BODY PERCUSSION

Clip: 5/5/2023 | 7m 39sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

David Martinez of Education Though Music transforms his body into a percussion instrument.

Aired 05/05/2023 | Rating TV-Y

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BODY PERCUSSION

Clip: 5/5/2023 | 7m 39sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions

David Martinez of Education Though Music transforms his body into a percussion instrument.

David Martinez sings a welcome song in Spanish, then transforms his body into a percussion instrument.

Aired 05/05/2023 | Rating TV-Y

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[upbeat music] ♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ It's time to say hello ♪ - Hello, everybody and welcome to this music time.

I am so happy, so glad to have you one more time here.

And it is time to say, hello, everybody!

♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ Hello friends ♪ ♪ It's time to say hello ♪ - Maybe you have heard some people around that they say hello in a different way.

They say, hola amigos.

Yes, that is Spanish and that is the way we are going to say hello today in Spanish.

Hola amigos, hello friends.

Hola amigos, are you ready?

Let's try to sing it together, here we go.

One, two, go.

[David singing in Spanish] ♪ It's time to say hello ♪ - One more time.

[David singing in Spanish] ♪ It's time to say hello ♪ Yay, it's time for music.

And today we have a special, special game that I want you to play with me.

So I hope you are ready to move to dance, to jump, to learn some new words because this is a special song.

It's a folk Russian song that we are going to sing.

And it has four, I think, three or four special words.

Let's see, say with me, Jimba?

Jimba.

Papaluschka?

Papaluschka.

Papagei, papagei.

And then we will say, la, la, la, la, la.

That was great.

So at the beginning we are gonna say, Jimba, jimba, jimba, papaluschka.

Jimba, jimba, jimba, papagei.

Sing with me.

♪ Jimba jimba jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papagei ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papagei ♪ - And then, then we will use the la, la, la, la, la for the second part.

♪ La la la la la la la jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papagei ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papagei ♪ - Are you ready?

Here we go.

♪ Jimba jimba jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papagei ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ Jimba jimba jimba papagei ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papagei ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papaluschka ♪ ♪ La la la la la la la jimba papagei ♪ Woo, for this song, we're going to learn some moves.

Okay, are you ready?

There is a key word.

The key is jimba.

And every time we say jimba, we're going to jump.

Are you ready?

Jimba!

Woo, okay, eyes on me, eyes on me.

Jimba!

Woo, that was awesome!

When we say, papaluschka, this is what we're going to do.

We tap our knees, pa, pa, pa. And then our chest.

Lusch, ka.

Pa, pa, lusch, ka.

Everybody, pa, pa, lusch, ka.

Jimba!

Wow, that was awesome!

And when we say, papagei, we're going to tap, tap our knees, and gei, celebrate.

Pa, pa, gei.

Woo, that is awesome.

Jimba!

Yay!

Then when we say, la, la, la, la.

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, we're gonna roll our hands.

Like this.

♪ La la la la la la la ♪ Jimba!

Pa, pa, lusch, ka.

♪ La la la la la la la ♪ Jimba!

Pa, pa, gei.

Are you ready?

We're going to the to do this together.

Get ready and this is how we take this elements.

Jimba!

Yes, the jumping part.

Our, pa, pa, lusch, ka.

Our, pa, pa, gei.

Our, la, la, la.

And we will transform those moves in a wonderful dance today, you ready?

I hope you're ready to dance and sing with me.

Remember when we say, jimba, we jump.

When we say, papaluschka, pat, pat, chest, chest.

Papagei, pa, pa, gei.

Hey, are you ready?

We're going to do it together, here we go.

One, and two, and here we go.

You guys are great!

That's the way we take elements of movement, of body percussion, songs, and we transform everything into a performance.

My friends, it's time to say goodbye.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪ - Woo!

♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪ - Goodbye, everyone!