00:00In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to play the guairo.
00:03Before we get started, I just want you to know that there is no wrong or right way to play these instruments.
00:08The first one we're going to look at is the small matsu guairo.
00:11It is a shaker, but we're going to be looking at its guairo characteristics.
00:16So it has these ridges, which is how it produces the sound, and we have a wooden stick beater.
00:21When I was in Thailand, they told me that you're meant to use the thick end of the beater.
00:25So with the thin end, it sounds like this.
00:30And we can tap.
00:32So we can go up, down, tap, tap, up, down, tap, tap.
00:39You can play around with different rhythms, different orders.
00:42We can try with the thick end.
00:43Up, up.
00:50Up, down, up, down.
00:52Up, up, down, up.
00:54Up, up, down, up.
00:56So just play around in a different order.
01:00Up, up, down, down, up.
01:02We're going to look at the crocodile guairo.
01:04It's a hollow instrument.
01:06So inside, the sound kind of echoes in the small chamber.
01:10You can experiment playing slow or fast, fast and hard, fast and soft.
01:22That's the crocodile guairo. Moving on we have the frog guairo.
01:35Typically you would hit the instrument on the nose or on the end because that would create
01:50the most amplification of the sound because of the hollowness.
01:54I mean you could hit it at the side.
01:58Pretty much everyone can pick up one of these instruments and be able to play it straight
02:02away however they like it.
02:03The frog is an interesting one because it actually produces a type of croaking sound.
02:13Another thing that you can play around with is the length.
02:15So you can go full length or you can go a little bit.
02:23And then playing around with rhythm you can go one, two, three, four or one and two and
02:29three and four and...
02:30So you could use that in sound design if you're working on a film production or if you just
02:35want to play around and you know do a bit of a mindfulness session.
02:37Finally we're going to be looking at our largest guairo.
02:41This is the traditional fish guairo.
02:42It's very popular in sort of Mexican music, Latin music, salsa, that type of thing.
02:48It has these two holes for amplification so that when you strike it...
02:51produces a different sound you've got this straight kind of sound and then obviously that's up but
03:01you can go down and then you can experiment with the curves of the ridges.
03:08And then once you're comfortable with it and you've created a different few sounds you can
03:13start experimenting putting them together.
03:14Also implementing a tap if you want to.
03:28With this one as well we can create this kind of guairo sound and we can twist it to adjust
03:33the sound because of the holes we will get a different sound as we go around the instrument.
03:38So let's try this now starting from here.
03:40Anyway that is how to play the guairos.
03:47If you want to check out any of these instruments I will put a link in the description so that
03:51you can do that.
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