Bucket Drumming Lesson 1

Concepts: beat & rhythm, quarter, eighth note rhythms,

Teaching Objectives: • find “sticks” and “buckets” in your house so you can try bucket

drumming• learn how to hold your sticks• learn how to alternate hands, and learn right hand lead• play 4 bar rhythms with musicI Can Statements:• I can hold sticks using good hand position• I can play patterns alternating hands, using right hand lead• I can play buckets with music• I can create my own patterns to play on buckets

Find something at home to use for drumsticks. You could use two wooden spoons, chopsticks, dowels, or metal spoons

Activity #1: Find something at home to use for drumsticks

Teaching Procedure

Save paper and ink! Just read the PDF and don’t print it. All the instructions are given in the module on

www.musicplayonine.com.

You could use a 5 gallon bucket, ice cream bucket or even a cardboard box.

Activity #2: Find something to use for a bucket

To hold drumsticks, (or wooden spoons) pinch the stick between your thumb and the knuckle of your pointer finger. Loosely wrap the other three fingers around the stick.

Don’t use a fist grip. Don’t use a pointer grip.

Activity #3: How to hold drumsticks

Exercise 1: Tap each stick on the top of the

bucket 8 times with each hand.

Repeat 4x

Exercise 2: Tap each stick on the top of the

bucket 4 times with each hand.

Repeat 4x

R= right hand L=left handTry these exercises with the music in the next

step.Repeat the exercises until

the music stops.

Activity #4: Exercise 1 and 2

Activity #5: Play Exercise 1 and 2 with music

Exercise 3: Practice alternating hands. Repeat 4x

Notice that you start each measure with the right hand.

Exercise 4: Practice a rhythm with 8th notes. Repeat 4x

Continue to start each measure with the right hand.

Try these exercises with the music in the next step. Repeat each exercise 4x.Repeat each exercise as needed until the music ends.

Activity #6: Exercise 3 and 4

Play Exercise 3 and 4 with music.

Repeat each exercise 4x.

Repeat each exercise as needed until the music ends.

Activity #7: Play Exercise 3 and 4 with music

Play your buckets along with the rhythm patterns

Activity #8: Play your buckets along with the rhythm patterns

Create your own pattern or patterns.

Remember to start each measure with the right hand.

Try out your pattern with the music in the next step.

Activity #9: Create your own pattern

Play the patterns you’ve created with

the music

Repeat each pattern 4x.

If you can remember exercises 1-2-3-4

play them with the music too!

Activity #10: Play the patterns you’ve created with the music

• Assessment may not be required for your school or district• Your teacher may ask you to email the bucket patterns that you created.

Assessment Suggestions:

Teacher’s Notes:

Try the exercises and your patterns

with this song or with a song you like.

Try the link on the module page.

Activity #11: Try the exercises and your patterns with a song you know