Liebestraum Main Theme

The first song we made when we started the project. The goal was to capture the gravity of a power fantasy show, featured backstabbing characters and portrayls of overwhelming pressure that comes with success.

The first instinct for this piece came from the HBO show, Succession. We wanted a similar piece that repeates a pretty key motif a lot while keeping it simple enough for everyone to remember.

The song itself is named Liebestraum, after the song by Liszt. It means “Love Dream” and is a viruosic and emotive piano piece that was used as a major inspiration for the entire project.

We also hear these motifs with full variations in “Power and Force” and “You Lost” tracks, and being featured as background material for “Love theme”.

Jay Jeevan Theme

We made this song to signify an epic moment, where Jay Jeevan defies all expectations and has a strong shonen protagonist talk-no-jutsu moment.

While the song covers a classic anime trope, we went with western inspiration of Hamilton iconic “My Shot” mixed with signature structure of the Professor Layton Music. The result was a gravitative Piano duet with swelling violins.

Bakery Theme

This was one of the first tracks to be made for the project. We wanted to write a song for a place the main character could go and relax. Since we intended him to have a sweet tooth, we went with a Bakery. This is also the place where he meets a key character for the story, who was featured in the animated opening.

The song was inspired by Ragtime music, such as Entertainer and Maple Leaf Rag. We also wanted to go with a relaxing feel found in various Final Fantasy tracks that feature woodwinds.

Crush Theme

We wanted a theme to show moments of shy teenagers forming crushes and falling in love. Which made us want to make a song that screams MEET CUTE!

The song is a waltz has a Rondo structure and inspired by Baroque period Menuets.

Helpful Girl Theme

Imagine a small library filled with the smell of new books, with a few anxious and underprepared students gathered around, studying for their final exam the next very day. Just as they are about to give up, the class angel appears to teach everyone the basics and help them start solving problems. That is the memory we tried to produce here.

This was the last song we made, and the team was extremely tired after crunching 20 songs in 2 weeks. However, in our primary releases, this was many people’s favourties! I suppose we do our best work when we push ourselves. With no particular inspiration in mind, we started with a string orchestra and wrote pizzicato harmonies to establish the vibe, before letting the soloist quartets rise and shine in this piece with simple yet elegant phrases.

Love Theme

A song that you would hear inside your head on a dreamy first date. From walking with held hands to playing games and dining out, an evening full of laughter, joy and love.

This song features instrumentation and vibes found in older bollywood music. From the syncopated cantabile theme to the back and forth between the instruments, we tried to make a piece that lets you journey through the motions of an adventurous date.

This song took the longest to compose, with several redos and scrapped papers thrown around. However, it is one of the songs we are most proud of.

Rise Up

When we see the biggest growth from the smallest character. This song is meant to emphasise the moment where a character changes their trajectory and makes a life altering decision.

Inspired by NC17 from Zankyo no Terror and Professor Layton, this piece use syncopated phrases with call and answer between the Piano and Winds. In away, showing how our protagonist has altered the lives of his friends and led them down this path.

Villain Theme

This piece plays when the antagonist and his friends put their plans to villify the main protagonist into motion.

The main goal was to balance dissonance and make a unqiue sound that can characterise diabolical moods of teenage conflicts.

Aspiring for Rank 1

This is a Diegetic song, played and sung by the students of Maheshvari Coaching to reflect their desire to be the rank 1 student of the Coaching.

We were looking at The Story of Tonight from Hamilton as a reference for this, but modernised to showcase the music of Indian Indie Musicians and what you might hear amatuer musicians play in parties or friendly jam sessions.

Fooling Around

What you might hear, or feel like, when you are hanging out with your friends in an apartment on a languid sunday.

This is the only song that features Blues music in our album, and takes the improvisational feel of the genre.

Maheshvari Anthem

Another Diegetic song that acts as the Maheshvari Coaching Anthem and their Advertisement Jingles.

This is the first song we considered writing lyrics for in this album!

We are number one! Mahavarians! 
The place to be all India rank one! 
Who can not join and become the number one? No one! Mahavari welcomes everyone! 
Where will we be once all the fun has begun? The sky! Mahavari sees you with the sun! 
We are number one! Mahavarians! on our way to all India rank one! 
How do we try to become the number one? Start with Mahavari booklets, the are fun! 
When can we join the race to be number one? Today! Mahavari fit's you in the fun! 
What do you do when you are the number one? Thank you Mahavari, job well done! 
We are number one! Mahavarians! The place you'll be all India rank one!

We wanted this to be as comical and obnoxious as possible. We attempted to answer all 5 W + H questions while showing the Pompous personality of the Coaching Owner, Mahavir Maheshvari.

Classical Music

The comic features a lot of classical music in degetic settings, being played by the different characters of the story. It includes the following:

• Gnossienne No 1: Played by the Protagonist on a dull day, showing the mundane and unpleasant aspects of the JEE student life.
• Gymnopede No 1: Played by the Protagonist on a good day, showing the unique and pleasant aspects of the JEE student life.
• Passacaglia: Played at a special moment when the protagonist is gifted a new digital piano by his mother.
• Summer: Played to show conflict between characters off screen.
• Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor: Played by the coaching owner himself to belittle the protagonists musical aspiraitons.

Improvised Music

The following songs were improvised in the Daw instead of being composed in a traditional notation software.

• World Exploration: A song made using Indian instruments to show the exotic feel of densely packed mazes created in Indian cities.
• Dramatic Filler: A song made to indicate rising tension, using a steady pulse but dissonance and syncopation. Has a very catchy chorus when played on repeat due to spicy dissonant block chords with jumpy rhythms.
• Funky Filler: A rather precussive song with a lot of Indian drums in play along with generic funk accompaniment.