 Well, hi, I'm Mr. B. I'm a musician artist and teacher based in Seattle, Washington Maybe you see me in an assembly or your school library I get to collaborate with some of the finest musicians in the Pacific Northwest and now you For today's lesson, you'll need a piece of paper or notebook and a pen or pencil Any way to capture your ideas Well, hi everybody welcome to making music with mr. B. I'm mr. B Today, we're gonna be writing a song inspired by the word Encouragement I have a couple of guests on the show today Jeff Larson, who's a wonderful bass player and any answer who has the most amazing voice Can't wait for you to hear them both. Let's jump right into it For this first activity, you're gonna be mentally and physically active Try and keep up with mr. B as he claps and slaps a rhythm slappy clappy copy slappers clappers copiers Let's kick it off. Ben Ben Momo cats boots cats boots cats boots cats Let's get started Ready here we go pump up the tempo level 2 Ready here we go pump up the tempo level 3 Ready here we go pump up the tempo pump up the tempo Today's song is inspired by the word encouragement Whenever I'm writing a song, I think of words or phrases that jump out of me that are connected to the topic I'm writing about on the top of your page write the word encouragement As you listen to our guests say what words and phrases comes to their mind Write down any that stand out to you or any that you connect to the word encouragement So again, we're writing down words or phrases that connect to the word encouragement in the middle of difficulty Lies opportunity Essential great job Feels good to give and receive You can do it energizing thumbs up practice practice practice Team I support you support run forest run giving high fives Wow, thanks. That's a lot to work with Save all the words and phrases you wrote for later Now, let's move on to the instrumental that we created a bass sounds like this Today's track is inspired by the word encouragement our guest instrumentalist is Jeff Larson Hey there, my name is Jeff Larson and I play the upright bass and the guitar Thanks Jeff Jeff came up with four chords inspired by the word encouragement Here's what he came up with to add a little extra flavor today I went into the garage to try to capture some cool sounds Music is all around us. You just have to stop and listen As always, I put the sounds into my sampler the MPC live and made them my own Here's what I got Once I got all the sounds I chopped them up and put them into my sampler And I started to play with the rhythm that sounded like this I thought that sounded cool. So I added this sound and came up with a track that sounded like this your turn Write down words or phrases that you think of when you hear the word encouragement These will become your lyrics when you sing your portion of the song There's no right or wrong answer. So you can't get this right and you can't get this wrong Whatever you say is just perfect I'll give you about one minute to write something down Remember, there's no right or wrong answers Anything that you get down will be just perfect. Just about 10 seconds left get those ideas down So you have something to look at when it's your turn to say I sure wish I could see what you were writing on your paper. I bet you have some awesome stuff We're about to perform the song so get ready. Here we go. Oh Man stuck inside Raining and gray out What am I gonna do Can start flipping through the pages get lost in the lines brighten up some of the grayness Call up the homie now. I'm feeling much better after the rock to track. So now I'll let it go If you'd like to spend more time making music with mr. B You can find me at learning with style.com. That's learning with I host lessons every week You would love it if you could join me. Thanks again