03:17Oh, it is. But see this little bit right here? This is called a reed. And that's what makes a saxophone a woodwind instrument. And you use your wind to play. You blow into the mouthpiece here and make the reed vibrate.
03:35So, can you play it?
03:36I haven't tried yet, but I can play anything.
03:40I don't think that was right.
03:52Is there a video you should watch?
04:02I don't need videos. Normally, I just listen to a song and play it. Why would the saxophone be any different?
04:09Maybe it came with instructions. Aha! Here it is! I've never needed a music lesson book before. Huh?
04:22Huh?
04:29Hi, Lotta. How are you?
04:31Hi, Carl.
04:32Where are you heading, Lotta?
04:34I'm going to mail my saxophone back to my grandma.
04:40Why are you sending the saxophone back?
04:43It's never been this hard for me to learn an instrument before. I just don't think I'm a saxophone player. This is a big puzzle, Carl.
04:54The biggest in my collection. The box says it has 500 puzzle pieces, but it really has 537 puzzle pieces.
05:06That is a lot of puzzle pieces.
05:08I know. I love puzzles. Did you know that the first one I ever finished had 12 pieces?
05:16I didn't know that. You are really good at puzzles, but you're working on it upside down?
05:23That's my secret. I can finish a puzzle a lot faster if I don't get distracted by trying to make the picture come together and just focus on fitting together the individual pieces.
05:36It might not make sense to everyone, but it makes sense to me.
05:40Upside down?
05:42Hmm. So that is how I do puzzles, Lotta.
05:56Lotta?
06:00Upside down.
06:04Huh?
06:14Sorry!
06:18Thanks for bringing my birdie back.
06:22What game is this?
06:24One squirrel badminton.
06:26Who's winning?
06:28I am, but I'm going to catch up really quick. How's your day going?
06:32going. Not good. I can't figure out the saxophone. I think I'm going to ship it back to my grandma.
06:40It is just too different from my other instruments. Badminton looks a lot like tennis. I thought so
06:48too at first. I figured being a school tennis champion would make me a great badminton player.
06:54Sorry. I'll be by to fix it later. That's why I'm only supposed to play tennis at the park.
07:04So tennis didn't help with badminton? Well, kinda, but not how I expected. I spent weeks
07:14whacking that birdie just as hard as I served a tennis ball, and it just didn't work. Is that
07:21why all the birdies are in your tree? Sure is. I kept hitting the birdie hard, kinda like
07:28when I hit a tennis ball, but it always ended up in the tree. And then I realized, because
07:35a birdie weighs less, you don't need to hit it as hard. Once I saw what makes the two games
07:40different, it all made sense. I had to play differently too. I could use what I knew about
07:47tennis while practicing what I needed to learn about badminton. Maybe it's the same with your
07:54saxophone, Lara. It's kind of like other instruments you play, but also different. Use what you know,
08:01practice what you don't. Use what I know, and practice what I don't. Thanks, Forrest.
08:08Maybe I'm blowing it too hard. Maybe it's a birdie, not a tennis ball.
08:13Maybe I'm blowing it too hard. Maybe it's a birdie, not a tennis ball.
08:35Or maybe not.
08:42Hey, Lara, where are you going?
08:44I'm going to the post office to mail the saxophone back to my grandma.
08:49I just don't like it as much as my other instruments.
08:53I hate it when a new toy isn't as fun as you thought it would be.
08:56A saxophone isn't a toy, Nico. It's a serious musical instrument.
09:01The saxophone just didn't make sense to me.
09:05New instruments are usually much easier for me.
09:08Like how jumping rope is easy for you.
09:14That's good.
09:16What? What's so funny?
09:19Easy?
09:20No way. It might make it look easy now.
09:23But remember when we first started jumping rope, Nico?
09:27Yup.
09:28We thought it would be a breeze because all the other jumping games were really easy for us.
09:33The bunny hop, sack races.
09:35But we were so wrong.
09:40So we just kept doing it this way.
09:43Nice and slow.
09:45Then a little bit faster.
09:49Until one day, we were jumping rope.
09:52I bet you could learn saxophone just like we learned to jump rope.
09:59Yeah. Slow it down. One jump at a time.
10:03Or in my case, slow it down one note at a time.
10:09Thanks. Happy jumping.
10:13Use what I know. Practice what I don't.
10:16One note at a time.
10:26Until all the notes fit together like a puzzle.
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