(pinao, tuba, violin playing over each other)
- [Announcer] Welcome to Wynton Marsalis's
Monster Monster Music Class.
- All right masters, okay, all right.
Whoa, hello, oh monsters!
- Oh, yes Mr. Marsalis?
- Yes, oh master of music?
- Today we have a very, very important lesson to learn.
We're going to learn how to give Elmo an A.
- How to give Elmo an A?
- Elmo's going to get the letter A! Yea!
- Well why does he need an A?
He has a violin.
- Now Zoe I'm not talking about the letter A,
I'm talking about the musical note A, like this.
(trumpet tone)
He needs that so he can play the violin in tune.
You know how he loves to play out of tune.
- Hey, hehehe.
- I suddenly see everything, master.
Elmo needs an A to tune his violin.
But what does tune mean?
- Oh, like this Telly.
(violin playing)
- That's right, now Elmo does this
until we all play the same A note.
Then we can play music together.
Okay, master class now we're going to practice giving an A.
- Give Elmo an A!
(trumpet tone)
- What an A!
- What about you, Telly?
- Me? A, right? Okay, I go it.
(tuba playing)
What do you think?
- I think that was a W.
- A W is not an A. - Yeah, that was rough.
- Let me try it again, please.
(tuba playing)
- No, no, check it out, check it out.
(trumpet and tuba playing together)
- That's it! - Oh, beautiful.
- Thank you...it was an accident.
(laughing)
- All right, Zoe. - Yeah
- Now you know the piano we can't really tune it up,
but this piano looks like it's a little low
so I just want to check to make sure
that that A is there, because an A is supposed
to be on every instrument.
- It was there earlier, I'll try it again.
- Was it there? Okay let's hear that.
(piano tone)
- How's that?
- That's beautiful, but I want you to
work on that attack now.
You gotta look a certain way when you hit it.
You know, look like you're doing a little more.
- Attack? - Attack, yeah.
(piano tone)
- Now what about our honkers? Let's see.
- [Elmo] Yeah, the honkers.
- Let's see what's going on here.
(honk)
Oh no, that's not quite it, let's try it again.
(honk)
- Ewwww....
- Let me work with that with you.
(trumpet and honk together)
Oh, that's beautiful.
- Yeah, that was good. - Beautiful.
- Boy, did you see how he tuned that honker?
- Talk about mastery.
- No wonder this is a master class.
- All right now one more practice.
We're going to all play together.
- Yeah, give Elmo an A.
- All right, Elmo is ready, you all ready?
- Yep - Okay
(trumpet, honk, piano, tuba, violin together)
- Elmo's ready - You sure you're ready?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- All right, you give it to us, Elmo.
- Okay - We're waiting for you.
(violin, trumpet, tuba, honk, piano together)
Oh that sounds lovely.
I think we're ready to play some music now.
- Yeah! - Go for it!
- One...two...
(all playing jazz music together)
- Yeah! - Yes!
- That was beautiful.
- Boy, did we have an A.
(laughing)