Beethoven, Cows and African Drums

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0:00:02 > 0:00:04It's The Let's Go Club - but mini!

0:00:04 > 0:00:07Expect making, exploring, supersizing,

0:00:07 > 0:00:10dancing, fact-finding and laughing.

0:00:10 > 0:00:13We've only got a few minutes, so get ready for more fun

0:00:13 > 0:00:15from The Let's Go Club.

0:00:15 > 0:00:20Fact fans - today, we are finding out all about music.

0:00:20 > 0:00:22The strumming sound of guitar strings.

0:00:22 > 0:00:25The twinkle of a triangle's ding.

0:00:25 > 0:00:28Tickling piano keys from left to right.

0:00:28 > 0:00:30A trumpet's fanfare, loud and bright.

0:00:30 > 0:00:33Drums are banging, symbols clanging,

0:00:33 > 0:00:35a feast for your ears with music facts.

0:00:35 > 0:00:38First up - cows like to listen to music.

0:00:38 > 0:00:40It's UDDERLY true!

0:00:40 > 0:00:44Cows that have gentle music played to them produce more milk

0:00:44 > 0:00:46than cows who don't.

0:00:46 > 0:00:49When cows listen to soothing music at milking time,

0:00:49 > 0:00:52it makes them happy, comfortable and relaxed.

0:00:52 > 0:00:55The happier a cow feels, the more their milk flows.

0:00:55 > 0:00:57So, if you want to double your dairy,

0:00:57 > 0:01:03you'd better put on some MOO-SIC and change the MOO-D!

0:01:03 > 0:01:07Next - mosquitoes impress each other with love songs.

0:01:07 > 0:01:09All mosquitoes buzz -

0:01:09 > 0:01:12it's the sound their wings make when they flap super fast.

0:01:12 > 0:01:16But when a boy mosquito meets a girl mosquito he really likes,

0:01:16 > 0:01:20he flaps his wings faster and faster, then so does she,

0:01:20 > 0:01:23until they are flapping in time together.

0:01:23 > 0:01:27And this little sign of energetic affection makes the sound of

0:01:27 > 0:01:29their buzzing exactly the same.

0:01:29 > 0:01:33Sounds like these music-loving insects really are in tune!

0:01:33 > 0:01:37Next - in West Africa, there are drums that can talk.

0:01:37 > 0:01:41Talking drums have been used to send messages from one village

0:01:41 > 0:01:46to another for hundreds of years - quicker than on foot or by horse.

0:01:46 > 0:01:49Each drum is wide at the ends and thinner in the middle,

0:01:49 > 0:01:53and when you squeeze them under your arm and tap the skins,

0:01:53 > 0:01:55they make lots of different sounds.

0:01:55 > 0:01:59A good drummer can play noises and rhythms that sound

0:01:59 > 0:02:04just like a person's voice. Now, that's hard to beat!

0:02:04 > 0:02:07And finally - brain freeze could help you be

0:02:07 > 0:02:11a classical music composer. Ice cool!

0:02:11 > 0:02:16Ludwig van Beethoven, a famous German composer, used to dunk his

0:02:16 > 0:02:20head in a bucket of ice cold water before he wrote a piece of music.

0:02:20 > 0:02:25Beethoven claimed this chilly custom helped him to get in tune

0:02:25 > 0:02:26and think of new rhythms.

0:02:26 > 0:02:30Well, it must have worked, because Beethoven wrote some of

0:02:30 > 0:02:33the most well-known classical music for orchestras.

0:02:33 > 0:02:37But please, don't try this at home, it's SNOW joke!

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