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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'd started off with the guitar on this one. I like short little guitar strums for chord rhythms, especially after establishing it on Outback Oasis (036 / 366) so I wanted to try another take on it with a comfort chord progression I like working with in F Lydian. Additionally, just because I didn't want the guitar to do all the heavy lifting with the chord rhythms, I also had a bright piano playing on the high register in an arpeggio made out of 8th notes.

A simple drum rhythm was chosen with a few simple breaks to signify new sections starting off and ending. I'd used this drum rhythm enough that I feel it's also a comfort pick as well.

Since I didn't want the music to be too overwhelming as noted by the percussion choices, I chose a lone vibraphone to act as the main leading instrument in this piece, doing an ABAC format for the music. I had it double up after the first 8 bars of the vibraphone playing, doubling up with different intervals on each section just to add more interest throughout the track.

The bass was just to play the current key notes as needed. I had a fingered bass playing a rhythm section to match the piano, but a deep slap bass was for the B and C sections to help them stand out more.