How to Play Two Different Sized Shakers

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Summary: Learn how to play two different sized shakers in the music lesson in this free video.

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Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more

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"RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to go over two shakers again and remember you're going to have these different volumes issues with this shaker, and this shaker which is obviously much louder. So, the best way too approach two shakers of different sizes is one have a steady beat and one have an accent. So, if you take our little shaker and we use it as the accent, we're going to want to play really light on this. That gives a little spice to it. Now, if you want to play with our small shaker as our lead, we're going to want to be more fierceful with it and really shake it a lot and then this we're just going to use as light accent. You can really get to that groove but you really gotta put this little shaker a lot."

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