Duration: 2:36

28 views

0

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 A Minor.

I had an idea with rising 8th strings playing chords so I started off with that and decided to build something out of it. I didn't want to try anything too complicated with this idea since I did feel experimental so I kept this as simple as I could from that point onward.

This sounded like it was leading up to something, so I wanted to build this as some sort of marching galloping rhythm, so I set up a rhythmic bass and hihats to accompany that, with simple drum beats on top of that.

Then, I set up a lead into a basic AB structure. Both sections are supposed to be taking blues chords, which I think should work out to sounding good in the long run.