Saving Her Harem by Alexis Adaire

Author:Alexis Adaire
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Pair Publishing
Published: 2018-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

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I hear drums and bass coming from downstairs in the great room. Actually, I feel them as much as I hear them, especially the bass, which is vibrating all the way up through my feet to the top of my head.

What the hell? I thought this was supposed to be a day off.

So much for the nap I was trying to take. Everyone was in too sour a mood to talk about anything, so I just went upstairs. Now less than twenty minutes later, it looks like that nap won’t be happening.

“What’s going on?” I ask after I go downstairs. Nick and Zilla aren’t actually playing together, they’re both doing their own thing. At the same time, which can be noisy.

“Jordan will be gone for a while. This is the perfect time to start on one of my song ideas,” Ian says, strapping on his guitar and plugging in the cable. As he begins to search for the right guitar tone, the room gets progressively louder.

I see Jason walk out of the kitchen with a bottle of water. He’s still shirtless. Hell, all five of them are, including Brandon standing behind his keyboard stack. This band should be called Barem.

“I need to talk to you,” I say to Jason as he steps into the middle of the cacophony.

“Later. Can’t right now,” he says, obviously not wanting to be distracted.

Great.

“Okay, listen up,” Ian says authoritatively. “The main riff goes like this…”

He proceeds to unleash a fearsome guitar riff. It’s short, heavy and catchy as fuck. Then he stops just as abruptly.

“I’ll play it twice for the intro, then drums and bass kick in for two bars. After that, keys and vocals bring in the verse. Everybody with me?”

Nobody is smiling. These guys are on a mission.

“The chorus is eight bars: One each of D, A, B minor, back to D, then repeat it all. Two sequences of one chord per bar. Got it?” More nods.

“All right, let’s see what we’ve got.” Ian launches into the riff again. When Nick and Zilla join in, it sounds absolutely ferocious. This song has attitude. It’s lean and mean. Brandon starts playing, then Jason begins to walk around, head down, gesturing to himself and occasionally scribbling in his notebook.

“Chorus!” Ian shouts as he changes the chord structure. It’s rocky for a second as everyone tries to find his place, but soon enough they’re all locked together in a driving rhythm. Brandon plays something on synthesizer that sounds amazing to me, and Ian must agree because he looks over and nods enthusiastically.

After a couple of minutes, Ian fires off a guitar solo that’s insane, a nasty, heavily distorted, beautiful mess. My god, these guys are so fucking amazing.

Then at the end it kind of fizzles out as they all just stop playing, one by one.

Zilla’s the first to speak. “Fuckin’ A. I love it. Maybe fade out for the ending?”

“Worry about that later,” Jason says. “Play it again. Hurry.”

Ian re-starts the song and they run through it another time.

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