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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
playing with your hand, like hitting it in the palm of your hand. The difference is the
tone. And it is a little bit more awkward to use a stick when playing the tambourine,
just because you're kind of hitting it sideways. It's just a strange feeling for whatever hand
is holding the stick. It gives you kind of a click sound when it hits, which is kind
of cool because it can help accent the snare drum. Or if you're doing side sticks on the
snare drum, it can help accentuate that as well. So, grab the tambourine, and we'll start
playing. One and two, and three, and four, and two, four, two, four, one, two, three,
four, one, two, three, four. Now the thing is it's not so much you're coming back and
hitting the tambourine as hard as you can. It's more just like kind of clapping the stick
and the tambourine together.
Now the one thing about this is you'll notice too, with, when you're hitting with the stick,
you're kind of getting a plastic sound, which isn't bad. When you do it with a wood tambourine,
it sounds a little bit better because you're hitting two pieces of wood--obviously the
stick and the tambourine. It gives you more of a wood flavor, and more of a warm sound.
So, that is how we would go ahead and play the tambourine with the stick. Another way
is, some people actually have--and I don't, because I don't play a tambourine when I'm
playing my drum set--they might have a tambourine mounted somewhere on the kit, and you would
actually--you could actually hit it like that. See how the cowbell is mounted? They might
have this stand for the tambourine. And you can actually hit it with the stick just like
that. Just a little bit of an accessory on the drum kit. Those are the two ways that
you could use a drumstick to play the tambourine.