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It's termtime again and our four magicians have left school | 0:56:02 | 0:56:05 | |
on a brand-new mission. | 0:56:05 | 0:56:06 | |
This time, we're taking unsuspecting kids out of school | 0:56:06 | 0:56:10 | |
and sending them on school trips. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:12 | |
They're off to visit some amazing locations, | 0:56:12 | 0:56:15 | |
where they'll witness incredible magic. | 0:56:15 | 0:56:18 | |
And once again, we're hiding secret cameras in every corner, | 0:56:18 | 0:56:22 | |
so you don't miss a trick on any school trip. | 0:56:22 | 0:56:25 | |
How long will it take before the classes shout... | 0:56:25 | 0:56:28 | |
This is year five getting on the coach. | 0:56:35 | 0:56:38 | |
They're on a magical mystery tour to... | 0:56:38 | 0:56:42 | |
The Royal Academy of Music. | 0:56:42 | 0:56:44 | |
Famous former pupils include Sir Elton John, Katherine Jenkins | 0:56:44 | 0:56:48 | |
and Gareth from The Choir. | 0:56:48 | 0:56:51 | |
So our magicians can play their tricks, string their kids along | 0:56:51 | 0:56:54 | |
and hit a high note, we're giving them a musical makeover. | 0:56:54 | 0:56:58 | |
John's an Italian tenor, or should I say ten euros. | 0:56:58 | 0:57:00 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:57:00 | 0:57:02 | |
And roll over, Beethoven, here's Fergus. | 0:57:02 | 0:57:04 | |
They're ready for the performance of their life as here | 0:57:06 | 0:57:08 | |
comes their toughest audience yet. | 0:57:08 | 0:57:10 | |
So my name is Trevor Clef. | 0:57:10 | 0:57:12 | |
Trevor Clef? Sounds like treble clef. | 0:57:12 | 0:57:15 | |
But the class don't know the musical score yet. | 0:57:15 | 0:57:17 | |
I'm in charge here at the Academy of all instrumental design. | 0:57:17 | 0:57:22 | |
I replicate things, I fix things, I do all of those things. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:25 | |
So isn't it wonderful, all the things that we have around us today? | 0:57:25 | 0:57:28 | |
You'll have seen downstairs, we have a Stradivari violin. | 0:57:28 | 0:57:31 | |
It dates back... It's like 300 years old. | 0:57:31 | 0:57:34 | |
This particular piano here is from the 1600s. | 0:57:34 | 0:57:39 | |
So that is 500 years old. | 0:57:39 | 0:57:42 | |
Isn't that incredible? | 0:57:42 | 0:57:44 | |
And a true fact. | 0:57:44 | 0:57:46 | |
Now, one of the things I specialise in is drums and the design of drums. | 0:57:46 | 0:57:50 | |
So who here has played the drums? | 0:57:50 | 0:57:53 | |
Lots of you! Very good. | 0:57:53 | 0:57:54 | |
Now, obviously, the drums are a very, very noisy instrument. | 0:57:54 | 0:57:58 | |
Don't bang on about it, mate. | 0:57:58 | 0:57:59 | |
But, what we're going to do is talk about the design. | 0:57:59 | 0:58:03 | |
So, we have here a drumhead and here we have the plinth. | 0:58:03 | 0:58:08 | |
The plinth is the thing that the drumhead sits on, | 0:58:08 | 0:58:10 | |
so it's nice and stable. | 0:58:10 | 0:58:12 | |
Keep your eyes on that drum because it's so magic, | 0:58:12 | 0:58:14 | |
it'll knock your hi-hat off. | 0:58:14 | 0:58:16 | |
Now, often you have padding in the drum | 0:58:16 | 0:58:19 | |
and what that does is it reverberates the sound. | 0:58:19 | 0:58:21 | |
So it makes it echo, so you'll get a really good solid noise. | 0:58:21 | 0:58:25 | |
We also have drum skins. | 0:58:25 | 0:58:29 | |
They go on the front and the back of the drum. | 0:58:29 | 0:58:31 | |
And we're going to do that now with some assistance from Dino. | 0:58:31 | 0:58:34 | |
-So over you come, Dino. -I'll give you a hand. | 0:58:34 | 0:58:36 | |
Dino is John's Italian alter ego for this trick. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:39 | |
So I'll place this one here, this drum skin on the front | 0:58:39 | 0:58:42 | |
and Dino will place that one onto the back. | 0:58:42 | 0:58:45 | |
There's nothing inside that drum head or underneath it. | 0:58:45 | 0:58:49 | |
They're placing the skins carefully on the drum. | 0:58:49 | 0:58:51 | |
It's already starting to look a bit more like a drum, yes? | 0:58:51 | 0:58:54 | |
-ALL: -Yes. | 0:58:54 | 0:58:56 | |
Shall we see if it sounds a bit more like a drum? Yes? | 0:58:56 | 0:58:58 | |
-ALL: -Yes. | 0:58:58 | 0:58:59 | |
They don't mind a bit of noise. | 0:58:59 | 0:59:01 | |
Oh, that doesn't sound much like a drum, does it? | 0:59:01 | 0:59:03 | |
Normally you get more of a doof. Can I hear you make a doof? | 0:59:03 | 0:59:06 | |
-ALL: -Doof. -Doof. | 0:59:06 | 0:59:07 | |
Put a couple of those together | 0:59:07 | 0:59:09 | |
and you could have the doof-doof bit from the end of EastEnders. | 0:59:09 | 0:59:12 | |
Now, if you have a smaller drum, like a drum with a thinner skin, | 0:59:12 | 0:59:15 | |
and even more timber in, you get like a katshh. | 0:59:15 | 0:59:17 | |
Can you do a katshh? | 0:59:17 | 0:59:19 | |
-ALL: -Katshh. -Good. And then you might have a symbol, like a hi-hat. | 0:59:19 | 0:59:21 | |
Like a tss, tss, tss, tss. | 0:59:21 | 0:59:23 | |
-So can I get a doof, chtss doof, chtss. ALL: -doof, chtss. | 0:59:23 | 0:59:27 | |
That's right, now these drums will all go together. | 0:59:27 | 0:59:29 | |
Normally the drums aren't played on their own because they're | 0:59:29 | 0:59:32 | |
so noisy and loud. | 0:59:32 | 0:59:34 | |
So they'll be part of a bigger band, or something like that. | 0:59:34 | 0:59:36 | |
Some loud magic coming up. Watch the drum. | 0:59:36 | 0:59:39 | |
Dino, do you know when the drums were first invented? | 0:59:39 | 0:59:42 | |
Yes, the first a-drum, he was, he was in a cavern... | 0:59:42 | 0:59:44 | |
-KNOCKING FROM DRUM -What was that? | 0:59:44 | 0:59:46 | |
-Did anyone else hear that? ALL: -Yeah. | 0:59:46 | 0:59:49 | |
Where did it come from? | 0:59:49 | 0:59:51 | |
KNOCKING FROM DRUM | 0:59:51 | 0:59:52 | |
It's inside the drum but that was empty, wasn't it? | 0:59:52 | 0:59:54 | |
It's the drum, it's a-playing itself. | 0:59:54 | 0:59:57 | |
It's playing a trick on them. | 0:59:57 | 0:59:59 | |
Playing itself, that's... | 0:59:59 | 1:00:00 | |
Ahhh! | 1:00:00 | 1:00:02 | |
Boom! A banging trick, it's Katherine! | 1:00:02 | 1:00:04 | |
Where did she come from?! | 1:00:04 | 1:00:06 | |
She's certainly a good-stick. | 1:00:06 | 1:00:08 | |
It's Katherine and I'm Fergus. | 1:00:08 | 1:00:11 | |
Yeah, I'm John. | 1:00:11 | 1:00:13 | |
They're about to build to the big crescendo... | 1:00:13 | 1:00:16 | |
John is not actually Italian but he does love to eat a lot of pizza. | 1:00:16 | 1:00:20 | |
Gives a new meaning to Vivaldi's Four Seasons. | 1:00:20 | 1:00:22 | |
And in fact we are magicians. | 1:00:22 | 1:00:26 | |
You've all been set up by your teachers, by your schools, | 1:00:26 | 1:00:29 | |
by your parents. | 1:00:29 | 1:00:31 | |
There's a camera there. There's a camera there. | 1:00:31 | 1:00:33 | |
A camera there. You're going to be on Help! My School Trip is Magic! | 1:00:33 | 1:00:36 | |
SCREAMING | 1:00:36 | 1:00:39 | |
A chorus of approval but what chord did it strike | 1:00:39 | 1:00:42 | |
with the school-trippers? | 1:00:42 | 1:00:45 | |
It was a really excellent trick. | 1:00:45 | 1:00:48 | |
Playing itself... That's... Ahh! | 1:00:48 | 1:00:51 | |
I've never seen anything like it except for cartoons. | 1:00:51 | 1:00:55 | |
This Mozart-ful magic hit the school trip | 1:00:55 | 1:00:58 | |
like a bolt from the blue Danube. | 1:00:58 | 1:01:00 | |
It was as pitch perfect as this shout... | 1:01:00 | 1:01:03 |