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Unlocking Effective Practice Techniques for Auxiliary Percussion

Experimenting with different materials and approaches can make your practice sessions more dynamic, fun, and, most importantly, effective.

Essential Performance Tips for How To Play Tambourine

Josh Jones will be sharing tips for playing the tambourine, covering hand positioning to striking techniques and roll execution.

Obsession or Necessity: Cultivating an Ear for Sonic Diversity with Percussion Instruments

Norman Weinberg explores the art of selecting percussion instruments, emphasizing the importance of cultivating an ear for sound variety.

How To Change A Tambourine Head

Learning how to change a tambourine head might seem like a daunting task, but this guide will show you how in simple easy to follow steps.

How to Play Tambourine: The 3 Basic Strokes Everyone Should Know

Keith Aleo demonstrates 3 types of strokes that can be played with one hand on the tambourine. These are often used for passages that are...

Introducing the Session Plus™ Headless Tambourines

The Session Plus Tambourine effortlessly adapts to both classic and contemporary musical settings.

How To Play Tambourine in "Polovtsian Dances" by Alexander Borodin.

Dance #8 in Polovtsian Dances features some interesting tambourine techniques. We'll show you how to play them!

How to Play Tambourine in Rimsky Korsakov's "Capriccio Espagnole"

Black Swamp Artist, Paolo Cimmino, demonstrates how to play several tambourine techniques for Capriccio Espagnole by Rimsky Korsakov.

Deep Dive: LGTC2 Tambourine

Our Leggiero tambourine model LGTC2 speaks clearly and softly, performing delicate musical passages with ease and confidence.

Deep Dive: TC1 Tambourine

Curious which Black Swamp tambourine you should buy? Learn more about our number 1 selling tambourine, model TC1. The combination of...

Tambourine Buying Guide: Which Tambourine is Right For You?

Black Swamp Percussion makes a lot of different models of tambourines, so we have put together a little guide to help you make the right dec