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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.

Nothing too fancy about this one. The biggest experiment here was trying something different with the bassline with varying volumes for each key the instrument plays in.

Otherwise, my work here started off with setting up a galloping hihat beat which translated into playing on both chord notes and bass notes - I chose a clean guitar since I remembered some covers of Megaman's Tomahawk Man stage being played with that, so I got inspired by that idea and decided to build something more Megaman inspired.

I built a song off an ABACB format and used two chord progressions for it, adding some differences for each section to make sure they stood out, and having the C section be an obvious break for this. I think this became a staple for me at this point since this is turning into my new comfort zone for composition.

So, after constructing the bass, drum, and chord lines, I had created a small melody for the C section that I used for the basis for the main motif throughout the song and built the rest of the track from that alone.