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In this step, we're going to take our ever so noisy sleigh bells, and we're going to
take a look at how to actually play them. There's a couple of different ways. This first
way, which I do not like--that's not how I play them. It's not that it's wrong or anything,
I just don't play them like this. Put it in the hand that you're most dominant with. In
my case, I'm a right handed drummer, I'm a right handed everything, so I'm right handed
dominant. And then you just shake up and down. Now, the reason why I don't like that way
is because it's too inconsistent, especially for a drummer because we're not used to shaking,
necessarily, so the techniques a little weird, so therefore it becomes, to me, a little uneven.
What I think is a little bit better is if you're right handed switch hands, so now it's
my left hand, and you make a fist with your right hand, and just hit on top. Okay, that's how I play sleigh bells. Now
as far to how to stop playing the sleigh bells, there is like no such thing, because they're
just so noisy. So, in a studio setting, whoever the engineer is can just fade them down or
whatever. In a concert setting, I would probably just do the same thing and just probably very
softly and gently bring it down and set them down on the ground and don't touch them. Because
as soon as you touch them, they start jingling. So, that is how I would play a very noisy
sleigh bells.