Groovy Tunes; Thursday [09/16].

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Troy was actually pretty excited to get into work that day, because he had something planned that he spent most of his last shift setting up so that today he could finally get to work on doing it. So he came in for his shift, threw his backpack behind the counter, and went straight to the keyboards, bopping his head along to the songs already playing in his head. He grabbed a few of them under his arms and brought them back over to the counter, where he was going to set them all up in an arrangement so that he could do what he was hoping to do, cracked his knuckles, rolled his neck a little, and then got ready for epic brilliance.

He dramatically pressed down the first key, only instead of the fart noise he was expecting, he got...just a regular old keyboard note.

Wait a second.

He pressed another one. No lasers. Just keyboard. Another. So much for shattering glass, it was just more keyboards. Another. Still the same.

"Who changed these all back?" he demanded to the emptiness around him.

He had spent hours perfectly programming these keyboards for sound effects, and now they were all back to normal, and who wanted to just play a normal song when you could attempt to play Tchaikovsky with nothing but splat sounds and farm animals?

He was going to play it for radio tomorrow, too!

But it looks like he was back to square one.

He definitely made sure the first sound he reprogrammed in was a sad trombone, because it just really spoke to his soul right now.

Groovy Tunes is open!

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After the conversation the other day with Summer, Dwight had been thinking about the guitars that had been sitting neglected in his apartment since he arrived on the island. It was time to get them out again, even if was just for his own use.

So, there he was, walking in with two guitar cases in tow. A nice Classic Guitar and his prized Electric Guitar.

"Hey, Troy isn't it?" he asked with a friendly smile.

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Troy's attention shifted off the keyboards surrounding him when he heard someone coming in, his shoulders squaring proudly at the recognition. He didn't get that as much here as his old school! So that was kind of nice, and, instead of a verbal response, he just grinned a little and dramatically went to push one of the keys on the keyboard.

Which promptly made the sound of a creaking door.

"Wait, no, hold on," he said, frowning and trying another one.

A dog barked. The frown deepened.

A third one. The keyboard made the ding, ding, ding! of a correct game show question and he beamed. There it was!

"That's me!" he said proudly. "How can I help you?"

And then, after a moment of realization: "Unless this is about whoever it is that keeps yelling 'books' as loud as they can in the library and then running away, because I actually don't know anything about that."

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"No, nothing about books" Dwight said with a smirk. "Unless you have any books with sheet music. Was curious what guitar supplies you have here" he added.

He put the cases up on the counter and opened them so Troy could see what they were working with. "They unfortunately have been neglected since I got to the island so I know they need new strings and tuning. I also need to restock on the basics. Left everything but the guitars themselves back home."

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Troy was...definitely looking into those cases and thinking he wished he knew more about guitars in general, made a note to maybe look into it a little more, and then preemptively told himself it was fine for when he inevitably forgot, because half the time, he couldn't even remember to read his homework for school, so, really, he was just setting himsel fup to fail on that one.

But he might not know guitars much but he did know the store. His brows lifted as he hitched a thumb over his shoulder. "Guitar section's over there," he offered, and then cocked his head in that direction before venturing forward to lead the way. "I definitely know we've got strings, and sheet music, and...probably a few other things you might need...."

And, as he moved and thought about it, he found that he had to ask, "So...if you have two of them, does that mean you play them both at once?"

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Dwight followed Troy through the shop and started looking at everything they had. He had to admit, for a small shop on a small island, they were impressively stocked. Dwight had to stop and fight back a laugh as he hear Troy's question.

"No, not both at once" he said with a grin. "Takes two hands to play one guitar. I have two because one is an regular acoustic guitar and the other is an electric guitar. You generally play them both the same but they sound completely different and have different features that make them sound even more distinct."

Dwight paused for a moment, trying to think of how to best explain it.

"Ok so, in something like Country music, you are most likely going to hear the classic acoustic guitar. That's what most commonly is used. Now for a rock song or the newer hard rock stuff, that will most likely be the electric guitar that is used. I enjoy a wide range of music so I like being able to play both types of guitars."

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"Makes sense," Troy agreed, as he listened to that and nodded along. "I don't really know a whole lot about guitars, I've been spending most of my time with the keyboards, but I know we have a few keytars, that's kind of like the best of both worlds. You ever play one of those?"

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"I've played around with them a few times. Never owned one before. What about you?" Dwight asked turning and nodding towards Troy as he glanced through the guitar supplies on the racks and shelves. "Sounds like you are quite the pro with the keyboards. You play anything else?"

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"I consider my voice to be my main instrument?" Troy offered, sounding a little contemplative about it, and then more confident because, yeah, that was definitely true, both in spitting rhymes and beatboxing. "Plus, I mean, I was a quarterback at my old school," lest anyone forget! "Band was kind of for the nerds."

Not that he was calling Dwight a nerd, because the dude was pretty much huge and also, if you were going to play an instrument, a guitar was pretty much one of the few acceptable ones.

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"Ah the voice is one of the best instruments of all" Dwight nodded in agreement. "And a fellow quarterback too, nice. I played in high school and could have gotten into college with it most likely. But ended up enlisting instead. Might not have been the brightest choice I made, but eh, cant change the past right?"

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"Yeaaaaaahhhh." Troy couldn't help giving a wistful sigh, perhaps a little too wistful, as he shook his head in very clear remorse. "I feel you on that one, man. I was probably gonna go pro one day, but..." Another dismal sigh, and he gestured toward his shoulder, then down toward his knee. "I got injured. No bouncing back from that. Shame, really..."

Try as he actually might, he did not sound too terribly heartbroken about the whole thing.

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"Well as long as you make the most of what you got and where you are at... can't really ask a guy to do more than that can you?" Dwight said with a shrug. "I'm pretty sure my back would have given out on me long before I could have gotten to pro anyways" he added with a soft laugh.

There was no lie in that statement... but maybe just a little exaggeration.