Okay, so I’m basically just getting into the weeds a little with BMI stuff that probably nobody really cares about. But it’s what on my mind, and feels important to me personally, in this moment. And… it’s my blog haha.
So, my writing partner and I present tomorrow. And I kinda sorta feel like there’s weirdly a lot riding on this presentation. Well, it feels like there’s always a lot riding on every presentation, really. (As, for anyone who doesn’t know, there’s a big cut at the end of the year. You do your four best songs, and if they’re good enough, you get to stay.)
So, this whole year, we’re chasing after having four great songs. Thus far, we’ve gotten to present four songs. [In total, you’ll present 8 or 9, and that will include any re-writes you do.]
And here’s where we stand after our first four:
One we threw out. (I still like it, but they don’t. So, it’s gone.)
We have two more that we feel generally pretty good/strong about! They’re almost certainly gonna be in the final presentation. We need to do slight rewrites on them, but the notes are specific and, for the most part, small. So, it should be extremely manageable. We’re in a good spot on those.
And then, we have one more we feel eeeeeeh kinda good-ish about. Overall, the class liked it, but there were more notes on that one. It needs to go in a whole kinda different direction. (We will absolutely need to present it again as a re-write before doing it for the final. It’s at least that much amount of re-writing.)
So, that’s where we currently stand – with basically one definite no, two reasonably definite yeses, and one maybe that would really be okay…
Now, we have a presentation tomorrow. And then we’re currently scheduled for 3 more after that (though everyone might get one more). We’re all gonna see how the schedule shakes out as the year progresses. But right now, all we can count on for sure is 3 after this.
So, *if* this one goes well, we’re in a really good spot.
Because, in that scenario, one of our remaining 3 will be used for the overhaul-ish re-write, and then we’ll still have *two* more presentations adter that – meaning that if soooomehow we screw up the overhaul-ish re-write, we have a chance to still do a new song (and get a re-write!). (Or to do two to more songs, etc.)
And if the overhaul re-write presentation went well, well, then we’d have two remaining presentations for the other much smaller rewrites to be sure we got them right.
So, we’ll have time. We’ll have space. Things will be good.
But *if* this song is a major disaster and/or one they say to throw away, then we’ve only got 3 chances left (which really means 2, because one of those has to go to the over-haul-y song) – still an okay(!) place to be (because we still have time to get a song right), but not as much of a beautiful, comfy place to be…
So, I dunno. Guess we’ll see soon enough! (Eep!)