1. Place ice cubes in the shaker first. This will chill the shaker and cool the liquids as you add them.

2. Use 5-6 ice cubes for one drink.

3. When making two drinks at once use less ice to make room in the shaker.

4. Don't overfill the shaker. Give the ingredients plenty of room to move around.

5. Shake most drinks vigorously to a slow count of ten.

6. Shake drinks longer and harder that have many ingredients or ingredients that don't mix well such as eggs or cream.

7. Shake to a rhythm. Hum a tune and shake to the beat.

8. Shake frozen or blended drinks like daiquiris and coladas with crushed ice.

9. Don't add fruit to the shaker. Instead add it to the glass after straining.