Maracas is native to Latin America. He gained popularity on other continents as well. Outwardly, the maraca most of all resembles a baby rattle. However, it can be used to perform virtuoso rhythmic constructions.
It is necessary
- - 2 maracas;
- - paper;
- - pencil;
- - a player with records of Latin American music.
Instructions
Step 1
Professional musicians usually play two maracas, but it's better to start with one. Take the tool by the handle. Bend your arm slightly at the elbow and relax. Shake the maraca away from you. Perform this movement alternately with your right and left hand. Do the exercise slowly at first, then gradually increase the pace. Perform the exercise while standing.
Step 2
Master the second movement. Shake the maraca with a full-arm motion from the elbow. Try to keep your wrist still, but at the same time, the hand should remain free. Perform the exercise with your right and left hand alternately.
Step 3
Find a recording where strong beats are clearly heard. Latin American music abounds in such pieces, so pick the one you like best. Use the maracas in your left hand to hit the strong beats. When you succeed, try playing two instruments at the same time. Use your left hand to beat off strong beats, and use your right hand to beat off weak beats. At first, you can do this with the same movements - either from the wrist or from the elbow.
Step 4
Gradually move on to the next step. Fight off strong lobes from the elbow, weak ones from the wrist. Change the nature of the exercise periodically. Use your right hand to beat off strong beats, and use your left to beat off weak ones. This will help develop coordination.
Step 5
Check out musical notation. To play maracas, you need to know the durations and be able to distribute them to bars. Learn basic measurements. Start with a 4/4 size. In this case, a measure can have one whole note, two halves, four quarters, etc. Learn to write them. Draw 2 long, straight lines below each other. On the top, write down the part of the right hand, on the bottom - the left, as is done in sheet music for piano or button accordion. Divide the stitches into equal measures. Remember that each must have four quarters. Write the left-hand part, for example, in whole notes. Let there be only quarters in the right hand. Try to play what you have recorded. hit the first beat with both hands simultaneously, the next part of the measure is played only with the right. Meet the 2/4 size.
Step 6
Examine the three-part dimensions. They can be labeled in different ways. The denominator of the fraction that you see at the beginning of the musical line can be either 4 or 8. The denominator indicates which beats are counted, the numerator is how many beats are counted in a measure. Write some exercises for yourself and practice them.
Step 7
You can train on any notes. Since you are only interested in the rhythm, it doesn't even matter in what key the piece of music is recorded. Practice the right-hand part first, then the right-hand part. Play the piece with both hands.
Step 8
In musical notation, you can find very small durations - eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, etc. Perform them with movements "from yourself - to yourself", in much the same way as you play a rattle with a child. Learn to perform them with your right and left hand.
Step 9
In many pieces of music, there are also more complex rhythmic constructions. For example, in one quarter there may be not two eighths, but three, not four sixteenths, but five. Usually such constructions are indicated above or below the corresponding group of numbers. In this case, it is very important that the hand that beats out the basic rhythm does not slow down or speed up the movement. Do these exercises with both hands.
