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Have You Seen This: Drop a beat with your pen
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Shane Bang has created a social media following around musique concrete, using pens, cups, desks, rulers, water and any other random instrument on hand to create a beat. Just think, while you've been getting down and out about tests and homework, you could have been getting down to this sick beat. - photo by Jarom Moore


MUSIC CLASS When a pen and a desk is your instrument, the whole world is your recording studio, as long as you have a pen and a desk.

Shane Bang has created a social media following around musique concrete, using pens, cups, desks, rulers, water and any other random instrument on hand to create a beat. Just think, while you've been getting down and out about tests and homework, you could have been getting down to this sick beat.

Bang and his friend Kevin Baek created this video using four pens and a ruler to create a nice sound. They have other videos on their Instagram accounts and on YouTube.

This isn't the first time musicians have used odd instruments to make music, but Bang has carved his own niche and calls them pen beats. He has about 20 videos and a whole load of short clips on his Instagram account where he puts the beats down under popular songs, and even some Super Mario Brothers.
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