Rock Band Party, Tuesday Evening, First Floor Rec Room

[glacial_queen]

Karla and Warren had celebrated their return to their proper forms in the way that many teenagers would find appropriate: they'd headed back to the modern mainland, found a toy store, and bought a gaming system (or three). Along with the games they bought to go along with said system, they also picked up a few guitars, a keyboard, a drum set, and two microphones.

Once back in the rec room, the rest of the afternoon had been spent setting up the systems and buying every single song available for the game. Waiting for them to finish downloading actually took longer than the initial setting up, even taking in Karla's attempts to 'help'.

But now the system was set up, the songs were ready, and the instruments prepared.

Fandom High? Get ready to rock.

[Open for anyone who wants to play. not_a_parakeet modded to an ungodly degree with permission! Just a warning about SP and Karla's threads--I will be AFK all day, but if you're willing to wait until Thursday that's fine by me.]

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[glacial_queen]

"Well, come in and help out," Karla invited. "We're not all that great. You might be what we need to actually get better."

She moved over and waved at the array of instruments. "Take your pick."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was Marshall beelining for the keyboards. "So how do we pick songs?" he asked. "If there's a lot of recent stuff, I won't know it -- I'm from 2005."

[glacial_queen]

"And I'm from a different world entirely," Karla said with a laugh. "Kiss kiss--I'm Karla, by the way."

She pulled up the song list and paged through until she found the songs with keyboard parts. Marshall didn't want to know how long it had taken her to learn even that much of the game.

"Shall we pick a song neither of us know?" she offered, picking up a guitar. "This way, we'll both be on equal footing."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"Works for me!" Marshall agreed. He settled at the keyboards, ran through a few runs to limber up his fingers. "I'm Marshall."

Where had he heard the name Karla before? Oh! Butters! Marshall glanced around to make sure there were no baked goods nearby.

[glacial_queen]

No. This was, in fact, Warren's method of preventing any such baked goods in the future. Thanks and appreciation could be directed towards the male with the wings, Marshall.

"Do you play the piano for real?" Karla asked, glancing over towards him. "There's a special mode where you can actually play the notes, I think. I might try it when it's my turn at the keyboard."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Oh, Marshall was definitely thanking him. Or would, if he could read narrative.

"I do!" Marshall confirmed. "I was in a band back at my old school, we even had a demo and everything."

[glacial_queen]

"A demo?" Karla asked, slightly confused. "Is that like a concert?"

Sorry, Marshall. Not from around here.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"No, it's -- like, we recorded a few of our songs?" Marshall explained. "To show to people what we can do. To help us get gigs and stuff."

[glacial_queen]

"Gigs?" Still not entirely following along. "Are any of your songs in this game?"

IT WAS POSSIBLE. THEY HAD DOWNLOADED MILLIONS. MILLIONS.

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"Like, shows. 'Gig' is another word for playing a show. Like a concert, kinda." He shrugged. "And, I mean, unless Magnet 360 got really big in the last six years, I doubt any of our stuff is in here. We were just a local band."

And, y'know, had basically broken up when his parents pulled Marshall from Blake Holsey High.

[Wiki informs me that there were over 2000 songs in the Rock Band catalog as of the end of 2010. 2000.]

[glacial_queen]

"Oh, okay! So you did do concerts--uhh, gigs--and then recorded a demo to get more," Karla said, pleased she'd gotten it. "What kind of music did you play?"

[I swear, we have like half of them on our system!]

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"Rock? Like, garage rock kinda stuff, I guess. Only there was no actual garage in sight."

He paused. "Uh, garage rock is... So there's this whole thing where lots of kids start up bands in high school, and usually they end up practicing in their parents' garage? So it gets called garage rock. And it's not like they all play the same kind of music, but a lot of it tends to fall into this, like, one major rock subgenre?"

Usually because the kids teach themselves, like, two chords and think they're going to make it big, Marshall. At least you've got them beat there!

[glacial_queen]

"Not getting it," Karla informed Marshall cheerfully. "But maybe we have some garage rock on the system and you can show me."

Like 'Smoke on the Water,' say, otherwise known as 'the first guitar riff learned ever.'

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Admittedly, what Marshall thought garage rock was is not entirely accurate. What with missing the whole 'precursor to punk' aspect. Shh, don't tell him, he'll be embarrassed.

"Sounds good!" Marshall agreed.

[glacial_queen]

"You can pick, then," Karla said, handing him the controller. "Since you know what we're looking for. I'll stick to singing or guitar or something."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

Marshall scrolled through the song selection. "... I don't know this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auzfTPp4moA)," he admitted, "so it must be newer, but the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are garage-rock-ish." He listened to the preview for a moment. "And it sounds kinda cool."

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded along to the beat for a few seconds. "I could sing this," she decided. "Though don't judge me too badly if I fail, okay? I've never heard this one, either."

[wheeler-360.livejournal.com]

"Okay!" Marshall said, grinning. He hit the select button and settled at the keyboard. "Then let's rock!"