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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 wanted to write something in a more irregular time signature (5/4) and using a healthy amount of breaks inbetween each bar, so I built the whole piece around that. The hihats and bass were added to work in harmony to create a driving rhythm for the rest of the piece, and the lead strings were supplemented by an oboe one minor third above for harmony purposes.

The piano chords were set up to play alongside the kick drums and help reinforce that side of the rhythm. A backing choir was added to supplement the chords on top of that.

Aside from that, I don't think I tried anything too complex with this piece. I've been wanting to keep things simple for the most part.