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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'm still on a kick about thinking about water when composing music for the past few weeks.

I was inspired by looking at a few of the piano progression shorts from the Youtube channel Implied Music () and thought to try a few myself. I used an ABAC format to build the music here, using the piano as a basis for building the track.

A hihat was put down to play 8th notes throughout with descending volume for four notes, and I established a bassline to play halved 8th notes while jumping up to the 5th on every third note. The rest of the drums weren't too complex, I used basic drums and pop styled drum sequences for the most part.

I like how this sounded and wanting to continue the recent trend of laid back music, I thought to have the leads be a doubled up pan flute and a blown bottle, set up in a power chord. I had the main lead melody follow the notes of the piano, with some variation here and there.

I had originally thought to have a string or a pad to play chord notes as well, though I decided against it during the development of the piece.