Gutiar, Period 4 Thursday

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

"Alright. I hope you've been practicing what I showed you with loosening up the fingers. Because today we're going to turn that into tunes and chords. Chords are how you change the noise your guitar is making. And as most of you should know, the key is up at the neck."

El picked up his guitar. "Now, I want you to watch me closely and repeat on your own guitars."

El went through a variety of hand positions for chords, stopping to make sure each of the students had them before moving on, sometime helping individual students as merited it.

"I want you to practice playing with these with the same intensity you practiced loosening up your fingers. I know you can't practice all day, every day, but practice as much as you can.

Now that we've got that part out of way, I'll teach you a little tune. Something that you can show off to your friends when they ask you why on earth you're taking this class."

El lead them through a short traditional mariachi tune, the kind of thing he tended to play without thinking about it during his office hours.


"Now, I want you all to practice for the rest of the class, but before, two things. First, next class will be in the Danger Shop, where we will start working on building our guitars. Secondly, I need to know how many of you are capable of reading music.

Also, would Miss Stewart come see me?"

Comments

Sign in

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

With your punk name this time.

Re: Sign in

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

Miley "I'm more pink than punk" Stewart

Re: Sign in

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Mana Tatsumiya Tora el Tigre

Re: Sign in

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia the Saint

Re: Sign in

[cyclopeanmerc.livejournal.com]

*expletive delted* Bernadette

Re: Sign in

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

Shawn "anarchy reigns supreme" Farrell.

Lecture

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

Chat, try to copy what he's doing, ask for help, etc.

Re: Lecture

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad was wondering if he'd ever get used to the boobs being there; they made it difficult to take notes.

Not that he was complaining, of course.

Re: Lecture

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia was blinking a lot. "Chad?"

Re: Lecture

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad grinned at her, and nodded. "Nadia."

Re: Lecture

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia stared some more. "This is just really weird, now."

Re: Lecture

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Chad's grin remained as he shrugged and admitted, "I think it's kinda cool."

Re: Lecture

[nadiathesaint]

"Where'd you find clothes to fit you?"

Re: Lecture

[justmisplaced.livejournal.com]

The novelty of having boobs can't even make Shawn like waking up as a girl. It's a little too weird for him.

His note writing has suddenly become neater though, which is an interesting side-effect of his temporary gender switch.

Practice

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

Practice, talk amongst yourselves about practicing, etc.

Re: Practice

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

Miley practiced the mariachi tune on her guitar. It took her a couple of tries before she had it perfect.

Re: Practice

[senor-chado.livejournal.com]

Amazing how much different it was to play a guitar with such small and feminine hands...Chad did well, though, adapting to it quickly.

Re: Practice

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia had plenty of experience with Spanish guitar styles, so she had no trouble with the tune.

She might have thrown in a few extra . . . quirks as she went.

Talk to El

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

Especially if your name is Miles Stewart.

Re: Talk to El

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

Since her name wasn't Miles...

Miley was a little nervous, she knew she had missed classes. "Uh..you wanted to see me?"

Re: Talk to El

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

"Yes. You are aware that you've missed quite a few classes?"

Re: Talk to El

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Miley nodded. "I'm really sorry about that. I've just been flaking out and forgetting about it."

Re: Talk to El

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

El raised an eyebrow at her.

"You've been forgetting about class?"

Re: Talk to El

[otherside-miley.livejournal.com]

"Had lots on my mind recently." Miley said, trying to smile. "But I promise that I'll remember from now on. I came today, right?"

OOC

[guitar-and-gun.livejournal.com]

I thought about doing female El today. But the only thing I could think of to be female El was Carolina or Domino. And honestly? That would just be way too mean to him.