How to play the shekere

[lyricsorus]

I underestimated your shaking skills whitey. I'm impressed.

[sambasoldave]

hiya ..my shekere is slightly different to yours, as it has a hole a fat bottom end as well and beads are wrapped around as normal and along string is attached to the net? why and they seem looser than urs.... many thanks dave ps great video

[dsbikes]

@sambasoldave - Not sure why the design on yours is different, but I have a few different shekeres (two artificial and one natural gourd) and they each have a different amount of "looseness" to the beaded net. The LP (like the one shown in the video) has the tightest net of all of them. By the way, I am not the man in the video, I just found it online and thought it might be useful.

[equaleyez187]

nice video, 1:18 i'm pretty sure this man can please a woman :)

[greendayrocker86]

@equaleyez187 ha! lol

[3584817]

Thanks!!!

[williamhtrice]

This guy is just awesome!

[loonpolice1]

Excellent lesson. Thank you.

[LTrain932]

Wow, that white man shake.

[AnesSt11]

today i played it in my drum lesson

[Elianinhosa]

Er... my washing machine makes the same sound...do you wanna play it?

[dsbikes]

Might be a little hard to transport to gigs. :)

It can't be much weirder than the flower-pot xylophone (see YouTube: d0_qIk1GCs4).

[truthspeaks84]

Lol, any more and it would have rained... good stuff man!

[truthspeaks84]

This guy HAS to be related to Joe Biden

[dsbikes]

LOL -- I didn't see it before now, but now I do...

[perrosdemaiz]

Man you are good. I'm inspired.

[dsbikes]

Thanks for the comment. For the record, I am not the fellow in the video, I just found this on some website and posted it here.

Do a search for "Jim Greiner" here on YouTube and you'll come up with a lot more of him. :)

[MAC8ed]

thank you.

[simonsbuddy]

Jim's a great instructor and an all around nice guy. I remember meeting him in Santa Cruz at Rhythm Fusion in 1992.

[OneWorldOneDestiny]

That's awesome!!!

[riotgirl2808]

...i want to pet you!!

[rhythmaddict808]

LOVED IT!! This is one of my fav percussion instruments. Thanks for posting!

Aloha!

[cwalwanis]

Oh my god that is beautiful. I am sold and now definitely getting one. Thanks so much for posting this.

[islagrande01]

the best with chekeré are the Cubans, look for Poncho Terry

[dsbikes]

Good suggestion! I found this one (Dsu2XLthcDI) here on YouTube. The poster mistakenly called it a "guiro", so it might have been hard to find.

If you have other names of players to look for, please post them. Thanks!

[tratigirl]

wow

[musicNdrums]

this guy doesnt know crap. ask an afrikan

[dsbikes]

Thanks for the review. You're probably right, that there are more "traditional" techniques than those shown here, and I'd be surprised if Jim was trained by a native, but for beginners, this is probably a decent introduction.

If you have a better suggestion for sources of training, please post a link (or the name of a video/trainer/etc.).

[MrStereo]

love it!!!

I fistr time seen this shekere on the Herbie Hanckock's "Chameleon" Live frome Chicago in 1974...and now i found the name of this instrument...iam so happy!

[dsbikes]

There are other "shekere" videos here on YouTube (just do a search). Luis Conte plays one for a workshop concert, and Jim Greiner (the instructor in this video) has his own postings also. :)

[kongcompte]

anybody knows any maractu pattern to play with shekere??????????

[evehal]

I loved this lesson thanks Jim!

[dsbikes]

I'm not actually the guy in the video, I just found it on the LP website. Looks like Jim did post another, though: YerES5koG6s

[turroc]

It could be made out of a vegie too i forgot it's name

[dsbikes]

It is traditionally made out of a gourd -- search for "shekere" on ebay and you'll see mostly instruments made from a dried gourd.

[dsbikes]

Do you know of videos or other resources for seeing these Maracatu moves?

[PedroLMariano]

Sorry but I don't know any! I'll try to find some. I'll contact you later!

[PedroLMariano]

You also can also hit the body of the Shekere with the bottom hand to make a "gun gun" sound while you are shaking it, just like they do in brazilian Maracatu! There's also another moves you can take from Maracatu!