The screams of Sunset Shimmer echoed throughout a dark place. Her body fully reappeared before feet touched the ground. After regaining her senses, she started looking around. She happened to be inside one of Vinyl Scratch's abandoned recording studios, which consists of modern studio equipment, instruments, headphone and chairs. Sunset then approaches to the glass and examined a Coltmaster audio mixer. But, there was not a single person is in sight. The ambience of empty sound was interrupted by a flicker of a guitar amplifier switched on, and not a stroke of feedback in sound.

"Where am I?" Sunset asked in worry before looking back on the studio glass.

She turns around before coming across two mint custom guitars lying on the side of the stand. Sunset picked up a guitar that was familiar to the one she first played after the battle of the bands. However, it consisted of a whammy bar on the low side, and a miniature side lever. She put the strap over her head and to her shoulder before adjusting the volume from 0 to 6. After grabbing a guitar pick from the top of its neck, she attempted to strum a few notes. Suddenly, she heard a few footsteps from outside. In walked a familiar face, or better yet, four familiar faces.

Before Sunset attempts to put on the headphones as she was told, she saw Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash walking toward the the amplifiers, which slightly startled her.

"Rainbow Dash...?" she exclaimed in thought with widened eyes. She couldn't believe her friends were behind this whole setup, but it's more than likely to give them the benefit of the doubt. If Rainbow Dash made that disc, how would it zap her and the others into the studio? She decides to investigate this matter, since she had trials and errors discovering magic outside the source.

Rainbow turned before seeing her friend. "Hey Sunset!"

"Howdy, Sunset." greeted Applejack.

"Sunset, darling!" shouted Rarity.

"What are you doing here?" Fluttershy wondered before approaching to Sunset with a hug.

"I was about to ask the same thing." Sunset answered before hugging back. "Wait, where's Pinkie Pie?"

"Hey guys!" Pinkie happily shouted. "You should totally check out the sounds in here. "I mean, I can imagine being a 90's band recording a one-hit wonder, even though we're just a school band, but not an official album band, unless somebody puts us on the radio."

Rainbow Dash boasted, knowing that would be the day. "Ha! I wouldn't think so, Pinkie. But if we did end up in the radio, it would be so awesome!"

Applejack retorted. "Rainbow, just what makes you think we're gonna be famous, let alone be on a radio?"

Before Rainbow can respond, she and the four girls heard a tapping on the glass. They saw that it was the headphone-wearing music lover, who has absolute experience with the mixer. No one knew how she was involved in this, but despite the fact that she was a DJ for Canterlot High, her owning a whole studio was beyond them.

"Wow!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed. "How did Vinyl Scratch get here so fast? First her car turning into a DJ booth, now this?"

"Not a clue, sugarcube." Applejack shrugged.

"Oh wait! That reminds me." Rainbow Dash remembered. "I gotta teach you how to play a solo, Sunset, and since we're all here, Vinyl can record us."

Fluttershy shuttered at the thought of being recorded anywhere, let alone a studio. "Record us? Ummm... I don't know if I'm up for this."

Rarity lightly patted the pink-haired animal caretaker on her shoulder, trying to calm her down. "Now don't you worry, darling. We are all in this together, and there's no one else here but us and Vinyl. Think of it as a Girls' Night Out recording session."

"Girls' Night Out?" Sunset repeated.

"Yea." Rainbow blindly repeated before strapping on her lucky guitar. "Come on. I gotta show you how to do an awesome solo."

Pinkie Pie approached to the drum set before setting up the screws and picking up the drumsticks, while Rarity straps on her keytar and pressing random keys. Fluttershy picks up her tambourine and wipes it from the dust while Applejack picks up her bass and plays a couple of notes. Sunset was eager to investigate this whole matter, but lets it slide as she picks up her guitar. They all put on their headphones while Vinyl adjusts the volumes of the instruments the girls are playing, making sure the sounds are all balanced.

"Ok girls, Sunset is gonna be the one handling the lead while I play rhythm." the athlete instructed. She double-checked her friend's settings before consulting with her.

"You've already adjusted the settings to your liking, so you won't need to worry about that now. Let's start out with something small first. Hold on."

Sunset breathed for a few seconds before cuing Pinkie to play a 165beats-per-minute steady beat on hi-hat. She then signals Applejack and Rarity to play a few notes and follow the beat. The sound was slightly balanced before Rainbow speaks again.

"Perfect. This should be an easy beat to practice through. You should be able to reference it in case. Now, let's begin with a few notes. Here's a basic riff I found that should help you get the gist of it. I'll play it a few times."

After counting in time, she played a simple hard rock tune a few times along with the hi-hat beat. Sunset bobbed her head up and down to it before pressing one of her hands on the left of her headphones while holding her guitar neck. Once Rainbow stopped playing the simple riff, she spoke in confidence.

"Got all that? Now all I want you to do is play a couple of simple notes while I play the same riff I showed you before. I'll also tell you to play another note, so listen for when I tell you. At the end of every 4, play a different note you can. I'll count you off."

Sunset places her pick close to one of the strings and for the signal. Rainbow counted on beat before strumming the same riff. After playing 8 beats, she signaled Sunset to play a single note before changing into another each 4 beats. Pinkie then adds a bass kick to the hi-hat's beat. After 8 notes, Sunset felt like she was playing a hardcore tune until she cuts the music altogether.

"That was good. It's a little tune warm-up I developed for note accuracy. You match perfect," Rainbow encouraged. "Now let's get to fun stuff."

Sunset knew she was ready for it. She felt that the riff she recently played gave her a boost of confidence. In fact, she can felt like she can match Rainbow Dash's crazy guitar skills, if not dominate.

"I can tell you have been practicing an awful lot lately," discovered Rainbow. "But I think you should broaden your horizons and play a little more freely. Can you do a lagato?"

Sunset shrugged.

"Hard, huh?" giggled Rainbow. "Trust me. Riffs can be solos sometimes. It's all about messing around with the strings a bit. Try grabbing a couple notes. In 8 or 16 beats a minute. That's one way of a solo."

Sunset picked a couple of strings, letting out a clean sound each pluck. She started out at 8 beats a measure, then changed the pace before pausing.

Rainbow was impressed. "Nice. I think you got the hang of it. But, there's more to solos than playing solids. You can bend the strings a little up or down when playing. That's called a vibrato. Another technique is called tapping. You play a high note, and tap a couple strings by it. Try vibrato first.

Once Sunset took note of those techniques, she placed three of her fingers to a different string before playing a note and tapping the strings near it with her other two fingers. She then plays a phrase of notes before planting her pointer finger on an open strong and wobbling it up and down, causing the sound to change tone a few times. After releasing it, she plays a three-note chord.

"What I tell ya! It's all about variety. Now let's get to business." Rainbow instructed before cuing Pinkie, Rarity, and Fluttershy on a slow and sexy 96 beats-per-minute funk beat. "Try not to get too tempted. It's just practice. Before I test you, I set the switch to the Wah effect. This is one of the coolest effects your guitar has. For right now, let's keep it there for your test. I'll work with you on it, but this test is all about "wooing" the audience. Ready?"

Once Rainbow counted on the beat, Sunset adjusted her headset straight before hearing her friends playing slow chords. She then hears her count her off before playing different notes. After working her fingers through the frets, she holds her pointer finger to a string and pushed it up and down. Both Fluttershy and Rarity moved their hips to the music as she continues finding chords and notes to play around with before ending her newfound solo with a long note. In the process, Pinkie, Applejack, and Rainbow slowly faded their sounds to a stop.

"Excellent." Rainbow congratulated. "You just made yourself a real solo. Remember, it's all about discovering new notes at the right moment and giving the song the 'extra' edge. Sometime, the crowds love when it blends just right with the song you play, but also when it's filled with variety. Now that you made a solo in a soft level, let's get to the real deal. We're gonna see if you a make a solo for something... a little hardcore."

Sunset watches Rainbow's special rock riff playing at 175 beats per minute, followed by Pinkie's drums and Applejack's bass playing a fill on the same tempo. She bobs her head up and down, readying herself to play before setting her effect to . After the rhythm's four-count, every band element plays the punk rock riff while she goes into her stance. Once she found a few notes to play around with, she slides her pick across the fret before playing along with the riff. After playing it four times, she begins strumming single-string notes along with the beat. She then tries her luck playing high notes and tapping on the medium fret.

The solo she played matched perfectly with the hardcore rhythm, giving her an aggressive edge. It even made Vinyl Scratch raise her arm in a rock-star sign and moved her head up and down.

"Awesome!" shouted the voice excitedly. "All that finger work really did pay off, huh?

Before Sunset can respond, she felt her cell phone vibrate. When she picked it up, she saw that she received a text message from Vinyl that reads, 'Time to go, rock stars. Studio closes at midnight.'

"Well, I guess it's time we stop this little session of ours." Sunset smirked, despite the end of a fun studio session with all of her friends.

But don't get discouraged, though." Rainbow nudged her friend. "It's all about practicing your solos, among other things."

"And-" popped Pinkie. "-hoping that we don't sell out after making a hit record."

The girls laughed as they walked home. Sunset felt so much joy in practicing a solo, despite the fact she preferred playing rhythm. However, she felt that playing lead -probably alongside Rainbow Dash- should boost her confidence. In fact, she wishes to show off said confidence to her friends in a guitar battle someday.