Making music on a computer? Piece of cake! I’ve been doing it since I was in middle school! Not to brag, but I’ve been pretty awesome at it for years, and have only gotten better as time went on. No doubt about it; this class was gonna be fun.
I made my way into the band room, which was where the class was going to be held. Shortly after I had entered, a swarm of about thirty or so students shuffled in after me, filling the room up before I had a chance to really get a look around the room. Not that it mattered; I had an entire semester to get used to these rooms. No need to memorize everything on day one, after all.
Anyway, after we’d all entered the room and taken a seat, a man in a suit wearing glasses showed up.
"Hello, hello, class," he said. "My name is Mr. Beat. Tech Beat if you want my full name." He stopped to take a look at the class. As he took a look at the class, I looked around the room to see if I could find Rainbow Dash. It took a bit, but I found her in the far left corner of the room, seated in the corner of the room opposite the one I was at. I noticed that she was whispering something into Pinkie Pie’s ear, as if she was telling her a secret or something. Considering that Pinkie appeared to be trying to avoid giggling after hearing it though, it was probably just a joke or something. Didn’t matter to me though; honestly, I just thought it was kinda cool that there would be more than one person that I knew I liked in this class.
"Hmm. So this is my second semester class?" he said, raising a brow. He stared at us for a while with that brow raised, as if he wasn’t quite sure what to make of us, until he eventually broke out into a grin.
"Well, I must say that this looks absolutely delightful! I'm so glad to see so many bright young minds who want to make music. I’m sure you will all enjoy making your music... WITH TECHNOLOGY!” He said enthusiastically for a moment. He then briefly looked the class over again before he continued.
“Now, I love creating music with computers, and by the end of this semester, I’m sure you all will as well. I know that last semester’s class certainly did! I knew each of them well, and it was truly amazing how much variety each student brought to the table! It was a fantastic semester filled with some of the greatest tunes I’ve heard in quite a while!" He looked at us again. "But before we get started, how about we have a quick introduction, hmm?” He pointed at Dash. "Pardon me, my lady with the rainbow colored hair? Would you mind starting us off? We'll go horizontal from left-to-right, and get everyone situated, yes?"
Dash nodded, stood up and walked to where Beat once stood. She said her name, told us her hobbies, which she loved being an athlete and doing daring stuff, and a few other facts, such as her birthday (which wasn’t for another eight months). After Dash had finished, Pinkie bounced up to where Dash was standing, and quickly followed suit, stating her name, hobbies, and so on. We moved from guy-to-guy, girl-to-girl, until it was eventually my turn.
"Ahem." Beat coughed, getting my attention. I was in a daydream for a second there.
"Oh, yeah, right." I said with a chuckle. "Uh, my bad." I heard some chuckling and muffled laughter, but I wasn’t really bothered by it. I walked up to the spot, stood tall in a very proper manner, and told them about myself.
"Hello, uh, my name is Rainbow Blitz. Uh... I don’t think that any of you guys have ever heard of me. That’s because I moved here from Canterlot." I quickly slapped myself in the face, knowing that I screwed up.
"I mean, Fillywood." I corrected myself. More laughter. God, I was coming off stupid here...
"Umm, I make music, too. I make music on SoundCloud, under the name, Fallout Blitz. When I’m not doing that, I’m usually just hanging around and playing video games." I felt a bead of sweat rolling down my face, which I’m fairly certain was beginning to turn red from embarrassment.
"Um, my birthday is on March 16th, and uh… yup, that's it." I quickly rushed back to my seat, and hid my face.
Before you say anything, no, I'm not super shy. It's just... when you talk in front of crowds and stuff, it gets to you. There’s a ton of pressure. After all, if you screw something up, people laugh. Not the good kind, either. They aren’t laughing with you, but at you. I hate it... and people make fun of me for it. Bastards...
Anywho, we got situated really quickly afterwards. Each of us got a laptop, and went onto a site called 'SoundLoud', which was pretty much like SoundCloud, except the 'c' was dropped. It was very similar to the site. In fact, if it weren’t for the fact that this site had actual controls on it, I would’ve just thought that I was using SoundCloud. I quickly found out that there was a tab where a bunch of instruments were listed on the side, and you were able to drag and drop the instruments into the center to indicate what instruments you were planning on using. I smiled to myself. This was gonna be fun.
First things first, we needed to create a profile. According to Beat, it could be anything that wasn’t… inappropriate. Fine by me. So, I made my account the same as my SoundCloud account: Fallout Blitz.
After I had finished that, I checked around the site to see how many users this site had. Unsurprisingly, the site had quite a large number of people, most of whom were students at Canterlot at one point or another. I was surprised to see that almost all of those students who had already graduated still made music on here. Heck, there was one account that appeared to be nine years old that released a song called Battery only around a week ago. There was no doubt about it; I was gonna enjoy this site.
Beat went over the basics of the site, such as how to make an account, how to choose instruments, some basic music theory, and a few other things. It was really simple for me. Once he’d finally finished his tutorial, he gave us our first task: making a ringtone. We had to make a song with at least two instruments in it. In addition, we needed to have the ringtone say something in English. I’m pretty sure the only reason he made us do this was because he just wanted a new ringtone for his phone, but whatever. If he wanted a ringtone, I was more than willing to oblige. I tried to think of an awesome little tune to hear when some dude wants to have you over at their place. After a few moments, I snapped my fingers. HUZZAH!
I got a guitar and an electric keyboard as my instruments, and made the tune. As I developed the ringtone, I nodded my head, positive that Beat was going to like what I had planned for him. I played around with the instruments for a while, trying to make the guitar chords harmonize with the keyboard, until they meshed just right, at which point I assembled the future ringtone for Mr. Beat. At least I hoped it was gonna be his future ringtone. Well, I say ‘hoped’, but it was more that I felt that I knew he was gonna choose mine. I mean, not to boast or anything, but I’m pretty darn great at making music. Again, not boasting.
As I was trying to think of what I wanted the lyrics to my song to be, I heard the sound of the bell ringing. After saving my work, I quickly and carefully shut the laptop, put it away in the computer case, and left the room with my stuff. Instead of leaving for my next class, however, I stopped just outside the classroom doors and waited for Dash. It took a bit, since she was the last one to leave the room, but I eventually saw her walk out slowly, talking with Pinkie as she did so. I tapped her on the shoulder, which stopped her in her tracks. She turned towards me with a smile on her face.
"Hey Blitz! How'd you like music tech?" she asked me enthusiastically.
"It was pretty cool. I'm pretty sure that Beat and I will get along." I replied.
"Cool. Well, see ya later, Blitz!" she said before beginning to turn away.
"Okay. By the way, don't forget that you promised to meet me after school!" I reminded her. The second I said that, I wished that I had just kept my mouth shut, as the smile on her face quickly dropped. She quickly nodded her head without saying anything, before dashing away in the opposite direction. Something told me that I was gonna regret reminding her of that.
Soon afterwards, I made it to my final classes, Algebra and French. Just like the other classes without Dash, they were okay. I actually kinda thought that French would be awesome to learn, but the class was a little lame, considering the teacher seemed pretty dull. Hopefully it was just an off day of his. Not that it really mattered, because before I knew it, the classes had ended, meaning that it was time.
The time where I finally talked to Dash about Rush, and then Sunset...