Marcato

So, made mah post, sorry it took longer than it should have! In case any of you are wondering what song Marcato just played, this would be it. He played the part of the player on the right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmDOapj8J24

Marcato looked at the pony puzzled as he seemed to doze off right in front of the musician. The unicorn seemed quite sleepy, and having mentioned being an engineer Marcato could only guess that he had been fairly busy. However when he mentioned that the train he engineered was heading to Los Pegasus, the blue earth pony's eyes opened a little wider. "Really?" Marcato said with surprise, failing to hide his excitement. He looked around to see who else might be around, to make sure they hadn't noticed him blow his professional look. No matter how much he wanted to look professional, at his age it was difficult to maintain that sort of posture around everyone. He cleared his throat as he prepared to speak again. "Is that a fact! Well, that certainly is a stroke of luck!" He said to the pony before him. The fact that this pony was offering him a free ride to the festival caught him completely off guard. When he mentioned wanting to hear another song, Marcato smiled and nodded. "Of course, I love when people enjoy my music, whether I wrote it myself or not." He pointed out. "I'll happily play another song, I'm glad that you like hearing me play." Marcato turned back to his violin and picked it up, and stood tall once more. He paused a moment as his mind whirled through different songs. Looking at the pony and going over his responses before, Marcato picked out a song he thought the unicorn may like. Something complex... I know just the thing. The musician realized. He began playing the highly originally named song "Concerto for 2 violins in D minor," or at least he played the one part of it, which was what he had learned in the past. He figured he wanted something a little more complicated and considering that this was a classical piece with a more fast paced feel, he felt that qualified as more complicated. He also assumed that if this pony liked Canon he would like other classical music. As he made his way through the long four minute piece, he tried his best to make it sound as good as he could. The piece was difficult in many aspects as it was very confusing at times with some of the ways your were meant to play. Being the perfectionist he was, he wouldn't let a single issue slip by and tried as hard as he could to keep his notes at the absolute perfect pitch. (Naturally a difficult thing.) There was the occasional out of tune note, but he prayed that the listener would hardly notice. As it drew to a close, Marcato let out a satisfied sigh and put his instrument down, and approached his 'audience.' "I hope you don't mind, that's not the best I've played that piece... It's always been a difficult one, but I enjoy it either way myself." Marcato suddenly realized he hadn't even introduced himself. "Oh! I'm sorry, I didn't even tell you my name!" He tapped his hoof on the ground in frustration with himself. "My name is Velox Psallebat Marcato, but, most ponies just call me Marcato for short." He explain.

I've received several, at first I was like "ZOMG FELD0 'LIKED' MY POST (Back in the days before brohooves)" but then I was like "Wait, he liked everyone else's post too." Calamity brohooves are indeed rare. His military style make it impossible to please him. He won't brohoof unless you drop and give him a good 500+ push ups first.

I must say, that title certainly did grab my attention... Anyways welcome to the forums! I hope you'll have a great time here and enjoy participating in some of the discussions that float around these parts. Keep spreading the brony-fever, soon the entire world will be a part of the herd....

I want to be a cinematic orchestral composer. In other words, I want to make that massive intense music you hear playing during Lord of the Rings or Pirate of the Caribbean. I have a bucket list and it's largely filled with musical accomplishments such as; Compose a song for a movie. Compose music for a game. Use a real full orchestra with one of my songs. Make a living off of music. Etc. I also have a lot of tech-accomplishments as well. I've always loved technology, so there's a lot of stuff on my list of interests. For example; I want to make a game in Java. I want to make a fully functional website. I want to become a tech administrator. I want to learn all there is to know about programming in general. (Not all languages.) Etc. As you can see I'm a very ambitious person when it comes to goals, and if I want to see something done, I will make sure it gets done.

Haha! That's hilarious, because me and my friends used to do the same thing. Fun fact about the name. It used to be called root tea, but no one would buy it, so they named it Root Beer and then it became a hit.

I'm a biased root beer addict. I prefer it over Coke or any other soda out there. It dominates my favorite drinks. (Unless you count a milkshake as a drink.) I bet I know why I'm so addicted to it actually. Its got "beer" in it, so naturally one gets addicted pretty easily. Root Beer makes me do strange and stupid things. Just ask poor Zoop or Key Gear, they can confirm that.

Top three? Ooh choices... #3 would be when people attempt to do something they think is really easy and fail miserably. Primarily something related to a video game or coding. #2 is probably derped images or downright ridiculous looking facial expressions. Finally, #1 would have to be silly 12 year olds playing TF2 and screaming in the mic's. I'm sorry it's just so funny listening to a kid being all "u guys r all nubs and im betr than u" and then suddenly getting killed and screaming "HAX!!!!"

As Marcato played, he noticed one particular pony began taking interest. He was a rather dark-colored one and he seemed particularly interested in Marcato's playing. He kept playing and finished the song, taking his time to make sure it sounded like an elegant end to an elegant piece. Upon finishing he brought his violin down and came to all fours. @@Key Gear The pony before him then spoke, inquiring as to where he learned and why he was playing in Ponyville. A little surprised to be asked that right off the bat, Marcato cleared his throat. "Well I learned from a very talented stallion who plays violin in this very same town. I hold deep respect for him and his abilities in playing the instrument." Marcato told the unicorn. "You see this is where I live, and also where my family has always lived. I enjoy the quiet and slow life here in contrast to the bussling cities elsewhere. I've ben trying to get to Las Pegasus for a festival lately, but I've been unable to get a ride. Business has been a little slow for me as of late..." Marcato explained. He wondered if this unicorn would turn into a possible client. He seemed very keenly interested in his talents and almost came across as amazed. Marcato didn't see why, as Canon was a very easy piece compared to many other songs he had played in the past, he just took effort and time into making it sound beautifully professional... either way though whichever peaked ponies interests suited him. (Except ponystep 'course.)

So an idea recently came to mind that I feel would be a handy little thing to have in the forums, and that is something like an Online/Offline message by a user's avatar in their posts. Many forums already have this, and currently the only way to check if a user is online or not would be to scroll over their name and let the tab of info load. I think a way this could be done, is having an overlapping green light or red light go on top of a users avatar. Green symbolizing online, and red symbolizing offline. Just in the corner so as not to obscure the actual avatar. I just think it'd be nice for a quicker and more convenient way to check a users online status. Thoughts?

Why yes, yes is was Pachabel's Canon. :3 I legitimately played that at a christmas concert by popular demand. Was fun. Anyways, I'll naturally start out slow and/or unsure of things as I get more familiar. Just a heads up to those that actually know what they're doing...