Easy Does It

My name is Brandon Floyd. This is my story of a musical venture in which I have no idea what I am doing. 

When I was young, I was a bit neglected. I didn't have many friends. To my mother I was a monthly paycheck, to my father, I was an accident that survived the womb. The only that good that came from being neglected and friendless was that I channeled all of my sorrow into learning instruments. I consider myself a jack of all trades, master of none. I learned guitar first inspired by punk rock n roll. I grew up in the Chicago music scene and was very blessed with musician around me to teach me, and humble me.

At one point a man named Bryan Gray, the sweetest man in the world who gave his entire life to making music for God, took me aside and taught me how to record on analog equipment. He had a tape deck and me and a friend would make terrible demos that I hope never see the light of day. That's not true. One of them was actually pretty good. 

But back to the reason I am writing this. Composing and making a simple punk song got me hungry. So we ordered uptown, and I ate a Gyro. But I was still hungry. I realized that the hunger wasn't food, but to compose more. I was very gifted with being able to write rifts. Even helped some friends over the years. It's something people told me my whole life, and because of my self worth, i just couldn't accept it. Well at the edge of sounding smug, now I do. Part of growing as a musician is not just doing what you love, but figuring out what your good at. I am blessed with tragedy caused by my own downfall. I can no longer join a band or tour again. Because of life's circumstance, my face will forever be in the background hidden under a vail. But alas this is not the time to give up. I paid my penance, and now I wanna grow and move on. I can play a solo on guitar, I can be with a team on violin, but it's not what im good at. What I'm good at is coming up riffs, melodies, and arranging them. I'm a composer. A songwriter. That's what I wanna do now. I finally just got my first home starter studio. And this blog is the story of my journey as I learn to use digital recording equipment and compose songs. Do I still have dreams? Absolutely. I hope to one day to compose for video games. 

My name is Brandon Floyd. I'm 36 years old. I'm a dad. I'm a husband. And soon to be, a video game music creator. Time to learn. Here we go...