
See and Sing
Clip: 5/1/2023 | 10m 23sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
David Martinez prompts children to play musical games using drawings.
David Martinez from Education Through Music uses drawings to prompt children to play musical games. He asks them to use their voices to mimic the flight path of a lost baby bird returning to its nest.
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See and Sing
Clip: 5/1/2023 | 10m 23sVideo has Audio Description, Closed Captions
David Martinez from Education Through Music uses drawings to prompt children to play musical games. He asks them to use their voices to mimic the flight path of a lost baby bird returning to its nest.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[gentle playful music] [slow bass music] ♪ Hola amigos ♪ Hola amigos ♪ Hola amigos ♪ Como esta - Hello everybody.
Welcome to this music time.
I'm so happy you are here.
This is Mr. Martinez, and today I brought another instrument.
This is a real low instrument.
Yes.
Its name is the electric bass.
This one has four strings.
Which other instrument that we play before has four strings?
So, you're right!
Ukulele, perfect, but this one sounds really low.
There are some bases that they have five strings or six strings or seven strings.
But this is the basic one and the sound is super deep.
That's why it is called the bass.
And today we're going start saying, hello.
Here we go.
♪ Hello friends ♪ Hello friends ♪ Hello friends ♪ It's time to say hello Yeah!
In China, the way you say hello is ni hao.
Say it with me.
Ni hao.
Yeah, and it will be easier if you sing it with me.
Here we go.
♪ Ni hao ♪ Ni hao ♪ Ni hao ♪ It's time to say hello How It's time to say hello.
Do it again!
♪ Ni hao ♪ Ni hao ♪ Ni hao ♪ It's time to say hello.
Yay!
That was amazing.
Today I would like to start with a little game.
This one is a frozen game.
When I say the word coo coo!
Coo coo!
You'll get frozen.
But I brought a friend of mine that will help us.
His name is Mr.
Stick.
Yay!
Mr.
Stick has a shape.
If you put your feet like this and your hands like this, you will get the shape that Mr.
Stick is doing.
Ooh, that was perfect.
As you can see, Mr.
Stick has no mouth, so he doesn't talk.
That's why while we're singing, we're singing.
But when we get Mr.
Stick's pose, we don't talk.
I know you are able to do this.
Get frozen and Mr.
Stick shape.
Okay.
And this song sounds something like this.
[slow bass music] ♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
And when I say coo coo, you'll get frozen.
Are you ready?
Okay.
So I have some Mr.
Sticks poses over here.
I'm ready to play with you.
Sing with me.
♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
Oh yes.
I can see that you have the legs like Mr.
Stick and you have your hands like Mr.
Stick.
And you are not talking.
You're not talking.
'Cause you have Mr.
Stick pose.
Oh, what are you doing, Mr.
Stick?
What?
Woo!
That was amazing!
Aloha Hawaii!
♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
Get frozen.
Yeah!
Look at this.
This is Mr.
Stick.
You ready?
Oh, Mr.
Stick, what are you doing?
Oh my goodness, this is too hard!
Come on, Mr.
Stick!
It's time to sing!
♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
Yay!
Oh, I can see you have Mr.
Stick's pose.
Amazing.
But what are you doing Mr.
Stick?
What are you doing Mr.
Stick?
Oh my goodness.
We're gonna get this.
No way!
Let's sing together.
♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
Get ready!
Oops.
This is really hard.
Mr.
Stick.
Who can do this?
Oh, what are you doing, Mr.
Stick?
What are you doing, Mr.
Stick!
Oh my goodness.
Whoo!
♪ Aloha Hawaii ♪ Aloha Hawaii [yodels] Coo coo!
Why not you create your own Mr.
Stick.
Show me.
Show me.
You have your own idea?
Wow!
That was amazing!
That was great.
I really loved it.
Today I have a special mission for you.
Today we will use our voice and we will use our finger to help a little bird to find the nest.
There's a little bird that's a little lost.
And she needs to go back to the nest, okay?
So for that today, I would like that we can use our voice and we can follow also, that way that the bird can fly.
Will you help me?
Let me show you.
This is the bird right here.
And this is the way she will fly to get the nest.
So we will use our finger.
Yeah.
Good job.
And we'll use our voice like this.
[vocalizes] Hey, that was fantastic.
Will you try it again one more time?
[vocalizes] Yeah, that was a good job.
But I have a surprise.
Maybe we can find another way to help this bird to get her nest.
What about this one?
Show me your pointing finger.
You ready?
Oh, we'll start with a really high pitched sound.
Like this sound.
You ready?
One, two.
Here we go.
[vocalizes] Hey.
That was fantastic.
Let me hear your high pitch again.
One more time.
One, two, here we go.
[vocalizes] Woohoo, that was fantastic.
But I have a challenge for you.
I don't know if you're ready for this.
I have this challenge.
Oh, take a...
Sorry.
[laughs] Take a look to this one.
We are gonna help this bird.
Mm.
How it sounds?
You know how it sounds.
Okay, let's try it together.
Let's start with this sound.
One, two, with your finger.
[vocalizes] Oh, [pants] we need to take a huge breath.
Let's try it again.
One, two.
One more time.
[vocalizes] Yeah.
Good job.
I have a last challenge for you.
Maybe you will be able to get this.
Oh, take a look, please.
Take a look for one moment.
Take a look.
Mm hmm.
I know how it sounds.
I know how it sounds.
We'll do it together.
One, two, here we go.
[vocalizes] That was a hard work.
I'm so glad that you did it.
And what about if you create your own one?
Maybe you can get out a piece of paper and you can draw the bird and you can draw the nest and you can create your own one.
That was amazing.
But it is time to say goodbye with Mr. Bass that was today here to help us to sing and play and play games.
So it's time to say goodbye.
♪ Goodbye friends ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ Goodbye friends ♪ It's time to say goodbye ♪
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