Ok. I wasn’t as prepared as I thought. This song took me 63 minutes to compose from the press of the start button to bouncing the mix to mp3. I broke rule 2, but I’ll forgive myself because I had left a guitar on the opposite end of the house, and Elijah (my 4-year-old) came in the room wanting something.

Again, this challenge is really just a personal exercise. The goal is not perfection. In fact, the goal is to break myself of the need of perfection which holds me back in life. Again, “95 percent and published is better than 100% and still in your head.”

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I’ve decided to start the New Year with a challenge to inpsire creativity and help me get over my incessant need to perfect whatever I’m working on before stamping my name on it and placing it before the public.

Here are the rules:

1. I must write one song per day for 30 days.

2. From pressing the record button, to bouncing the mix to MP3, the time allotted is no more than an hour – preferably half that.

3. Song must be at least 90 seconds long.

4. Song must have at least 4 tracks.

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