Ok I am jacked up because I am

SO GLAD YOU ARE HERE!!

I love writin's songs so yeah, most of this is behind the scenes information and deets on the track, above me you have the very first night the song came into existence, and below is a short VLOG with behind the scene footage. go a little further and you can find special one of a kind free downloads avail because you made it here! I dig it,... respect it...

Go ahead and get this while you can - It's a ruff cut in a different syle that I would love to collab on with the right producer. A whole different side of Cord & brigade ahahahaha.

This is a look under the hood at the Piano part I wrote, mainly in one swoop with a few edits. You can download this for free as well.

This song was inspired by one lonesome night. I was fiddling with a melody and chord progression simulationiosly and feel into something that moved me enough to bring my phone out and record it. In my mind I went to far away place unknown to me, midst a battle I was stunned into a timeless existence standing mid field, cannons and gunfire swooshing around my body in slow motion like a marvel film. I titled it brigade because it felt like a united effort on all fronts to charge into next stage of life.
I started messing with riffs on guitar for the song structure, but what really set the tune off for me was when sat down at he piano & pulled some string charts out to starting writing lines for different instruments. The piano was vital and ending up being the bed of which much of tune was arranged and composed on. I geek out on programming and scores big time lol.

There was a haunting and I knew the score in my mind would be a great intro into the “charge” itself. Again the battle hymn, then the battle cry, the charge, the fight, the glory, the pain. I wanted it all to be there and palpable when you heard it.

Live we use a special recording to start the track and sometimes the entire show. Since this song is Inspired by Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade, I decided what better way to commemorate one of the first recordings ever by mankind ( Thomas Edison went and recorded Tennyson speaking this Poem onto one of the first wax records in existence ) being an audiophile I thought this was super dope, and reminded how far we have came as humans in this new world of painting the air with audio.
Below I attached half of a Chump version that you can bump in your car for me. It goes pretty hard and I put it together while digging deep into the vocal recording process.
For vox I wanted to embroider around my voice with something haunting, so I choose to use reverse reverb vocal tails to help paint that picture. I know that is a mouthful, but It adds the atmosphere for the whole song, and there is even some hidden things I say if you listen closely 
This and Talkin’ are the first TROY songs to record in a Drop B position, given us a little more play on things. I also have a demo of my vox that I recorded in a different key around the beginning of the song. We used it to base much of the vibe of the completed finished track! Hope you enjoyed this backwoods instructional on how my brain functions.

Much love!

Vocals : Shure SM7

Gibson Les Paul gold top

api preamp

SSL Analog Color Box

Modded Golden Age 1073 Clone preamp

Empirical Labs Distressor

1992 Megaphone

Radial DI

Fender Telecaster

Ernie Ball Strings Not -Even Slinky's

Reason Orchestra & Strings