Practicing Castanet Rolls

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Hi! Thank you for visiting expertvillage.com. My name is Yvette Parrish. And that is the way you practice with your pinkie and remember you do not want to show them to the audience you are kind of hiding them you can do them together like this or one above, depends what is comfortable for you just as long as you knot like this. So the right hand the right hand is where you do all the work, the left hand, heart beat. So you are not getting as fancy so if you are a left-handed you are going to have to do a lot of work with your right hand. So it is really made for the right hand. So remember start with the pinkie 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,1, 2, 3, 4, 5…1, 2, 3, 4, 5….1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5…1, 2, 3, 4, 5. You can practice also. Just using these two fingers of each hand you can just right left right, right left right, right left right, right left right, right left right, do not do right left right, right left right. You do not want anyone to see remember it is a secret. It is a mystery. So lets right left right, … 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, … When you get faster and faster and faster and you would not have to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. The roll will happen… see we are able to roll with the same right fingers with your left one. You would hit them together. You can move them up while you are dancing. Hit them together, come to the bottom, go to your side come to the side, hit them together. So it is a lot of fun with the castanets.

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