A Modern Classic

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"No no no! This simply will not do!" John glared at the classroom as he entered. Desks set out in rows, a plain whiteboard, and his desk in the back. Turning to the whiteboard, he drew a line down the middle. On one half, he drew two five measure long staffs; one bass and the other treble. The other half he left blank. He would take care of that in a moment. His attention turned to the desks. A neat little rectangle. "How quaint," John snorted, a bit irate. He set to rearranging the desks. A few minutes later, there was a two layer horseshoe.

"Better..." His eyes fell on the desk in the back of the room. One of his major pet peeves was teachers sitting at their desks during class. He felt it was impractical and generally useless. Then another thought. "Keyboards!" John cried. That was what was missing! The graying blonde strode tot he board. He picked up a blue marker-the only color marker he had in the classroom-and set to writing.

When you arrive, please put a check next to your name. There's no assigned seats, so feel free to pick one and settle in. You'll be needing a notebook, writing utensils, and possibly some other things. I don't really know yet. If I'm not back by the time class starts, please be patient. I'll be attempting to find some keyboards.

He set the marker down and stepped back. He hadn't put his name on the board, but he felt it was unnecessary. They would learn his way the same way he learned theirs-practice. An additional idea came to mind. They would need something to do while he was gone. The male picked up the marker once again, this time bringing the list of names with him to write them all down.

Write a list of instrumental music you would like to learn more about. It can be modern or classic, or whatever you feel is right.

John took a minute to write down the names, then set down the marker yet again. He exited the room to find the keyboards he'd seen earlier.

Students

Present
Serenity Oliver
Cortney Smit
@rhythm
@emz
@alana

Absent
@valentine
@jetferris
@running5
Ben Hall

[Serenity Oliver]

Serenity glided into the music room, looking around with an amused smile when she saw that she was the first to arrive, and noting the fact that there was no teacher. Her bright blue eyes scanned the board and she shrugged as she walked forward and put a tick next to her name, tempted to erase her first name and replace it with Reni. However, she couldn't bring herself to showing the teacher the disrespect and put the pen back down and walked to the front row of the horseshoe of desks and sat herself down behind one of the first desks.

Brushing down the skirt she was wearing so that it sat nicely around her legs, she then began to pull out her class folder, the board said notebook, but she just preferred the orderliness of a folder, followed by her pencil case. A smile touched her lips again as she read the board once more, and with a shake of her head she opened the folder to the first page and wrote the date at the top of the page. The then began to compile a list if instruments that she would love to learn how to learn more about, if not learn to play: Harp, flute, panpipes, dulcimer...

[Cortney Smit]

Cortney paraded through the hallways, her cheer uniform seeming to make the students clear a path for her without having to be asked to move, and those that didn't move, were pulled aside by their peers. She liked to make time between classes to chat with others, but with having to remain behind at her last class to ask a question about homework, had made stopping impossible as she made her way to the music room.

Walking in, the lack of a teacher didn't slip past her. "So, we're teaching ourselves?" She muttered as she read through the board and rolled her eyes, before walking forward and put a fancy check beside her name. She then walked to the seat that was in the centre of the first row and threw herself down into the chair, a little more dramatic that was required but she wasn't impressed that the teacher hadn't been organised enough to have everything ready before class. What if one of the students had forgotten their notebook? Would they be graced with the patience and time to return to their locker or dorm to collect it?

Pulling out the notebook she had for the class as well as her pencil case, she pulled out a sparkly blue pen and started a list: Guitar, voice (after all, it was an instrument), drums, organ. She'd been part of a church choir for so long and had always admired what the organist could do with the instrument.

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Jason walked out of his last class and was almost at the end of the hallway when he realized that he had left his jacket behind. With a small groan he retraced his steps and grabbed the offending article of clothing. He smiled wanly at the teacher before hurrying to music class. He was not too late, thank goodness, but he paused a few steps into the door, noticing the absence of an adult. He shrugged to himself and checked his name off. He raised a hand in greeting to the cheerleader. He wasn't particular at being the center of attention, and so sat more to the side than Cortney had.

Rummaging in his backpack, Jason withdrew a blank notebook and a pencil. He looked some more and retrieved a black Sharpie. He titled the notebook with his name and the class. He tossed the Sharpie back into his bag and flipped to the first page. He wondered whether the teacher had meant information like history or typical role in an ensemble, or how to make a pleasant sound with said instrument. He supposed it didn't really matter, and scrawled the first word onto the page. Violin, banjo, electric guitar.

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 Emmett looked down at his watch then looked back at his map to help him find his music class. He had his hair spiked up today and wore a smile on his face. This was a good day for him as he felt more at home here than he did at his real home. When he reached his music class he checked that anyone was in before entering. He smiled at the other pupils but when he went to smile at the teacher and hand him a note saying that he was new he noticed that no one was there.

 

 He ticked where his name was with a pen to show that he present and then he picked a seat where no one was near by his reason for it was that he did not want to annoy anyone by sitting where their friend was meant to sit, he had done that one before in his old school and the guy fell out with him so if anyone came to sit beside him he would simply say hello and try to make a friend at blue ridge and then he did not seem to "in your face" with anyone.

 He wrote down on a piece of paper what he wanted to learn more and said guitar, drums, voice and violin.

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Alana continued on to the elective department to her next class, Music. This time she only looked at the map once and automatically put it away to practice memorising the ways of the Academy being set up. She let a small smirk creep up in the corners of her mouth as she was proud of herself for finding the classroom herself. She then took a hold of the handle and opened the door.

Entering the room, she looked around for the instructor of the class to inform him she was new to the Academy and she wasn't surprised when her name wasn't yet on his roster. So she grabbed the pen and added her name to the list, hoping he wouldn't mind as she also added a tick by her name. She then set the pen down in its original place and glanced around the room, giving small smiles to others before picking a seat in the front row, but off to the side where there was no one nearby to yet be occupied. She then took out the listed materials asked to take out for today - which was a notebook and her choice of writing utensils, a pen - and read their assigned task while they were waiting.

She opened to a clean sheet of paper and dated the paper in the corner before tapping her pen on the blank sheet of paper so far. 'What would I like to learn more about?' She pondered to herself as she then started to write down guitar, voice, violin, piano. Although she knew she already knows about piano, it was only little bits, same for voice, and she wanted to go further into those two the most, but at the same time she also wanted to try other things while she was at it. After all, she was here to learn new things, so might as well.

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The next class he was on his way to was actually of interest to him. Music was a big part of his life, he played the guitar confidently. He walked into the class to see that a good handful of kids were already there. He took note of the teacher not being in the room. He shrugged it off and continued into the room. He read over the words on the board carefully and knew that the teacher was here, just not in the room at the moment.

Jackson put a check next to his name and took a seat. He pulled out his notebook and a pen. He read the second part of the words and thought about it. He really didn’t want to learn more about guitar as he knew a lot but there wasn’t just one way to play guitar. He wrote down -Guitar, -Piano, -Drums, He tried to think about at least one more instrument before he actually declared himself done with the question.

The wind instrument always interested him and so he wrote down two more, -Saxophone, -Clarinet Naming the instruments gave him a good idea of what he would like to learn about and learn how to play. In the case of the guitar, learn how to play better. He sat back and waited for the teacher to return to class.