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xavier_institute_logs2015-01-25 09:07 pm
knighterrantofthedragon) wrote in xavier_institute_logs2015-01-25 09:07 pm
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Fifth Trial - A Test of Artistry
WHO: Alric and Anyone
WHAT: Alric practicing guitar
WHERE: Music room
WHEN: In the early evening or during the weekend, before the Hellfire Club event
WARNING(S): None anticipated
Alric could be found many evenings in the music room, practicing with his guitar. Besides running through some scales, this mostly involved a little time working through rhythm phrases from various songs, followed by putting on a few preselected riffs to play lead over. The riffs transitioned through styles every couple of minutes, the range including blues and classical, but tended to be heavy on more symphonic rock and metal.
Music is one of the things Alric has used since he was a child as a coping mechanism for his volatile, emotionally-driven powers, so he's had a great deal of practice. His style tends to be a bit brash, a bit fierce, tightly restrained and crisp in calm sections and erupting with intensity during heavier parts.
Of course, the music room's still a public space, so anyone's welcome to drop by and listen, and say hi in between sets when he takes a break for a few minutes.
WHAT: Alric practicing guitar
WHERE: Music room
WHEN: In the early evening or during the weekend, before the Hellfire Club event
WARNING(S): None anticipated
Alric could be found many evenings in the music room, practicing with his guitar. Besides running through some scales, this mostly involved a little time working through rhythm phrases from various songs, followed by putting on a few preselected riffs to play lead over. The riffs transitioned through styles every couple of minutes, the range including blues and classical, but tended to be heavy on more symphonic rock and metal.
Music is one of the things Alric has used since he was a child as a coping mechanism for his volatile, emotionally-driven powers, so he's had a great deal of practice. His style tends to be a bit brash, a bit fierce, tightly restrained and crisp in calm sections and erupting with intensity during heavier parts.
Of course, the music room's still a public space, so anyone's welcome to drop by and listen, and say hi in between sets when he takes a break for a few minutes.
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Alric smiles, shaking his head.
"I assure you I'd not have come even as far as I have without their guidance. I've become... more self-sufficient, of course, with experience. More so with the guitar. I've found it somewhat more expressive--subjective and idiosyncratic an impression as that is, of course. The piano is more... proper, I suppose, but also an excellent platform for learning principles of music."
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"Did you stop seeing them because you came here, or was it more of a leaving the nest kind of thing?"
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"Ah... well, I'm not so sure the two are entirely separate. I certainly saw my music tutors less over the years, although that, I suppose, was due as much to a greater need to focus on other studies as it was to my own greater musical independence."
He smiled to himself, glancing aside and tilting his head a little.
"But yes, there are those who wound find the guitar... gaudy, perhaps, in a word. Showy, yet common. The sort of people who consider 'common' something at which they ought to turn up their noses."