How to Hold Egg Shakers

Video Transcript

"In this step, we're going to take a look at how to hold the egg shakers. Now you're asking, what are egg shakers? Well, they're these little things. Everybody's heard of maracas or shakers. These are egg shakers in the shape of an egg. They're very small, and you can hear it gives you a nice shaker sound, but it's a little bit high pitched. But the first thing you have to do is figure out how to hold these things. So, what you do, take the first shaker and you want to put it kind of around your, in between your middle finger and your forefinger like that, and then wrap your thumb around it. And then you take the bottom shaker--and I call it the bottom shaker because it's going to go right here. Now you wrap your hands together like this. Okay, your fingers are together, thumbs kind of on the side, wherever the thumb wants to be. And know, I don't play the shakers--like if this is a mike, the mike is in front me, I don't play the shakers like this. I always have my hands to it. And the reason why--you have them like this, not that this would happen, but primarily the reason is, if you're playing like this, it's a lot harder to hold onto them because there's nothing right here to block them from actually just--you throwing them. So if you hold them like this, you've got this part of your thumb and your palm holding them when you pull it back, and then you have your fingers holding them so you don't throw the shaker. That is how you hold the egg shakers. It might take a little bit of getting used to, just because using one hand to hold two separate items might seem a little strange, and might be a little bit difficult at first. But once you get it, it's actually a really comfortable technique to holding both of these shakers. So that is how you hold little egg shakers."