Coordination with Shakers

In these two videos, drummer Prof. Wolfram Winkel demonstrates easy-to-follow exercises to stabilise and improve your coordination. All you need are two shakers – and you can start practicing right away.

In the first part, you start with simple 4/4 patterns for your left and right hand followed by more advanced combinations in four- and three-beat patterns. The second part focuses on coordination tasks with polyrhythms, layering rhythms across multiple beats.

Both parts are suitable for music education and music geragogy, part two includes more complex challenges.

Practice tip
Pause the video to repeat an exercise or jump to any section by clicking on the chapters.

Part 1

Part 2

PDF with all exercises

If you want to practice at your own pace, you can download the PDF with all exercises. All materials are licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 and may be used and shared under its terms.