

Dawnsoap

25 weeks 5 days ago

Thank you so much for the wonderful comment on my NY song!

Joanne Gabriel

26 weeks 1 hour ago

Yes, I'm scoring a film. Thanks for the comment!

Rootscauseway

26 weeks 1 hour ago

hey Kevin...thanks for that...theres only one guitar in it...on the liner notes that was meant to be lots of hiss ....i played the guitar while my friend sang... thanks...

Arthur Rossi

26 weeks 6 hours ago

Thanks a lot for the congrats and the kind words!! I was very gald to read your comment!! Thanks!

Izaak

26 weeks 22 hours ago

Yeah, Neko Case plays a lot of tenor guitar. Only four strings and no standard tuning. I wish I had one for fun. Thanks for commenting.

Quote

26 weeks 2 days ago

Hey, thanks for the comment!

testthebest

26 weeks 4 days ago

Thanks so much for the comment!

Scribbler

26 weeks 5 days ago

Thanks for listening and commenting on Where The Other Man's Nose Begins!

third time lucy

26 weeks 6 days ago

thanks for the comment on redshift. if you try and count out the 5/4, you'll notice the chorus has a bar of 6/4 in it for a bit of extra suspense (and/or to keep one on ones toes!) i'm rather enjoying playing with odd rhythms... expect more weird stuff from me :)

adventuresofamy

26 weeks 6 days ago

Hi Kevin, thanks for the comment - some super useful advice tucked in there. At the moment I'm using a mic from a pound shop in England (the equivalent of a 99 cent store), so the cheapest nastiest kind there is pretty much in the world. I recorded guitar and then vocals, but it's the first time I've ever done that. Could you explain the phrase "in a box" for me? Thanks :)

rhymetime

27 weeks 23 hours ago

Hi Kevin, I appreciate your visit today, You are right of course it is a baritone uke. It was interesting how it changed it's sound. I was glad you pointed it out to me so I pay more attention to that. Thanks for kind comments.
Annie

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