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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 been having a lot of fun playing around with guitar riffs and that's how this piece started off. I set up a guitar riff on a clean guitar sample, and set up drums and a fretless bass to follow it.

For the intro segment, I set up a reed organ and a doublebass to supplement the chords and bass respectively, just before the main combination of the guitar + woodwinds kick in for the main lead. I also had a pulse hihat get set up, though I realize upon writing this I didn't do more with it than I wanted to.

The melody itself I wanted to keep simple for the most part, repeating the same motif into an ABC format. However, I wanted to shift around the main focus of the instrument since for the A section I used a period format, the B section I inserted earcandy, while in the C section I included a call and response setup and a change in format.

While it's written in F Lydian, this piece to me sounds very solemn - likely a result of the instruments chosen - so I chose the title and direction of the piece based off of that rather than the key it's written in.