Last week I blogged about the
movie Pitch Perfect and how amazing it was. The movie is filled with musical
numbers, but there was one in particular that caught my eye. It was a song
performed by Anna Kendrick, as her audition song for an all-female a cappella
group- Cups. She sings the song by herself, but instead of having instrumentals
to sing along and keep the beat with, she used a plastic cup for music. All she
needed was her two hands, her beautiful singing voice, and a cup. I went home
after the movie and started up my computer, determined to learn the Cup Beat.
Thank God for YouTube.
After watching a tutorial, I had
mastered the Cup Beat…or so I thought. The guy in the tutorial I watched couldn’t
figure out the entire Cup Beat, so he simplified it. Now that’s just wrong. I
then found a tutorial that would teach me the right way, and spent an extra ten minutes revising what my brain
had previously learned. Now I have the entire (one hundred percent correct) Cup
Beat down, which is good! My parents weren’t as enthusiastic, as I now steal
their cups when they are empty and randomly start doing the Cup Beat. It’s too
much fun not to! To be honest, at dinner
last night I finished my cup of milk, turned the cup upside down, and proceeded
to recite what I had learned. My family looked at me weird, but that’s okay because
I can do the Cup Beat…and they can’t.
I also feel pretty awesome when I
show my friends. Today at lunch one of my friends sat down with her bottle of
water and started doing the Cup Beat- totally out of the blue! I’m not the only
one who knows it! After she finished a couple repetitions of the beat, I pulled
out my water bottle, and we put on our own little Cup Beat show. We have next
class period together- I’m sure we will be putting on a show for the class as
well.
If you would like to learn the
Cup Beat, go to YouTube and search “Cup Beat Tutorial.” Make sure it’s the
right one though, so that you don’t learn the wrong way like I did. There is
also a link at the end of this post- so try it out! I thought it was fairly
easy to learn, and it’s a great way to entertain yourself when you are bored.
Try it out, and have fun with it!
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ReplyDeleteThis was fascinating, and it's killing me that I can't click on your link and watch this in the middle of the neighborhood lab. Or...have you show me, which would also disrupt the entire room. :)
I will have to check it out from home tonight!