How to play Cajon; Playing with a shaker and simple groove

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In this lesson series we apply a shaker with the cajon using various pop patterns. This lesson is designed to help percussionists in a CCM, contemporary Gospel, pop, funk, R&B, indie, and rock genres.

[@jeffweaver955]

Fantastic! Thanks brotha! Love all your videos

[@Squirrelconga]

Do you prefer the shaker in your dominant, or non-dominant hand? I can never decide which way i like divying my weak limb.

[@WilliamJohnsonmusic]

That is a good question. I am somewhat (emphasis on the somewhat haha) ambidextrous in that my “weak” hand is actually better at many things on the drum/s than my dominant hand. For shakers I tend to use my dominant hand. The more you practice the better the weak hand will get. I go over one hand exercises that will help with this in my more recent cajon videos. A really good exercise is using a one handed bass-snare exercise to a metronome. Lots of repetition in a dedicated space of time (say five or ten minutes). Eventually the weak hand will become dominant playing the cajon in that you will be able to improvise while keeping the shaker going.

[@Squirrelconga]

@@WilliamJohnsonmusic Thanks, man! I, too, usually tend to play the shaker in my dominamt hand. Usually. Depending on the tune. But, I haven't come up with THE formula, yet. To decide once n' for all, which n' when. Haha