Japas

What's with you?

This room belongs to Japas, the genius bassist of the Zora Band.

Go through my manager if you want my autograph.

The concert's coming soon. Let's forget about our bandmates and their messed-up problems and have a jam session of our own.

Mikau!!!

Where've ya been?

I'm all, like, "Hey, where's Mikau? The concert's comin' up soon!"

And now our band leader has pulled a vanishing act--Evan's all holed up in his room just writin' songs...

And to top it off, Lulu just stands out back starin' at the sea. She doesn't even respond when ya talk to her.

If you guys think it's just 'cause Lulu's not interested in me, I'd understand, but I'm tellin' ya, it looks like somethin's really wrong.

Is there somethin' you're trying to hide from me?

I'm not runnin' an inquiry or anything...

But, look...If we don't start rehearsin' real soon, we're not gonna be ready for the concert.

What were the other band members doing?

You do know that if we don't start rehearsing, we're not gonna be ready for the concert, right?

Hey...Why don't we forget about waiting for Evan to write a song and just write one ourselves?

If you feel up to it, let's have a little jam session.

Did you play our song for Evan? What did he say?

Don't tell me...

You didn't forget the song, did you?
Yeah, I did
No, I didn't

Well, in that case, hurry up and play Evan our song.

Oh, man. In that case, I guess we have to have another jam session. Are ya ready?

Huh? You wanna have a jam session?

Try following this phrase I wrote on your guitar.

Here we go...

Whoooa... That's niiiice.

I got it! I got it! I got it! Here I go!

That's got a good feel to it! Even Evan should like this.

But...

He's so proud...He'd resent the fact that we wrote somethin' on our own. I don't think he'd even let the others try it out.

Whaddya think we should do?

How can we, like, make sure that Evan doesn't find out that it was us who wrote this song?

Can't you think of anything?

That melody's bogus, man!

What's wrong? You're not jammin' like you usually do!

You wanna stop?

Yeah
No

You in a slump? Don't worry about it...

Those were the kind of notes an amateur would play while tryin' to figure out the notes as he goes...

Once you're back in the groove, we'll write a song that'll knock Evan off his flippers!

When you're in a slump, all ya can do is go back to your room and sleep on it.

That's uncool, man... What are you tryin' to do, walkin' into people's rooms like that?

We've kept you waiting! Just a little bit longer and we'll play our hot sound for you!

You're late, Mikau! Where were you while you were skippin' practice?

Lulu's been waiting for you.

What were you doing? Hurry up and go talk to Lulu!

Hey, Mikau...

That song Evan wrote sounds just like the one we played at our jam session, doesn't it?