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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 is written in B Dorian.

I was inspired by the use of pizzicatos during old cartoons to signify sneaking scenes, so I wanted to try and build something out of that, and used that as the basis to build the track around. Light hihats and other percussive hits were added to also add on top of that - to create that rhythm, but not too much so that it overwhelms the rest of the track. A walking base built off of a muted guitar was also chosen for a similar reason.

Then some light leads were added on top of the piece, and here we go, my attempt at something a bit... sneaky.