(playful music)
(upbeat electronic music)
- Wow!
- We are at Sam Ash music store today
to find out about music.
- Well, then you've come to the right spot.
My name is Dave, I'm the store manager
and let's go take a look around!
- Yes!
- (Boy) Yay!
- Here are the keyboards. - Whoa!
- Who wants to try it? - I do!
- Okay, so on a keyboard, you make the music
by moving your fingers across the keys
and pushing down like this.
(piano music)
You give it a shot.
(piano music)
- [Woman] You have to move all your fingers to make music!
- [Dave] Who wants to see some drums?
- [Children] I do!
- [Dave] Let's go!
This is a drum kit, and these kind of drums
you play with drumsticks.
And the way you play the drums
is by moving your wrist up and down,
holding the sticks you hit the heads like this.
(drum music)
Why don't you give it a shot?
(drum music)
Let's go see some guitars, okay?
- [Boy] Yay!
- Yeah!
- This is my favorite part of the store.
And this is an electric guitar.
Now you can play the electric guitar
by either strumming
(electric guitar music)
or you can pick single notes like this.
(electric guitar music)
Just like that.
Want to give it a shot? - Mmhmm.
- All right, you I'm gonna hold some chords here,
and you strum the strings.
(electric guitar music)
You're good.
You're really doing it.
Very good.
And that's all there is to it!
Let's go check out some music books, okay?
(children exclaiming)
Did you know that one great thing about music
is that in every language it's all the same.
We all speak the same language, as far as music goes.
Same notes, same everything.
- [Girl] Look at all these notes!
- That's right, these are notes.
Notes, right, they're the circles on the bars
and they tell the musician what notes
to play on whatever instrument they're playing.
Or even sometimes, when it's a singer,
singers can read the notes
and it tells them what notes to sing.
Here we have Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
which everybody knows, and it's all notes.
And I can actually read the notes
and sing as we go along without even saying the words
and it would go something like this.
(humming)
♪ Up above the world so high ♪
♪ Like a diamond in the sky ♪
♪ Twinkle twinkle little star ♪
♪ How I wonder what you are ♪
- Hooray! - Very good!
- We did it! - You all read music!
- Thank you!
(upbeat music) (children squealing)
- You guys wanna play some hand drums?
- Yes!
- I want everyone to use two basic hand techniques.
I want you to use the palm of your hand
in the middle of the drum to give you a deep bass sound.
Like this. (drumming)
And the tips of your fingers on the edge
(drumming) to give that slap sound.
So this is going to be the first basic rhythm.
Just follow me, okay?
(drumming)
Okay, so now we're gonna do another rhythm.
Okay, ready?
(drumming)
Do you think you can come up
with a rhythm you'd like to try?
(drumming) - Okay!
(drumming)
(cheering)
(electronic music)
Hello, how you doing?
- DJ Sammy O! - Hi!
- How's it going? - Hi!
- All right, this is a CD player,
a CD player and a mixer.
And a channel goes into one channel to one CD player,
another channel to another.
(music scratching)
Cool?
Scratch back and forth, spin it back.
- [Woman] You wanna try it?
- [DJ] Here's your EQs, your mids and your highs.
Your gains, here's your volume.
There you go!
- Can you hear the music?
You can, look at that!
We can't hear it at all but she can hear it!
Nice earphones!
That's it!
- Are you guys ready to dance?
- Yeah! - Let's do it!
(playful electronic music) Yeah!
- [Woman] There you go!
- Thank you very much for coming.
I hope you had a good time.
- Thank you! - We did!
- You guys can come back any time you want, okay?
- Thank you so much!
- See you soon! - Bye!
(playful music)