farasharaks
New member
hello, I have a question regarding song choice for an upcoming performance I have in 2 weeks. I will be performing at a local hafla, it is a very warm and casual event, family oriented and lot of my friends from the BD community will be there as well, to watch and to perform. I have a song that I love and was feeling a lot, and have been practicing to it, a beautiful accordian baladi piece, but it turns out that the organizer of the show feels it's too long, approx. 4:33 minutes. She wanted me to shorten it to 4:00. I've spent hours trying to cut the song to the 4 minutes, but so far have only gotten to 4:10 without ruining the sound of the song, or making it sound "cut off". I was wondering, I found another song that is also a baladi, but it's 2:57 minutes. So far I have been trying to practice to both songs to find how I feel about them both. I don't know, is it too late at this point to change songs for the show? Or should I just go with my original song and just explain my situation? What would you do? Both are great songs! I just don't know what to do! I have to send my song choice asap, and I thought I would avoid the hassle and just do a shorter piece. What do you think? Btw, this has happened before, the song is always too long, and I spend hours and hours trying to fix the situation, and I was just trying to avoid the frustration!