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[purr_ince]

Date: October 13
From: Adrien Agreste
[When the feed comes up it's facing a black baby grand piano. Aa blond boy with green eyes wearing a rather loud shirt and a pair of black jeans siting on the cushioned bench playing with a look of content on his face and a small smile - even if one can only see it in profile.

Once he's done he's turning toward the camera beaming and looking rather hopeful.] Hey Far Shore. I know that is might be a long shot but does anyone here know how to read music? Or anything about music in general? I've been tinkering around here and some things sound kind of good? But I really want to be able to play some of the music from these sheet books I found so if some one could help me out with that I'd love it.

Thank you for you time.

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[lostinshadows]

Hibiki Shikyoin.

[What's up, Adrien?

Lavi looks a little tired, but he's here to help. Sort of.] She's the only person I know who has some expertise in music, but I think there are others who could help out, too.

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[purr_ince]

Huh. I don't know that she'd be too willing to help me out. I don't think she's my biggest fan right now. We met during my first training session because one of my dummies got away from me. She wasn't happy.

[He shrugs and rubs a the back of his neck.]

So I might have to wait for someone else to contact me I guess? But that's okay! I'm patient.

[He's giving a little wave and a smile though because even if it'd been brief his interaction with Lavi had been pleasant.]

You doing okay, Lavi? You look kind of like you're having a rough day.

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[lostinshadows]

Mm, I think there's another person I know: Kuroyukihime. [But wait.] What did the dummy do to get her upset with you?

[Ignoring how it's actually quite easy to get Hibiki upset.

A blink before he smiles.]

Just a little bit. I've just been handling a few things.

[purr_ince]

I suppose I could text this Kuroyukihime. [He's speaking a bit slower when it comes to her name, as if working to commit the proper way of saying it to mind.] Well, it got away from me and went after her? Then she dropped a teacup and it wanted to attack her.

[Honestly he's still not entirely sure what to make of that at all. Teacup ghost.]

Just take care of yourself, okay? Don't over do it.

[lostinshadows]

[A blink before he laughs.] So that's the problem. Don't mind that too much. Teacups have something against her.

[She's still being haunted by teacup ghosts?]

And don't worry, I won't.

[purr_ince]

Seems kind of silly to me to be mad about something I had no control over but...

[He nods.] Yeah so I gathered. Maybe it's from her always dropping them or something like that?

Good. That wouldn't be any fun if you let yourself get too overworked.

[lostinshadows]

It's just...the way Hibiki works.

[He has to hold back a laugh.] Considering the amount of tea cups she usually drops? I don't blame them.

[Lavi smiles.]

Thanks for the concern.

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[heptagram]

I could teach you to read music, at least, but I don't know if I could help you be a good performer.

[purr_ince]

Performer? I never really thought about being a performer before.

[But now that someone has brought it up... It does sound like it might be fun.]

Do you have many musicians here?

[heptagram]

I've met a few, at least. There are probably a couple others I haven't met before, though, too.

[She's not sure how useful they'll be, or if they're any good with a piano.]

[purr_ince]

Interesting. Maybe I'll meet some of them, too. It would be neat to say the least.

[She's been very helpful regardless of if she knows it or not.]

[heptagram]

It shouldn't be hard to find them if you go looking, I think.

[Well, Davesprite's pretty loud. Might not be the most helpful choice because his means of music-making is a bit not-piano-y.]

[purr_ince]

I'm sure I'll find them along the way. No sense in rushing, right?

[He's smiling happily.]

Thank you for that new bit of information.

from: Carl Adler

[smilingbullet]

Sort of? In theory, at least. I'm sort of tone deaf though, when it comes to singing and instruments, so it's not knowledge I make use of very often. Otherwise the internet might be helpful.

But that sounded lovely.

from: Adrien Agreste

[purr_ince]

Oh. That's must be difficult. I don't mean with pitch though. I seem to need to relearn the basics. Like reading music sheets and the tempos things along those lines. You're right I could look things up online but I seem to do very well with a more hands on approach.

Thank you very much. I'm glad that you liked it.

from: Carl Adler

[smilingbullet]

Nah I manage. And I can understand that. At least relearning shouldn't be as difficult as it might be to learn the first time. A hands on approach in this case would be..?

From: Adrien Agreste

[purr_ince]

I mean I assume I know or rather knew how at one point? Well, hands on would be someone sitting down with me and explaining the beats and counts which notes are which. I did look a little bit but without a bit of guidance it's all kind of gibberish? It's just
words with no context.

from: Carl Adler

[smilingbullet]

Oh, okay, that makes sense. I'm sorry I can't help you with that.
How about image or video examples?

from: Adrien Agreste

[purr_ince]

Don't worry about it. It was nice to you to even take an interest.
That might help a bit too actually. Any recommendations?

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[all_seeing_eye]

I pretty much only know about virtual idols, but if you're interested I can hook you up with one of the composition programs.

[purr_ince]

[He smiles.]

I see. It's fine if you don't I supposed not everyone would. Well, if you think that program would help me in some way I'd be willing to give it a go!

[It doesn't take much to make Adrien happy.]

[all_seeing_eye]

It won't help you get any better at playing music, but it'll definitely make it easier if you ever decide to write your own.

[purr_ince]

Even if it won't help me right now it might help me later on. And who knows I might actually play something worth writing down.

[all_seeing_eye]

All right. Here it comes, then!

[And she sends over a download link.]

The keygen is in the zip file.

[Because of course she's pirating this for him.]

[purr_ince]

Awesome!

[As if he's ever done this before. He hasn't. Adrien has no idea what pirating is - even before he came here..]

So I just click the link thing and download it. Then unzip the folder looking icon thing?