Learn To How To Play The Otamatone!

making a novelty into something incredible

What you'll learn
Learn basic technique for playing the otamatone
Learn methods for practicing and playing otamatone effectively
Learn shortcuts to improve practicing and playing
Learn a series of songs-from easy to difficult-that will help to further your skills
Requirements
You will need an otamatone!
Enjoying music helps with this course! However, you don't really need musical experience to enjoy this class, although it will certainly help.
Description
Welcome to my 10-part series on how to play Otamatone! This wacky little instrument proves to be surprisingly hard to play, and this course will teach you all you need to know, from basics to advanced, and will teach you how to play the Otamatone!•We start off with the fundamentals of learning how to hold, handle, and navigate the instrument and its different settings•We then venture into how to play this little instrument and learn why it can be such a challenge to play, and is not as much of a novelty as many people would like to believe it is.•We will then learn how to find the notes on this instrument and how to play basic melodies with different tips and tricks that can be used to navigate an instrument with no frets or references to where notes are•I will show you a hack for learning the instrument - almost like training wheels - and then use this trick to catapult us into a new realm of what is possible on the instrument•With this new knowledge, we will learn evermore advanced songs that will challenge you and also challenge the status quo of what is possible with this often-joked-about instrument.Thank you so much for taking a look at this course! I always appreciate the opportunity to teach people and pass along my knowledge to others.Hope to see you soon!-Rowan Skye

Overview

Section 1: Introduction - Welcome!

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Instrument Overview

Lecture 3 Proper Technique

Section 2: Playing the Otamatone

Lecture 4 Pitch & Tone Matching

Lecture 5 Practicing Pitch & Tone Matching

Lecture 6 Hand Position & Technique

Section 3: Applying our Knowledge to Songs

Lecture 7 Our First Song - Basic

Lecture 8 Our Second Song - Intermediate

Lecture 9 How to Cheat on Otamatone

Lecture 10 Our Final Song - Advanced

Section 4: Thank you and Congrats!

Lecture 11 Bonus Lesson!

Beginner to intermediate otamatone players