The Other Side - Sound Attempts

Early on in my project i wanted to try and make the sound in my animation respond to the actions to the character, similar to Fantasia, so that when he took a step a note is played and as he runs a tune is created as i find it hard to imagine my animation with realistic sound effects. So i tried to ask my classmate, Bash Ridha, who has knowledge of playing the piano to try and play some notes on the uni piano that i could try and work with in garageband/Audacity, but unfortunately due to outside noise quality and not actually having any plan on how i want to apply the sound to the animation. I wanted an upbeat and cheery sound but the tone of the piano wasn't right as it wasn't tuned correctly and it was slightly broken this led to out side noise sources causing distributions so i had to figure something else out.

After the unfortunate situation with the piano i went to the internet looking at free royalty music and found something on Free sound.org. It was a homemade, 26 second long piece made on a garage band iPod software titled Happy Music. It for the most part fitted the up beat and peppy atmosphere of my character and the world he inhabits, however it can sound repetitive and quite ingrained into your brain which is something i find very frustrating, i think in future projects i should take more consideration on for sound and how it affects my animation.