The D-Tribe (Rewritten!)

Chapter 7: The Semifinals

Now, the Daniels are in the backstage. Since the lyrics were already prepared during lunchtime, there’s a lot more time for them to prepare and produce the melody. It took around 2 hours before Ray and Rhea finished the melodic production. The two taught Diona and Ralpha the melody and after 1 hour, they finally got it. So there’s still 1 hour left before they come next.

During that process, the band called “The Super Band” came first. They sounded like they were singing a song about achieving their dreams and goals. Next came the Dazzles. “Ohs” and “Ahs” were added to the lyrics of the song and whatever kind of voice they have must’ve sounded like sirens. Unfortunately, the Daniels couldn’t recall anything about the song. All they know is that the title of the song is “Shining Gems.”

Then, there came a final run-through. Five minutes before the D-Tribe came next. So far, all is well as planned. With all the practice they made, no mistake has been made. Well, we all know that we make mistakes and we’re all human, but when you persevere and balance yourself between practice and motivation, you’ll find yourself being a natural at something.

After about three minutes, they’re finally ready to perform. Two minutes passed and minds were cleared. Their heads shifted to the megaphone-like speaker when they heard Matthew call their band name.

“The last band we’re gonna see them perform is the inspiring, encouraging and valuable family band. The D-Tribe.”

You could hear the audience cheering loudly. The D-Tribe turned to each other. Ray, Diona and Ralpha seemed to have smiles on their faces while Rhea was more like a slight smirk.

“Okay, let’s do it,” Ray said to his family.

“Yup. Let’s do it,” Rhea replied.

With that, the Daniels walked their way onstage, with Ray’s guitar strap wrapped around him and his hands on his guitar. The microphone was still held in Diona’s right hand. The keyboard and the drum set were set up onstage by the employees.

After the whole stage was set up, Ray reached for the microphone again. "The song that we're going to sing is 'A Better Place.'"

The judges nodded with smiles on their faces. With that, their eyes were on the D-Tribe as they listened to their performance.

This song started with a few keys on the keyboard with the vocalization from the whole D-Tribe immediately joining in.

Ohhhhhhhhhh...

Next came the strumming of the guitar along with the moderate melody from the keyboard and the whole note beats from the drums. At that moment, Ray’s singing voice immediately joined in.

There are times when you struggle to breakthrough
And achieve your future goals
There are times when you try to do your best
But then, you collapse and fail a test

The music started rising up to the chorus. But the chorus music was leveled between the moderate level and the climax level. At this moment, everyone in the D-Tribe let their singing voices out of their mouths.

But don't you worry
'Cause it's never too late to achieve
Don't you be afraid to fail
'Cause if you do, you won't have that dream
It's never too late to give up on your dreams
So persevere and keep breaking through
And soon, you'll realize
That you're making a world a better place

The music slowly went back to the same melody for the first verse. After a few instrumentals, it was Diona’s turn to sing.

There are times when stage fright takes over
And you're afraid to show your specialty
There are times when you get stressed and give up
Because you don't know how to do your thing