Easy Bucket Drumming

This resource is a collection of upbeat, fun arrangements in a variety of styles using bucket drums. Activities contain teacher tips, suggestions for classroom management, and opportunities to improvise. Students will learn to read quarter and eighth note rhythms, adapt to different tempos, develop hand independence, and learn other musical concepts as they perform.

The book includes access to online resources with MP3 audio, projectable bucket drumming notation with embedded audio, one-page arrangements and links to play along with pop songs, and notation movies with automatic page turns and easy guide arrows.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Playing Position
• Music Room Rules
• Lesson Music Room Rules
• The First Bucket Drumming Class
• 1. Side Step
• 2. Top Hats
• 3. Off the Rim
• 4. Stick to It! Musical Form and Phrasing
• 5. Dance of the Reed Pipes
• 6. Liberty Bell March Accents
• 7. Copper and Tin
• 8. Bat Rap
• 9. Cannonball Run Hand Independence
• 10. Surfin' Rock
• 11. Surf's Up Dude Syncopation
• 12. Night Chase
• 13. Tick Tock Blues
• 14. Ready for Travel
• 15. L.A. Geared Easy Pop Song Arrangements
• 16. Freedom Flag (One-page Arrangement)
• 17. We Love Dancing (One-page Arrangement)
• 18. Feelin' Great! (One-page Arrangement)
• Digital Resources