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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 wanted to focus on something simpler again here, so I came up with this piece in D Dorian.

I'd set up a simple melody first, breaking the mold of my usual "set up the chords and bassline first" steps, and built everything around the melody. I had a flute play chord notes to follow along with the melody, while I had a bassline combined with a shaker play a pulse.

Since the goal was for something simple, I thought to try and focus on trying to make some sort of "RPG town theme" again, though this isn't meant to be one of your happy RPG towns. I imagined that there's some sort of mystery going on and you're not being let in on it.

This idea lead me to setting up the AAB format for the song, with the B section climbing up toward toward some sort of realization that never happens since I meant for this to loop, aside from when the track resolves.