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This is part of a daily upload challenge I am putting myself up to for 2024. I am currently a self-taught composer of two years, starting my journey of music theory in January 2022, and I am looking to show what I've learned since then by uploading one track a day for the whole year. I originally started off pursuing this as a means to compose music for gaming projects, especially inspired off the works of indie developers such as Toby Fox or ConcernedApe, however, realistically, I am looking into pursuing it more as a hobby - perhaps looking to pursue composition in a more serious capacity in the future.

That said, I am open to critique of my work.

The DAW that I learned to compose with is LMMS, which I picked entirely because it's free. I have considered options such as FL Studio, Reaper, and GarageBand down the line, though for my purposes at the moment this works fine for what I'm doing.

My music is entirely built off soundfonts which I have shamelessly grabbed from Musical Artifacts. The primary ones I'm working with are the Pablemo 2022, Roland SC-88, and the Arachno soundfonts, which can be downloaded from their website and used in your DAW if it supports .sf2 files - to my understanding, most DAWs should support them.

I really like defaulting to an ABAC format, don't I?

This piece was written with the guitar rhythm in mind. Initially, I wanted to experiment with using only a piano or guitar for percussion with this and that's what I started with, but instead just made the guitar itself the rhythm to build the whole track around. I added three different percussive pieces afterward - a marimba to play its own rhythm on top of that, a xylophone to highlight the guitar notes, and a woodblock to play its own pulse.

A piano bass was added to accentuate the end and start of each bar during the main sections of the song.

Since this sounded "earthy" so to speak, I decided to use a pan flute and blown bottle to create a bit more of a woodland type feel for this track. I had thought this sounded like some sort of forested area - mysterious, perhaps, since this is in D Dorian - so I wanted to make a melody to try and highlight that.