I was so excited and a little drunk that I didn't realize the trap Jannet was setting for me.
The night was very lively, everyone was having fun, and without realizing it, I was drawing more attention to myself with my guitar skills than she was with her singing.
Then, in an attempt to reduce the crowd's excitement for me, Jannet wanted someone to pick a song that I didn't know, so that I would have to learn the new song before we played it, since this new song would not have sheet music.
If I stopped to learn the song, according to a normal person, I would have to spend a few minutes practicing to be able to play it well, the problem is that because of "my fault" the audience would be quieter, and by putting me on another song, people would probably focus on it again.
Did I care about that? Not at all, I was only on stage as a favor, if I wanted I could go downstairs and have fun with my family, so I didn't realize Jannet's intention at that time.
But she wasn't so lucky.
"Play the song Numb!" Olivia shouted amidst the other shouts of the people in the bar.
She thought no one would hear her, but to her surprise, as soon as she shouted, Jannet stared at her with bright eyes and took the microphone to speak.
"The beautiful girl back there, I love your suggestion! Me and the boys heard this new song called Numb 2 days ago and we think it's amazing! I think it would be a good idea to play this song for you guys to get to know it!" She said excitedly.
But even though it sounded like she was excited, inside she had different thoughts.
Numb was a very new song with very few views, it just appeared in her feed by chance, then she showed it to her partners and her boyfriend and everyone liked it.
But since it was a new song, the likelihood of me not knowing about it was almost certain.
She just didn't know that the person who requested the song Numb was the sister of the original singer-songwriter, and that person was now playing guitar for her.
Unlike Jannet, who feigned naturalness in choosing this song to play, Mark and Frank looked at me with concern when they heard this.
They realized Jannet's intention and were pretty sure that I didn't know how to play this song because it was so little known.
"Come on Mark, count the time!" Jannet said as she encouraged Mark to start playing, ignoring the fact that I didn't know how to play.
Mark ignored her and looked at me worriedly. "Is everything okay, Noah? Do you want some time to learn how to play this song?"
I was already relaxed, when I heard that they wanted to play Numb I didn't even worry too much and just smiled as I nodded.
I think Mark realized I was a little drunk and was even more worried, but since Jannet insisted he start right after my confirmation, he could only sigh and start counting.
"5.. 6... 7... 8..." He said as he tapped his drumsticks together and began to play.
Jannet had a sinister smile on his face that I couldn't see, but that smile soon faded within a few seconds of Mark starting to play, as a guitar with the distinctive feel of the song began to accompany him.
Unlike the original song in my old world, where the main part of the song was played on a keyboard, in this world I only used the guitar to play it, so the most famous part of Numb became a guitar solo.
When she looked back, Mark and Frank noticed her annoyed expression, not even managing to hide the anger she was feeling.
It's a shame I didn't even realize it, I was playing my song in front of so many people, I was very excited, so I just gave in to the moment and enjoyed it.
Out of anger, Jannet lost the time to sing and by reflex I started to sing myself.
Although I didn't have a microphone, because there was no one else singing in the audience who didn't know the words to this new song, only my voice was heard.
🎼🎶🎤
I'm tired of being what you want me to be...
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface...
🎼🎶🎤
Seeing that I was singing alone, one person was quick to think.
The manager quickly went up on stage with an extra microphone and placed it in front of me while looking at Jannet with an angry expression.
🎼🎶🎤
Don't know what you're expecting of me…
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes…
🎼🎶🎤
[Sing Lv 25 -> Lv 26]
Just as my fingers were warmed up playing the guitar as if it were an extra limb, I think because of the alcohol warming my throat, my voice was sweet as chocolate, flowing even better than when I originally recorded the song.
As this was a virtually unknown song, the only people who knew what it was, apart from my family, were Mark, Frank and Jannet.
Looking back at that moment, I could see the shocked look on their faces, because not only was I playing a song they didn't think I could play very well, but I was singing it phenomenally!
"Did he know this song?" Mark asked Frank confusedly.
"Do you have any doubts?" Frank asked back as if Mark was an idiot. "Don't you see how similar his voice is to the original song?"
Hearing Frank's question, Mark was shocked to realize that Noah's voice actually sounded a lot like the original song!
Unfortunately for BlackVelvet fans, the people at the bar only recorded this show and posted it on their Stories, no one bothered to record it to post on MeTube.
The only person who recorded the whole song was Olivia, who thought it was important to record her brother's first show.
Even though it wasn't a show of his as BlackVelvet, it was still the first time he'd been up on stage singing to people other than her and her family.
But Olivia had no intention of posting this recording on MeTube.
When the song reached the third chorus, the people in the bar, who were already excited, started singing along, having learned it the first and second time I sang it.
🎼🎶🎤
I've become so numb...
I can't feel you there...
...
🎼🎶🎤
Seeing those excited people singing my song was the moment my default definitions were updated.
What started with me singing in my room and posting to see if the comments on the videos were perfect, changed when I saw the live comments of the song I was singing on the Quacktus stream, which now changed to singing live with the reaction of the people in front of me.
Obviously there is a big difference between seeing someone actually singing and dancing to your song and seeing someone typing or sending emoticons while dancing.
When I finished playing, I was completely exhausted.
My clothes were sweaty, I was sweating, and the drink in my glass had run out...
Luckily, the show was over and as I was leaving the stage after thanking the audience, even though Jannet was angry, a waiter stopped me on my way and gave me another glass of Toxic Lake.
"This glass was sent by the same girl from table 17." He said with a wink before walking away.
Looking at the glass and then at table 17, I saw the same girl sitting there, bored with her two friends while the three boys at the table were obviously trying to get her attention.
Smiling and raising her glass, she responded by doing the same in disguise as she again tried to pay attention to what the boys were saying.
Enjoying the green drink in my glass, I went backstage with the rest of the band while Mark finally couldn't resist asking me.
"No, how did you sing Numb so well?"
As soon as he asked that, Jannet accelerated the speed at which she was walking and took off faster than us, stomping hard on the ground.
Ignoring her, I replied after taking another sip of Toxic Lake. "This is my song, it was my sister who called for it."
Hearing this, Mark's eyes widened in shock, imagining that this could be the reason, but not believing it.
"OMG dude, we've been listening to this song non-stop for two days, Harry, our guitarist, Jannet's boyfriend, has been trying to learn how to play the riff of this song since he first heard it hahaha!" Mark started to laugh out loud at the thought.
Even Frank, who was less expressive, had a smile on his face when he remembered this detail.
"I'm glad you liked it! I liked the work you did with the drum and keyboard arrangement to fit the song, did you come up with that?" I asked, surprised because I hadn't noticed it at the time, but remembering now that the original version of the song only has an acoustic guitar, Mark and Frank managed to make a drum and keyboard arrangement that was almost as good as the original in just two days without ever having heard it!
If I could just polish the details, it would be as good or better than the original from my old world.
The talent of these two seems to be greater than I imagined.
"Haha, we did this last night over pizza. Jannet and Harry had a fight and left my house, so it was just me and Frank playing around with the song and this arrangement was done. Mark said a little embarrassed, realizing that he had made up an arrangement and performed it in front of the original creator of the song.
 "Nah, don't be embarrassed brother, I don't think even I could do it better". I replied truthfully.
I didn't even have a drum and keyboard skill at Lv 1, let alone the knowledge to do something like what they did.
If I had to guess, the two of them must have Drumming and Keyboarding skills that were close to level 40, or even at level 40!
My highest skill was still at level 31, which was Digital Illustration, and I felt that was already a very high skill.
Thinking about how these two had so much talent in a virtually unknown band with a troubled lead singer and guitarist, an idea popped into my head.
But before I could talk about it, the bar manager approached me with a smile.
"Hey kid, your name is Noah, right? There's a customer who wants to talk to you, she said she saw potential in you."
When I heard this I was surprised, what client was that?
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