[JWEB] Yabana Rei (Itanji Nippou Samuraifu) - 18 May 2022 (Part 2)

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Part 2 of Yabana's jweb!

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By the way, when I was discussing classical arrangements with Daka-san

I did send a demo of a classical piece that I’d lightly rearranged

It was an arrangement of Schubert’s “Erlkönig”

I sent him a file titled

20220324 Erlkonig Break Core.mp3

I was rejected immediately

How sad (well, it’s to be expected)

But, influenced by the idea of

Doing a breakcore* remix of a classical piece

(Or rather, well, it’s just that I personally quite liked it)

[ T/N: Breakcore is a style of electronic dance music. ]

We began work on producing “Swan Lake”

As a never-heard-of(?) mix of music:

Classical x Breakcore x Rock

(If anyone knows of anyone who has done this before, please let me know)

3/28

It was 5 days before our first time appearing in real-time for the broadcast of Rajira

By the way, on this day

We shot the first video for SamRok.

Along with the work for that

We also began working on the arrangement for “Shout”.

This was a little before Swan Lake

But for me, when I listened to that song

The image of Reia-kun holding a megaphone in one hand

And shouting through it in a warped voice

Ran through my head

Let’s make it happen, here.

While sorting out Reia-kun’s vocals

And the guitar part

We had actually already started working on updating “Shout” to make it more “us”

A while ago

And we did already have a version that had

A slightly longer intro

There’s no plan to perform that version currently, though

4/6

At this point, we were able to determine

The detailed staging, and what we could actually realistically do.

The setlist was also pretty much fixed

And what we had left was to determine what to do for each song

And how to link them together,

From a music production perspective we were getting to the best part of the process.

Around this time, we were also

Starting to get into the rehearsals for Globe Theatre

So it was getting pretty chaotic.

4/24

On this day, Taikou, Daka-san and I went to see a concert together.

I wrote a blog entry on it right after, didn’t I

It was a concert were various artists appeared, and the venue was Makuhari Messe

The hall was different, but

This would be the venue that we would be performing in only weeks later.

A part of (the visit) was to learn from watching the live performance of a pro

But we also had the intention of checking out the venue where we’d be performing,

And to check out how it looked

And for me, personally

I wanted to check out the acoustics of Makuhari Messe as a venue

Whether high notes could be heard easily,

How strong the echo would be,

We wouldn’t have as much time to do a last-minute push as compared to our usual concerts

So ever since we started working on the music

I’d been aiming to tailor it specifically to Makuhari Messe

And that’s why I came to check the venue out

It’s a venue I’ve visited many times to watch concerts

But this time I was watching while consciously keeping those things in mind.

And then

I made plans for the 3 songs

Swan Lake – Cinderella Girl – Shout

To link to each other smoothly without getting choppy in between

And made small adjustments here and there

While getting the members’ opinions and building upon what we did in rehearsal,

5/10

On this day, the Final Mix of the music

The final version of the track that contained the dance music and the sound effects that would play on the actual day

Was completed

On this day

The music production process of 1.5 months

Had finally come to an end…!!

…And that

Was a detailed recap of the production work behind the scenes

All the way up till the actual performance for GirlsAward

I think everyone else would already have written in their blogs

About what it was like on the day itself, and stuff like that

So please, go and read those as well

Finally, I’ll put up a selfie I took on that day

And sign off here

I think this is the best I’ve looked, recently?? ^^

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Well then, I will meet you again next week,

Until then~ (^^)/ｼ

P.S. By the way, in preparation for (the concert) this time around I got a new bass

It’s #Mynewgear

It is a 6-stringed bass from my beloved Ibanez-san

I’ll put up a bonus photo I took with Konpi,

Who uses a guitar from the same maker (^^)b

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