Lesson 5 – Part 3

Creating a Shaker Pattern

In this session you will learn to use three shaker sounds to make a shaker pattern.

The Egg Shaker

The Egg Shaker is the third sound you will need to make to make a shaker pattern.

It is an aspirated Bidental (rear) Fricative and it looks like this:

And it sounds like this:

Watch the video to learn how to make the Egg Shaker sound.

Making the Shaker Pattern

The shaker pattern uses the three sounds you have learned in this lesson and combines them in a repeating pattern of four sounds.

It sounds like this:

In BZZKTT, Percussion sounds are represented with this icon:

The pattern is a Sharp Shaker, followed by an Egg Shaker, followed by a Slow Shaker, followed by an Egg Shaker again.

Sharp Shaker • Egg Shaker • Slow Shaker • Egg Shaker

The 4-sound pattern looks like this (click on the icons to hear the sounds):

4-Sound Phrase

When we combine them into a Beat Pattern we repeat the 4-Sound pattern 8 times…

Phrase 1

Phrase 2

Phrase 3

Phrase 4

Watch this video to learn how to make the Shaker Pattern:

When you are ready, take the Lesson 5 Roundup quiz!