Hi, I’m Patrick Barry Brown, a composer, guitarist, producer, songwriter, singer, arranger, keyboardist, and accomplished kazoo recording artist from Indiana! If you know my band Three Cities, you may know me as the bedazzled gold robe-wearing shredder who goes by the name Barry Lee Legal. If you’ve picked up on any of the McDonald’s propaganda I’ve been spewing on TikTok, you might know me as bndnm gnr8r.

I put together this site to showcase my musical interests and highlight some of the projects I’ve written, produced, or played on. I’m currently in releasing singles under bndnm gnr8r and I am looking for freelance scoring work for film & TV, studio or live guitar work, and production work with independent artists.

Musical Background (Highlights)

• 20 years seriously playing guitar
• 30 years dabbling in piano, organ, and synths
• 3 albums with Three Cities
• 2 short film scores
• 1 solo album
• Studied or received instruction in guitar, keys, drums, voice, and composition at Belmont, Indiana, Cinncinnati Conservatory and privately with several incredible teachers
• Works out of a studio in West Lafayette using Reaper for a DAW and Finale + NotePerformer for composition

Musical Background (Long Version)

I began learning piano at the age of 5 from my piano-instructor grandma and grew up listening to my dad play Hammond organ in the living room. Then, one fateful afternoon watching TRL (if that doesn’t date me…) I saw the premier of Sum 41’s Fat Lip video (…that one will) and thought, ‘yeah I wanna do that!’ I began taking guitar lessons with Jason Miller (Howard Livingston, Craig Campbell) in 8th grade. Through high school, I studied classical guitar with Dr. Andrew Shepard-Smith (Huntington University), attended camps and seminars at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and performed in master classes with Stanley Yates (Austin Peay State University), Petar Jankovich and Atanas Tzvetkov (Indiana University). I also played in various school bands and orchestras and began producing performances as well as arranging pieces in Finale — most notably, my senior year I arranged a Christmas medley for my high school string orchestra, a small wind section, and a rock band…it was basically a Trans Siberian Orchestra rip-off, but hey, I was 18!

While I was a teenager, I was OBSESSED with the great shredders and pickers like Yngwie, Petrucci, McLaughlin, Wylde, Gilbert, and Vai. My two favorite albums to blast in my parents’ old ’98 Suburban were Ozzy’s Tribute and GNR’s Appetite for Destruction. I simultaneously loved Star Wars and Bach, and grew up in the heyday of emo and crunk, and this diversity of musical tastes has stayed with me my entire life. My two high school bands Las Cabezas de Metal and Reason to Remember were loud, rowdy, and shreddy – I never let those things go either! On a sidenote – let’s bring back MySpace!

I studied guitar at Belmont University for a year with Mario DaSilva (private lessons) and Robert Thomspon (ensemble), taking advantage of opportunities to perform on Nashville’s NPR station, jam with and learn from the incredible talent pool of musicians at Belmont, and perform and record guitars for other artists. Jury pieces included the prelude to Bach’s Lute Suite in C Minor (BWV 997), Abeniz’s Asturias and Torre Bermeja, and Sor’s Variations on a Theme by Mozart. I also got a chance to perform the duet No Feathers on This Frog by Dusan Bogdonavic at Belmont’s spring guitar ensemble recital.

I eventually ended up at Purdue where I studied economics (because, like, the music industry is kinda wild, man). After graduating, I began learning in-the-box production by making EDM tracks in a demo version of Fruity Loops on my old HP laptop. Shortly after, I was inspired to start Three Cities, the loud, raucous, retro-fetishist heavy metal band that dominated (kind of) the north central Indiana rock n roll scene from 2016 until the pandemic. We recorded and released 2 studios albums and 1 live album, and I personally wrote music, lyrics, or both for 18 original tracks. I also produced all 3 albums, oversaw recording sessions, and mixed our first album.

Some of our most notable performances were at Middle Waves Music Festival, The Clyde Theater, Lafayette Theater, multiple Brewed in the Fort festivals, Watermark Brewery, The Melody Inn’s Punk Rock Night, and opening for Faster Pussycat. The boys in this band have become some of my closest friends and it’s been an absolute pleasure to share the stage with Terel, David, Anthony, and Brad. This band also gave me a chance to relive my teenage fantasies of being on stage with Ozzy and Axl, slinging guitar in colorful costumes in front of loud amps – it was an absolute blast and a huge chop builder!

When the pandemic hit, live shows slowed down and I had to look for a new creative outlet — I found it in the form of film scoring. I worked on two short films Saint Joseph and Aphantasia in 2021 and the soundtracks for both are featured here in my portfolio. This experience also made me realize how little I really knew about film scoring and I set out to find a teacher. I have been studying composition privately with Matt Gibbs of Nashville since the summer of 2021 and have been focusing on expanding my harmonic vocabulary, composition techniques, and orchestration chops.

bndmm gnr8r is my newest project, pop music with a focus on blending narrative with eclectic music decisions. I released my first single “McDonald’s (FRENCH FRIES!!!1)” on July 5th, 2024, and will be releasing a new single on the first Friday of each month until the entire album is out in 2025.

Additionally, I have studied drums with Brad Harner (McGuire Music & Sound, Lafayette), classical organ with Dr. John Maher (Indiana Wesleyan University), and received vocal coaching from Kristen Bennett (Carmel School of Rock) and Amberly Winfrey.

You can check out all my projects in my portfolio here. If you’re interested in working together, hit me up!