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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 piece was written in E Phrygian, with a starting base on developing a high register arpeggio with the piano. I think I was still inspired by Boomer Kuwanger's theme from Mega Man X and wanted to do something else starting off in that vein, so I gave it a shot.

Establishing the arpeggio, I set up a shaker rhythm to play alongside it just to establish those notes even more, then added in a slap bass to create a pulse for the song to follow.

Afterward, I set up a kick/snare pattern, and thought to use a classic string + woodwind lead combination for the melody.

Melodically I wanted to repeat the same motif in a period format in an ABC format, outside of the second "verse" of the C section where I wanted to introduce a different yet similar motif to really make that portion of the song stand out.

I was tempted to do some countermelodies here though my initial attempts at it sounded sloppy, so I dropped them.