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Super merci 🙏✨️🌿

great video and funny too and very entertaining. I have difficulties with what you called the "air turn". It is something i want to learn. I will check if you have other videos on that

I believe that this is a polyrhythm of 5/4 superimposed on swung 16/16, together creating a 1-2-3, 1-2 pulse.

Merci beaucoup 🙏 trop bien ✨️🪷

Just got a pair. Very challenging so far but thank you for sharing.

Thanks Pete. Too much fun but people in my house keep shouting ' STOP THAT KNOCKING NOISE!' :) So now I go for walks ......

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Trop bien le ralenti !!! Merci 🙏 🙏🙏✨️✨️ C'est bien pour apprendre 😊🪷🌿

Thank you! This is an excellent vid!

Can you recommend any good lessons I just got a set of these the. Other day and I have loved this instrument since I first seen it Any and all information greatly appreciated 🙏❤

what size balls do you recommend - 5cm diameter? 4cm ? 3cm?

I just bought kauss kauss ,but I feel I may need to change the length of the rope ,what is the ideal length?

Can anyone tell mem if they've tried different models and/or materials ; I've bought mine but find they "bounce" too much ad can't catch them under little finger. Obviously, being a beginner, I don't know if it's me or just cheap material, are they too big for my hand etc etc......Thanks for any feedback,

Merci 🙏🪷🌼

I tried and it is really hard to keep shaking while doing the click clack lol It will take a lot of practice, so yeah don't underestimate that :D

so good ❤

Great stuff man. I'm a multi instrumentalist and I tend to learn things myself and usually by ear alone. However, this instrument is deceptively simple! And your detailed yet laidback approach. You provide the small technical details while reminding us to "relax", which a perfectionist like me needs to hear! Thank you for these videos, brother!

Kiffness brought me here

Thank you. love your polyrhythm tutorial💘

Thank you so much for this lesson! I just bought some quiet cork asalatos and immediately found this video. I am a percussion teacher and I love how you explained everything in your video. Thank you so much for sharing things you've learned. I can tell I'm going to have fun learning how to play these. ❤

I just bought one today... maybe i should've bought two...

This is the 14th video of basics on Asalato and, by far, is the easiest to understand. You have the patience to teach the minimum details. Great video!

Omg you are a savior! I've been stuck for days trying to figure out what's wrong and just watching this video I feel like I finally unlocked the asalato technique! Thank you for pointing out the ever so basics that others fail to tell us

Love the way you explain how to use them….but I’m finding it difficult to grab the ball…is the string too long or is there a technique for the grab part?

I got a question, when you say "and at some point just let it go" .. which is the moment I should let it go? I find hard to calculate the delay between that and when the ball actually hits the other one (I am on my first day) do you let it go like on the last quarter note of the shaking rhithm or..?

It's been over a year - I'm wondering how they've held up, if you've printed more of 50mm size, and how everyone else that printed them have found they last.

Where is a good place online to buy these?

thanks for the video! managing to do pretty well but sometimes the dropped spinning asalato just starts going wild and spinning more up and down and a not across my fingers. What could help with improving this any ideas?

very nice! i struggle so much with konnakol and playing asalato at the same time. my small brain can't deal with anything other than 3/4 or 4/4

Hey Peter! Thanks so much for this video. You should go a little more into string length. I got mine yesterday and it was a mess untill i shortened the strings significantly. Once i made the adjustment it was dramatically easier. I passed it on in the comments below. Thanks again for this though. Ive come back to it about 10 times in the last few days lol. Its great!

I don't understand how you keep shaking when the ball is over your thumb. I have no trouble shaking normally, but when I let loose the second ball and it comes on my thumb, I can only bounce it back and stop the shaking

Where can I buy quality shalakas, please? Every review on Amazon shows poor quality product that breaks after few days… I live in France and didn’t find any local resellers. Thanks.

I just bought my first set. I am EXTREMELY uncoordinated but I’m determined to learn this instrument. I have small hands and it feels like the balls are too far apart. Do I need to shorten the cord or just get used to it? I really enjoyed this video. You make it look so easy!

Thank you. Mine came today. My arm is tired. I just learned about them and ordered them the same day on Amazon. I play the drums in an African Drum Circle. I’m happy to have a new instrument to bring. I live near Raleigh, North Carolina 🇺🇸. I Love learning something new. I am 78 year old. You are a good teacher. I promise I will be practicing.

That was a really great lesson. You covered all the mistakes I was making. I'm already getting the shaking and the cracking.

You are a peach 🤍… but I just realized I can’t make it 🤣 … maybe “playing” is just not my thing. Will keep practicing singing and shaking maracas 💙

@pete I have jus bought a pair of them and I am almost ready to send them back to Amazon 🤣 it seems impossible to me. And also, my ones are not very noisy.. Theo are made of cork outside… any advice is welcome 🤍

My balls hurt

How do you keep the ball in your hand without it slipping out while being relaxed? Plus the ball and string starts misaligning and swings over the top of my fingers

How to adjust to find best rope length for my hands? Also I do fine with catching the ball on the pinky side. But the thumb side catch? I think some even more beginner tutorial would help many. Very interesting. I like the shake it all the time approach. Thank you! 🎵

very helpful! i just picked up asalato again recently, and i have an uncle that has a 3D printer. I think you can downscale the designs in the program he uses so i will try and create some asalato with balls that are closer to 50mm. did you end up finding the ideal shaker material?

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The moment i try to let the shaker start the clicks , the whole ryhtem stops from being fluid , i dont understand exactly when to let it go from my hand 😅

I can’t figure out if they’ll ship to America? Seems like not. I want some.

I am new to asalato. Nice lesson. Thank you! I think I understand it, but am still very uncoordinated. I really am having trouble catching the ball on its return back to my palm, under my pinkie finger. It clicks the ball then bounces back out of the bottom of my hand. Any tips? Thank you!

im struggling to catch the asalato back with my fingers when swinging back, are there any tricks? or actually just those ball "size does matters" ?

Dude... You made it so clear. Thank you!

Hi Pete! Thank you for this amazing video!! I'd like to start this percussion and I was wondering if it would be better to get a plastic asalato as a beginner or maybe the material doesn't change anything to the technique? Many thanks 😊

Awesome lessons. I just got a set of those same Kashakas after being inspired by a couple of IG Kashaka players, including Yowie. Your lessons are very clear and you are a charming teacher.

Which ones would you recommend to buy?