Ddolbeng Band

Ddolbeng Band

Five friends are the instruments — no wrong notes

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What it is

Five friends stand on a stage. Tap one and it plays a note in its own voice — the bear booms, the cat miaows, the chick peeps, the kids sing la. The five notes are tuned so that any of them fit together, in any order, all at once: there is no wrong way to play.

Start a song and it becomes a concert. The band dances on the beat, the fifteen friends who are not on stage drift in to watch one by one, and whoever the song names gets the spotlight. The sky changes with the song — golden hour, starry night, a crescent moon, parade-day blue.

Whatever a child plays over a concert is kept automatically — no button to remember. Play it back afterwards and the band performs it again.

Turn on the loop and a real backing groove starts; every note the child places comes back around every two bars. Repetition is what makes it music. And in the free jam, pause for a moment — the band answers your melody back with a harmony on top.

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For grown-ups