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 was meant to be a more serious attempt at doing electronic styled music. I tried to go for an AAB format for the music to loop as much as needed, giving it a resolution for when it does need to end.

I'd started this off by studying some electronic dance drum beats and built something based off a few that I saw. I made it reliant on the hihats for a pedal rhythm and built a walking baseline based on the hihat hits for each section. The bass sections also tried to play the chord notes, but just to make sure that the notes were being highlighted correctly, I had a synth in the background playing the held chord notes throughout each section.

Because I wasn't completely familiar with electronic styled music, I looked up some EDM melody examples to build a melody out of the compositions I saw. There's a continuing key change between F Minor and C Phrygian throughout the song in each section that I also wanted to highlight in the main lead.

Since we're already playing with electronic music, and I used EDM for a base for the lead, I decided upon a polysynth to play that main lead.

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