Rhythm goes to school

Bucket Drumming: rhythm goes to school is a practical book designed primarily with music educators in mind. In recent years, bucket-drumming has gained a prominent position in the field of music education worldwide, and not without reason. All you need is an ordinary bucket and a pair of sticks to help students, aged 6 and older, develop a sense of rhythm and bloom into young percussionists, while also having a lot of fun! Included are clearly defined activities, technique exercises, rhythmic patterns and grooves of varying difficulty from a variety of genres (pop, rock, blues, world music) as well as suggested play-along lists of popular songs. Flexible teaching plans and practical time-tested tips make this bucket-drumming "curriculum" enjoyable and accessible for all age groups and teaching environments.

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Audio material by Dimitris Varelas:

Contents

Part 1: Theory
Introduction
What exactly is bucket drumming?
+1 reasons teachers should incorporate bucket drumming into their program
Who is it for?
Utilizing bucket drumming in various learning environments
How to organize a bucket drumming class
Basic equipment
Class arrangement
Introduction to notation
How sound is produced
Symbols explained

Part 2: Practice including activities
and exercises
How this part is organized
Step 1 Familiarization with rhythmic notation
Step 2 Familiarization with playing sticks
Step 3 Playing our first rhythms
Lesson Plans
The basic grooves
Rock grooves
Reggae grooves
Rap and hip-hop grooves
Latin grooves
Two popular rhythms
Blues grooves
Two Greek rhythms
6/8 rhythm
Improvisation
Movement motifs
Polyrhythms
Combining grooves - basic arrangements
Pop and rock favourites arranged for bucket
drumming
I feel good
Happy
Seven nation army
Yellow submarine
We will rock you
Come together
I can’t stop the feeling
Radioactive
Set fire to the rain
Audio material - Contents

Part 3: Student materials
Morning exercise
Exploration
Discovering new sounds
My sticks make sounds too!
My first rhythms
My first belt!
Let’s arrange!
New sounds, new scores!
The yellow submarine
Two buckets are better than one!
Rests are important too!
My second belt!
A new rhythm: 6/8
Syncopations!
Dynamics
Two groups again!
Two Greek rhythms
My third belt!
Rock forever!
Patterns
I feel good!
My fourth belt
Reggae groove!
Blues
Super groove! A popular rhythm
Brit pop
My fifth belt!
Beatles: I’ve got the rock n roll bug!
My own hip-hop song
Latin party!
My sixth belt
Bibliography