Episode 2 Epic Quick Blast

Welcome to the world of epic.

Sit back, strap yourself in

and get ready to become epic at everything!

Welcome to your quick blast of epic-ness.

So what are we waiting for? Let's do this!

First up, ask yourself this - do you like hitting things?

Do you want to be in a band?

If your answers are yes, then this will be right up your street.

Hey, what's up? I'm Rob with Enter Shikari

and I'm going to teach you how to play the drums.

First up is how to hold your sticks.

Hold it between your thumb and your forefinger nice and loosely

so the balance is good.

It's the same on both hands.

-Next up, it's how to hit a drum.

-Ooh, sounds important.

Keep a nice, loose wrist.

Let the stick fall down and bounce back up off the drum,

letting gravity do the work.

Next up is doing single-stroke rolls on the drum.

You're going to be doing them in groups of four,

alternating between the right and left hand.

One, two, three, four.

When you get confident with that, you'll bring more of the drum kit in.

You're going to do the four beats on the cymbal.

On the first beat, we're going to have a kick drum

and on the third beat, we'll have a snare drum.

So it should sound like this.

SIMPLE DRUM BEAT One, two, three, four,

one, two, three, four,

one, two, three, four.

So when you're happy with the beat,

you can build up and get faster each time.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four.

PLAYS FASTER One, two, three, four.

One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four,

one, two, three, four... Drumming's epic!

So, after you've practised a lot, got good, get your mates together,

form a band and you could end up sounding something like this.

ROCK MUSIC PLAYS

I bet his neighbours love him(!)

Right, here's a science lady

who will arm you with some amazing skills.

Hi, I'm Fran Scott and I'm going to show you how to defy gravity.

-Whoa!

-Get a slinky and hold it up

and let the rest of it unravel

until it's nice and still.

What we're going to do is drop this slinky and the top of it will fall

but the bottom of the slinky should, for a moment,

stay where it is and defy gravity.

-No way!

-Here goes.

Hang on, that might just look like a dropped slinky

but watch again when we slow it down.

Keep your eye on the bottom of the slinky.

Fran releases it but the bottom doesn't move.

How do you explain that, then?

When I'm holding the slinky,

gravity is pulling it down but my hand is holding it up.

When I let go of the slinky, the top of it falls

but the bottom of it remains where it is just for a little bit

and that's because it takes a while

for the message that I've actually let go of the top of the slinky

to reach its bottom.

But when it does, the whole thing falls to the ground.

There you go, gravity defied.

Our next stop on Planet Epic is for all you milk-lovers.

That's everyone, right? Except me, I'm lactose intolerant.

-I'm Gareth and I'm going to show you how to milk a cow by hand.

-By hand?!

We need to make sure that everything's clean -

our hands, the bucket,

-even the old cow.

-Rude!

If we're not clean, we can get germs into the milk

and it can make you sick.

Oh, we do not want that.

Cows are very big and strong, so you've got to be careful.

Don't stand behind or don't stand in the wrong place.

-Er, yeah, it might wee on you.

-SPLASHING

Once we're clean, we're ready to milk.

-Now, this is an udder.

-Udder.

-And this is a teat.

-Teat.

-So, the bucket.

-Bucket.

You get into position

and we start to milk

so your thumb's at the top of the teat

and your index finger comes round

and each finger squashes as the milk comes through.

So you squash, squash.

Last one, get the last drop, release.

Once you've done that, you can do it two-handed.

Steady on there, Gareth. Let's not get carried away.

And that's how you milk a cow.

Nice one, Gareth. Make mine a pint of full fat.

So there you have it, your quick blast of epic-ness.

Now, go forth and be epic at everything!

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