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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 thought to try something a bit more basic this time, so I came up with a simple walking bassline focused around 4ths and set up a supplemental string chord to play alongside it. After setting up some drums for it, I thought to try something in an A Minor AABC format, so I built the rest around that.

I don't think there's too many interesting things to mention about this one. I tried setting up different drum patterns for each section and each section did have a short intro segment before the main piece, while I alternated key and volume for each instrument throughout the song.

I did decide on the wind instruments purely because I wanted something to play on the higher register, so there wasn't really a complex decision made for that part either, and the song itself mainly tried to follow the beat of either the drums or the current string chords playing at the time (or both).

I didn't even do much with the harmonies since I focused a lot on power chords to help make the leading instruments stand out more over the other backing instruments.