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Summary: Learn how to find a circuit bend on a toy guitar in this free video series that will help you understand how and when to utilize this unique way of making music.
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AMANDA CLAIRE: So one way to explore the circuit is with your Alligator clips [TOY TALKING]. Okay, so it's on, we want it to be on. And so one way to explore is the circuit is with your Alligator clips. You just find it somewhere on board. I don't know, let's try this one. Remember, I'm just kind of doing it in an exploratory way. I'm going to clip it there and then I'm going to [TOY MAKES NOISE] gently reach around and make sure that I can push buttons 'cause it needs to be making sounds if you're going to test out different bends and then you just let it play sounds by pushing buttons if you have to do that, and now you're going to touch the other end of the Alligator clip to different places in the circuit board, so I'm going to try that now and this is how you search for a points on the circuit board that maybe you can connect and can make interesting bends.