节目资讯
刊物:空中英语教室
日期:2012-09-07
难易度:Medium
关键字:vibrate, scrape, cigar, preserve, kazoo, wax paper
(Music).
Welcome to Studio Classroom Worldwide.
My name is Steve.
Thanks for joining us today.
Today we continue our CULTURE feature about a fun, infectious style of music
that you don't hear about too much but rest assured,
it's alive and well, and its influence is spanning the globe.
Yes, we're talking about good, old-fashioned jug music.
Born in America about 100 years ago, jug music is probably best remembered for
its instruments,
homemade instruments made from simple common objects like bread pans, broom
sticks and old whiskey jugs.
So how can you make music from a jug?
Let's get into our lesson on page 19 and find out.
Jug Bands.
So how do you play a jug, anyway?
You just hold the jug close your mouth and blow air through your lips to make
them vibrate.
The jug helps to make the sound louder.
What about the other homemade instruments?
Scrape the washboard with a hard object.
Hit the spoons together against your leg or against a cooking pans.
Hum into a kazoo made from a comb and wax paper.
(Music).
Hey there, friends.
Thank you for joining us.
My name is Ryan.
And my name is Kaylah.
And today we're back talking about Jug Bands.
Now yesterday we learned where jug bands come from and when they got their
start.
And today we're going to look at the different homemade instruments that make up
a jug band.
That's right.
So how do you actually play a jug, anyway?
Well, that's a good question.
We know, first of all, a jug band always has a jug.
And it is usually a whiskey jug.
Now you can see a picture a whiskey jug on page 20 in your Studio Classroom
magazine.
It's that bottle sitting behind the banjo on the counter, so you can see it
there.
That's right. And that is a jug.
But we want to know how you actually play it.
And we see here you just hold the jug close to your mouth and blow.
OK. Well, that seems simple.
But you can't just blow.
It might seem a little strange.
You need to blow the air through your lips so that they vibrate.
You want your lips to be vibrating, and that's what creates the sound the jug
can use.
OK. So you blow air in a certain way.
You have to hold it just right and have your lips just right so that they
vibrate.
And what does that mean?
To "vibrate" means they move very quickly and very... it's a very small but very
quick motion.
When your lips vibrate, afterwards they kind of tickle.
They feel a little strange.
If you hum, your lips will vibrate as well.
Now the jug, what does the jug do?
Why is this a part of it?
OK. Well, the jug makes that vibration or makes the sound that your lips make
louder.
OK. So it's taking what you're making and making it louder.
Now you might have played with a jug before.
If you're drinking a soda out of a bottle and you blow across the top to hear
the sound, it's the same idea.
All right.
So you're holding a jug and your lips are "vibrating" and making that motion.
Friends, if you have a cell phone, you may have felt it vibrate.
It's that very small motion.
And that's what makes the sound.
But what about other homemade instruments?
OK. Well, we talked about the washboard yesterday.
Scrape the washboard with a hard object.
OK. So you can have a washboard and you actually "scrape" it, which means that
you're moving something very hard, usually pushing something over it.
That's right, up and down, up and down very quickly to create this different
rhythm.
We said it creates the rhythms for the music.
Now we talked about kitchen spoons.
Now I don't think we can blow on a kitchen spoon to make sounds.
So what would we do with it?
OK. Well, friends, you can hit the spoons together against your leg or against a
cooking pan.
OK. So if you think about holding two spoons, you actually put both of the back
rounds, the back of the spoon together,
and then you hold them in one hand and hit them against your knee with the
other.
And it creates a clicking sound as they hit together, the two metal pieces come
together.
You could also hit them against the pan for more noise.
Right. And that is how you keep a beat as we learned yesterday.
All right. What else can you do, Kaylah?
Well, you can hum into a kazoo made from a comb and wax paper.
First, we need to know that humming is that sound of singing with your mouth
close.
So (Background Noise), that's the hum.
OK. Now you can hum into a kazoo.
And a "kazoo" is a musical instrument.
Usually it's made out of a tube with paper in it.
And that paper makes a high sound when you sing into it.
But here you can make that from a comb and wax paper.
That's right.
The comb is what you use on your hair.
Now "wax paper" is a certain kind of paper that is covered in a thin layer of
wax, usually used in the kitchen.
You'd find it there.
But it is very resistant.
So you put it up against the comb and blow cross.
And it creates the same effect as a kazoo by making the paper vibrate.
And your hum becomes louder and more pronounced.
OK. Now these are all things you can find in your house, comb, wax paper,
cooking pans, spoons.
These are all things that you just pick up in your home and you can make music
using them.
And we have a few more we're going to tell you.
But first, take a look at today's skit and enjoy.
OK, now we have a washboard, now what?
Well, here we have a jug.
That doesn't look like a jug to me.
Well, you're right.
It's not a real whiskey jug, it's a bottle.
But I think it will work.
(Backgroud Noise).
Hey, that sounds good.
Let me try.
Cool.
Great.
Well, let's add one more instrument.
OK. What other instrument can we create?
Let's make a kazoo from a comb.
From a comb?
Sure.
OK.
Everybody has a comb.
That's true.
Whoa, that's a big comb!
I know. It is a big comb.
Now we just take the comb and we put paper on one side of it.
OK. And then what?
Well, then you hold the comb next to the paper and put your lips up to it and
you blow.
(Music).
Hey, it works.
You can play a song.
Yeah, great.
So I'll play a song on a kazoo comb, and you play along on the washboard and the
bottle.
OK, here we go!
Here we go! One and two and three.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You make me happy when skies are grey.
You'll never know, dear, how much I love you.
Please don't take my sunshine away.
That was great.
Cool. Hey, let's do another one.
OK. Let's see...
Oh, yeah! And remember, though, you can make your own instruments too.
You can make a washboard or use a bottle or even make a kazoo from a comb.
Yeah! And then come join our band.
Yeah. OK, let's play "When the saints"...
OK.