
Your first exercise on the Cowbell. The great master Giovanni explains how to hold this instrument and to position the hand to achieve different sounds. In this first exercise, you work with the Son/Salsa pattern.
Commentary:
The way that you hold the cowbell, like this, ok, like that, only one finger. Some people play it like this, some of them like that. Alright? Okay. So, the movement for your comfort, has to be just wrist… Slow… Many, many, many ways to play the cowbell. Some of them are playing like this with the finger to muff a little bit the sound… or the open… The other one, opening the cowbell, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4…