Rabbi B - Musical Glass Cup Xylophone

[Music] oh hi there rabbi b here i was just busy looking and playing with my xylophones and a xylophone is a musical instrument usually made of wood or metal that has a series of musical notes made out of wood or metal that when you strike them [Music] they make a beautiful sound and if you strike them in the right order [Music] they can play beautiful music and a beautiful song and i have this kind of little xylophone this is kind of a toy xylophone as and and as you can see it has all different kinds of colors has a blue and purples another blue red green orange and yellow and it has eight notes you know music is made up of different notes and in music there are seven notes you can see them in front of me over here my seven desk bells now you might say wait a second rabbi b there are eight desk bells but if you notice there are two red desk bells the reds are the same note so really we have [Music] seven notes seven is such a wonderful number in music and of course in the days of the week the seventh day being shabbat exactly and of course the seven notes on the musical scale can be put together to make some beautiful songs now there are seven notes on a musical scale and sometimes instead of numbering them one two three four five six seven we give them letters a b c d e f g g being the seventh letter of the abcs but because this musical scale here is in the key of c the notes are c d e f g a b and then back to c remember their notes do not go past the letter g right so you have [Music] in the musical scale now of course i have this toy xylophone as well and it also has the seven notes [Music] and then the last note again the beginning and they chose different colors for this xylophone they started with purple [Music] and this xylophone starts with red and of course if you play the notes in different orders you can play a song let me play a song for you and see if you know what song i'm playing [Music] did you guess i'll try it again of course old macdonald had a farm or how about this song one of my favorite songs [Music] you know what that is [Music] of course hashem is here hashem is there up up down down right left all around here there everywhere that's where he can be found well that's really fun but you know what sometimes we don't even need a xylophone or musical bells to play a song i have a really fun craft tutorial to show you how you can make your very own musical xylophone at home now to make your very own musical xylophone at home all you're going to need is six glass cups all right now these glass cups i got from walmart they were one dollar each you could probably find them at dollarama or any dollar store or any home store just make sure you get a thin kind of a glass cup [Music] that makes a little bit of a ringing sound now the next thing we're going to need is some water that's great about a half a pitcher full and something to tap on the glass cups with i always like to use my good old wooden xylophone mallet now if you don't have a wooden xylophone mallet you could use any kind of wooden stick or even a metal fork or spoon just be very careful that when you tap the cups you tap them very gently we don't want them to break now because this activity is using glass cups make sure you ask a mommy or a daddy or a grown-up in your house to help you to make sure you're doing it safely we don't want the cups to fall down because they could break and also we don't want to tap them too hard because they could break and spill over and it would not be such a good thing to happen so please be always be careful when you're using glass cups for any kind of musical instrument now what we're going to do is we are going to add some water to our very first cup and this one's going to go all the way to the top and if you listen you'll be able to hear the sound of the cup change as the water fills up [Music] did you hear the water change the sound of the cup it went from ding ding ding ding all the way down [Music] see the difference or hear the difference all right the next cup down we're going to fill up a little bit less than the first cup i would even say on these larger cups about a half an inch from the top [Music] do you hear the difference that's because one cup is more full the one that's more full has a deeper sound and the one that's less full has a little bit of a higher sound next we're gonna fill up our third cup about three quarters of an inch from the top [Music] ah [Music] i think i know that song mary had a little lamb all right now the next cup we're going to fill a full inch from the top of the cup [Music] and you can already hear very different sounds on all the cups because of the amount of water we're putting in all right cup number five we're gonna fill that up a lot even lower than cup number four we're going to fill this one about an inch and a half from the top [Music] and as long as they sound different that's what you're going for [Music] and the last cup we're going to fill about halfway up all right i think our cups are ready now looking at the cups they all sound different but they don't all look different so sometimes i like to add some food coloring into the cups to create a beautiful rainbow of colors let's create some rainbow colors in our cups oh that's much better so now our first cup will call red our second cup we'll call orange the third cup we'll call yellow the fourth cup we'll call green the fifth cup we'll call blue and the final cup the sixth cup we'll call purple and now we have six notes now we mentioned before that music has seven notes but today for this experiment in this tutorial we're just gonna use six of the notes that we need to make a lot of songs like this song do you know what it is [Music] that's right it was twinkle twinkle little star great job how about this song [Music] [Applause] of course hashem is here hashem is there i know another really nice song do you know what song this is [Music] yeah of course we just played it a few seconds ago old macdonald had a farm how about this song [Music] you knew that one happy birthday to you i know another song i like to sing it goes like this [Music] yes did you know that one david meller israel another wonderful song that you can play on the xylophone or on the cup xylophone now if you're going to try this at home you can look in the comment section below in this video and find a tutorial all about how to fill up the cups as well as how to play all the different songs using the colors have a try see if you can get it to work good luck to you well for now it's bye bye from me rabbi bye [Music] for a little bit of bonus another thing i love to do is pour the water back now i do like to mix colors of course and i like to find a way to make different kinds of colors using different mixtures so for example if i was to mix the red [Music] with the yellow well that would create orange that's right red and yellow mixed together create orange another color that mixes really well with yellow would be blue watch what happens when i mix the yellow with the blue that made a beautiful shade of green wow that's really really special that's really really fun to mix colors i wonder what other kinds of colors we could mix what if we mixed red together with blue what would happen then i wonder [Music] aha it turned purple oh and i wonder what happens if we mix all the colors together let's take a look put the purple in there add some orange and some green and some yellow and some orange oh my now it's turned into a dark dark brown i wonder if that's how they get brown colors just mix all the colors together alright friends well before i spill this water all over the place i better pour it out in the sink and put my glass cups away safely until next time well i hope you enjoyed this bonus extra part of the tutorial we'll see you later bye bye from rabbid shalom rabbi b loves hearing from fans please send any questions fan mail or drawings to rabbi b 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