Playing 16th Notes on Maracas

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Aaron Bland, on behalf of Expert Village, and I'm going to demonstrate for you a maraca technique called the "Maraca Roll" or 16th notes--very fast playing of the maracas. And we already talked about kind of using the tomahawk technique, like this. And if you can get those as even as you can, but work them up to speed, so it's almost kind of a spasm action, that starts in your forearm and recoils through your wrist, all the way through your fingers. Kind of hear a rattlesnake rattle--the defense mechanism of our desert snake. That's your "Maraca Roll." Now, you can play that in time with the music, if it's got a quick pace and can be sub-divided. One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. Or, usually when this technique is used, it's just for kind of that rattle sound for however long you want to, whatever the duration of that rattle is. And it can be broken up between silence, and a lot times it is. Here's that technique with two maracas at the same time. And so on."