How to Tune a Vibraslap

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Summary: Learn how to tune your vibraslap in this free video series that will show you how to play this mandible and provide you with other percussion instrument techniques with these video music lessons.

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by johnnynoir333

I found your lesson very informative. I first this instrument in movie music. and also Larry Harlow use the vibraslap in one of this compositions Thanks Aaaron

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How to Tune a Vibraslap

Hi, I'm Aaron Bland on behalf of Expert Village and I'm here to talk to you about one of the technical aspects of the vibraslap. Now, I've already talked a little bit about the construction of it. It's got a wing nut right here that holds the vibraslap in the right position. The up, down position so you can get those teeth to rattle when you play it. Now, you can tune, more or less, this instrument by righty tighty lefty loosey. You're basically unscrewing this casing and then, to make sure that it stays in the up down motion so it's not to the side where you're not going to get any rattle to it, you just take that wing nut, tighten it right up. And basically what you're doing with this is you're fixing the position of this cowbell shaped apparatus, either pulling it further away from the arm giving you a little bit more leverage. Or, when it comes out of the package, it's screwed basically all the way down. And then, like I said, this is the crucial part. This wing nut is going to hold it all in place like this. And you can kind of play around with it. Generally, you want to get the longest rattling tone possible out of each hit and I found that that sweet spot is almost to the very end of this. And then again, if you want to tune it, little, unscrew the wing nut, unscrew your vibraslap and then when you have it right where you want it, tighten up that wing nut to hold it in place, like, like so,