Video: Percussion Instruments: Wood Tambourines

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The wood tambourine is a percussion instrument that's used to create a variety of rhythmic sounds. Learn more about tambourines and percussion instruments from a professional musician in this free music lesson video.

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First I'll be discussing of the two tambourine types here, a wood tambourine. Now traditionally, a tambourine would have a skin the same way the dumbek did, over the top of the tambourine. Unfortunately, this one is missing here, but you can see how it was attached. It was held on by these tacks here that would create a skin across the top, now that you would roll your fingers onto that skin, which would combine the sound of the drum with the vibration of these, which would be called zils, z-i-l-s. Now, you're going to have two of them stacked on top of each other, so that they'll vibrate against each other, creating that kind of shushy sound. Now, as you roll your fingers across the instrument, it'll make all them vibrate as the vibrations travel through the wood. You can also use it in this effect, where instead of rolling your fingers, you're hitting the entire instrument or the drum to create different rhythms. You can also shake the instrument like that.

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Percussion Instruments: Wood Tambourines

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