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 was written in B Dorian. I wanted to go for something that you could dance to, though I don't quite have the terms down for describing it.

I set up the Square Arpeggio for a rhythm and built a drum rhythm on top of it, then decided to build the lead on top of the drum rhythms. I chose synths here just because I wanted to play around with more synthetic sounds.

I hadn't done tom drum rhythms in a while either, so I wanted to incorporate them into this track in terms of drum fills.

I again set up an ABAC format for the song since this seems to be my comfort zone for working with this so far, and it does seem to work out well for these pieces.

Since the synths sounded a bit empty by themselves, I added pads on top of the music to highlight the extended chord notes.

I also set up this piece to resolve rather than loop endlessly.

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