What is up?
I'm Joey.
And I'm Jon.
And this--
Is box.
And this box is the featured guest on this show.
Well, nice.
We're going to look at what's inside this box.
We're going to kind of show you all about it.
It's really awesome.
It is really cool.
And then we're going to brainstorm some ideas to make
a commercial about it.
Let's peep this.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Wait, you hear that?
I hear music.
I do too.
What's in that?
A ukulele.
That's a really nice one.
I've done a little reading on this.
That's spruce wood.
Spruce wood?
Yep.
On the body?
Yeah, and then it's got a maple neck.
Nice.
That's a really nice ukulele.
Ooh.
That'd be a really nice product if that was the end.
And we just kind of said goodbye, vat19.com.
That's not what's cool about this ukulele.
That's not the end of the story.
That's the beginning of this story.
This is the Populele
Yeah, and it's a smart ukulele.
Is it "populay-lee" or "lay-lay"?
Populele, ukulele.
Ukulele.
I'm not really going to claim that I
know how to pronounce it correctly,
but I think it's closer to ukulele.
Tomato, tomato, populele, populele.
So this is a smart ukulele.
Yeah.
And what that means is that it's got some Bluetooth capability,
connects to your phone.
And it actually teaches you how to play, which is great,
because I know nothing about playing stringed instruments.
You're not a uker?
I'm not a ukist, uketer.
Ukulen, ukulenist.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's probably it.
That's probably it.
I mean it doesn't just connect and then kind of give you
some sheet music or something like that on your phone.
It's way cooler than that.
The fretboard lights up with lights for every string
on every fret.
If you don't know what that means,
you'll have to jump in the app because it teaches
you everything you need to know from how to hold this,
how to strum it, how to pluck it, chord shapes, chord names.
It runs you from beginner to playing full songs.
There's a big song list in the app.
So like instead of looking at tabs or chords
if you want to learn a song, you just hop in the app,
find your song.
And it'll show you on the fretboard how to play it.
See the lights?
Yeah, it's powering up.
That looks like a runway.
Every fret and every string has a light but behind it.
And it tells you where to put your fingers
so that you can play a song even if you don't know the song.
So we've downloaded the free app.
Now we're just going to connect our populele to the app.
That's just like the standby mode.
It kind of tells you where you're at on the fretboard.
If you've never touched a ukulele,
you start here, right at the beginning.
You have an overview, holding position,
plucking and strumming.
Once you complete the lesson then you get a little star
and you can move on.
Now that we've completed that part of the app
we can move on to plucking and strumming.
And then after that you can unlock the game portion of it.
Every time you strum a chord it's going
to listen to you at the mic.
And it's good to know if you played it right or wrong.
OK.
And you can move on if you get it right.
This is my one finger, two finger, three finger,
four finger.
Oh, OK.
So there's my one finger and then my two finger is here.
Yeah, you can look at the app, it'll show you.
But you can also look at the fretboard.
That's what's so cool.
It's got little lights that tell you where to put your fingers.
That's genius.
OK, so I can see where to put my fingers.
I know that I need two fingers on here,
but this shows me on the app which fingers those should be.
So this is going to be an F chord.
That sounds pretty good.
This just tells you the chords, tells you how to play them.
And then you can start the game part of it.
Oh, I don't think I'm ready for this.
A minor, it was this one.
Oh, I can on the fretboard.
It showing you If you forgot.
You're right.
And then C.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you've got it.
I've got it.
And now it gets a little more advanced.
Now you have to play them on beat.
Yeah.
And if you miss, it keeps score.
So you can kind of try to outdo yourself every time
you play this if you do that.
I've got to practice my chord switching,
but it's getting there.
Yeah.
I feel like we need to hear it played a little better.
And there is a tuner in the app, so you
don't need to buy like an external little tuner.
You've got everything you need, right in the app.
You can also move into the song library.
And this is where all of the pop songs that you know,
or like older songs, new songs.
Michael Jackson, I'm seeing Adele.
Yeah.
Foster the People, I like that.
And you can kind of filter them by easy, normal, or hard.
Oh, nice.
Bastille, Pompeii.
Ooh, that's a good one.
I'm a drummer so I can do the drums on that one.
So when you click on a song you want to play it
I'll show you the chords you need to know to play the song.
And if you don't know the rhythm of the song
it'll show you the rhythm.
Oh, nice.
You can get a little preview of how to strum
for that particular song.
Let's play this song.
Let's do it, Bastille.
[MUSIC - "POMPEII"]
(SINGING) Close your eyes, does it almost feel
like you've been here before.
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
Yeah.
All right.
Nice.
Nice cross promo, by the way.
Hey, Thank you very much.
The drumstick pens, available now at ven19.com.
All right, well now it's time to brainstorm some ideas
for a commercial to make about this populele.
Every time we come up with an idea we should be like--
[MUSIC PLAYING]
That's the idea sound.
First idea, karaoke-- some sort of karaoke challenge.
Oh.
Karaoke challenge, [MUSIC PLAYING]..
We could all dress up in grass skirts--
grass skirts, coconut bras, the lei, the whole deal.
Hang out on like the dash of a car.
Dashboard hula girl challenge.
It's like planking, you just go stand on somebody's car
in a grass skirt.
And you do this.
And you just do this with your ukelel.
Grass skirts and coconut bras.
OK, [MUSIC PLAYING]
I broke Jamie's ukulele.
You did.
In the DIY ukulele kit video.
You sure did, you smashed it.
Smashed it, it was really fun.
That was really fun to watch.
There's still a dent in that table, little trivia there.
Maybe you need to bedazzle that one
because his was quite sparkly.
I mean it's already like-- it's like dipped in paint it almost
looks like.
It looks cool, it's got Bluetooth.
That's already better than his previous one.
Yeah.
We could put two people who have never played ukuleles
before up against one another.
One has just a regular ukulele and they
try to teach themselves, the traditional way.
And the other person has--
Nothing but this and the app.
Who can play a song without looking first?
I like that challenge.
That's a good one.
Because I think this would totally smoke any other--
There's no question.
Teaching method would just--
Totally learn on this way faster.
Oh yeah.
Learn the ukulele race, [MUSIC PLAYING]..
Speaking of this cross-promo, in this video
I did a battle with my other drummer rival
here at Vat19, Corey.
We both had a little drum battle.
So maybe we just make a Vat19 band
using a bunch of different products,
whether they're musical instruments or not.
That can get pretty creative.
Vat19 band, [MUSIC PLAYING].
We could get an actual ukalinist, that would be cool.
If we could get a collab with Adam Levine or a pop
star of some kind, that would be cool too.
It's less of an idea and more of like a hope.
Hopeful collab-
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Picks songs on the app and play them
for someone who doesn't know what the song is.
So it's kind of like musical charades.
You play a song following the app and the other people
have to try to guess.
Like,Oh, that's Adele.
So musical charades with the ukulele, [MUSIC PLAYING]..
Well that's just a couple of our ideas,
but we always want to hear what you guys have to say.
So leave comment down below if you
have a song that you want us to play.
Or a game that you can think of that you want us to try.
And you might see your idea in the commercial
when it comes out.
And speaking of that commercial, make
sure you subscribe to Vat19.
Turn on your notifications and you'll
get a little, ding, notification on your phone when
that commercial comes out and all of our videos.
You get notified when all of our videos come out,
which is just a great thing.
And you can win.
Now hold on.
You can win this populele.
This exact one?
This one.
Nice.
Just look down at the description down below.
And we'll tell you how to win this.
You can enter and it might be yours.
That's pretty cool.
You can learn how to play, show all your friends and family.
And then you can play yourself out.
Play yourself out.
Out of every room, just walking out the door, just see you Mom.
Thank you guys for watching.
We'll see you next time.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
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