Group RP Iris-shi High School Talent (Idol) Club! (IC)

Robin sweatdropped at Maya's sigh. "Well... I could teach you how to play bass. It's considerably easier and less complicated than playing guitar chords." And he wasn't joking. In Robin's opinion, Maya was underestimating herself. That, or Maya needed to know the concept of a bass guitar... first. If Maya could sing and play a lead or acoustic guitar at the same time, she would have no problem with a bass.

He looked at Robyn's guitar and considered demonstrating to Maya.

 

@WavePearl

As if Naga had answered Maya's thoughts, Robin brought out Robyn's guitar (which had had played on at the start of the club meeting). He showed it to Maya. "Right, Maya-chan. So I assume you're familiar with key signatures and playing chords corresponding to each key. If you've ever seen a bass guitar, the strings are identical to a regular guitar except it's reduced to four. There's usually no B string or high E string because a bass guitar doesn't need them. You could try playing a chord, but a bass guitar's strings are so thick that your only concern is playing single notes relative to the key. For example..."

He went to play four chords: G chord, C chord, D chord, and E minor chord. "You already know this is the most basic of guitar chords, which is key of G. Now here's how you play bass..."

Robin then played the same four notes (G, C, D, and E) but as single notes. No chord.

"See? It's that easy. You play just single notes instead of chords," Robin said. "You can easily replicate this with your own acoustic guitar. Of course, on the stage, it's more practical to have a bass guitar since, naturally, it's bassier. If you want to learn playing a bassline, that's just reading sheet music from there."

He went on to replay the song he played earlier, but played only the bass notes instead of playing the entire chord.

(All key signatures for guitar - and most songs - follow this basic rule. Lead, rhythm, or bass)

 

Robin sweatdropped. Did Maya not have a guitar of her own? "Do you have a guitar at home?" he asked. "You could practice on that. Use the E string and the A string. Just those two."

He was quite certain Maya that had a guitar.

 

@WavePearl @SAF @ChocoChicken

(Gotcha, Wave)

"Oh... I see," Robin said, suddenly aware that Maya's guitar had been here. He gave off the same flustered reaction that Robyn had when she was flustered. The reaction looked similar too! "Whelp, that helps. Maya-chan, you can practise with your guitar whenever you'd like!

"Anyway, long story short, if we can count on you to play bass and sing vocals for Nora-chan, that would be fine."

He looked at the list one more time. "Okay, so it looks like we have our plan, pending the application of our venue. Do we all have our songs good to go? Make sure to send them to me- I mean- Robyn so that we can have everything planned. Is there anything else? Any other business? Questions?"

What Robin wrote

1. Tamal and Alex - with Robin (Polygonal ft. Reflet)
2. Kai - with Alex and Tamal (Big Han-san ft. Polygonal)
3. Robin - with Robyn? (Reflet)
4. Nora - with Kai and Maya (Han-san ft. Phoenix)
4. Robyn? - solo?
5. Maya - solo (Phoenix)
5. Tamal - duo? (Rising Star Capella)
6. Group - Nora (Little Han-san)
7. Group - Alex (Ch1ptune)

 

Robin sweatdropped again, wondering if Maya was misunderstanding the principle of how a bass guitar worked. "Bass notes are identical to regular notes on a guitar, but one or two octaves lower. So it's not just drop D, but dropping to an octave E below. But if you had tuned your acoustic guitar to do that, your strings would be flat.

"But that doesn't mean you can't practice bass notes as is. In other words, your guitar already has the bass notes. They're just different by octave but the tune still works. You can practice with your higher strings for now, but I'll see if I can get a bass guitar loaned for you."

(For the record, Wave, a guitar has strings EADGBe, whereas a bass has only strings EADG. Not exactly a whole new instrument for Maya...)

 

(Gotcha)

@WavePearl @ChocoChicken @SAF

"Okay... So it looks like we're set," Robin said. "I'll follow up with Robyn and see how she's doing. In the meantime, get your song selections finalised and send them to her. We'll need our venue approved fast, so we can't wait too long! And don't forget that finals are coming up, so don't slack off on your studies either!"

He waved to Tamal as Tamal took his leave. Then Robin dismissed the club like Robyn would and he began to pack up his things. He packed away Robyn's guitar in its respective case and set about making reminders to submit the venue application, and also getting a loaned bass guitar for Maya. Maybe the music room might be happy to lend one. Last but not least, he picked up Robyn's Meloetta doll.

Afterwards, he began making his way home on his own. With this much weight is hands, he opted to take the bus up the hill so that it would save him some energy. He found Robyn there still looking very depressed as she studied for her finals, so he helped Morgan with making dinner for her. While he was at it, he went on Robyn's laptop to deal with submitting the venue application, and he monitored her email for anything incoming from the other clubmates.

(Cuing the week, the weekend, and the next performance - that's eleven days later...)

 

(Now I'm wondering what the drama would actually look like since it is in everyone's history books)

During the week, Robin had been looking after Robyn to make sure she was alright. It seemed that Robyn still was weighed down by Tala's departure and hadn't gotten over it. Her morale was down, that was for sure. In the meantime, Robin did his best to look after her (just like he did last year) and continued monitoring the emails. He also picked out the song that he might do together with Robyn, and Robyn eventually decided to help him with the choreography. Over the week, her mood gradually improved but the emotions were still there.

@WavePearl

While Robin was at it, he visited Yuka Music to see how things were going for a possible bass guitar rental. Amazingly, when he walked in the shop he was instantly recognised by the staff. Granted, he was an occasional customer here and maybe his small popularity in the school club had helped him to get a bass guitar rental for a massive discount - and Chrom helped to pay for it!

By the end of the week, he had gotten news that the application for Marth Stadium was approved by the city of Iris-shi! Excited - like Robyn-excited - Robin emailed everyone using his own email account.

Robin's email

"Hey, everyone!

Great news! Our application for Marth Stadium is approved! Make sure you're prepared!

Also, I think we should do something or get something for Robyn to cheer her up. She's still really down.

-Robin

Then during the weekend, he and Robyn studied diligently together in preparation for finals. Whatever downtime they had, they spent practising Robin's song. For Robin, he further spent his downtime reviewing Tamal's song (whereas Robyn played Luigi Kart and casually played on her guitar).