Track 3 of 9 from the album Silent Decade. 

Higher quality audio and original .it file available on Bandcamp: https://aemuhn.bandcamp.com/album/silent-decade

Composed in mid-2016, released in 2021.

This one was composed intentionally as a pony song in mind, particularly on Daring Do, as she traverses through the thick forest and eventually into the pyramid to retrieve some kind of priceless artefact of some sort, but she has to deal with some riddles first in order to move on, hence the song title.

I'm still proud of this one. This was one of my early attempts at composing a 3-minute song, cus I tend to usually end my songs around one minute or a bit over. It was (and still is) challenging to tackle composing something this long without modifying the tempo much, yet still making the melody sound interesting, or at least I think it sounds interesting. The other main goal was also to not make the melody too repetitive, I think I've ticked that off of the list on this one.

I'm not really satisfied with the ending. Without a doubt, it's rushed and not a lot of thought was put into it, I just really wanted to get over it. I could probably improve it somehow still, but I've really got no time nor desire to touch it again. It is what it is unless you guys wanna give it a try and improve it somehow. 

That being said, it was a huge mistake not to ask for any feedback while working on the entire thing. I only bothered myself to ask for one when the entire song was finished. Can't really say it didn't destroy me, but it did convince me to improve the song as I was still constantly listening to it over and over again.

Art by Anticular, used with permission
https://twitter.com/anticular/status/1346184627409440768