Music: Episode 7

smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart price best friends oh oh captain are you home? This place is a mess. Who made this mess? Captain I hope you made this mess? Oh, did I make this mess? Did you make this mess? Hmm, well, will you help me? I clean it up, here we go, so now what am I going to do with these? Hmm oh ah, I'll put them here, oh captain, I hope you're home by now. Yes, she was taking a nap. Did you make this mess? Well, it looks pretty clean. to me oh oh mister zone why are you so angry?

Well, I just got home from school and I'm tired and I'm hungry and I'd like to take a little nap, but can I take a nap? No no no no no. No, this place was a mess, I guess if you want something done around here you'll have to do it yourself, okay, okay, let's start by calming down, come on, take a deep breath with me, okay, can you soften your shoulders? Let go of your hands. a little oh wow that feels a lot better oh well I know deep breathing helps me hmm now let's put this away oh um let me help you oh no no, you've done enough, I'll take care of this, how about it? we do it together teamwork cooperation you know what that means I will take you to our seat first look this is our friend Ivan hey I brought you a gift carrots did you know that there are more than 100 species of carrots and they are full of beta carotene?

A powerful antioxidant named after Carrots They are a tuber and the part we eat is called the taproot The longest carrot ever grown was almost 20 feet long They are delicious Try one Are you ready to learn? are you ready to learn? let's begin hello artists I play the violin and the viola the viola is the older sister of the violin I make sound by pulling and pushing the bow back and forth on the strings now for the next part we are going to need a piece of paper and something to write on I am going to play something else when I'm done can you grab your paper and pencil and be ready? you can help?

Okay, three, two, one, ready, are you ready? Great, now let's write the word. artist artist artist wonderful now let's write that word again and listen to the sound that the pencil makes or whatever you're writing with on the piece of paper as you write, isn't it amazing that you can make sound by drawing your pencil back and forth on paper just like I make sound by moving my bow back and forth on the string, that's cool, yeah, so let's write five short quick lines and now let's write one long line, let's do it again. Wonderful in

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, we have a name for the sound. it is also called short note that name is staccato let's write that word staccato it is written s t a c c a t or staccato means short now let's write staccato again and listen to the sound it makes on the paper wonderful staccato let's listen to an example of short notes staccato staccato now We also draw a long line on the sheet of paper and we have a name for that in

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it is also called legato let's spell legato l e g a t or legato now legato actually means staccato connected it is not connected legato it is connected legato so now we just learned legato and staccato both are different articulations what is a articulation an articulation is a musical word to describe the duration of the sound you hear oh cool, yeah, that's cool now I'd like to play a piece for you and I'd like to thank you Thank you so much for your help, thank you for including me.

I'm going to listen to your piece from here. Great, so in this piece that I'm going to play for you you'll hear both legato and staccato. I would like you to do it. Listen to both articulations while listening to this piece. Thank you very much for listening to me today. Now I have to get home and feed my guinea pigs trick and treating. In fact, I think I'm going to feed them some. carrots thanks for coming do you want to pick a hat I would love to thank you and see you later bye it was a great class I learned a lot as always I hope you learned a lot too friends you know what time it is now it's time for our awesome rules be kind be grateful do a lot art stay curious drink water and breathe hey let's go for a walk great idea buddy smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart brakes smart price hooks are the hopes there is band practice I almost forgot at the end of the day wash your hands hydrate and have a great life at the end of the day and enjoy great smart breaks is a production of Hope Stone Incorporated.

Funding for Smart Breaks was provided in part by the Keating Family Foundation and the Brown Foundation Incorporated.