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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 is written in D Dorian.

After listening to the Bomberman 64 soundtrack recently, I was inspired off of the stage select theme and Green Garden's theme, so I built an alternating chord and arpeggio with a bright piano and marimba, respectively. To fit the chord + arpeggio combo that I had in mind, I used a 12/8 time signature to fit this all in.

I designed the rest off of this - a xylophone with a muted guitar creates a bass pulse that the rest of the track goes off of, with a harmonized power chord lead of a whistle + ocarina to play the lead. I kept the lead simple on purpose, since I didn't want to overcomplicate this one.