Bucket Drumming Lesson 1

Concepts: beat, beat & rhythm, composition, create b section, create rhythm patterns, improvise rhythms,

Teaching Objectives: • Make a home made instrument• Compose a “B section” for your instrument

Play your instrument along with the videosI Can Statements:• I can write my own composition• I can play a homemade instrument along with a video

Use the video to warm up your singing voice

Activity #1: Warm up your voices by echoing the Solfa pitches with the video

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.

Learn the melody to “Play That Rhythm”

Activity #2: Learn the melody to “Play That Rhythm”

Look for things in your house that you can use for instruments.If you found a bucket and sticks in last week’s lesson you could use those as your instrument for today.

Activity #3: Make Your Own Instrument!

Sing the song “Play That Rhythm.

When you get to the B, C, and D section

improvise 16 beats on one of the instru-

ments that you have found.

Activity #4: Sing the song “Play That Rhythm”

Activity #5: Compose!

Play the video of this song again and this time play your composition as the B, C, and D sections.

Activity #6: Play Your Composition!

Listen to “Waddally Acha”Play the video again and sing the song.

Activity #7: Play The Song “Waddally Acha”

Write a 16 beat composition that you can play on your instruments as the B section of this song.

You can download and print the PDF composition tem-plate that is given or save paper and write your composi-tion on a piece of paper

Watch the Kids Demo movie for the song Waddally Acha.Find a Boomwhacker or a stick or a wooden spoon and try the movement that the kids are doing in the song.If you have three or four people in your house you can try the movement with your family.that you like.

Activity #8: Watch the Kids Demo

Repetition is one of the ways that we learn something well.

Children improve singing on pitch, learn the lyr-ics and melody better with each repetition.

Children will develop their musicality if you sing, move, play more often!

Keep a list of the songs and activities that you like.

Activity #9: Review last weeks module, or any of the songs you like!

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

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Teacher’s Notes:

Teacher’s Notes:

• Assessment may not be required for your school or district.

• Your teacher may ask you to email one of the suggested assess-

ments

Assessment Suggestions: