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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 was meant to be some sort of adventuring music originally, building off the previous upload, Pressing Party (087/366), though this took a different direction as intended. I thought I could improvise from there.

The opening step here was constructing a bassline that used a lot of minor third and second movements, and having that play by a power chord. That'd create the main rhythm throughout the piece, which I had echoed by the drumline.

A castanet was added for a pulse, and an additional rhythm was added in the form of a piano, so I chose to use a honky tonk piano for this. To supplement the honky tonk, I also had it play on the lower register.

Since I wanted this to still try and be adventuring music, I originally thought to include brass, though I ended up deciding upon woodwinds - oboe and pan flute - to play the main melody here.