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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 22:07:51 GMT -8
Elena had been surprised when the J.B.N. manager had sent her to one of the training studios. She'd been told to practice, so off she went. She stood alone in the two person studio and stretched a little, knowing that when her muscles were more relaxed, her voice came out better. She ran through her vocal warm ups, making sure to do her scales and slides and mouth warm ups. Then she put on her headphones and played their debut song. She found herself doing the choreography just to make sure she still had it down. She sang her parts, making sure she could hit the notes while still dancing. She kept running into problems on one particular note near the end, and found that if she stopped her dance move a fraction of a second before the note, she could hit it. When the song finished, she just played it again. She tried not to pout. This is what it had been like in Spain, except the room she'd been practicing in was bigger and she'd had her whole family there as an audience. This was much more boring. "Why can't I practice with Seojin, unnie," she muttered, falling into the dance again. An Hayun
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 25, 2020 22:22:05 GMT -8
Hayun had heard from her manager that she was going to be doing vocal practice with Elena after school as she'd been leaving for school with Felix and Seoji that morning. This meant that it was of course the day that their bus broke down on the way home, and she was running fifteen minutes late. She hoped that Elena hadn't been waiting too long.
She had been hoping to be able to go drop her stuff off before going to practice, but she instead went straight to the practice rooms, still in her horrible yellow blazer along with the rest of the school uniform. Elena had seemed slightly overwhelmingly friendly at dinner the night before, but she was happy to have someone to practice singing with, even if it was somewhat last minute.
There was a nagging voice at the back of her brain that wondered if they'd brought Elena in because she wasn't a good enough vocalist herself, but she focused on the positives, it meant that she wouldn't have to sing all the acapellas in a row.
She knocked on the door to the studio so she'd be less likely to surprise Elena, but then came in right away, dropping her school bag to the side of the door inside the room. She smiled tentatively at the other girl, gave a little bow, and said, "Hi! Sorry I'm running late, the bus back from SOPA broke down and we had to wait for the next one. How's practicing going?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 22:42:17 GMT -8
Elena was in the middle of the dance break portion of the song and she was facing away from the door, so she didn't hear when Hayun came in. As she did a spin that was part of their choreography she saw the other girl and started in fright.
"Mierda!" She whispered to herself, placing a hand on her chest to calm her racing heart. She took out her headphones, "Hayun-nnie! Welcome! Are you here to practice too?" she said while going over and giving the other girl a hug and dos besos.
She let Hayun go and looked at her outfit, her bag and tried to piece together what had happened, "were we supposed to train together? No one told me," she clapped her hands excitedly. "Now I'm not alone! Here let me take that," she helped Hayun out of her blazer, and hung it up on a hanger they had on a hook in the room.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 25, 2020 22:51:04 GMT -8
Hayun started replying, "The manager told me to practice the vocal line with you this morn- Eek!"
She caught the other girl in a hug easily enough, Hayun was taller than her and strong. She was not expecting the air kisses to the sides of the face. She blinked and said, "Right, Felix said, Spanish, very cuddly, greetings with kisses but not really."
She looked slightly down at the other girl, a little baffled, but said, "Hi! Um, let me try that again. It's good to see you. I was supposed to get here about fifteen minutes ago, but the bus broke down. So we had to wait for the next one, sorry I'm running late. I'm supposed to practice the vocal line with you so I can help you with the parts you're taking over from me and also we can work on harmonies. Sorry I startled you."
She asked tentatively, "How's your vocal practice going?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 23:02:12 GMT -8
Elena laughed a little, "sorry, I keep forgetting that I probably shouldn't do that, but I'm glad mi hermano warned you." She was completely comfortable claiming someone she'd never met as her family and proclaiming it boldly.
"The manager sent me down here to practice, but didn't tell me you'd be joining me, I'm so glad." She thought about it, "do you think our manager is upset they were never told about me joining the group? Is this my punishment? Que triste? Como voy a seguir?" she put a hand to her forehead and dramatically waned about how she would manage to go on.
She stood up, giggling at herself. "yes, sorry. I think it's going okay, but it'll be much better now that you're here. I've been working on harmonizing with the vocals on the track, but I think we'll sound much different in person. Maybe we'll sound like ángeles and a choir will come in behind us!"
She placed her hands in front of herself and looked down at the ground, "I'm sorry, I'm just really happy you're here and tend to be pretty hyper."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 25, 2020 23:09:36 GMT -8
Hayun said tentatively, "Maybe practice going for just the hug part with the members, though maybe check with each of them what they want on that front. I suspect Jane would balk at hugs too."
Hayun was surprised about Elena sounding like she was worried about being punished, and shook her head quickly, saying, "Oh, no the manager's probably just so used to Yuseong, where Taehoon-oppa basically knows everyone's schedules really well and makes sure that everyone else knows where the person that they need to work with is going to be that he probably forgot that you wouldn't know that I usually did vocal practice at this studio after school, so that time and place meant meeting me."
She smiled and said, "I'm really glad to have another strong vocal who's good at high notes. Were you practicing it with the dance too? There are some parts that are hard with the dance, but it's going to be better now that it's broken up."
She said, smiling, "Let me warm up and then we can practice it together and see how well our voices blend in person."
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 23:16:35 GMT -8
"Right... Jane... she's British and no hugs," Elena reminded herself again. Seojin had told her a few times but she'd probably need a thorough reprimand from Jane before it even came close to fully clicking.
"I was joking about the punishment thing, the 'woe is me' act," she put her hand to her head again, "didn't show that? I need to become a better actress."
"Yes, go ahead and warm up, if you don't mind I'll be over here going through the choreo again." Elena moved closer to the door so Hayun had enough space to do what she needed to warm up. She kept an earbud out, curious how the other girl warmed up and what she sounded like in person.
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 1:24:58 GMT -8
Hayun still felt like her voice was somewhat warm and loose from her vocal lessons at the end of the school day, and if she'd not had the delay on the bus and then hurried up here, she might have felt fine just diving into singing. As is, she jumped right into the more advanced part of her warm up, doing scales with different vowel configurations up and down her range. She started with more open "ahs" and "ohs" and worked her way through narrower "oos" and "ees." Then she practiced her high adlibs a bit, and sustaining high notes.
About five minutes later, she turned back to Elena and said, "Alright, I'm ready. I was mostly still warm from vocal classes at school. Do you want to start by just singing through the song together?"
She thought for a minute and added, "How's it been treating you with dancing at the same time?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 8:52:23 GMT -8
Elena was very impressed with Hayun's vocals, her tone really was much clearer and brighter than her own. "Sure, let's try it. Singing together always takes some adjustment anyways."
She grinned, "you might have noticed that I'm pretty hyper, so dancing and singing at the same time hasn't been too bad, but that one note" she sang it, "and that one move," she executed the move, "together is a little hard for me, so I've been trying to work on that. I found that if I stop the move a fraction of a second before the note, I can do it, but I don't know how that'll look in the group choreo."
She put her headphones away. "Is there a way to play music in here or do you just use headphones? Seojin-unnie showed me the dance and recording studios but we got distracted with dancing before she showed me any of these individual practice spaces."
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 10:10:31 GMT -8
Hayun listened to the part that Elena was singing and the move she went into and said, "Oh, yeah, that part is tricky. And you're doing what I was doing at first. It's really hard to land them together. What the vocal coach had me do instead of trying to make it its own distinct note was slide up into it from the note before. It basically means that you have to sustain a note a little longer, but it sounds smoother, and the dance move punctuates it a little bit."
She shook out her arms and legs a little bit, taking a moment to stretch, and then showed what she meant, keeping an open vowel through the previous note and sliding it up into the one that Elena had been struggling with, as she did the move from the choreo. She looked over at Elena, trying to check if her explanation made sense, and waited for Elena to try it.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 10:28:08 GMT -8
Elena nodded enthusiastically, "that makes sense!" She watched Hayun do the move and note and copied her, landing the note much better this time.
She clapped, happy to have managed it. "This is so much easier with groupmates. Doing this alone was hard."
She practiced a few more times, feeling more confident each time. "Unnie, have you ever had a crush before?"
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 10:43:27 GMT -8
Hayun grinned and agreed, "I'm really glad to have another full member of vocal line. Seojin-unnie is great, but she's more focused on dance, and she's not got the same vocal range as I do, though she's had longer training than I have when it comes to vocals. I'm looking forward to getting to work with you."
She suspected that Elena had longer vocal training than she did too. Hayun had learned so much since the training camp, but she was lucky in that she already knew how to read music and had perfect pitch and good breath support from years of sports. She'd had a lot of skills that had transferred over, but she'd been working very hard at her vocals.
She headed to the back of the room where the sound system was, and popped open the little cabinet, saying, "This is the sound system. It's got headphones specifically for it if you're working alone, but we can also use the speakers since there's two of us."
She then proceeded to process Elena's question. She scrunched her eyebrows together and thought about it for a second. She replied, "I'm honestly not sure if I ever have. Why?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 11:31:04 GMT -8
Elena grinned and grabbed Hayun's hand, squeezing it, "I'm looking forward to learning a lot from you."
She let go of her hand and followed her to the sound system, making excited noises over all the technology in the cabinet. "So cool!"
Elena leaned against the wall next to the cabinet, "I was just wondering what it was like when you had a crush..." she trailed off. "It's a silly question, don't mind me. Are you ready to sing?"
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Post by An Hayun on Jul 26, 2020 11:45:33 GMT -8
Hayun grinned and squeezed Elena's hand back, saying, "I bet that there are a bunch of things that I'll be able to learn from you too!"
She picked up one of the hand held microphones from the sound system and offered it to Elena, selecting another one for herself, and said, "We should probably be practicing with these too, for lives. Of everyone in the group, we're going to have to get used to using hand helds. Shieon-unnie will probably use them some too as a rapper, but dance line will probably mostly use headsets. The managers have been telling me to practice dancing and singing with the hand held though so that I don't mess up microphone placement. We'll almost certainly also be on headset, so it's not the end of the world, but you get better sound quality with the microphone in the right place."
She decided to focus on the singing part of that question, feeling out of her depth with the rest of it, and said, "Definitely! Let's sing."
She started up the music, taking a few steps back from the sound system and readying herself with the hand held microphone, watching Elena to see what she did and preparing for her first lines in the song.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 26, 2020 15:27:30 GMT -8
Elena took the microphone, "I didn't even think about using one. I mean, I've definitely practiced with a hairbrush as a mic so hopefully it'll translate over, but I know it'll be different because it's actually picking up sound."
She made a few noises into the mic and got that terrible feedback sound. She winced and took a few steps away from the sound system, now understanding why Hayun had done it. She tested the mic again, satisfied that it wasn't screeching anymore, "ready," she said.
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