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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.

While watching the @ImpliedMusic Youtube channel, I found an interesting harmony that he displayed on one of his shorts, titled "Beautiful Piano Tricks. Dense Interlocking Pattern".

I really liked how it sounded, so I tried something myself on a piano sample and created a melody off of it. When I listened to what I came up with, I thought it sounded otherwordly, ethereal, and supernatural - so I thought to create something along the lines of "heavenly".

While I did set up drums off of the initial piano test, the other instruments I set up afterward to supplement this - I replaced the piano with a harp, had a choir playing held chord notes, and a pulsing bassline to play the current key. I chose high strings and woodwinds to play the main melody, based off of the notes played by the harp. There was a heavy emphasis on the Son Clave rhythm played by the non-pulse notes on the harp.

So, I set up an ABAC format for the main melody and separated the instruments by power chords for harmony purposes.