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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 really liked the drum patterns for Siren Syndrome (043 / 366) so I wanted to give those another shot. I tried something else and created an ABAB format and made modifications from there.

That said, I felt this one should remain simple - while I initially intended the bass lead to act as the main lead, I felt it was more appropriate for the electric piano (playing the chord notes) to act more as the main lead for this track, and used the bass lead more as an interim for each of the drum breaks.

As a result, I tried to create a melodic motif through the piano's chord notes instead, creating a bit of a period format in regards to how the notes were played for the piano pieces, especially when I switched between held notes and singular notes for chord tones.

I feel this may be a little too simple, though. I tried doing some variations of the i - VII - VI - v chord progression in E minor to help maintain interest, though I'm also interested if there're other approaches to this idea that I could've taken.