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A cartoon of a collection of instruments including a saxophone, a drum and a bass guitar

Creating music

Creating music is great fun! There are lots of different ways we can do it.

Music is usually created with musical instruments. Instruments come in all different shapes and sizes.

We can combine them together to make musical groups like bands or orchestras.

A cartoon of a collection of instruments including a saxophone, a drum and a bass guitar
A group of children playing different musical instruments as a band.
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Cartoon image of Yolanda Brown holding a saxophone.

Watch: YolanDa and her band

Watch Yolanda introduce the different musical instruments in her band.

Listen carefully, how many instruments have you heard before?

Cartoon image of Yolanda Brown holding a saxophone.

Three children playing different instruments - a keyboard, drum and electric guitar.

All the instruments have a different sound.

The drums play the beat or pulse of the song to keep the band playing together.

The bass guitar plays low pitch sounds.

The electric guitar can play much higher pitch sounds.

The keyboard can play both - it plays high and low pitch sounds.

When YolanDa joins in on her saxophone all the instruments play together to create the sound of a band!

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A cartoon of a collection of objects that can be used to create found sounds.

What are found sounds?

It can take time to learn to play different instruments as well as these musicians can.

The good news is that you can begin to create music yourself by using things that you can find around your own home or school classroom.

Found sounds are sounds that you can make using objects that you have found. A tin can be used as a drum, or a packet of rice as a shaker.

Let's explore more with YolanDa!

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Watch: Search for found sounds

YolanDa is going to show us how to explore different places, to find sounds that we can use to create music.

In this first video she鈥檚 exploring outside. What do you think she might find?

Remember to watch YolanDa explore other places for sounds in the rest of the 'How do we create music' guides!

Did you think that a bicycle could become a musical instrument?

What words would you use to describe the different sounds it can make?

Kids making sounds on bike

Why don't you look around your own bedroom, classroom or local area to see if you can find objects that make interesting sounds?

If you can find something, you have taken your first step towards creating your own music!

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Glossary

Here are the meanings to some important words.

Found sounds - Sounds that are made from objects which can be found around you.
Musicians - People that play musical instruments.
Orchestra - A large group of musicians who play string, brass, wind and percussion instruments together.
Pitch - How high or low a sound is.
Pulse - The steady beat that runs through the music.

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