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In this step, we're going to take a look at how to play the cowbell while holding it.
Most of the time, I would say if you have to hold something and play it with another
hand, that you would hold it in your weak hand and play it with your dominant hand.
So I'd be playing this with my right hand. But that doesn't feel as comfortable to me
as this way, which is holding it in my right hand and playing with my left hand. Now, there's
different tones on the cowbell. That's the big, thick nice sound. Then you can also have
a thinner, higher pitched sound. And that's just in between. You don't really ever want
to play on the side of the cowbell. It's just not there. Now, this yellow piece is called
a ridge rider. And the reason why that is on there is because you're supposed to play
that cowbell like this, and the ridge rider protects the cowbell from bending and breaking.
I don't like it though because it restricts being able to play up here, so I flip my cowbell
over. And as you can see, playing on the non--the side without the ridge rider, has bent. But,
I can hit it on the--I can, I just have more flexibility in that way. So, when you hold
it, you hold it, and then you also, you hold the to where the opening is kind of out to
the crowd. That's where the sound is going to go. And you don't need to crush it. You don't need
to play this thing as hard as you possibly can, because the sound of this carries very
well. So, that is how you play the cowbell while holding it.