Rushing Return - Daily 2024 Music Upload (059 / 366)
0This 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 was written in A minor. Original, I know.
The original part here I feel is me using a dual set of string ensembles for both a rhythm setup and setting the chords up. I repeated the same chord progression throughout, and set up a drum pattern on top of that. I used a different offbeat drum beat for the transitional parts of the piece.
As for the melody itself, well, I tried to keep it simple with a simple AAB structure where the A sections were a motif built off of a descending key in A minor (with the harmonizing instrument in E Phrygian) while I used a Call + Response setup for the B section primarily.
The instruments here were just woodwinds, really. I keep thinking about water and trees with these recent pieces so I've been kinda defaulting to them a lot since they help really build that setting with their sound, at least to my ear.
There is a shift in key with the second A section, but otherwise the melody remains the same.