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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 was written in A minor intended to be a simple track. I'd set up a piano to act as an arpeggio for chord notes playing in a Son Clave rhythm.

A drumline was then established to set up some sort of rhythm, where I started off with a four on the floor beat then expanded the hihats further past that. The drumline is seen below, repeated throughout the whole song.

Then, I set up a bassline to additionally follow chord notes every 4th beat decided to establish an AAB structure for the song.

I then decided to use a calliope to play the song in a high register while all the other instruments were doing their own thing. I basically wanted to use a period structure for the song to ensure that a motif was really driven home throughout the piece.

The B section was meant to have a transition right before the double calliope plays, intended to be a break to highlight the hihats and the bass, right before the double calliope dominates the sound for the entirety of the section.