maracas

Maracas are a rattle instrument traditionally made of dried calabash gourds or turtle shells filled with beans, beads, or pebbles.

: a dried gourd or a rattle like a gourd that contains dried seeds or pebbles and is used as a musical rhythm instrument usually played in pairs by shaking.

Different sounds can be made with a single maraca: it can be hit with one hand by making a hard deep noise or it might be shaken back and forth giving a lighter and echoing sound. If one hand is pressed against the leather top, the seeds bounce against the metal and shell inside making a tin texture.

One maraca is pitched slightly higher than the other. They are shaken with a forward flick of the hands to create swishing background rhythms. The most common use of maracas is in Latin American bands, but they are sometimes used in an orchestra to add a Caribbean or South American flavor.

Musicians tend to play maracas with others in order to keep the beat. They tend to be found in Cuban music, Afro-Puerto Rican music, Orchestral music and rock and roll.

Maracas are percussion instruments commonly used in Latin and Caribbean music. They mark the beat like drums do, and they are fairly simple to play. Most traditional maracas are made out of dried, hollow gourds or coconut shells, and they're filled with dry beans or pebbles.

It was used at their dances and to heal the sick. Andean curanderos (healers) use maracas in their healing rites. Modern maraca balls are also made of leather, wood or plastic. A maraca player in Spanish is a maraquero.

This. You can also play them a little bit angling out yeah this way we're kind of at a 45-degree angle moving to and from your chest.

The adjectives used to describe music are rhythmic, beautiful, electric, warm, lyrical, melodious, etc.

The term unpitched percussion covers all percussion instruments that are not tuned to specific pitches. This includes instruments such as bass drum, guiro, maracas, cymbals, and shakers.

Original maracas were made out of dried gourds - a fruit with a hard skin - filled with seeds. Maracas are usually played in pairs - with one in each hand. Maracas are part of the rattle family. Rattles are ancient instruments that have existed as far back as ancient Egypt!

In the maraca, sound i created when the contents strike each other and the container. This in turn makes the air vibrate, which propagate through the room and reach our ears. In a maraca sound vibrations of very many different types are formed, i.e. the sound waves have different lengths.