Q&A for How to Do the Cup Song

When you go faster, it sounds better.

Follow the steps and keep practicing. The more you do it, the faster you'll be!

Listen to the song, try to pick up the beat and the rhythm, and remember that beat and rhythm. Then, when you add a cup, it will help to keep you in time.

You have to keep up with the rhythm of the song. Study the beat carefully before you use the cup.

The full song is about 4 and 1/2 minutes.

Sure! Get creative with it.

No, you can use pretty much any solid object, as long as it's stable on both top and bottom. It won't make the game easier, but you can do it.

If you hit it hard enough on the table, yes. So don't use a glass cup unless you're prepared to pick up glass.

You might need someone to hand you the cups. You could do one cup, then push it away, and your extra person could pass you the next cup.

Anywhere. In the house, your school cafeteria, at work...or you could buy some decent quality ones for cheap in any grocery store.

It depends on whether you are a beginner or very experienced. A beginner will go much slower, and will consequently do it fewer times than someone who is skilled enough to do it very quickly.

There is! Check out wikiHow's article on doing the cup song without a cup.

After you get very good and doing the song with one cup, then start practicing it with two cups.

If it's light and has no handle,you can use it but be careful not to let it slip from your hand.

No as the pen would possibly slip out of your hand, but it's up to you; you can try to if you want.

Yes, but it is not necessary. As long as you basically sing in tune, it will sound great.

The kind of cup you use will change the sound when you do the song. Also, using glass cups would cause them to break.

Look up the song on YouTube if you don't know the pace -- that will be more effective than trying to describe it.

If you practice continually, it might take around an hour.

The cup song is pretty easy, but it will depend on you as an individual.

Yes, as long as it makes a nice knocking sound. Also, rounded surfaces make a crisper sound.

It would be cool, but it is pretty difficult to keep the rhythm of the cups and sing the song at the same time.

You could do one cup, then push it away, and another person could pass you the next cup.

Use what your unsupportive parents say as fuel to prove them wrong. Don't be discouraged; with practice and dedication, you'll get it. Find a beginner YouTube tutorial that you like and set aside twenty minutes every day to practice (at the same time is ideal, as this can help develop your muscle memory more quickly). Once you've mastered the first video, find a more complex one and move on to that. As it can be hard to gauge your own progress, try recording yourself on your phone once a week during practice and review the videos to see how much you've improved. In a few months when you've gotten it down, perform it for your parents, and keep this experiment in mind in the future whenever anyone tells you that you'll never be able to do something.

A good surface would most likely be a table, or some other sort of hard surface. The carpet might be too bouncy.

You can practice as much as needed, if you feel you need a lot more practice, then practice more. You can practice at your own pace, and how much you want to or, how much practice is needed. Remember, practice makes perfect.

It would be best to use plastic cups since reusable cups are usually fragile. Anyone who handles things heavy-handedly risks breaking the cups.

You probably are going still relatively slowly, but the more you practice, the faster you'll get and the better it'll sound. Also, make sure you have a good cup that makes the right noises.

Yes, as long as the bottle has top and bottom surfaces that you can hit to make noise.