[MUSIC PLAYING]
TEACHER: Hi, Herbie.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Hello, how are you?
TEACHER: How are you?
Nice to see you.
Listen, it's nice of you to let us visit.
We're interrupting you, aren't we?
It sounded good, coming out in the hallway.
HERBIE HANCOCK: No, no, no, no.
You're not interrupting me at all.
It's a pleasure to see you.
TEACHER: I think you know everybody.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Hi, how are you?
CHILD: Hi.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Yeah, how are you?
TEACHER: Well, we're here.
What can you tell us about all this stuff?
HERBIE HANCOCK: Oh, this?
Well, instead of me telling you about it, how about if I
show you about all of this stuff?
TEACHER: OK, that sounds good.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Want to do me a favor?
TATIANA: What?
HERBIE HANCOCK: Could you just say your name into this
microphone?
TATIANA: Tatiana Ali.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Watch this.
SPEAKER: Tatiana Ali.
[GIGGLES]
HERBIE HANCOCK: Who was that?
SPEAKER: Tatiana Ali.
ALL: [GIGGLING]
TEACHER: That's how you sound.
What do you think of that?
Huh?
Did you ever hear yourself before?
CHILD: I have.
TEACHER: Yeah, you have?
HERBIE HANCOCK: You ever heard yourself
sound like this, though?
SPEAKER: [SPED UP]
Tatiana Ali.
ALL: [GIGGLING]
TEACHER: What happened to your little voice?
CHILD: Do it in low.
SPEAKER: [SLOWED DOWN]
Tatiana Ali.
ALL: GIGGLING
HERBIE HANCOCK: You guys ready?
CHILD: Do it real low at this key.
HERBIE HANCOCK: OK, watch this.
SPEAKER: [EVEN SLOWER]
Tatiana Ali.
CHILD: Do it at the last key.
HERBIE HANCOCK: But you know what?
I want to show you something different.
Watch this.
SPEAKER: [TWO VOICES]: Tatiana Ali.
Tatiana Ali.
HERBIE HANCOCK: There's two of them, right?
Watch this then.
SPEAKER: [MAKING NONSENSE SYLLABLES]
HERBIE HANCOCK: How about this?
SPEAKER: [MORE NONSENSE SYLLABLES]
Tatiana Ali.
Tatiana, Tatiana, Tatiana, Ali, Ali, Ali, Ali.
HERBIE HANCOCK: You know what I want to do for you now?
I'm going to show you a whole room full of Tatiana Alis.
Want to see that?
Watch this.
SPEAKER: [LOTS OF VOICES MAKING NONSENSE SYLLABLES]
CHILD: Make just one high Tatiana.
SPEAKER: [HIGH PITCHED NOISE]
TEACHER: You know, in the Fix It shop, we have a monitor.
I know this is a monitor, but what do you need a
monitor for in music?
What are you looking at?
HERBIE HANCOCK: The great thing about this is that
because we have a monitor, we can see what the sound looks
like, not just hear it, but see what it looks like.
TEACHER: Oh, I see.
So that's a picture of sound, of a note?
HERBIE HANCOCK: This is a picture of Tatiana Ali.
TATIANA: GIGGLING.
TEACHER: Look at that.
HERBIE HANCOCK: And this is a different kind of picture of
Tatiana Ali.
And I'll show you a third one here.
Look at this one.
There's Tatiana Ali.
TEACHER: There you go again.
HERBIE HANCOCK: So we've got three
different pictures of her.
CHILD: He's a flying pig.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Looks like a flying pig, right?
CHILD: He looks like a flying pig.
TEACHER: Well, so if you change--
HERBIE HANCOCK: We can even change the sound of Tatiana
Ali to sound kind of like a computer voice.
Let's see.
SPEAKER: [COMPUTERIZED VOICE]
Tatiana Ali.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Isn't that funny?
TEACHER: This looks almost like the piano in Bob's
apartment, or an electric keyboard.
Is it an electric keyboard?
Does it do more?
HERBIE HANCOCK: Oh yeah.
Well see, this is not just a piano.
Because it is a synthesizer and because it's a
computer-based synthesizer, this instrument, this
keyboard, which works with this computer here and this
monitor here, and also, there's a typewriter keyboard
that Clive is in front of.
TEACHER: Hi.
HERBIE HANCOCK: All these things work together, and you
can have so many other different kinds of things that
you can't do on a piano.
For example, I can play one note and have a bunch
of notes come out.
I can hit one, and you hear a bunch of notes come out.
Like this.
[PLAYS SCALE]
HERBIE HANCOCK: See?
A bunch of notes played, a different kind of sound.
What do you think of that?
And it you make all different kinds of sounds.
CHILD: Can you make an elephant?
HERBIE HANCOCK: An elephant we can make.
CHILD: A noise?
HERBIE HANCOCK: I can make noises, too, but you know what
I want to make now?
How about a flute?
You want to play a flute?
CHILD: Yeah.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Play this note.
[FLUTE PLAYING]
HERBIE HANCOCK: See?
CHILD: A flute!
HERBIE HANCOCK: Isn't that interesting?
This is something different right here.
[MUSIC BOX MELODY]
CHILD: It's a music box!
HERBIE HANCOCK: A music box.
OK, you want to play the music box?
Here, right here.
[MUSIC BOX MELODY]
HERBIE HANCOCK: You like that one?
You know what I want you to do, Craig?
CHILD: What?
HERBIE HANCOCK: I want you to make laughter.
How about that?
CHILD: OK.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Play this note.
[LAUGHTER]
HERBIE HANCOCK: It sounds like monkeys laughing.
TEACHER: Yeah, what is laughing?
HERBIE HANCOCK: We can't tell.
[LAUGHTER]
CHILD: It's like loud--
TEACHER: Dogs laughing, dogs laughing.
That's what that sounds like.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Watch this.
This is going to be funny.
[BRASS INSTRUMENTS PLAYING FANFARE]
HERBIE HANCOCK: You know what I want you to do?
TEACHER: What's that?
HERBIE HANCOCK: Play this.
[PLAYS CHORD]
TEACHER: Well on that note, thanks a lot, [INAUDIBLE].
[CHORD]
TEACHER: On that note, also.
Thanks for letting us visit.
Say goodbye to Herbie Hancock.
ALL: Bye!
HERBIE HANCOCK: OK, bye.
Thanks for coming by.
TEACHER: We'll see you again.
Bye bye.
HERBIE HANCOCK: See you next time.
CHILD: Bye bye.
HERBIE HANCOCK: Bye bye.
Let's see now, Clive, where were we?
Oh, I know.
CLIVE: You're on Sesame.
HERBIE HANCOCK: OK, we're going to do Sesame?
And let me put these controls back the way I had them.
[MUSIC PLAYING]