Key Techniques to Playing the Tambourine

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Summary: See a summary of how to keep time, thumb roll and shake in this free video series that gives you an overview of various tambourine techniques.

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"I'm going to show you all of those techniques that I demonstrated in the earlier video segments all put together. The accents, the keeping time, the thumb roll, the sixteenth note roll and shake, all kind of put together just to, just kind of a demonstration to show what you can do with this instrument. Okay, first on the headed tambourine. I've found that on this style of tambourine, without the head, you can get a little bit faster side to side motion without as much stress on the wrists and arms. So, without the head, without any kind of tambourine rolls, just the tambourine itself."

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