Chapter 202 – #28. Single (4)
“Are the preparations for the single album going well?”
I shook my head at Jackie’s question.
“No, not really?”
“What do you think about composing with me?”
“You want to do it together?”
Come to think of it, since I co-wrote the song with Ah Hyun, it seemed like there was no law telling Jeki not to do it.
Like I do with Ahyeon, if I get inspired and pass it on to Jeki, won’t he make a song on his own?
The problem was that Jackie, who was good at composing alone, had no reason to work with me.
“Why all of a sudden?”
“Since we’re preparing songs for our single album, I thought it would be meaningful to compose with my brother. Also, I want to see hyung composing up close. He said he was also learning to produce these days. I should try composing comfortably with hyung’s help.”
“Ah~ Are you a little overweight? I’m just starting to learn Rather, I compose comfortably with your help. If you ask me to make a song together, it’s something I’ll be very grateful for.”
“Then are you doing it together?”
“Call!”
I exchanged fist greetings with Jackie.
“… I wouldn’t be able to handle that.”
Without even knowing that Kyung-tae hyung was muttering to himself after seeing it.
♧ ♧ ♧
In the end, it was only a few days later that Satan broke out.
“Brother! I really liked what you sent me last time.”
“So, are we finally starting now?”
“No. Let’s do a little more.”
“Also?”
“Brother can do it. Go for it!”
“Did you ask us to compose together for this?! Stop brushing it off!”
“Your brother has endless possibilities. It’s a process of scraping it all the way to the bottom.”
It was fine at first.
No, it seems to have been tolerable.
There were a lot of things I was asked to do, but I accepted it without hesitation because they said it was for the sake of composing.
‘No, why is there no end!!’
The problem is that Jackie’s demands of me never end.
“When the hell are you going to write a song?”
“The main melody has to come out.”
“You made several of them a day.”
“There was a good melody, but since I kept asking for it, my brother brought me a better one.”
“…”
After all, I’ve dug my own grave.
“Did you know that my brother sent 16 melodies in a week? It didn’t even feel like it.”
Jackie gave it like homework, so he didn’t know he had spent so much.
It is said that the more samples of the central melody, the better, so if there was something that came to mind, I randomly took a picture and sent it.
“Not all of those 16 melodies were proper melodies.”
“Even if it doesn’t seem like a big deal to you, when these things gather and pile up, they become a composer’s most precious asset.”
“Okay.”
“It’s the melody that makes our single album songs. Even if it’s a little hard work, you’ll definitely be proud of the results.”
Jackie was gently coaxing me into trying to pull out the melody over and over again.
It was difficult to say that I did not want to do these actions because they were not for my own benefit, but would be used for all of us.
Besides, wasn’t it me who accepted Zeki’s offer?
“It’s going to be hard, but let’s try a little more. I think something really good will come out.”
“… Was the melody I sent useful?”
“Of course.”
Giving up just because it was painful was an act of hurting one’s pride.
I’d rather come up with more melodies and make Jackie no longer give me homework.
“I can’t help it because it helps. But you can’t just keep making melodies. There is a deadline.”
“Um, then until next week?”
“…”
Tuk-tuk!
“Keep struggling. I think you are a real genius. All of them were my favorite melodies. The picky producer Han isn’t teaching him for nothing.”
Composers who can create good melodies are highly likely to explode their potential, and if they do, I want them to explode with the songs they sing.
“Don’t force it up. ‘Cause I’ll keep doing it I just said one word because I was told to keep making melodies without making any progress. If you’re looking for a better melody, you’ll have to cooperate.”
“Whoa… Okay, I’ll try one more week.”
“Exorcism! I’ll make it truly amazing.”
Jackie gave a thumbs up.
I don’t know if you know that’s even more disgusting, but…
After receiving my consent, Jackie began to tighten me tighter from that day on.
‘Still, investing with coins wasn’t a waste of money.’
Nonetheless, I quickly adapted to Jackie’s Sparta.
If you want a melody, eat it and put it in until you die. He made everything that came to his mind and sent it to Jackie’s email.
‘It was really salty because it was squeezed so strangely.’
What’s even more surprising is that the inspiration that didn’t come often began to come much more often, perhaps fueled by Jeki’s continued homework.
When the 50% went over, it seemed that the ability I received could be used more often the more I did the work related to that ability.
However, inspiration did not always show great creativity.
Also, depending on how well you use that inspiration and mix it well, the level of the song changes.
Jackie did just that part well.
After a week as promised, Jeki started working in earnest.
I mixed the melodies I sent to me to create a big stem, the main melody, and started putting them together.
“The technology is different, it is different. If I have coffee, you are TOP.”
“What do you mean?”
Watching Jackie work, I gave a thumbs up.
There is no TOP coffee here, so Jackie couldn’t understand what I was saying, but he seemed to notice that it was a nuance of roughly complimenting.
“You are doing well.”
“Ever since I was little, I ate only this, and of course I have to do well.”
“Since when did you want to become an idol?”
“Are you 9 years old? Then.”
“Since you were that young?”
“Because I am a man, my mother did not let me go outside. I’m bored all day, so there’s nothing to do but watch TV. Among the singers who appeared on TV at that time, there was a male singer, and after seeing that, I guess I wondered if I could live freely like that if I became a singer.”
“So that’s why you aspired to become an idol.”
There are more families than before that do not send boys outside.
As a father with a son, I was cautious about letting Taeyang go outside, so I knew that feeling well.
“Huh. Purpose has been achieved. Because of practice, my time at home has been cut short.”
“Why did you become a rapper other than being a vocalist? Why did you start composing?”
“When I was young, I wanted to be a vocalist, but no matter how hard I tried, my voice didn’t seem to suit a young vocalist. The base is terrible, but I wanted to do something with it. At that time, I thought that once I started, I had to become a star. But my voice was uncompetitive. So I started rapping.”
“Isn’t the voice important in rap too?”
“I was young and didn’t know. If you can’t be a vocalist, you’re a rapper! Because I started to learn.”
“But don’t you have a good voice?”
When I saw it, Zeki’s voice seemed too good to give up vocals because his voice wasn’t good.
“When I came to my second growth, my voice changed dramatically. It was a voice I didn’t like to hear when I was young.”
“Then why didn’t you go back to being a vocalist? I think you did well enough.”
“I fell in love with rap because it is as attractive as vocals. It happened because I started composing thanks to that.”
He is said to have developed an interest in songwriting while learning to rap.
He said that after writing the lyrics, he wanted to create a melody suitable for the lyrics.
“Have you finished sketching? Please listen to it once and point out any shortcomings.”
“Okay.”
Finally, the finished song is played.
“…”
“…”
It’s still in the sketching stage, so I’m not sure…
“Good?”
“Are you fine? Why am I so good at making this too? Because you did.”
“Uh, but… For a moment.”
Inspiration comes to mind
There was a time when inspiration came to me when I listened to a good song, but now when I listen to this song, I am surprisingly inspired.
I hurriedly started creating melodies that inspired me with a songwriting program.
When you’ve finally created all the songs you’ve been inspired by.
Jackie watched silently and then said a word.
“… You are truly a genius.”
“It just came to mind when I heard a good song.”
“There are definitely similar feelings. Did you think of this all of a sudden?”
Jeki started listening to the song I made over and over again, smiling dejectedly as if Hyeonta was coming.
“It is said that masterpieces are made in an instant, and songs are made like this. It seems like they asked to co-compose for no reason. I must have been a hindrance to you.”
Each composer has a different style.
There are people who create melodies with great agony, and there are people like me who are inspired and write at once.
The latter method was bound to envy the former case.
“It’s our song because we came up with it after listening to the song you made. If you hadn’t made a song like this, this song wouldn’t have come out.”
In fact, the song he made with his hands was great, but if you directly compare it to the song I just made, everyone could see that my song was better.
Even if someone other than Jackie and I listened to it, they would choose it that way as well.
“Even if I hear it once, I keep thinking of that melody.”
It’s not because I made it, it’s because the ability of inspiration is so fraudulent.
“Let’s just go with this one. Even though I said that I would co-compose with my brother and drink some honey, I didn’t really expect that to happen.”
“You didn’t do anything. And you have a lot to do in the future. I know how to do it up to this point, but my ability to finish a song is a bit lacking.”
“It’s only natural that I have just started learning. Leave the rest to me In fact, my hands have been itching ever since.”
This is a song with only one piano.
I have to make this into a proper song, but if Jeki’s sense is added, it will be born as a good song.
“Because the ingredients are good, there will definitely be a hit song. Let’s push for a single album with this song.”
Is this the mind of a chef who has obtained fresh and good ingredients?
Jackie’s eyes flashed.
To be honest, since we don’t only receive songs, it’s hard to be sure if we can do that even if we say we’ll do it with this song.
“If you leave it to me, I’ll make it the best song ever.”
But looking at how confident Jackie is, it must be that the song I just made is good.
“Is there anything else I can do?”
“When a song is chosen, you just have to check if there are any parts that are lacking.”
I can make ingredients, but I’ve never made delicious food out of them.
Even when she was taking production classes, she had been doing her homework with Ah Hyun Yi, so she didn’t have the confidence to take on an important song.
In such a situation, he doesn’t know how reassuring he is when Jackie tells him to trust only himself.
“Okay, I believe in you.”
Damn!
We got along well and gave high fives.
While co-composing, I felt like I became very close with Zeki.
Although he is usually young, he has a serious personality, so it was not easy to treat him, but after talking about composing, he realized that he was no different from his peers.
And.
After hearing that I had chosen a good song while co-composing with Jeki, Ahyeon began to show an unexpected competitive spirit.
