Liam: 7/8 Rachel: hahahah
[Rossini's Semiramide Overtune plays // Subtitles by youtube @anisian]
Umu: You are now reacting to the singer-songwriter, guitarist, JUKJAE~!
And his b-side song, 'YOU (그대)' Ju Young: Me- hahaha
Umu: Released on his 2022 album, "The Lights"
You've actually heard him play many times before
As he often performs on various Kpop tracks
As well as collaborated with Lee Jin Ah, IU, DAY6
And many other artists that we've reacted to
One of the most recent tracks you've heard him perform on is, *singing*
'Rum Pum Pum!" Lee Jin Ah's 'Rum Pum Pum' Rachel: Oh really?
Umu: He's the electric guitarist on 'Rum Pum Pum'
Liam: Oh really? oH! Rachel: Well we love that
Liam: We love 'Rum Pum Pum' Rachel: We love the 'Rum Pum Pum'
Umu: But this song is composed, written and produced all by JUKJAE
Jason: Nice Brian: 1 man band
Umu: I do not have the lyrics for this one sadly-
Jory: oh nooooo :( Umu: Because it was just released a few days ago
Umu: And he's hella underrated, so no one's like released fanmade
English translations Jory: Cool, cool, cool
Brian: 3, *breathes* 2, *breathes* 1
oH I hear the guitar! Jason: You're gonna break my laptop haha
Brian: Wow he started! Jason: I like the finger picking style
Liam: 7/8 Rachel: hahaHA
Rachel: I was like... huh??
Leon: ahhh~ His guitar playing is so beautiful
Jason: It's good songwriting
Brian: oh? Electric guitar?!
Kevin: yeaHHH~ Owen: You got some distortion~?
Owen: And they keep the acoustic vibe going on through with the piano
Ju Young: I like how it's smartly layered
Like it's not too much piano, not too much guitar
Like there's a nice balance
Liam: Oh my god, the piano on top of it, the active piano yeah
This is so beautiful
Kevin: The piano's a little late, but I kinda like it
Liam: And we're in 4/4~ oh?
Rachel: No we're not Liam: A third- Oh never mind
Kevin: He really makes you feel like he went to 4/4 time
But it is because the bass is so like-
Kind of jagged
Jason: *vocalizing* that kind of *vocalizing* that kind of vocal thing he did
Great for folk I love it
Will: Yeah
Jory: Woahh~
Liam: Dude, the flat major 3 is so good
Owen: Mmhm that section gave me BLACKBIRD chord vibes
Kevin: Ahh~ Paul McCartney!
Jason: High hats now *vocalizing* It's good
Leon: Mmhm~
Liam: Hmmm~ Rachel: That was cool
Rachel: I like the suspended cymbal stuff
Owen: Yeah, it's super interesting when they have the halftime
Because it's not really 7/4, it's still 7/8 Kevin: I love it going to F major
But because we have the back beat Kevin: Fantab ✨ mmhm~
It definitely feels a lot more expansive and open
Ju Young: Wow~
Liam: Ugh dude~! Yes!! The minor 4! Rachel: The descending line is just so good
Rachel: Ughhhgh~! Liam: mmhm minor 4!
Kevin: Props on keeping the 7/8-
Owen: Definitely! It does feel very natural too Which is great
Liam: Oooh~!
Rachel: Ah~ Liam: Oh my god we're in B minor now
Rachel: *humming*
Liam: Hehe *vocalizing* Is that a 5?
Jason: *vocalizing* awgh~ that's fantastic!
Owen: Got a little blues scale there
Owen: Diminished scale Stephanie: Hehe~ Diminished
Ju Young: It's giving like Hotel California
Like that guitar solo
Liam: Oh, we're going back to G- yesss! yess~
Rachel: Damn
Leon: Wait. That's it?! Stephanie: What?!
Leon: What?! Why is it just cut out like that Stephanie: Wait what?!!
Leon & Stephanie: *screeech*
Umu: You guys were making a TON of sounds Why were these sounds made?
Ra: Good chords Li: The chords
Li: My favorite like trope in pop music is the use of a minor 4 chord
For the kind of bitter-sweet, melancholic affect
Rachel, would you mind giving them an example?
Ra: Of a minor 4 chord? Li: So we're in G major
Ra: *piano & vocalizing*
Li: Yeah, that flat 6 to 5 is what does it
There was so much great mixture going on Ra: Oh my god yeah~
U: Yeah, there was a moment in the chorus that both of you kept saying 'wow'
At the exact same time
Can we figure that out on the piano or guitar? Jr: Hehe~
Wi: It was a chord, it was a chord
It was like one chord change that both of us were like 'woah~'
Jr: *guitar* Yeah it pivots to F major Wi: It might've been that, yeah
Jr: So it's like an um- This is weird I'm like doing your job now
All: Hahaha~
Jr: *guitar*
C minor, then you expect it again but it's B flat
Wi: Yeah, oh that's killing Jr: Yeah
Wi: That flat 7 and then it going 4 Jr: And then it goes flat 7 back to 1
Wi: Oh yeah Jr: And then *guitar*
U: Mmhm Jr: And then you're like-
Jr: What just happened, it's really cool Wi: Yeah, that's cool
U: That like pummels the soul
Jr: Yeah, well it's like a completely different key
You know like *guitar* the A is already out of the key from what we're in
Because we're in G *guitar*
And so then it goes to the C minor, which is minor 4
And then it resolves to like 1 first inversion kinda thing *guitar*
Um, and then it goes A again, so you think okay here comes the B
*guitar* B flat, and you're like what?
*guitar* F, new tonic
And then *guitar* back up to G Wi: Yeah, that's really cool
U: What were you drawn into listening to the most in the song?
Ow: I'm gonna have that guitar line stuck in my head *whistling*
K: Um, I think it's just the way the song develops
There's a lot of development, it starts off well-
And there's always something- yeah
Sort of attention grabbing in every section, first it's like the 7/8
And how he's gonna work on that
U: I was wondering, when you guys were going to point out the time signature
St: Yes~ Le: Yeah, it's 7 but um-
U: uhAAAA~~ It's 7, listen the only 2 Korean songs that I've ever come across
That are in 7/4, 7/8 are both Antenna artists
There's an Lee Jin Ah song and now a JUKJAE
St: I was thinking though, like yeah I don't hear a lot of things in 7
I was just thinking- Le: Right, right
St: But in like what we're playing at Eastman in Jazz, like there's so many tunes in 7
Yeah, so it's like so cool to hear that, yeah
U: This is just such a common- time signature for you Le: It's common-
Le: Yeah in Jazz, but definitely not in Kpop St: No~
Le: Actually, in Jazz, even in jazz there are a lot of stupid Jazz musicians
That just want to make their soundtrack cool, so they're just aH leTs pLaY iN 7
Which like, makes totally no sense because the melody doesn't work
But this one- the guitar riff is just perfect-
St: Yah, it fits perfectly, it's so natural Le: Yeah- it fits per- yeah really natural
St: Honestly probably hard to tell that it's in 7 Le: Yeah!
Ow: The only thing, is I would have them relax the rhythm at the beginning
And not have it be *vocalizing* K: Yeah because-
Ow: And that's nice and you can hear that it's 7 and it's good that you get that understanding
But maybe, you ca- you don't have to tell the audience that right away
You can have *whistling* K: Mmhm!
Ow: Or like just a little bit to play around with K: Because the beginning is there's just that
K: Right, just that guitar solo
Because the piano was a little bit late on some spots- Ow: That's true
K: And I think it made it very effective- yeah Ow: Yeah, I agree
Ow: And they can wait a little bit on- in sort of a classical way
Wait for the next section *vocalizing* U: Mmhm (K: Uh-huh)
Ow: Like just- you know have that little subtlety K: Yeah
Ow: Because it is such a rhythmic song, eventu-
By the guitar solo point- and when the drums come in
And it's that huge back beat that we pointed out
And that was great, I thought that was very cool
I think you can have a contrast by taking it out of that straight jacket
In the beginning and have it be a little bit more fluid K: Yeah
Ra: Yeah, and I think the odd meter worked really well
I just like- it took me a second because it was
It was like super quick, because it's like *counting*
Li: Which is like- not really how you feel the song as a whole
Ra: Yeah no, it feels like *counting* Li: It just feels like *counting*
Li: I just kinda, lulling you into- Ra: So I was just like (3x) just like
Ra: I was hearing it, and I was like... what the f*ck-
And then it came in and I was like huh... okay?
Yeah, and then the chorus sounds like it's gonna go like *vocalizing*
Li: Yeah, I thought it was 4 but it was like a big 7 Ra: But it was like *vocalizing* and I was like, yes!
Ra: It was really nice
U: So you liked how he switched the percussion, switched up the groove
Le: Yeah, because the guitar riff is in 7/8, but the drum beat sometimes
You do like 7/4, sometimes even do like 7/2 *vocalizing*
U: So that's 7/8? Le: That's 7/8, or like the regular 7/4 that we always play
Le: It's just like 4+3 U: Uh-huh
Le: Yeah so like *vocalizing* like that U: So it depends on what they emphasize?
Le: Yeah U: Okay
Wi: Really killing solo too, I mean mad props to be able to play in 7 that well
Jr: Yeah Wi: That's really hard
U: How? It is? Wi: Oh yeah, it's super hard
Wi: Because the majority of musical phrases that we hear
Like you know improvising like that
Are- it lined up in 4/4 or maybe 3/4 but 3/4 is a little bit difficult too
Where you wanna arrive cadence points and where the resolutions are
From a phrasing standpoint is are a little bit different in 7
And it's really easy to like accidentally hit on beat 2 or something
Or like hit on- in the wrong place or not quite resolve all the way
Or be a little wishy-washy with where you are in the time
You have to really really work on it a lot to be able to do it
Because you have to kind of rethink how you're approaching the music and the groove
And the phrasing and everything, and he totally nailed it
Like, it was really good Jr: Yeah, super sick
Br: The way he was playing it was very vocal, and very supple
Very like emotional, which I liked
And he did a really good job of making
The guitarssss, plural because he played like electric and acoustic guitar
He did a really good job of making them sound vocal,
And giving them a good, singable line, and good singable melody
Which really made the song impactful
Js: And that's something as instrumentalists that we try to do
Is figure out how to make the instrument actually
A voice, like it's just easy, it just comes from us
As opposed to *baaaeh* you know like- Br: Yeah
Js: Being something like really difficult, it's just breath-
It- the instrument becomes an extension of your breath, an extension of yourself
An extension of voice, this voice, you know
And so what I was hearing was
His guitar playing was an actual extension of his vocal chords,
Of his vocal ability to communicate a message
Al: It was kind of like introspective, like the solo guitar
Like acoustic guitar verse sections
JY: It was kind of like bitter sweet
Because it would like-
Kind of float around between minor and then major a little bit
Js: The way to my heart is, you know-
Finger picking, acoustic vocal, you know just kind of folk- style of playing
And that type of music to me, I don't want to break down musically, because like-
Just what you do-
I dunno, it's something like it connects so primal-y
Just like that kind of style that kind of folk
It's just- you're just sitting around a campfire with people that you just hunted and got food
And you're displaying some type of story, some narrative or something
It goes way back, and that kind of style
It's like- whatever you do, it just will work
It's human, it's incredibly human, and so to
To mix that kind of folk with the rock, I thought that was really nice
Because rock is also another kind of ultra expressive
You know, musical idea that's-
Not refined in it's own right, it just kind of says what it wants to say right on the surface
Even though there's a lot of depth to it, but combining that very ethereal almost
Kind of folk and rock
It's nice, I liked it
JY: Well I like it, because I like him
Like he's just really talented and I'm biased to his music
U: Have you heard him sing before?
JY: No, I haven't actually
I've heard him like play guitar, but I didn't know he could sing
Like the huskiness to it
And I personally like that~
It's such a nice color yaknow~ U: Mhm yeah!
JY: It's not like nasally, it's not like too much
U: It's like a gentle wake up song
JY: It's like that- it was very smooth~
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Brian: Where'd that come from? Jason: We've got a mini reactor here-
U: We do have a third reactor, yeah Js&Br: A fly-
U: Yeah, he's been hanging around- Br: What do you think~?!
Br: HAHAHA U: *fly noises*
Js: Ah, very very intelligent commentary Br: Mmhm interesting~