Feb Song Challenge

This month Lumus is giving a challenge to ourselves.  The rules of the challenge are

-Write, Record, Mix, and Publish a new instrumental in 3 weeks time.

We started Saturday February 5 (or I did as songwriter), and by monday night I had sheet music and rehearsal tracks for everyone.  The end result we intend to use as a demo to prospect some video game soundtrack work, so I had some additional criteria in mind when composing:

-Each section of the song should be able to loop to any other section.
-No section should directly repeat any other section
-overall song length should be about 5 minutes

The first two I nailed.  The song is in Em with no key changes.  The sections all flow well into each other, and some of the sections have some accidentals.  It all sounds related, but not quite the same- which is exactly what I was going for.  I only managed to get 3:20 though, so I failed in my personal goal of 5 mins.  But I'm happy with what I've written and console myself with a couple thoughts- first that for a demo, 5 mins is probably too long anyway.  Second that to perform the song live my band will repeat one or more sections, and throw in probably 2 solo breaks, so the performed song will probably exceed 5 min.

Overall I'm happy with the outcome.  When I'm excited enough about a song that I can listen to my midi version over and over pre-recording I know I've done alright!  Now I'm eager to learn it with the band, and get on to recording!