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Music 101 - Thursday 12pm

"Welcome to class, little dudes!"

Ted seems a little on edge, not sure how the students will react to the news of someone being dead. Ted was pretty upset the time he died when Evil Robot Ted pushed him off a cliff. He could only imagine how upset and/or pissed his Dad would have been if he'd found out before he came back to life and kicked Evil Robot Ted's ass.

There are several large pizzas with varying toppings on the Round Table, as well as the standard junk food and soda. There is a man in a futuristic jacket and totally excellent sunglasses sitting in the corner at the drum kit. He sits silently watching Ted give the lesson.

If you've just joined the class, welcome little dudes! Just tell me who you are so I can write down who you are. If you have dropped this class, please let me know so I can stop bugging you!

Little Boy Blue Eyes Dude (whitedeathpod) - Teaching Assistant
Medieval Babe (aroseintime) [1]
Other Medieval Babe (___lily_evans_)
Sexy Dark-Haired Babe (the4thsister)
Hyper Drummer Dudette (lane_drums)
Heinous Scary Blonde Babe (psycho_barbie)
Shifty-Lookin' Southern Dude (conathon)
Frood Dudette (soniabelmont)
Lil' Pouty Babe (sogothcally)
Captain Pirate Dude (likeguidelines)
Mr Freaky Eyes Dude (master_of_fear) [1]
Mr Talkative Excuse Dude (soldtoarmenians)
Pale Sharp Dude (scissors__)
Shiny Hair Dude (alchemy_4_arson)
Kinda Freaky Smiling Dudette (sharon_valerii) [1]

"Last week we heard the assignments from John Crichton and Callisto, and Xander and Barbossa. The rest of you didn't turn in your assignments. This is your mid-term for this class, dudes, so you gotta hand it in or I'm gonna have to fail you. And dudes? From experience, failing is totally bogus. The following people still need to give me their assignments:

Paige & Sawyer
Lane & Jonathan
Lily & Sonia
Eddie & Rose

If you don't submit this week, you fail. Sorry dudes.

I'm gonna give you another week for the scavenger hunt because of that dudey parenty weekendy thing. I was busy too, with meeting some of your most ~~scary~~ excellent parental units and dealing with my own Dad, who didn't realize that 'Parents Weekend' was for the students, NOT the teachers. So scavenger hunt results - next week."

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"This week we're gonna talk about rhythm. You can't have music without rhythm. Even if you don't mean to have rhythm, there it is! Sometimes you get rhythm in songs from drums and other percussion-type instruments. Sometimes you get it with the bass, either a double bass or a bass guitar. Sometimes there's no actual rhythm instrument in the arrangement, but you get a feel for it by the way the music is performed.

Changing the rhythm of a song can change the feel of the song altogether. Like, with the band The Wonders, the song 'That Thing You Do' was originally meant to be a slow dance number. But then, the new drummer dudes with the most excellent sunglasses? He totally changed the rhythm by making the beat faster. That meant the rest of the band had to change the way they played the song.. and it became a #1 hit! Rhythm, especially beat, is totally important to any kind of music." He turned to the man sitting at the drum kit. "This, my excellent little dudes, is my most triumphant friend Rufus. He's going to give a demo on the drums while I play guitar to show you how the beat can change a song."

Rufus starts up a very slow beat and Ted starts playing 'God Gave Rock 'N Roll To You' at a very very slow pace. It sounds almost tedious. Rufus speeds up a little. Ted follows suit and soon they're playing at regular speed. Then Rufus speeds up again to a manic speed. Ted speeds up his playing, his fingers flowing wildly over the neck of the guitar.

By the time they finish, both are out of breath. Ted nods. "So," he says, breathing heavily. "As you can see, beat changes everything. Remember that, dudes. Class dismissed."

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Lane and Jonathan worked together on their project, through meetings and voicemail messages.

Sunshine: *Squishy noises* *gurgling noises*
Drusilla: "The fishes will nibble on your neck someday, don't you think?"
Zaphod BeebleBrox: "Two heads, I’m a veritable smorgasbord, all right?"
The Tick: "Keen!"
The Tick: "In another universe, I could even wear GREEN!"
Sunshine: *Squishy noises* *gurgling noises*
The Tick: *grunts, screams of "Ha!"*
The Tick: "Be solved, Nefarious Puzzle!"
Zaphod BeebleBrox: "There was bondage, dirt, and lack of self-worth galore."
The Tick: *whimper of defeat*
The Tick: "Hey, Evil! Get out of my City."
Sunshine: *Squishy noises* *gurgling noises*
Dean Bristow: "have a safe, THC-free day"
The Tick: "Spoon!"

"Wow! You put that together really well Lane!" Jonathan thinks when he hears their project.

Lane and Jonathan's Grade: A

Post here.

Lily and Sonia worked together in their dorm room.

John Connor: [sings] Love is just a lie, Made to make you blue
Barbossa: [sings] Is this burning an eternal flame?"
Lane's pirate cat: "Mrawrr" *hiss*
Lane: "OWW - BAD STEVEN TYLER!!"
Barbossa: [sings] I’m a slave for you.
Lane's pirate cat: "Mrawrr" *hiss*
Lily: "Maybe if you fed him more often..."
Barbossa: [sings] Is this burning an eternal flame?"
Lane: "Don't look at me like that, Steven tyler! Get your claws out of the SOFA!"
Lane's pirate cat: "Mrawrr" *hiss*
John Connor: [sings] Love hurts. ooh, ooh, Love hurts

Anakin: [sullenly rings a banthabell]
Beethoven: [sings] "The look that he gave her made her shiver."
Helen Morgendorffer: "I don't know what any of that means."
Chaucer: "...it made perfect sense."
Anakin: [banthabell]
Dr. Ten: "The effects of causing a paradox are varied..."
Dr. Jackson: "Of monumental size and grandeur..."
Ten: "They are all inherently destructive."
Helen Morgendorfer: "Those goth kids will do anything for attention, won't they?"
Anakin: [banthabell rings, softly fading away]
[silence]
Chaucer: "Today, we begin..."

The tape clicks in silence for a few moments before she shuts it off, and she looks expectantly at Lily. "Vell...that was interesting."

Lily & Sonia's Grade: A

Post here.

*Is there, waits for Rose*

Rose wanders into class. "Hello, I'm here finally."

"Oh glad" Ed says "I was afraid you couldn't make it" He has a tape in his scissors/hands and waves with it "I didn't want to hand it in without you" He smiles.

Rose smiles back. "That was very kind of you to wait for me."

((OOC: i was planning for Ed to call Rose to do the assignment, but RL got in the way :S so i guess we just have to do the *hands in* thing, unless you have some kind of nifty idea? :) ))

[ooc: That's okay. RL got in the way for me, too. Just handing it in is fine with me. :)]

Eddie and Rose's Grade: B-

John Crichton & Callisto - A
Xander Harris & Barbossa - A

"All right!"

Xander stares at this unfamiliar letter. It's... kind of like a triangle with the bottom side shoved upwards.... "Wow, so that's what one of those looks like."

Barbossa is also staring at it, his expression roughly equivalent to what would happen if you asked a monkey to do a math problem.

"That be good, aye?"

Xander nods. "Aye. Uh, yeah. Unless I'm hallucinating, in which case...actually, compared to some of the things I've hallucinated before, imaginary A's are still good."

"A. A is good, right?"

"Best we can get!" John is still grinning.

Talk here.

"Sir? Erm the Evil soul that possessed me did the homework we were set but it was kinda sick and twisted and I'd really rather people not hear it."

"Uh, okay. Whatever dudette. You can leave it with me."

[OOC: Voicemail it or, if you haven't actually done it, voicemail something stating it's submitted so I can keep track.]

((I did have something in mind Sawyer IC will hate her for it so will have to check but think Sex Dwarf by Soft Cell!))

Ummm, sir? Is it possible for me to, maybe, take the left-over pizza? Maybe? Please?

*big sad puppy-eyes*

Excuse me? Sir? Is there anything I should do to better prepare myself to keep up with this course?

[OOC: I thought I'd posted this, back on Thursday, but it would seem Ithe original comment was also a victim of one of the computer lock-ups I've been experiencing all too frequently, recently. *sigh*]

Hey little dudette that I don't know! Welcome to the class. You don't have to call me sir. Everyone just calls me 'dude' or 'Professor Ted'. You can ask one of the students, maybe the TA Little Boy Blue Eyes Dude (

whitedeathpod) about what we've done so far, but I'll just grade you on what you do from now on, okay?

That is most agreeable, Professor. Thomasina smiles, glad to have this last bit of lesson-business settled and disinclined to question the meaning of the term 'dudette'. I'm sure one of the other students will be able to tell me everything I need to know to start,

*totally snags multiple slices of pizza throughout the course of the class. Not cause of grief or anything, just because she hasn't eaten properly in three days*

Roy enters, snags some pizza, and sits down for class.

Jonathan walks in and looks for Lane, he knows she had their finished project, he just wasn't sure where.

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