Welcome, heavy metal fans and fans of classical and medieval metal! This web site features the music of neoclassical and rock instrumentalist and guitarist Kelly McKee. The songs available here you can download and listen to; however they are copyrighted. Look for musical notation from the music to be made available from my website in the near future. I'm entrusting my fans not to resell or claim my compositions, as their own. (BMI). To read more about the inspiration behind each work or for lyrics, simply click on the ‘LYRICS’ hyperlink below: It is my hope that you enjoy this music! The music is also located on some of the best internet radio websites in the industry, and you can now 'turn it up' on your home theater system directly using Roku or AppleTV-iTunes App (i.e. Search Kelly McKee You’re Lost in iTunes library): More information as well as links to buy the Compact Discs and MP3 albums in release: NEWS: Two major new music videos have been accomplished for you our fans! The videos open a new dimension on Windows To Eternity websites, and are free to view on the Patreon and YouTube channels; as well as posted on the newly revised Facebook band page (linked to below). All web hyperlinks are also now https, with blazing fast interconnection, no matter what your web browser's security setting in InPrivate mode(s).. All broken links on all sites, have been brought up to date as well; we actively make improvements at all these linked websites. The N1M page has a serious new web bio link, "Bio 2024". On a cell phone, utilize 'reader mode', if necessary, to bring the full text down once on the destination page. A very Spanish-influenced instrumental song, ‘Race With A Daemon’, was added, with more songs to complete album 2 Dark Day Of The Arena to arrive in the near future! In addition, the first album, You're Lost, is still very actively in circulation and can be purchased from a leading Compact Disc manufacturer. This gives the listener continued availability of the ultimate format for durability and sound quality, and for listening on home systems. The streams on this site originate from the 320 Kb/s MP3 downloads available here, but are second to the 1,411.2 Kb/s CD in sound quality. This music will sound best through full-size HiFi stereo loudspeakers with deep bass. But using a fine headset can be equally rewarding.. Some Background About the Music: Far from being an anachronism, classical music is the Mt. Everest of all music on earth; and it is not 'closed-minded' to say this. This is because classical music is mainly based upon triadic chord and diatonic scale theory, and these in turn are based upon physics. Physics mathematically describes the laws of nature of sound in air. Sounds in the natural world around us, it turns out, actually contain different proportions of triadic timbral properties for example. Sounds with a higher proportion of triadic timbre sound clear, while sounds with a higher proportion of dissonant timbre sound closer to noise. Diatonic scales were similarly based on the natural triadic overtones found in a plucked string. (The natural minor and related major scales are constructed from superimposed triads.) Physics is the same on every continent, but the only music that takes these basic observations about nature into account fully is classical music, which originated in Europe and paralleled the advent of the science of physics during the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution. This is literally the reason why many other forms of music sound primitive by comparison. Any music that goes along the path of a fixed set of rhythms and scale use, is more limitedly defined. The music on this website, is largely performed with an instrument many people do not associate with classical music-the electric guitar. I tend to think that the electric guitar does not sound all that good with an orchestra of acoustical instruments, and do not plan to compose for electric guitar and symphony orchestra together on a large scale as others have done. For the most part, I employ an E-standard tuning (this is also called concert pitch). The guitar itself was originally made to be sung over, and this standard works excellently for vocals. E-standard also provides the most powerful, clearest sound. Exotic tunings can transform the timbre of the instrument, and I occasionally do this. Simply detuning the Standard tuning from E down to Eb or D, also transforms the timbre, making it 'darker' and more supple. However, some feel that this should be done sparingly, since the rhythm and chord properties of the guitar are weakened by doing this (unless one compensates by putting on heavier strings, as SRV did). My musical influences include JS Bach, Beethoven, D. Scarlatti, Tchaikovsky, and many other classical and film score composers, medieval, and renaissance music. My guitar influences include Blackmore, Page, Iommi, May, M. Schenker, Rhoads, Iron Maiden, Malmsteen, V. Moore, and other classical guitarists such as Segovia. I actually started out as a Hi-Fi enthusiast, listening closely to classical music, as a child and still do today. In fact, studying music today partly by listening to recordings is considered an important part of the Suzuki method. My parents and others introduced me to great music as a child; and my family attended ballets like the Nutcracker and Swan Lake in Chicago. I had some early lessons on recorder, piano, and violin, but I started taking music seriously only when I found the guitar at age 18; and started to compose soon thereafter. I have a friend who is from Finland, and she is a trained classical pianist with whom I may do some collaborating on the second album. My family always had a piano in our home, and my older sister went through piano as well. When I was about 19, I began studying textbooks about things like orchestration and form; later in college I attended an opera master class where singers were critiqued by an expert opera teacher and had a music class taught by a fairly well known senior classical pianist. By sheer coincidence, I was mentored in optical physics by a professor who is a grandson of classical composer Max Bruch; something I found inspiration in. I have picked up musical education here and there and wherever I could. For example, I once encountered a violin maker through a music dealer, and bought a classic violin for myself, which turned into an educative experience. My family had never really approved of music for me when I was very young, so I went through college in engineering and science first and had struggled through a lot for a very long time to get to where I was ready to release my own first CD-album of some of my work. Unlike some of this genre's most famous exponents, I have never borrowed (or plagiarized) melodies from any classical composers, without giving the composer credit. The recordings herein are finished: They are the ultimate way they are supposed to be, sonically and performance-wise, without mistakes. I suggest playing them on a good hi-fi stereo, with tone controls set at their 'neutral' or center position, and 'loudness' contour off. The louder they are turned up, the better they will actually sound, revealing more detail. But, don't damage your ears! From written sheet score to final product, I have the rare opportunity to be the composer, arranger, multi-instrumental musician, producer, and recording engineer on these projects. The recordings I make are professional standard recordings, however I do not like to gloss them up with processing too much. The advanced and novel style of percussion, its exact timing and sound, even moves beyond stale industry norms and into the realm of the artistic. For guitar, for the most part, the recordings are produced as if straight from instrument to the listeners' speakers. Many recordings today sound overprocessed, and artificial. However KM Productions works are exciting and can be found to stand up very well to recordings of classical, or any other music, through head to head comparison listening such as from my own Spotify playlist, which is public to listen from. -Kelly McKee April 2nd, 2025