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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.

This piece is written in F Lydian.

As of recent, I've done a lot of pieces in Phrygian or Minor - I've been doing a lot of tense, action, or somber types of pieces in recent memory, so I wanted to do something more lighthearted, which brings us to this piece.

Interestingly enough, the first two parts I worked on here were the shaker and the piano bass - I created a rhythm I liked off of that throughout the piece, but ended up creating the lead with a son clave rhythm. This rhythm was highlighted with the chord notes from the piano.

With that established, I wanted to see if I could accomplish an "RPG Town Theme" which brings us to this piece. I felt to create some sense of familiarity and comfort, I'd use a pan flute with a whistle inserting earcandy in the lead.