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Percussion Instruments Explored (Part 3)

🎵Stage Brief #45

The guitar has six strings and a hollow body.

🎯 Your mission

Make one good sound — then make ten more.

⚡ The twist

Posture is half the battle.

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Listen for this

🎧 Focus on ONE instrument at a time. Then add another.

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Artist Spotlight

🌟 Hiromi Uehara plays jazz piano so fast that audiences gasp.

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Mind = Blown

🤯 The piano has 88 keys, but you only need to know 12 to play any song.

Learn about percussion instruments explored (part 3): play a melody on a pitched instrument

What You'll Learn

The guitar has six strings and a hollow body. You can strum all the strings or pluck one string at a time.

Play a melody on a pitched instrument

Describe the role of each section in an ensemble

Check Your Understanding

Question 1 of 3

What is a round in singing?

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Where you hear this in real life

Learning one instrument well teaches your brain how to learn EVERY instrument.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Play one note (on anything) 10 times in a row. Each time, try to make it sound a little better.

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For the dinner table

“What instrument would you most want to play — and why?”

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