How to play castanets - Tips for learning and practising

Hey everyone, here we are learning a Spanish Dance choreography with castanets from Paloma Gómez, our maestra from Madrid.
For those of you who are playing castanets, you know that it's so important to understand the rhythm, and practise it. That way, at the time of dancing, our dance and castanets will flow with the music.
So here are THREE CASTANETS PRACTICE TIPS
1. Focus on the music, practise to understand where your castanets rhythm and accents coincide.
You can mark the time with your body or your foot (you can see that I'm doing that in the video), that also helps you understand where the rhythms fit.
Work on precision of the rhythm.
2. Pay attention to the clarity of your castanets sound (this will require proper technique for clarity). Do they sound clean?
3. Don't feel that you need to be able to dance right away together with castanets. That takes a lot of coordination. So you can put aside the dance sometimes, while you work to improve one part at a time (ie the castanets part).
That's it for today.
Meanwhile, enjoy this music: A beautiful and well-known piece called Córdoba, by Isaac Albeñiz. It's one of my favourite Spanish compositions!
Warm regards,
Tania