How to Play the Guiro

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  • čas přidán 13. 09. 2016
  • Percussion master Bobby Sanabria tells you more about the history of the güiro, and demonstrates some patterns that you can use when playing it.
    Learn more at the Jazz Academy by visiting academy.jazz.org
    Bobby Sanabria - Güiro
    Eric Suquet - Director
    Bill Thomas - Director of Photography
    Aaron Chandler - Sound Engineer
    Richard Emery - Production Assistant
    Seton Hawkins - Producer
    Recorded July 17, 2013

Komentáře • 112

  • @Sweetamber222
    @Sweetamber222 Před 4 lety +118

    Wow. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.

    • @notchrisrivera7717
      @notchrisrivera7717 Před 11 měsíci +3

      Sorry but it helps if you got the Cumbia blood in you 🤣

    • @Mistrhappy
      @Mistrhappy Před měsícem +1

      @@notchrisrivera7717 Cumbia typically uses guira. Guiro is usually used in Cuban music. Guess you don't have the blood in you lol

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic Před měsícem

      Well, I'm a musician and I'm trying to think of the easiest simplest instrument and, I think you're right. You'd be surprised at just how much technique goes into playing tambourine, maracas, claves and other simple percussion instruments. I heard one guy play the tambourine and it was amazing. It sounded almost like a whole drum set the way he did it.

  • @mikefarmer1082
    @mikefarmer1082 Před 2 lety +8

    Very informative to this 65y/o lifetime musician. Just beginning the study of Latin rythms.

  • @cashagon
    @cashagon Před 5 měsíci +3

    I never realized what that sound was in Latin songs. Very cool to know.

  • @bernardegreteau
    @bernardegreteau Před 7 lety +13

    Very nice! I always wondered about the guiro, and now is the answer. Thanx for that M. Sanabria.

  • @TahtahmesDiary
    @TahtahmesDiary Před 4 lety +19

    My 4 year old just brought a frog with ridges in my house up to me and asked what it was called and she really loved playing along and actually had a few beats going by a third of the way through. Very cool video, thanks for teaching!

    • @Mistrhappy
      @Mistrhappy Před měsícem

      That's a coqui, made to imitate the Puerto Rican frog of the same name.

  • @Ernest-From-England
    @Ernest-From-England Před 4 lety +73

    Me and my friends just remember it as "scrapey fish"

  • @mattmilford8106
    @mattmilford8106 Před 3 lety +36

    It's called macho because it looks like a phallus, but it's always breaking because people sit on it. 😂

  • @williammoreno-pp1og
    @williammoreno-pp1og Před rokem +10

    The quiro was also on the main lands played by many natives through central and South America!

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic Před měsícem +1

      I'm no expert but I've found that most of these Latin instruments have a hundred different names and they're played in a hundred different ways by different traditions throughout Latin America. It's pretty fascinating how a seemingly simple instrument can be used with so much diversity. I'm a bit of an ameteur musicologist. I love learning about this stuff.

    • @williammoreno-pp1og
      @williammoreno-pp1og Před měsícem

      @@PaulTheSkeptic indeed many things are used the drums are African origin while the maracas and Quiro are Amerindian orgin, the rest are European, all use too make one music in many Different ways.

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic Před měsícem +1

      @@williammoreno-pp1og Yep. It's a big old mix that makes the music we're used to hearing today. I'd love to be able to go back in time to hear the music poor people were playing in the 16 and 1700's. We know a lot about the European tradition with its standard musical notation but there's a lot we don't know about as well.

    • @williammoreno-pp1og
      @williammoreno-pp1og Před měsícem

      @@PaulTheSkeptic that’s true ,I barley know my peoples music lol, I just found out that we have many shaped drums not just the ones you see in Mayan and Aztec dances, we also have hand drums and small shaped ones, that sound middle eastern and African!

    • @PaulTheSkeptic
      @PaulTheSkeptic Před měsícem

      @@williammoreno-pp1og What is your people? I'm just a wasp from Florida but I love the blues and folk music and all kinds of music. It's more and more recognized just how much we owe to black people, creole people and all the repressed and discriminated against people for American music. Right now I'm learning the banjo and the history of the banjo is just fascinating. The banjo as we know it was probably invented by slaves but banjo like instruments have appeared in artworks going back to the beginning of the Columbian exchange throughout the American colonies and surrounding islands.
      Forgive me but this stuff is my passion. I don't mean to talk your ear off. Lol.

  • @FeedbackPete1
    @FeedbackPete1 Před rokem +3

    I googled to find out what this instrument was called. The Thompson Twins used it a lot. Notably band member Alannah Currie used it on the track Who Can Stop The Rain. And it was all those little percussive sounds we loved about the Thompson Twins that made them unique.

  • @gringochucha
    @gringochucha Před rokem +4

    Gracias, Bobby. ¡Como siempre una excelente lección!

  • @johnwooton
    @johnwooton Před 5 lety +15

    Great lesson Bobby. I'm sending my students here to learn guiro!

  • @jaredlindh4516
    @jaredlindh4516 Před 2 lety

    Great video at a great time for me. I just bought that LP Super Guiro that he's using. Great place to start for me.

  • @caramajaka
    @caramajaka Před 7 měsíci

    Nice job, Bobby S. - your down-to-Earth approach was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

  • @jimikrentkowski4073
    @jimikrentkowski4073 Před rokem

    I have to get this awesome instrument! Rolling Stones used it on gimme shelter, love that sound!

  • @CarlosGonzalez-ro2ow
    @CarlosGonzalez-ro2ow Před 6 lety +7

    I play Banda Sinaloence and this is very helpfull thank you!

  • @JulianFernandez
    @JulianFernandez Před 7 lety +22

    Bobby is the man!

  • @EarthtonesCymbals
    @EarthtonesCymbals Před 4 lety +2

    I play drum set and watched the whole video. Respect and best wishes!

  • @Tplayer49
    @Tplayer49 Před 5 lety

    Great job!!!!

  • @YoRayBurger
    @YoRayBurger Před 5 lety

    BRILLIANT!

  • @davidsantiago6189
    @davidsantiago6189 Před 5 lety +1

    Bobby is a maestro

  • @josephkiesel4695
    @josephkiesel4695 Před rokem +1

    He’s shredding!!!

  • @fleadoggreen9062
    @fleadoggreen9062 Před 4 lety

    Thank you very much!

  • @ilikejohncalvin
    @ilikejohncalvin Před 6 lety +5

    Thank you for this video. I've been trying to explain to another percussionist. actually a music teacher, that his scraping in both directions puts the a weak and sometime off accent on what is supposed to be the down stroke. It throws the percussion breaks off big time. But he claims that "evens out the up-down motion" by not lifting the scraper from the guiro.

  • @jessicarose2985
    @jessicarose2985 Před 6 lety

    So cool

  • @joseluisdelacruz2183
    @joseluisdelacruz2183 Před 3 lety

    I love the video

  • @earthmoods123
    @earthmoods123 Před 5 lety

    Thanks!

  • @suncityrocker844
    @suncityrocker844 Před 6 lety +5

    cool! I'd like to learn cumbia with this wooden style guiro... any help?

  • @darwinhaughton7713
    @darwinhaughton7713 Před 3 lety

    My kids should learn that because it looks so amazing

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic Před měsícem

    Spanish music or Latin music or whatever it's called, it's fascinating. So many individual percussionists playing all that up tempo stuff in complex syncopated patterns with ace precision. I'm more interested in adding a bit of percusion to my acoustic music but when you get all those guys together, you can't help but move.

  • @bearmacmahon6731
    @bearmacmahon6731 Před 4 lety +2

    Are your Conga lessons, that came out in VHS, available on dvd?? If not, when... or why not. They are great!

  • @jordinmichael7752
    @jordinmichael7752 Před 4 lety

    I love it🤗🤗🤗🤗

  • @christopherallencomer5738

    thanks and God bless

  • @dublonzky55
    @dublonzky55 Před rokem

    Love the vid bro

  • @MillionDollaStan
    @MillionDollaStan Před 6 lety

    Great

  • @joseconejo2206
    @joseconejo2206 Před 4 lety

    I like this instrument cuz is catchy

  • @JErock25
    @JErock25 Před měsícem

    1:34 - Chachachá (one bar - Clave neutral)
    2:24 - Chachachá + 2/3 and 3/2 clave
    2:47 - Uptempo chachachá
    2:59 - Machete en güiro
    3:12 - Switching from chachachá (son clave) to machete (rumba clave) *Bobby says he'll play the clave, but what he plays isn't exactly it
    4:02 - Machete en güiro (two-bar pattern - Clave aligned)
    4:55 - When to play machete? Rumba

  • @happilyablindmusician643

    Mrs. Kenette had one of those. She was a former music teacher that I once had when I was at school. She has passed away from cancer. I love music and I want one of those for Christmas but I don’t know how to explain what it is to my parents, which is why I haven’t told them that I want a guiro. I am blind and was wondering how do you play it and if you could make a video that was accessible for the blind on how to plant.

  • @jerrydonquixote5927
    @jerrydonquixote5927 Před měsícem

    Thanks for this I like this sound in the Gimme Shelter.

  • @krommer66
    @krommer66 Před 2 lety

    Hey Bobby!!!!

  • @hdikaisar
    @hdikaisar Před 3 lety +1

    wowww

  • @mullyjunior387
    @mullyjunior387 Před 4 lety +1

    Wat shop can I buy it in

  • @antoniocruz1163
    @antoniocruz1163 Před měsícem

    Nice

  • @carlosacta8726
    @carlosacta8726 Před rokem

    That's the reality of it!!!!

  • @AnthonyBurrito1313
    @AnthonyBurrito1313 Před 3 lety

    COOL

  • @darwinhaughton7713
    @darwinhaughton7713 Před 3 lety

    they always wanted to learn the guiro

  • @mrkneel5760
    @mrkneel5760 Před 4 lety +12

    We have a repurposed coconut water cans as Guiros on the Big Island of Hawai’i!

    • @Xavier-ty4jw
      @Xavier-ty4jw Před 3 lety

      Sounds awful

    • @urbanlypure
      @urbanlypure Před 3 lety

      @@Xavier-ty4jw Weirdo

    • @BirbBoiYT
      @BirbBoiYT Před 3 lety

      We have those at our supermarket and thought the ridges were just for a grip!

  • @odalisjam5924
    @odalisjam5924 Před 4 lety

    What's the melody's name?

  • @ChuckD-lu5mb
    @ChuckD-lu5mb Před měsícem

    Does anybody know what brand of Güiro That is?
    Thank you in advance

  • @SylvianLight
    @SylvianLight Před 25 dny

    he gazed a gazely stare

  • @JVJF7
    @JVJF7 Před 3 lety +1

    Where does the other sound come from?

    • @thrash0114
      @thrash0114 Před 3 lety +3

      Those are claves, being played off camera

  • @happilyablindmusician643

    🎉

  • @ceciliaericson3650
    @ceciliaericson3650 Před 6 lety +15

    Funny how it’s called ”gurka” in sweden, which translates to cucumber. :)

  • @SadhviJenn
    @SadhviJenn Před 7 měsíci

    A black screen when I could’ve been seeing how he made that click sound. :)

  • @panchamsmagic2868
    @panchamsmagic2868 Před 5 lety +2

    In India guiro was first used by Rd burman a famous music composer.

    • @jacksn5916
      @jacksn5916 Před 5 lety +1

      Unscientific but True
      i am hispanic and in my music we use this instrument a lot .

  • @Benjen-gt3dp
    @Benjen-gt3dp Před 2 měsíci +1

    So strumming patterns are still a thing on this right?

  • @maxlensherr
    @maxlensherr Před rokem

    1. Guiro macho 0:22
    2. Clave neutral 2:03
    3. Machete en guiro 3:10

  • @keystonebrotherb
    @keystonebrotherb Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for this. I now know what the hell I have.

    • @Bubblesv2
      @Bubblesv2 Před 3 lety

      😂 Thank goodness for CZcams!

  • @cherisefevrier3089
    @cherisefevrier3089 Před 2 lety

    Whats the 'drum' hes using ?

  • @majskorv1235
    @majskorv1235 Před 4 lety +1

    🎂

  • @Rock-iw7ov
    @Rock-iw7ov Před 7 lety +5

    so that's the instrument at the beginning of gimme shelter...

    • @MillionDollaStan
      @MillionDollaStan Před 6 lety

      Yes

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      @majumdar123456 Před 5 lety +1

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    • @stivklif
      @stivklif Před 5 lety +1

      @@majumdar123456 This

  • @ImmanuelChai
    @ImmanuelChai Před 9 měsíci

    just got a guiro

  • @surething3993
    @surething3993 Před 7 lety

    Where do you buy a guiro like this one?

    • @jic1
      @jic1 Před 6 lety +1

      Well, since he said that it's a Guiro made by Latin Percussion, I would start by Googling "latin percussion guiro".

    • @MillionDollaStan
      @MillionDollaStan Před 6 lety +2

      Amazon . search "Latin Percussion LP243 Super Guiro with 2 Scrapers"

  • @roshciangelopadillo4314

    Güiro

  • @yrockerboy
    @yrockerboy Před 3 lety +2

    Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time

  • @Potbellllly
    @Potbellllly Před 6 měsíci

    Sounds familiar

  • @gigglesandtable6529
    @gigglesandtable6529 Před 2 lety

    It lowkey sounds like when you scratch one of those moving card thingys

  • @apersonwholovessneks6614

    gui DIO!!!!!!!!

  • @alensday2974
    @alensday2974 Před 3 lety

    "hey subtitle guy play some epic music on the fish-thingy"

  • @tvseka4957
    @tvseka4957 Před 4 lety

    Missä 7c? :D

  • @summershannon1173
    @summershannon1173 Před 2 lety +2

    Love the people who actually know what they’re doing but in my experience playing the Guiro it was so boring cuse all it was was a down stoke and two taps and that’s it so boring and I hated it

  • @catherinepruett8595
    @catherinepruett8595 Před rokem +1

    Did you REALLY have to say "phallus?" I was showing this to a group of middle schoolers when I heard this. Glad they didn't know the word.

    • @aarr8936
      @aarr8936 Před rokem +3

      Always watch the video before showing it to the class

  • @LisztyLiszt
    @LisztyLiszt Před 2 lety +2

    And what does a female phallus look like?

  • @deengew
    @deengew Před 4 lety +3

    this guy sounds like a gangsta

  • @11123fsd
    @11123fsd Před 2 lety +1

    0:26 How the hell does it resemble a male phallus in any way shape or form

  • @aattura1541
    @aattura1541 Před měsícem

    lloks like deflating football

  • @allneedsomelight
    @allneedsomelight Před rokem

    Not so easy to play the guiro!

  • @kaybhee6
    @kaybhee6 Před 3 měsíci

    where to buy good sound guiro,,, not this modern toys in plastic or steel

  • @Eerik2
    @Eerik2 Před 3 lety +1

    Yes great video and i liked, but still guiro sounds very annoying.

    • @keystonebrotherb
      @keystonebrotherb Před 3 lety

      Fits right in with a full band. You don’t realize the difference until it’s NOT there.

  • @tommyoriley4174
    @tommyoriley4174 Před 2 lety

    This was that nasty sounding instrument on gimme shelter. 0/10 worst instrument ever.