I did my weekly SongFight! ritual on Saturday morning, creating a track for the Green fight starting tomorrow. It’s called Hold My Calls. I focused a bit more on the music this time, and I think it came out pretty good.

Going into this fight I told myself, “I’m going to make a song that’s three minutes long, or I’m a failure”. I worked for several hours and came up with something that I thought was pretty good, but according to the program I was working in, it was only 90 seconds long!

I fought with it for a while more, and I couldn’t come up with a coherent way to make it longer. I spent a lot of time on a new part, and when I added it to the song it was only 8 seconds longer. I had hit a brick wall. I was a failure. I give up.

I dumped the song into Sound Forge for a little mastering, and it said the song was 3:06 long. I had been looking at the number of measures in the other program. It was 90 measures… not 90 seconds!

Obviously I am a dope on several levels here. I must have listened to the song 15 times straight through as I tweaked it and added flourishes to keep it interesting. I thought to myself a few times “this is the longest 90 seconds I’ve ever experienced,” but I was a slave to the numbers on the screen. I just assumed it was boring.

Anyway, I reached my 3 minute goal. I have no concept of time. At least the song came out pretty good.