Post by misty on May 27, 2009 19:48:48 GMT -5
My side of an art trade with the very talented Farthingale:
Ballet Lessons
A MUCH larger version can be found at my deviantart:
Link to pic
This is Melody from the My Little Pony Tales and her rock band the Rockin Beats. Farthingale wanted to see what the band became and I was honored to have the request to create it!
So, I not only created the band in all of their adult glory, I wrote up some story background for them too. Melody was in the series and we know about her. But the other 4 band members (2 of their names were never even mentioned, I had to look for the toy releases to find out) were quite neglected.
The Rockin Beats, Band and Band Member Bios follow!:
Emerging from the clubs of Ponyville, Rockin Beats broke into the pop scene in 1992 with their debut album, Melody's Sweet and Pretty Tuneful Halfnotes. The band's latest album, Rock Links, mixes Melody's bubbly melodies with energetic strumming to turn out an album teeming with teenage anthems. With standout tracks like "Sweet Music," the music of Rockin Beats appeals to pop fans and non-pop fans alike.
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Name: Melody (Pink Body with Curly Blue Hair)
Instrument: Vocals
Birthday : July 28
Relationship Status: Bachelorette
Special Items worn during concerts: Head phone with mic
A leader and a uniter, she keeps the band together. Although the girls get along famously, their lives over the years have changed so much that at times, it looked like the Rockin Beats may lose a member. Melody has kept them together through thick and thin, but not with coercion.
She inspires true loyalty in her girls. Melody won't hesitate to schedule the band's tours and recordings around the lives of each individual band member.
The fans of the Rocking Beats come to expect this and keep up to date on the band's website which is run by Melody's sisters. Jing a Ling and Ting a Ling, (Jing and Ting respectively) Melody's twin sisters run the website and are show coordinators for the band. Ting and Jing love pyrotechnics and the excitement of the show, despite not having obvious music talent.
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Name: Tuneful (Green Body and Orange Hair with Pink Highlights)
Instrument: Keyboard. Also can play accordion, saxophone and clarinet
Birthday : April 17
Relationship Status: Boyfriend
Special Items worn during concerts: Tie Dye headband she wore to every concert she attended in her youth.
Tuneful began going to concerts at a very young age, and like the other girls, knew she wanted to be making music so she surrounded herself with influence. Tuneful is not really a composer and prefers to play covers or the classics on either piano or electric keyboard.
She has an excellent ear for learning a tune and can pick up a melody in a flash and play it back to you. She easily masters an instrument and is driven to learn new ones all of the time. She is currently being self taught stringed instruments and wants to add some of them to the background of the band's next album.
Tuneful is sharp witted and sharp tempered.
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Name: Halfnote (Orange Body with Pink Hair and a Yellow Streak)
Instrument: Bass guitar. Also, violin, cello and steel guitar
Birthday : October 8
Relationship Status: Engaged
Special Items worn during concerts: A ticket stub for the Rockin Beats very first concert is set in enamel and she wears it in her mane to every event the band goes to or plays. The diamond tennis bracelet on her right arm is from her beloved.
Halfnote came from a fairly rich family. Her family owned a house in the suburbs and it was her garage where the band practiced their act. Halfnote's dad never minded having to move his convertible out when the wanted to practice.
Despite both her father and mother being involved in law, they not only approved of her musical pursuits, they encouraged it. As a young girl, she was given violin lessons.
But Halfnote was interested in a faster style. Her parents fully backed her choice to join a band when she learned of one needing a bass guitar at the local post office's community board.
Halfnote is a good backup singer and really enjoys playing the bass guitar for the band. She learned bass specifically to join the band. She learned her true talent as the band's leading songwriter after Melody. With Melody's unrivalled ability as a lyricist and Halfnote's lovely imagery, the band is known far and wide for the beauty and depth of it's songs.
Halfnote is elegant and modest
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Name: Sweet Notes (Pink Body with Wavy Yellow Hair)
Instrument: Lead Guitar and vocals
Birthday : November 20
Relationship Status: Newly Wed
Special Items worn during concerts: Sweet Notes wears the garter from her wedding to her concerts instead of a wedding ring which gets in her way during some of the intense riffs she loves to do. She's been married for almost a year but plans on making the garter part of her ensemble.
Sweet Notes knows two things for sure in this life. She loves loves loves banana daiquiris and she wants to spend every waking moment immersed in music.
She was the pony who singlehandedly brought the band together. Sweet Notes was just a middle school girl and had no idea what she was doing when she printed and posted the fliers all over town. She just knew she had a drive to make music and needed help to make it happen. Very quickly she got a call from Melody, whom she had never met since they attended different schools and who was even younger than she was! Melody was just in elementary but had an incredible voice. Eventually Tuneful and
Pretty Beats joined up as drums and keys. They bounced around each others houses until Half Note called her up and Sweet Note knew instantly she had become the band she dreamed about.
Sweet Notes doesn't have a lot of variety in her musical abilities, but what she does, she does very very well. She is a very pretty singer but she would rather make
her guitar sing for her. She was influenced by many of the rock legends and wishes more than anything to take her place among them. But she doesn't want it for the glory. She just wants to be the very best. Those whom she considers the very best are who she aspires to be.
Sweet Notes is energetic and absolutely loves what she does.
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Name: Pretty Beat (Pink Body with Blue Hair and a Red Streak)
Instrument: Drums and sometimes backup vocals in studio cuts
Birthday : June 25
Relationship Status: Married
Special Items worn during concerts: Her wedding ring on her left arm. A pair of decorative drumsticks in her hair, tied in a with a rolled silk scarf. A treasure heirloom silk scarf, unfurled, on a loop securing the braid in her tail.
She wears it lose. These are all gifts from her family members and she tries to wear family items often since at least one of her very large family is in attendance at every show the Rockin Beats put on.
Pretty Beat comes from a very large family. When she was little and would enter into any contest (music or pageants) her family practically needed it's own section in the stands! To most people "My family are my biggest fans" would just be a cliche, but not for Pretty Beat. Unlike most artists, whose families seem disinterested in their craft, Pretty Beat is very lucky and she is adored and respected by her relatives.
In addition to her musical talents, Pretty beat is very intelligent and also loves to create art with her hands. She paints and creates sculpture as well as woodcraft.
She is adept at molding something beautiful from nearly any material. She is also known for her superb culinary skills and likes to host get togethers for the band and their families too.
Pretty Beat has a younger brother who is married to Melody's sister, Ting a Ling. Both Melody and Pretty Beat are thrilled to be sisters in law.
Ballet Lessons
A MUCH larger version can be found at my deviantart:
Link to pic
This is Melody from the My Little Pony Tales and her rock band the Rockin Beats. Farthingale wanted to see what the band became and I was honored to have the request to create it!
So, I not only created the band in all of their adult glory, I wrote up some story background for them too. Melody was in the series and we know about her. But the other 4 band members (2 of their names were never even mentioned, I had to look for the toy releases to find out) were quite neglected.
The Rockin Beats, Band and Band Member Bios follow!:
Emerging from the clubs of Ponyville, Rockin Beats broke into the pop scene in 1992 with their debut album, Melody's Sweet and Pretty Tuneful Halfnotes. The band's latest album, Rock Links, mixes Melody's bubbly melodies with energetic strumming to turn out an album teeming with teenage anthems. With standout tracks like "Sweet Music," the music of Rockin Beats appeals to pop fans and non-pop fans alike.
************
Name: Melody (Pink Body with Curly Blue Hair)
Instrument: Vocals
Birthday : July 28
Relationship Status: Bachelorette
Special Items worn during concerts: Head phone with mic
A leader and a uniter, she keeps the band together. Although the girls get along famously, their lives over the years have changed so much that at times, it looked like the Rockin Beats may lose a member. Melody has kept them together through thick and thin, but not with coercion.
She inspires true loyalty in her girls. Melody won't hesitate to schedule the band's tours and recordings around the lives of each individual band member.
The fans of the Rocking Beats come to expect this and keep up to date on the band's website which is run by Melody's sisters. Jing a Ling and Ting a Ling, (Jing and Ting respectively) Melody's twin sisters run the website and are show coordinators for the band. Ting and Jing love pyrotechnics and the excitement of the show, despite not having obvious music talent.
*********
Name: Tuneful (Green Body and Orange Hair with Pink Highlights)
Instrument: Keyboard. Also can play accordion, saxophone and clarinet
Birthday : April 17
Relationship Status: Boyfriend
Special Items worn during concerts: Tie Dye headband she wore to every concert she attended in her youth.
Tuneful began going to concerts at a very young age, and like the other girls, knew she wanted to be making music so she surrounded herself with influence. Tuneful is not really a composer and prefers to play covers or the classics on either piano or electric keyboard.
She has an excellent ear for learning a tune and can pick up a melody in a flash and play it back to you. She easily masters an instrument and is driven to learn new ones all of the time. She is currently being self taught stringed instruments and wants to add some of them to the background of the band's next album.
Tuneful is sharp witted and sharp tempered.
************
Name: Halfnote (Orange Body with Pink Hair and a Yellow Streak)
Instrument: Bass guitar. Also, violin, cello and steel guitar
Birthday : October 8
Relationship Status: Engaged
Special Items worn during concerts: A ticket stub for the Rockin Beats very first concert is set in enamel and she wears it in her mane to every event the band goes to or plays. The diamond tennis bracelet on her right arm is from her beloved.
Halfnote came from a fairly rich family. Her family owned a house in the suburbs and it was her garage where the band practiced their act. Halfnote's dad never minded having to move his convertible out when the wanted to practice.
Despite both her father and mother being involved in law, they not only approved of her musical pursuits, they encouraged it. As a young girl, she was given violin lessons.
But Halfnote was interested in a faster style. Her parents fully backed her choice to join a band when she learned of one needing a bass guitar at the local post office's community board.
Halfnote is a good backup singer and really enjoys playing the bass guitar for the band. She learned bass specifically to join the band. She learned her true talent as the band's leading songwriter after Melody. With Melody's unrivalled ability as a lyricist and Halfnote's lovely imagery, the band is known far and wide for the beauty and depth of it's songs.
Halfnote is elegant and modest
**************
Name: Sweet Notes (Pink Body with Wavy Yellow Hair)
Instrument: Lead Guitar and vocals
Birthday : November 20
Relationship Status: Newly Wed
Special Items worn during concerts: Sweet Notes wears the garter from her wedding to her concerts instead of a wedding ring which gets in her way during some of the intense riffs she loves to do. She's been married for almost a year but plans on making the garter part of her ensemble.
Sweet Notes knows two things for sure in this life. She loves loves loves banana daiquiris and she wants to spend every waking moment immersed in music.
She was the pony who singlehandedly brought the band together. Sweet Notes was just a middle school girl and had no idea what she was doing when she printed and posted the fliers all over town. She just knew she had a drive to make music and needed help to make it happen. Very quickly she got a call from Melody, whom she had never met since they attended different schools and who was even younger than she was! Melody was just in elementary but had an incredible voice. Eventually Tuneful and
Pretty Beats joined up as drums and keys. They bounced around each others houses until Half Note called her up and Sweet Note knew instantly she had become the band she dreamed about.
Sweet Notes doesn't have a lot of variety in her musical abilities, but what she does, she does very very well. She is a very pretty singer but she would rather make
her guitar sing for her. She was influenced by many of the rock legends and wishes more than anything to take her place among them. But she doesn't want it for the glory. She just wants to be the very best. Those whom she considers the very best are who she aspires to be.
Sweet Notes is energetic and absolutely loves what she does.
***********
Name: Pretty Beat (Pink Body with Blue Hair and a Red Streak)
Instrument: Drums and sometimes backup vocals in studio cuts
Birthday : June 25
Relationship Status: Married
Special Items worn during concerts: Her wedding ring on her left arm. A pair of decorative drumsticks in her hair, tied in a with a rolled silk scarf. A treasure heirloom silk scarf, unfurled, on a loop securing the braid in her tail.
She wears it lose. These are all gifts from her family members and she tries to wear family items often since at least one of her very large family is in attendance at every show the Rockin Beats put on.
Pretty Beat comes from a very large family. When she was little and would enter into any contest (music or pageants) her family practically needed it's own section in the stands! To most people "My family are my biggest fans" would just be a cliche, but not for Pretty Beat. Unlike most artists, whose families seem disinterested in their craft, Pretty Beat is very lucky and she is adored and respected by her relatives.
In addition to her musical talents, Pretty beat is very intelligent and also loves to create art with her hands. She paints and creates sculpture as well as woodcraft.
She is adept at molding something beautiful from nearly any material. She is also known for her superb culinary skills and likes to host get togethers for the band and their families too.
Pretty Beat has a younger brother who is married to Melody's sister, Ting a Ling. Both Melody and Pretty Beat are thrilled to be sisters in law.
I really like the profiles too and I really like that the girls family status moving from single to married as we read their profiles. I hope you'll have a bit more free time during the summer.
