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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.

It's been a good while since I last did a frenetic fight track, especially after so many uploads of more laid back music. I think this may need more work.

This originally started off as another attempt at trying to do a rhythm in 7/8 (2+2+3) but ended up turning into ways for me to make use of the Royal Road chord progression.

Starting off, I set up an arpeggio in a piano which I changed into a Celeste to create a feel of "magical mysticism", trying to highlight the root note on the 2+2+3 formation, while doing the same thing with a walking bassline highlighting chord notes. While I chose a synth bass, I forget why I specifically chose it aside from it sounding nice.

A hihat rhythm was set up to be a pulse that also set up under that 2+2+3 rhythm, and I set up a kick and snare pattern to create a AABB format for the song.

The lead I set up to emphasize chords every two bars, and tried to follow the aforementioned 2+2+3 format throughout the song. I had thought the Fantasia sample was enough to stand out amidst all the background noise and creates a very interesting lead to follow.