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Music 101
Hey dudes and girl-type dudes!
Welcome to Music 101. I brought food!
*Ted passes around a few buckets filled with Twinkies, candy, cans of soda, chips and whatever other junk food you can think of. Whoever has these kids for class next are gonna hate him for the sugar high they'll get every week.*
Today we're gonna learn about where rock music came from. Some people think it only showed up in the '50s.. uh, that's Earth's 1950s, but that's most definitely not true. People were playing rock music back in the middle ages! Only they didn't have electricity, so not so many people heard it. They played in forests and caves and stuff where the acoustics were most excellent.
*gets Really Short Dude to switch on the slide show and turn off the lights*
This is a photo from 900 AD in England. As you can see, that dude over there has a very early version of a guitar. And this dude has drums. They couldn't get a keyboard out there, because they're really heavy and too hard to carry without a trailer, but they used a xylophone instead. A xylophone is one of those doink doink things that makes different noises depending which key you hit with a hammer thing. So this is proof of a very early rock band. Is it not excellent?
Rock music has been deemed evil and non-triumphant by lots of governments throughout time. That's why it got ditched until the 1950s, when people realized that it was most rockin' and fun for the whole family, dudes!
This Week's Class Task: So this week we're gonna talk about how you think rock survived in the underground through the ages. You can make stuff up, I don't mind. And maybe one day we'll go on a field trip and find out who was right! So, uh, get into groups and start talking dudes!
Homework: Uh, for next week I want you to grab one of the tapes out of the basket near the door and listen to it. Then for class next week come in with what you thought about it. Any thoughts will do!
[OOC: Your character can either listen to the tape or have problems finding some kind of backwards technology that actually still plays audio cassettes! If you do want to listen, just pick any rock type song from the 1970s or 1980s]
[OOC 2: The group thing is just to make the comments more manageable. Jump into a group and just start talking.]
Welcome to Music 101. I brought food!
*Ted passes around a few buckets filled with Twinkies, candy, cans of soda, chips and whatever other junk food you can think of. Whoever has these kids for class next are gonna hate him for the sugar high they'll get every week.*
Today we're gonna learn about where rock music came from. Some people think it only showed up in the '50s.. uh, that's Earth's 1950s, but that's most definitely not true. People were playing rock music back in the middle ages! Only they didn't have electricity, so not so many people heard it. They played in forests and caves and stuff where the acoustics were most excellent.
*gets Really Short Dude to switch on the slide show and turn off the lights*
This is a photo from 900 AD in England. As you can see, that dude over there has a very early version of a guitar. And this dude has drums. They couldn't get a keyboard out there, because they're really heavy and too hard to carry without a trailer, but they used a xylophone instead. A xylophone is one of those doink doink things that makes different noises depending which key you hit with a hammer thing. So this is proof of a very early rock band. Is it not excellent?
Rock music has been deemed evil and non-triumphant by lots of governments throughout time. That's why it got ditched until the 1950s, when people realized that it was most rockin' and fun for the whole family, dudes!
This Week's Class Task: So this week we're gonna talk about how you think rock survived in the underground through the ages. You can make stuff up, I don't mind. And maybe one day we'll go on a field trip and find out who was right! So, uh, get into groups and start talking dudes!
Homework: Uh, for next week I want you to grab one of the tapes out of the basket near the door and listen to it. Then for class next week come in with what you thought about it. Any thoughts will do!
[OOC: Your character can either listen to the tape or have problems finding some kind of backwards technology that actually still plays audio cassettes! If you do want to listen, just pick any rock type song from the 1970s or 1980s]
[OOC 2: The group thing is just to make the comments more manageable. Jump into a group and just start talking.]