How to Play Shaker
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No idea how I landed on this tutorial but I'm inspired to go get me a shaker. I'm autistic and really struggle with timing and rhythm and think learning to play this wee instrument will be of great help to me in many areas of my life. I'll be back!
primrose morgan how’s it going
Hey how is it?
how's that going? :)
Shakers are cheep and are a lot of fun to play.
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Its amazing that your hair is always looking good in every video
Danny Gooyer 🤣🤣🤣😂👍😝
Lol😂😂
He's subliminally promoting egg shakers
LOL
@@dwaipayansarkar7736 your comment is as beautiful as his hair
"Sitting at the cafe, shaking my hand and say cacophony". Sounds like a very sane idea.
Hahahaa
🤣🤣🤣
Salt or sugar?
You are a great teacher.
Thank you!
I think "fro" is just short for "from" which would be the opposite of "to."
Or Afro?
Not elitist at all. Subtlety, dynamics, and overall awareness is essential.
OMG!!! I CANT GET IT...I CANT GET IT!!!! LMAO!! all these years and I finally understand....where was this video 31 years ago????
Many years ago, like 1986 I struggled getting the rythm down at a seminar our school attended in PA.....I actually umderstand it now!! awesone instruction!
Kevin Miller Wonderful! Glad these lessons are helpful!
"To" is toward, "Fro" is from...love your tutorials...thank you. :-)
When I first started playing percussion, I always thought the shakers were the easy instruments. I now realize that was quite incorrect. I feel more confident on marimba or timpani than I do with a simple shaker. Great video though, definitely helped me a lot with understanding "the groove" !
Galen Jamison omg it's not just me!! I Totally agree!
Galen Jamison Sometimes it’s the “simple” things that are the most difficult to get “right.”
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Leon Hobbs If you’re asking where you can get one, any music store would have one.
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Wonderful lesson - thank you. My goal get on stage with percussion to accompany my vocals!
I love this video because it helped me get over my intimidation with shakers. Thanks. I'd like more instruction and resources to learn more shaker grooves.
+Ancelyn Avila Great! Thank you for the feedback. More shaker to come, plus other instruments.
what did the shakers ever do to u
Amazing lesson. You are great teacher and motivator. Thanks a lot Mr Kalani!
Hello, I'm french and I'm a girl ! Thanks a lot for your pronounciation, that help too understand your exercise. I will do it !
TO and FRO means TO(WARD) and (AWAY) FRO(M) with the object being the speaker - hence "towards me and from me" when I say it. Anyway, thanks for the great job! Came across your channel by sheer accident and, being a lifetime, fairly conservative snare-bass-three-tom-and-ton-of-brass type of drummer in need of quieting down a bit, I am discovering the beauty of world drumming. And the resources you share are just the right thing. Keep up the great work... greetings from Central Europe.
Shaker playing is like playing with brushes on a snare drum: to get the right sound is much harder than it looks.
Fro is from the Middle english, meaning from. Awesome tutorial! Thank you!
I love your relaxed demeanor in this video's and weirdly, if I copy your calmness, I get better at the exercises!!
I'm loving my percussion journey and you are helping me greatly via these videos. Thank you! (From a guitarist by trade who wanted a new challenge!)
Picturing drivers in Latin America playing their shakers every time they're stopped at a red light.
I saved you in order I can have regular tutorial and homework for my learning my percussion instruments thank you
I bought a tambourine and my father said it’s easy but the moment he played it. He regret everything he said
I love the outro speech. As someone thats career is based on melodic material I am so amazed by this channel and the idea of making music without melody as a challenge! Thanks so much for sharing! :D
Also... I know your BG music from the Tropico Soundtrack... great tune! ;)
I'm sorry man, I'm from Latin America. So, I learned how to play it just by grabbing it. ;) Just kidding, great video, man! :)
Thanks so much for sharing. Your lesson is straightforward and easy to understand. Very helpful!
So i'm an air shaker. It just happens when i'm into music. I researched both the Shekere and Shaker. I think the Shaker is what i'm looking for. Thanks for the info. Homework? 😎
You're a very gifted teacher and a pleasure to learn from, you can tell you're really having fun making these. Thanks
David Frazier Thank you.
Right? He's so awesome. I remember watching some of his videos years ago. Now I'm interested in actually doing some percussion - and there is again. Wonderful.
How many people are playing/practising this with *both* the left and right hand?! #ha
You are an awesome teacher! To and fro only ever exist in combo. So "fro" is simply the opposite of "to" (you must choose "to" yourself or to someone else) and then fro is the opposite direction, but "fro" cannot exist on its own.
Fro is a short version of 'from'. Get it? Easy😁
Brushing teeth with shaker in one hand- ‘no cavities, no cavities, no cavities...’
Thank you for teaching this instrument. It soo boring in lockdown and i think this is a good hobby for me😁
I am old and I take pills. Shaker accomplished.
I reject your cacophany and subsitute it with my own ... a choochoo train, a choochoo train, a choochoo train. wooo wooooo
Thanks for the "Office" reference!
im sorry i have cacophobia and that word that you just said scares ne
Are you 'avin a laugh? Is he 'avin a laugh? Nice!
Another excellent video, Kalani! (And perfectly timed for me... I just bought some shakers). I especially liked the rhythmic variations and fill you threw into the first sample. Gracias! 🙏💕
My pleasure!
¡GRACIAS! You are a great teacher, I feel like I should pay for this.
Maria Fernanda García S be my guest! Http://patreon.com/kalani
Thank you, it was so useful for me as a singer: I was putting unnecessary strength in some movements, now I'm doing much better. By the way, Italian word "citofono" works as well! And you're so right about practicing everywhere, but I just imagined my husband, who's not a musician, anxiously waiting outside the bathroom and hearing five minutes of shaker sounds... lol! 🤗😉😘
Thank you, now I'm making cacophony all the time
Many years ago (50's through the 70's) our shaker was an empty and cleaned out Drano can with bb's in it. The newer shakers are much more quiet but I still love to play them. Thanks for this video to help
Yeah, I've got so many beans in my pantry. I guess they'd break up eventually, though, if I banged them around in a metal "thermos" for hours.
@@charporter3350 gonna build one
Yesterday I got some shakers and thought how easy this was going to be, brought them home, and then quickly realized there is a lot more to it 😅
That’s why I’m here
This is a good lesson. Thanks. I’m in band and starting to learn shakers.
I'm like how hard is it to play a shaker...mind blown.
preparing for a gig tomorrow and this was great!
I also learn by watching as well as by listening,(and counting along) and there is latency in most You Tube videos. The sound doesn’t line up with the movements in the video. When he is playing with the metronome close your eyes and listen. It’s the second syllable in cacophony that is the downbeat. Watch other music videos and you will see/hear this latency, it can mess you up.
I like shaker a lot. Can do a lot in band. Embellish.
Very nuanced thing. Gotta listen to what the other instruments (musicians) are doing to embellish them or play off their stuff
That cacophony thing is cool!
It is difficult, I was one that assumed a shaker, pfffft how hard can that be… takes practice just like any other instrument…
Exactly
I went and got a shaker to get better at percussion. It is not easy :) but I'm loving it thanks.
Your opening comments should be a required lesson for ALL musicians. Accessibility doesn't equal proficiency. Just because it is easy to make a 'noise' (as opposed to wind and string instruments) does not mean you are making music. Thank you for putting this out there. TNB
Kalani, I meet you about 15 years ago at a Guitar Center workshop in Miami. (You had more hair back then! 😳😁) I still have one of your cd's. You are as cool as ever, bro. Thanks for your videos. You are a great teacher.
Nice
Thank you for discussing micro timing. -Thousands of little adjustments during the musical piece to add the "human element" to the groove. I never knew quite how to express that. It has always been just the "feel" of the music to me.
Forrest Kulwin Glad that concept wasn’t useful. I think it’s something we all know about, but didn’t really have a way to talk about.
Great lesson Kalani! Thanks for taking the time to emphasize the complexity involved in playing the shakers, I've been looking for how to explain this to my friends and family XD Aloha
You're very welcome!
Natural Acoustics Lab manufactures the most articulate shakers on the planet. One small shaker can support numerous playing techniques while creating multiple rhythmic patterns and shakers articulations. Thanks for your video!
I LOVE shakers !!!! I have tons and LOVE micro timing.. didn’t have a word for it till today.. nothing is perfect and a rattle can help explain that for me, in subtle changes in the rhythms.. they have more effect in a drum circle than most would expect.
"To and Fro".... Towards and (Away) from?
Yes, I imagine FRO does mean "away" in some language - Maybe Old English.
Reverend Mojo Yes, you are correct. Fro is the shortened word for from.
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cacophony cacophony cacophony
damn you really are making a lot of cacophony
I added the syncopatic technique from your instruction on the tamburine by changing the hitting side of the second. One can generate polyrhythms just by mechanically (brainless) combing little algorithms to varying pattern-structures, letting them train your rhythm feeling and expand it to complexity.
I wonder if I'm the only person who paused the video 5 minutes in, and came back with an Advil bottle filled a quarter of the way with uncooked rice?
Well I DID sing along ! Cacophony!
I'm brazilian, just bought some percussion stuff, thanks for your lesson!
Percussions are a very intuitive category of instruments. I "feel" them and communicate my intents. The shaker is a "easy" one as you can play it with one hand. The two handed instruments - congo djembe bongos etc - are way more difficult to master but the amount of expression you can put in them is amazing.
I like the way you explain those emotions and translate them into rhytm, as well as the knowledge you have. Awesome channel !
Thank you! I'm an adult starting at a very basic level. Shaker was hard and I felt dumb. This video was hard but really helped.
I've just got my shaker today and I'm playing actually. Thanks
to=towards you | throw (away from you). You´re welcome. :)
I ordered a wooden single maracas this morning and landed on this as I was looking for a good video on shakers.
This maracas is beaded on the outside. I'm assuming it can be played the same way u demonstrate here. I'm good with beats and rhythm so I'm planning to use it as an accompaniment during my singing. I can't play any stringed instrument but I find percussion easy and enjoyable. I used to sing to guitars and tried teaching myself the guitar when I had nobody to play it for me but it's just too hard. I really want to sing to an instrument again.
Great teaching, learnt a bunch very quickly and was able to put it to work! Thanks man
I think every rhythm can be turned into an arc or a straight line or a point, which can be seen in a visual way
Ive been training with pringles all my life
lol
I found out today it's not that easy to play a shaker
I put rice in an empty water bottle.
Sounded pretty good.
Then I tried salt alone in a separate water bottle
Nice gentle effect.
Try salt see what it sounds like to you.
Thank u for teaching so good . I start practice because I love it and I have a shaker.
Thank you for the tutorial! I just got a bamboo shaker today and yes, i'm one of those who first picked it up and shake it. I am a guitar player and currently working on an ambient project which, except of 1 song, i want to use any kind of percussion other than drums. My next step, crafting some home made rattle.
How'd your rattle crafting go? I am thinking the Mongolian Giant sunflower stalk here could be made into one. It's thicc and easy to hollow out. Made a shakuhachi flute out of the first one. Have more to go.
To & Fro: From Middle English fro, fra, from Old English fra (“from”), from Old Norse frá (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fram (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *promo- (“forth, forward”). Cognate with Scots frae (“fro, from”), Icelandic frá (“from”). Essentially: "Going to and coming from".
Im actually using this in my samba group and I want to learn how to do better.
''Cacophony'' doesn't work for me...
Spanish and Portuguese vowel sounds, work so much better than English for approximating percussion sounds...
Follow the Shaker played by Anastasia role in Work This Body feature film (2019) through inspired by a chinese vengeance corporate during the winter tendency likely igloo scene you're musical for the politics open his fashion show.
Video Premiered:
August 7, 2019
December 18, 2021 (USA)
"To" is away from you as it is harper and shorter. "Fro" towards you, it is a bit longer. ??
70K views, right on Kalani! As a percussionist I can vouch for how hard it is to play these things correctly!
Cody Mills More to it then most would assume!
So awesome! great control and groove! Very nice to see this.. thanks!
WOW you are very good :)
Thank you!
Thank you for your time and experience!
This should be publicly broadcasted. I can remember countless time when public jams were destroyed by the organizers handed out to non-musicians to "invite people in", who then proceeded to create an acoustic soup that destroyed any semblance of rhythm that evening. Yes, everyone thinks they can play shakers, but they don't realize the sound comes delayed to the hand move, they are often late on the beat.
Also possible in Dutch! Kakafonie! Kakafonie! Kakafonie!
When you were talking about poeples experience with percussion, I think that another thing that happens is that they think "oh, this instrument has all these cool sounds I hear when I hear other people play them," and when they play, they do the most basic movements, and they don't hear what they would hear on album or during a performance. They get a repititouis sound that isn't dynamic, and they get frustrated and give up. I've come to love the wolrd of ethnic perucssion, egyptian percussion in particular, and I love tambourines. I have a whole whole of them hung up, of different kings, along with different kinds of fram drums :)
To them and from you
To. & Fro
LOL
WHO THE HECK KNOWS.
cacophony cacophony cacophony ;) Tnx!
amazing Master, I loved your vídeo, Im brazilian percussionist, is Very important the existence of percussion channels. congratulation
zathara norte Thank you my friend.
It's like the tag on a gift! To and from. "To" is usually the receiver of that gift, which tends to be someone other than the giver. And "from" (or 'fro') is the giver, the self. So from my perspective, "to" is outwards and "fro" is inwards
Thanks sir your videos helps alot
Lots of love from india
Lmfao my teacher asked who wants to use the shaker for this one song and i raised my hand for a milisecond and my teacher called on me out of alll the other people and now im watching this
I just got to say ur videos are very helpful I’ve been playing the drums for 12 years I’m 16 right now but I’m just saying thank you
Daniel Dominguez You’re welcome.
To and fro - fro is an archaic word from Middle English, and it means "away." So, since a shaker is played by one person, with no other nearby people or objects necessary (let's ignore air and gravity, here) it seems to be to and away from oneself. Unless there is another person there and you are taunting them with it, and then it could be the opposite. By you wouldn't do that, I am certain. :)
I think fro/frow is short for "from" so it's acutally to and from - to someone, from someone - to is the movement away, and fro is the movement towards,,, but that is just my unreseached belief, I've wrong before...
i did cacophony on my omega-3 capsule bottles ... just to get into the picture with Kalani ... 1st few second, i was way out of sync ... then the magic begins ... though mine sounded muffled ...but i get into the rhythm ... ok .. im going to get one Meinl Shaker now !
Love this video! And I love that you said "palitos"! Can you recommend a great lightweight shaker for a beginner in a loud rock band?
It is a shuffle. Playing a shaker is a series of shuffle patterns. Simple? Yes. Easy? No. Keep steady time. Do not speed up do not slow down. Play simply and with purpose.
Wau, thank you for your great tips. You explaine very good. Greetings from Switzerland😘🙏🏼
at first i didnt understand why this video needed to be twenty minutes, but obviously i realized it takes more than five minutes to master a latin percussion instrument. respect to latin percussionest i think it is the most diffuclt style to learn but its also the most fun.
I have 4 shakers, egg. two louisiana shakers, that show where thumb goes and in what direction, make of copper. I cannot find them, small package in bottow of a bag or box searching for.
Great way to make music fun and feel it. Thanks man
I dont think you should use a shaker in your car?
You are so right. Someone grabs a shaker, starts shaking it like its a toy. With no musicality at all. When you point that out to them, and try to show them a proper method, even a very simple one, they get all mad at you because you are wrecking their "fun".
Shakers are played to enhance time and rhythm. If you cannot keep time, leave the shaker alone. It is not a babys rattle.
Thanks for the tutorial! A little less talking please!
I can't get the striking to sound right, the problem is that when you shake harder, the beads inside of the shaker don't just stop moving when your hand stops moving...
I will never unhear "cacophony" in that rhythm ever again lol