I wrote a simple piece to describe a rainy night, and wanted it to be a Drama OST(official soundtrack) style of song. I drew this inspiration one day when I was taking a bus back home from my friend's house. For some reason, everything just felt so peaceful as I listened to soothing music while looking out of the window seeing rain drops on falling on the window of the bus. The purpose of me writing this piece is to capture the emotions and tranquility of a rainy night. 

Piano - Russell
Arrangement - Russell
Producer - Raynard
Microphones used -  Audio Technica 4021
Location: Studio C 
Instruments used: Upright Piano

Rainy Night

Piano - Russell
Vocals - Russell
Microphone - Samsung Galaxy Note 8
Location - Home


This is a song dedicated to a certain number of people that I am really happy that they exist in my life.  It describes some of the simple reasons why I really treasure them with my heart and soul and why I am really proud of them.

LYRICS:
When I see them the darkness turns into light
Anxiety and sadness cant put up a fight
Their teamwork is unparalleled
Thus reputation and prizes are upheld.

Their vocals, dance movez and visuals are top tier
It makes us ONCEs just want to go cheer

Each of them have their own characters
Fron Jeongyeon' girl crush to Sana' liveliness

They are so humble, even though they're famous
They work so hard, to maintain their greatness

When I'm tired from work and I start to tear
TWICE gives me the strength to persevere

They are always looking out for us children
I love them cause they are One in a Million

9 Reasons Why

Instruments - Logic Pro X
Producer - Russell

I went clubbing for my first time last week, and I managed to experience how it was like to club. Definitely not my best experience but there was this one bass drop where I was just so hyped. I tried to recreate the effect in this short composition here.

Dance Call

Producer - Russell
Instruments - MIDI

Inspired through listening to a band play some blues when I was chilling with a bunch of friends at a bar not too long ago. The double bassist was also doing this repetitive fingerstyle pattern that kind of led the rhythm and flow of the song with the piano before the drums came in. I tried to replicate it by having this "repetitive" pattern in my double bass patch. I also realised that the pianist was playing his chords mostly not on the main beats, this really gave the song a blues feel to it so I tried to replicate it here too.

The piano was used for the melody, I tried adding in a few half step chromatic movements and also the use of seventh chords to give it the jazzy feel to the song. The drums came in only after the first cycle of the theme, so I could bring out the piano and the accompanying double bass more, and only after hearing once cycle of the progression, the drums come in to make the song more full. The drums go to a complex pattern in the middle section of the song as I wanted to have a differentiation in the song but keep the jazz theme to it.

Drinks At The Bar

PRODUCER- Russell
Instruments- LOGIC MIDI


So as we close in to the final weeks of this intensive PROW journey, I start to explore more on a genre I rarely touch on, which is Rock. I don't listen to much hard rock, but I listen to j-rock quite often and also due to a friend's influence, I also listened to the Foo Fighters. I feel that rock is very enjoyable and I would want to try making a rock song. So in this song I made use of a lead guitars and layered bass guitars and other backup electric guitars and also a fast 200bpm tempo. The combination of all of these resulted in a fast-paced and intense feel to the music. I wanted to give the listener the energy he can get from a rock song.

PROW - Attack of the Party

Produced by - Russell
Instruments - MIDI

So in this week I decided to go ahead and explore the effects of layering and using a certain recurring motif that will repeat throughout(more or less) the entire song.
I had listened to this song called "Polite Dance Song" by the bird and the bee. And they have this recurring electric piano line that is played in the verses of the song. It really intrigued me and I found it so fascinating that it could fit in to the song so well. 
So therefore instead of just power chords, I tried using this kind of melody line as an accompaniment for the song. This sets the theme and the mood of the song as it grinds into the listeners head and makes them remember the tune. 
I tried layering some instruments together with different rhythmic patterns so they would not be too clashey. 
While trying to replicate something like what I had observed in "Polite Dance Song", I realised that I felt the groove of the music come alive when I managed to get the correct rhythm and the harmony for the melody line. Hopefully I had achieved what I set out to do :)

Kotorin