...than with a "normal" tambourine is using this stick. It simply enables you to do more, using the same movements. What can potentially put you off is a different hand position and a different kind of balance when you use this stick (compared with a tambourine). But that's what exercising is for. You can create more complex polyrhythms, and that's what this stick is all about. Meinl has a nice promo video of it on its website. It can give you ideas.