Photo of me and the little dude by Tina Smith-Pautler

Woke up this morning to find out what the next songwriting challenge on my plate is. The object of Masters of Song Fu #4 Round 2 is:

Write a march.

A march is “a piece of music with a strong regular rhythm which in origin was expressly written for marching to” – and that is your challenge. You can write on any topic. Your song must run no shorter than 1 minute 15 seconds.

And I was just saying the other day that it’s high time I dusted off the old Sousaphone.

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