Technically, not terrible

by Admiral Biscuit

Chapter 3: Virtuoso

Technically, not terrible
Chapter 3: Virtuoso

Virtuoso’s ears pinned back at the discordinant shriek of the electric guitar. Ponies were generally at least somewhat musical in nature, although judging by the fur-standing notes of agony from the instrument, there were clear exceptions.

He raced back to the metal section of his music store, before the orange pegasus could commit another crime against harmony.

To his good fortune, she’d moved on to a quieter instrument: the drum set.

One drumstick held in her mouth, she began headbanging. Her hoof drove the bass drum, and her head chose between the cymbals or snare seemingly at random.

Despite the unskilled enthusiasm, he couldn’t help but tap his hoof. She was unskilled and using the drum set wrong, but she technically wasn’t terrible.

Comments

[badninja]

So Scootaloo is Ringo. I can dig it.

[Venerable Ro]

Enthusiasm and a basic sense of rhythm can get you far with a drum.

[ROBCakeran53]

I miss my little drum box. It was a single drum stick connected by wire to a speaker box, and depending on the kind of material you hit it with it made a drum beat...

[Dan]

Kids always want to go straight to the kit setup, wanting to run before learning to walk. Not even learning how to hold the stick in many cases.
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[Admiral Biscuit]

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So Scootaloo is Ringo. I can dig it.

What do you do with a person who can’t play a musical instrument? Give them two sticks and make them a drummer.
If they can’t play the drum, you take away one of the sticks and make them a conductor.

[Admiral Biscuit]

9794030

My sandwich had nothing in it, but it was still bread.

If it had two or more pieces of bread on it, it was a bread sandwich.

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[Admiral Biscuit]

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Enthusiasm and a basic sense of rhythm can get you far with a drum.

Yes, it can.

This one time in band camp, we were playing a piece that was supposed to have a huge gong hit, and the director got one of the football lineman to play the gong. He told him to try and put the mallet through the gong.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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I miss my little drum box. It was a single drum stick connected by wire to a speaker box, and depending on the kind of material you hit it with it made a drum beat...

That actually sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

[Admiral Biscuit]

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Kids always want to go straight to the kit setup, wanting to run before learning to walk. Not even learning how to hold the stick in many cases.

Well, yeah, ‘cause there’s lots of different drums you can hit in a kit.

I was never any good at drums myself.

[Bugsydor]

9795404
That's one of my favorite jokes from my band days.

[Admiral Biscuit]

9798530
Me, too.