Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Epilogue
Categories Genre: All, Comedy, Completed, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life Status: Completed ______
Total Chapters in book: 283
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Jun Hyuk remembered something he had been forgetting,
“Oh right. Didn’t you say that your band has 3 people? You still don’t have enough people when it’s been almost a year?”
“Oh, no. Guitar, drum, bass. I’m the bass. I do guitar and vocals as well.”
“Then it’s all full. Why are you asking me when you have everything – guitar, bass, drums, vocals?”
“We don’t have a keyboardist. I’m a major in classical too. I need the grandiosity that comes from a keyboardist instead of a simple configuration.”
“Hey! You should have said that earlier. Then I don’t have any interest. I play the piano so much in the quintet but to play the keyboard in the band? Forget it.”
Jun Hyuk found the perfect excuse to refuse the offer. He was not just turning Coline down, but also his own self who wanted to be in the band.
“Hey! Don’t just say you don’t want to do it and talk after you listen to our music.”
“What famous band’s songs do you guys normally practice?”
“Are you crazy? You think we’re doing the band for fun right now? Our goal is to release a record. We’re professionals.”
Coline was miffed at Jun Hyuk who thought that he would just be copying others’ songs.
“I see. But is it easy to release a record?”
“Other than the marketing, what’s so hard? Do you know how many recording studios there are in New York? If we don’t record by instrument and track and record all together, we could finish it in a day. $500 is enough.”
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ was produced in Detroit’s Sound City studio for $600. With that, they sold 16 million copies.
Because of this legend, there are still amateur musicians who try to record their music in small studios. And they are in a better environment than Nirvana was. They have Apple.
“We’ll sell the track on the Apple store first and if it becomes a hit, producers are going to come to us. Then it’s all over.”
The smiling Coline looked like he was dreaming that he had already become a star.
“Jun, you really won’t do it with us?”
“Sorry, I’m not interested. It’s hard even keeping up with my assignments.”
He had thought that all he would have to do at a university of music was write songs and perform. However, more than half of the assignments asked him to write his thoughts on various topics that were thrown at him.”
“Then Jun, let me hear you play the guitar once. And the drums.”
“Let’s do it next time. I’m really tired right now. You’re banned from my room if you keep bothering me.”
Coline who had already heard Jun Hyuk’s album did not give up. It was okay even if he did not come in as a keyboardist. What the band needed most were the skills Jun Hyuk showed in the quintet with his talent in arranging and directing while correcting each member’s music.
With this, there was one more person following Jun Hyuk around.
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Something caught Jun Hyuk’s attention at once, more than the two people following him around. The harmonica.
Jun Hyuk was running to make it on time to his special class when the sound of a harmonica stopped him in his tracks. To think that he was hearing Bachs’ Cantata played on a harmonica. He had only heard the harmonica played in folk or country music.
When he looked toward the sound of the harmonica, he saw the back of someone sitting comfortably with her legs propped up on a chair in front of the cafeteria. Jun Hyuk waited where he stood until she was done playing.
In the middle of his performance, Jun Hyuk’s heart started beating when the part with the mashup of two cantatas came up.
The performance became more and more bold. It gradually increased from two cantatas to three, four, and five. The end had such a complicated configuration that it seemed the five cantatas were used randomly, and he thought it was as though classical music had been reconstructed as avant-garde music.
To bring out this kind of configuration with a harmonica. Jun Hyuk could not hold back his curiosity of who was playing the harmonica in such a way that he had not imagined before.
The person who had played the harmonica lit the cigarette laying on the table.
Jun Hyuk approached her carefully and slightly tapped her on the shoulder.
“Excuse me, but can I ask you a question?”
He could be sure that the performer who turned around was a bold beauty from South America. Her dark skin and swinging black hair showed that she is from a hot country.
The girl looked at Jun Hyuk.
“The song you just played… How did you come to think of something like that?”
“How?”
The South American girl looked at him. She had not understood Jun Hyuk’s question. Jun Hyuk repeated his question again slowly.
“I’m curious as to how you thought of configuring that kind of music.”
“I just did. It just came to my mind while I was playing the harmonica.”
If he had not interpreted ‘just’ incorrectly, it meant she had thought of it on the spot. Jun Hyuk thought about how he had said the same thing hundreds of times. The others’ expressions at his words. That must be his expression right now.
“I see. I asked something useless. Sorry.”
The South American made Jun Hyuk stop as he was walking away,
“Wait. Are you Jun by chance?”
“I am. You know me?”
“An unbelievable genius from Asia. Skinny and tall. I could tell just by looking at you.”
A curious guy who says something unexpected in every class and is not well-versed in the basic theories but is able to explain everything with music. Though it had not been long since school started, Jun Hyuk had become the subject of such rumors.
“And who are you?”
When Jun Hyuk frowned as he asked, the girl hit her own head.
“Oh right… It was true that our genius isn’t interested in others. Ha ha.”
This South American beauty in her twenties laughed and got up from her chair.
“I’m Amelia. Piano major.”
Jun Hyuk shook the hand Amelia had put out. She stared at Jun Hyuk, but he could not take his eyes off of the harmonica.
Amelia Lamarque is a genius pianist who is already recognized as the 2nd Martha Argerich in Argentina. She had shown this first at the New York Bernstein Music Festival and famous professor and professor Reny Greenfield had recommended her to enroll in the school.
Professor Greenfield was so confident in her talent that he never failed to invite her as a guest pianist for his performances and went around telling people that she would become the queen of concerts.
The ability to capture South America’s passion in her piano. She was critically acclaimed because she could use that passion and even show simplicity.
Last year however, she was eliminated in the 2nd round of the Poland Warsaw Chopin Competition and was not included in the final list. There could have been talk that she had not been able to advance because she is not European, but the organizers dismissed these rumors because a Japanese person came in 1st place.
An important fact is that the Japanese person who won spent 10 years in France’s Paris School of Music, and that played a large part in the win.
“Amelia, piano, okay.”
Jun Hyuk mumbled each word as though he were saving them in his memory.
“I guess you liked the harmonica just now.”
Amelia kept making Jun Hyuk stop.
“Yeah. It was a really cool variation. The configuration was really impressive. I’m saying this as a pianist, but try arranging that song on two pianos. I think it’ll come out really great. Alright then, I have to get to class.”
As Jun Hyuk turned around, Amelia grabbed his wrist.
“Hey. Whew – What do you mean 2 pianos? I’m not a genius like someone. Shouldn’t you at least give me a hint for how to configure it?”
Amelia scratched her head.
“What? You performed it yourself.”
“Ah, I honestly don’t really remember it. Ha ha.”
Just as the students of this school saw Jun Hyuk as strange, he also thought they were strange.
Danny who plays the violin so well is an dumb, and Coline who is a member of the quintet is an idiot who wants to become a rock star.
Now this pianist suffers from short-term memory. How could she not remember what she just played?
“Cantata A Major, E Flat Major, Gm. This is for the 1st piano. And the 2nd piano can play D, C, Majors. I’m sure you’ll have to change it a bit since the range of the piano and harmonica are different.”
“Oh!”
Amelia moved her fingers in the air a few times and snapped her fingers.
“Okay. Thanks.”
She put out the cigarette she was holding and ran.
Jun Hyuk’s felt good as he watched her run. There was no need to explain multiple times in this school. Everyone could understand what he meant with few words. They also gave results that were up to and at times beyond his expectations.
Jun Hyuk started running again as well. He was already late because of that forgetful girl. He would get a tardy.
Total Chapters in book: 283
Estimated words: 482630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2413(@200wpm)___ 1931(@250wpm)___ 1609(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 482630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 2413(@200wpm)___ 1931(@250wpm)___ 1609(@300wpm)
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