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In this step, we're going to take a look at how to hold everybody's favorite instrument--even
has a T-shirt devoted to it--is the cowbell. Now, you can have the cowbell mounted as a
part of your drum setup, but also you can hold it, and that's what we're going to take
a look at today. What you want to do--you want to hold it down. You want to keep as
much as your hand and your fingers off this part, the body, as much as possible. And the
reason for that is if I hold it up here, okay, it mutes a lot of the sound that is supposed
to come from the cowbell. So if you hold it from back here, you get more of the cowbell
sound. So, the problem with this cowbell is that it is a cowbell that I mount onto my
drum kit, so I don't hold it and play it. And, the problem is that it's heavy. This
cowbell is extremely heavy. So, if you're going to play a cowbell and you're going to
hold it, I would tell you to get a smaller, lightweight cowbell, just because it's more
comfortable. But that's how you hold a cowbell. It doesn't really matter, because you're not
going to be really doing anything too extravagant on the cowbell, so I hold it with the hand
that I'm most dominant with, and I just play it with my right hand--or my left hand, I'm
sorry. And you can do the same thing. You can hold it in your left hand, and play with
your right hand. So that is how you hold a cowbell.