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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.

Following the trend of previous pieces dialing back on the percussive elements, I decided to try it again, this time trying to focus more on laid back music, with less tension and more "chill vibes" all around as some would put it.

To start with this, I set up some simple piano chords to play throughout, and set up a series of chords using that as a basis. I set up several different patterns of the piano to follow an ABABC format for this track.

Secondly, I set up a walking bassline, also using different patterns for the ABABC format throughout each section of the track. To supplement the bassline, I played around with my soundfonts and found an Agogo sample that I ended up using for the percussion here, since it helped provide a constant rhythm that could change with each section, while not being completely overwhelming like my past drum experiments have been.

As for the lead, I had the lead swap between a guitar and flute sample. I liked having it set up as some form of call and response that kinda builds upon itself between A Minor and E Phrygian, so I kept that going for the song for the most part.