Playing Two Maracas in One Hand

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Hi, I am Aaron Bland, on behalf of Expert Village, and I'm going to demonstrate a maracas technique that you can use. I call it, two in a hand, and that's exactly what it is. You take two maracas, and usually you want to take your pointer finger and kind of separate the two, so you can actually have a pretty firm grip on both of them. Now depending on how your hands were designed, and how your maracas were designed, you may want to hold them a little bit differently. This is a smaller set of maracas, you can see because they are smaller that there is a little bit of a space in between the two, that's being kind of held there, in place, by my pointer finger. And now, in my left hand, we will hold two maracas, on being basically the same thing, but I found that this is one of the more comfortable positions. And I don't know if you can actually detail, the mess that's going in my fingers, you can hold them like this, you can hold them separate, like this, you can hold them together, you know kind of in a fist, where the two maraca heads are touching. It kind of doesn't matter, find a comfortable place to hold them, and everything that you can do with one maraca, you can basically do with two, keeping straight time, accenting notes, and the cool thing about this is, if you got a set of maracas in one hand, you have your other hand free to play a stick on a symbol, or do what ever you can do with the other hand, hold the microphone, play another percussion instrument, wave it in the air, whatever you want to do, or because I have two sets of maracas is cool to put them together like that. Where I have got right hand sound with a set of maracas, and a different set in my left hand playing them together.

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