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Hey. Hope everyone is enjoying the summer! Recently finished a track, thought I'd share it here! Have a great day. Peace.

I really like this composition! Probably, they found it too creepy because of the sound effects you added to the music itself. Although the music is somewhat mysterious, I would not call it creepy. I love the harmonies and the sound of the marimba. Take a look at Ligeti's Ricercata No.3. He only uses four notes: C, E, E flat and G, so he can make a major and a minor C triad. This may be interesting for you as a matter of major vs minor.

Creepy or not, perhaps because of the background chord in 00:40 ¿? is quite interesting.

This is a good question because it comes down how serious you are about actually "getting better." The key thing is to remember that "practice" when composing means a lot more than doing exercises or copying things, it means actually pushing yourself constantly out of your comfort zone. For that, you need to first find out where your limitations are and that's when exercises can be useful. Let's say, for example, that I give you an exercise as follows: Compose a bridge between piece A by famous composer to piece B by another famous composer. Let's say you do some Beethoven Sonata to some small piece by Satie. You have 20 measures to do it (and you can't cut or add measures) and the rest is up to you. This kind of exercise is a way to check your skills in many different areas and to see where you are lacking. Maybe your analysis technique is lacking, maybe you can't keep your ideas within a set limit, maybe your ideas are too short, and so on. Once you do this kind of exercise 4 or 5 times, bridging different kinds of pieces, you'll be much better equipped to see what you need to work on.

I had this dream where I am moving silently through a gloomy small village in the desert from scary cult soldiers. So I made a track inspired by that dream. It was an experimental tracks with an atmosphere. Those quirky scream-like sounds you hear are simply just woodwinds. I applied an overdrive filter and used Audacity to add a reverb effect. All edited and mixed with Audacity enjoy...

Just wrote this song to test my new samples, but at the end, it really sounded good to me. Then, I decided to master the track and share it.