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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 D Dorian with descents into the 6th to emphasize the Dorian noise.

I had another idea with piano chords after watching more of the Implied Music Youtube channel (I wrote Harmony in the description of the video, oops), so I wanted to try out this idea out while putting out the next piece. I liked what I had and decided to establish the rest of the song from this information.

I then set up a drum beat emphasizing the third beat of bars and building from there, trying to minimize snare use and creating a pulse rhythm with the hithats. I followed the pulse rhythm with a bassline as well, hitting open hihats for most of the snare hits.

A woodwind lead set was chosen to play on the high register since the piano, bass, and drums mostly dominated the sound levels at that point. I decided to choose an oboe and flute to play the main lead, and having a piccolo play intermittent earcandy to follow the piano arpeggios.