A Musical, Music-full Clubhouse! The Let's Go Club

'Hi, I'm Joanna. These are my friends Kirsten and Martin.'

'This is our clubhouse.'

'Where we make stuff, meet amazing people...'

-'Learn quick tricks, super skills...'

-'And have a dance!'

ALL: We want YOU to come and join us, too!

# Let's go!

# The Let's Go Club

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# The Let's Go Club

# There's lots to do for me and you, everybody can join...

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# Get ready, get set at the Let's Go Club

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Take note. Today in the clubhouse, we're celebrating music!

Super saxophonist, Yolanda,

has some ideas to inspire you to pick up an instrument.

Our club reporters catch up with CBeebies Radio and singing

sensations, Little Belters.

And, we make marvellous rubber glove bagpipes!

# Get ready, get set, at the Let's Go Club!

# Are you ready?

# Let's go, at the Let's Go Club!

# We got a lot of things going on right here

# So come on and have some fun!

# We got a lot of things going on at the Let's Go Club!

# Let's go! #

Hello, my name's William. I'm seven years old.

I really like playing with my dog, Samantha.

I also like space and the solar system.

But there's one thing I love more - my music therapy lessons.

I've been having music therapy lessons in school for one year.

'This is Harris. He's my best friend. Harris and me are both

autistic.'

Being autistic means different things to different people.

'For me, being autistic means that I sometimes find it hard to be

'confident around new people.

'This is our music therapist, Waz.

'In music therapy, we get to do lots of different activities together.'

OK, boys. The first thing that we're going to do

is have musical conversations.

So that's when we've got to listen and we've got to look,

and we've got to wait, and we've got to be patient.

'For this game, we each take it in turns to play an instrument.'

Before the next person plays, they must make eye contact.

-OK, boys. Now it's time for the High Low Game!

-Yay, the High Low Game!

So, when I play a high note, you boys play your first instrument.

And then, when I play a low note, you play the other instrument.

'This can help Harris and me to learn how to do lots of

'different things all at once.

'That's called multi-tasking.'

Hooray!

Good job. For our last activity, we're going to do the thunderstorm.

THEY MAKE NOISES

Yeah.

OK, so, the clouds are coming! The sky's getting darker.

'For this game, we start playing music quietly,

'and get louder and louder and louder!

'The thunderstorm game helps Harris with loud noises. Harris used

'to wear ear defenders at lunch time, because it was so noisy.

'Now, thanks to music therapy, he doesn't need to wear them any more.

'Since going to music therapy, I feel less shy now.

'I can even answer questions in class.'

-Yes, William?

-50p.

'Music therapy has helped me in so many ways, but, most of all,

'I found a best friend.'

I'm William, and this is what I do.

-# The Let's Go Club! Let's go!

-#

KIRSTEN PLAYS A TUNE

A big thanks to William for telling us all about your music therapy.

The High Low Game looks like so much fun!

SHE PLAYS A TUNE

Now, it's quick trick time. This musical instrument may not

look like much, but you can get some brilliant sounds out of it.

I present to you, the rubber glove bagpipes.

So, for this, we're going to need a rubber glove, a cardboard tube,

a straw, scissors, and some sticky tape.

And you're going to need plenty of puff.

So, the first step is to take your cardboard tube and fix your

rubber glove over the top of it.

Make sure it's about halfway down the tube.

Now, fasten it tightly with sticky tape.

You need to seal it really tight so the air doesn't get out.

OK. Now, we need to make a little

cut in the middle finger of your glove.

Remember, scissors are sharp, so be careful.

Then, we take our straw, and we fit it through the cut you've just made.

Again, you've got to seal this one tightly with some sticky tape.

Make sure that no air can escape.

Now all you need to do is take your cardboard tube in one hand,

your straw in the other, make sure the glove's stretched nice and

tightly over the cardboard tube, take a deep breath,

-and blow!

-SHE PLAYS A TUNE

You can try experimenting with different sounds by stretching it

tighter or looser. You can decorate it any way you want.

I'm thinking of using some tartan paint.

CHORD PLAYS

And that's your quick trick done. Why don't you have a go?

And, if you do, be sure to send us a video of you playing your bagpipes!

For all the details, just head to the CBeebies website.

OK, ladies and gentlemen, here we go!

It's time for some marvellous musical facts.

# The Let's Go Club! #

First up, cows like to listen to music. It's "udderly" true!

Cows that have gentle music played to them produce more milk

than cows who don't.

When cows listen to soothing music at milking time,

it makes them happy, comfortable, and relaxed.

The happier a cow feels, the more their milk flows.

So, if you want to double your dairy,

you'd better put on some "moo-sic", and change the "mooood"!

Next, mosquitoes impress each other with love songs.

All mosquitoes buzz.

It's the sound their wings make when they flap super fast.

But when a boy mosquito meets a girl mosquito he really likes,

he flaps his wings faster and faster. Then, so does she,

until they're flapping in time together.

And this little sign of energetic affection makes the sound of

their buzzing exactly the same.

Sounds like these music-loving insects really are in tune!

And, finally - brain freeze could help you be

a classical music composer. Ice cool! Ludwig Van Beethoven,

-a famous German composer...

-Hello!

-..used to dunk his head in

-a bucket of ice-cold water before he wrote a piece of music!

-Ahh!

Beethoven claimed this chilly custom helped him to get in tune and

-think of new rhythms.

-Hmm!

Well, it must have worked, because Beethoven wrote some of the

most well-known classical music for orchestras.

But, please don't try this at home - it's snow joke!

# The Let's Go Club! Let's go! #

We've a new friend to welcome to the clubhouse today,

Yolanda, but, before we do, she's got something to show you.

SHE PLAYS A TUNE

-Woo! Give her a clap for that.

-Thank you very much.

-That was awesome.

These guys are really curious to find out all about these

-instruments you've got.

-I'll tell you all I know.

-You've got the first question, don't you?

-Why do you love saxophones and

playing them?

The saxophone feels like a voice. It sings. People love the instrument.

It feels the most natural to me.

When I was growing up, I learnt the piano, the drums, the violin.

Then I got to an age where I thought, "I'd like to play an

"instrument that I have to use my wind to blow into it."

I was introduced to the saxophone and I never looked back.

-I've got a question.

-Yes!

There's four different saxophones here. What makes them different

-to one another?

-So the main difference is their size.

The longer the tube, the lower the note.

So this tenor saxophone plays really, really low.

If I play, like...

-That's really my lowest note.

-Oh!

Then we'd move up to the alto saxophone.

And the alto is a little bit smaller, you can see, so it plays a

little bit higher, and a nice sound, too.

-And then, we move to...

-That's smooth.

-It's smooth!

This is the saxophone you hear a lot in pop music,

so that's probably why. Then you have the soprano saxophone.

Now, this one is straight, and it sounds very high,

cos it's the shortest.

And, kind of, a bit classical as well.

The last one, which looks totally different from all of them,

is an electric wind instrument. We call it the EWI.

Sounds a little bit sci-fi.

I'll give you a little sound of it.

Now, this one plays very high, very low, and it can play lots of

different sounds. This is one of the sounds.

SHE PLAYS VERY HIGH-PITCHED THEY LAUGH

It plays really nice sounds and you can change it,

so it could sound like a piano or a guitar.

For any Let's Go-ers who want to learn an instrument and

do what do you do, how do they go about that?

The main thing is be passionate about the instrument. When you

listen to music, which instrument stands out?

The piano, the bass, the voice? When you find out, that's the instrument

I think you should go for.

That's amazing. Thank you for coming.

Shall we give Yolanda a little clap and say thanks?

-Can you do us one more favour before you go?

-Yes.

-Can you play us out?

-Which one shall I play? Alto sax?

OK, here we go.

OK. From musical instruments to singing voices,

it's time to hear from two more club reporters.

# Let's go! #

-I'm Archie.

-And I'm Jess.

-Today, we're making a report...

-About singing for CBeebies Radio.

-BOTH: Let's go!

'There's 30 people in our choir.

'We meet every week after school to practise.'

-And go, "Cooee!"

-ALL: Cooee!

'Today, CBeebies Radio will be recording us for BBC Music Day.'

'Claire helps us to get our voices and bodies ready.'

'Claire is really funny and she makes us laugh.

-And once we're done,

-we're ready to sing.

-La la la la la!

-Nice!

ALL: # You never give up, it's... #

'This is Kayleigh from CBeebies Radio.

'She's recording us with her microphone.'

'Kayleigh measures the volume of our voices.'

ALL: # And I know what we can do... #

'This is called testing for levels.

'We've been practising REALLY hard!

'We want to sound our best for BBC Music Day.'

ALL: # And I can't believe it's true... #

That was our report from Little Belters.

You can hear us singing Can't Stop The Feeling.

Especially for the Let's Go Radio Club.

Check it out on CBeebies Radio.

BOTH: Back to you in the clubhouse!

What a music-full club report.

Thanks Archie, Jess, and the Little Belters.

You can listen to CBeebies Radio any time. Go to the CBeebies

website for more.

Not now though, because there's one thing left to do.

The Club Dance! We love doing this in the clubhouse.

It's easy for you to join in at home.

We know you've got really cool moves that you want to show off.

ALL: Let's go!

Jump!

Roll!

I think we need some Let's Go-ers in here to help us out, let's get

-them in. Come on, guys!

-Come on, everybody!

-Come on!

Side to side!

# Let's go! #

This is your chance to dance, dance, dance!

Jump!

Get those high wheels rolling!

And roll!

Don't forget to chuck in a cool move!

It's the funky chicken!

YOU can actually stay in the clubhouse.

Get a grown-up, go to the CBeebies website,

and click on the Let's Go Club.

While you're there, find out how, if you're six or

over, to swap one of these for one of these!

We are the club that never closes!

ALL: Bye!