RYAN LARSON: Now, when you're approaching recording with a microphone your shaker I'm just going to do with a simple mic here. The best way to get the best sound is to have...
RYAN LARSON: So, now we're going to go over our basic position and we just take the shaker, hold it like this, simple, hold it up, aahh. You just want to move it back and forth,...
RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to go over an example playing with the band. And we have a nice simple, repetitive loop going out on our chord out here. And you can really feel that pulse and...

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RYAN LARSON: Again, we have the different loudness issues with the shakers. So, you really want to be soft and delicate especially if you're going to use a loud shaker. A small shaker, now,...
Okay just like we have different playing sounds on the drum itself there is also different zones on other surfaces like that cowbell. A common surface on the bell for a little bit of a embellishment...
In this step, we're going to take the tambourine and we're going to take a drumstick in the other hand and play on two and four with the stick. Now, kind of the same principle as...
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In this step, we're going to take a look at taking a different type of tambourine and, one that's made to fit on top of your hi hat, OK. And I already have it on here, but I'll...
In this step we're going to take a look at the cowbell and applying it to our drum set. I use the cowbell with my drum set, but I don't use it for drum beats, which is the primary...
On behalf of Expert Village my name is Pat Louis. Here in Miami I'm going to show you today how to set up a drum kit. As a drummer you also consider a percussionist so there are maybe some...