by Matthew Dane Peavoy
Buckets are cheap and easy to store! Can you imagine trying to store a set of 30 congas in your music room? You probably already have a few buckets lying around and could easily get a class set from donations alone. Drum sticks are also inexpensive, but a set of wooden dowels from a dollar store will work just as well!
You can produce four unique sounds on a bucket drum by hitting the sides, top, rim, or clicking the sticks. By using larger or smaller buckets, you can create even more variety in sounds and form a bucket drumming ensemble. We have developed an easy-to-read notation that allows students to switch between these sounds and prepares them for reading other percussion notation.
18 upbeat arrangements in a variety of styles with a guide to drumming, tips for sound variety, mp3 tracks, projectable PDFs, movies and more. Kids experience rhythm reading, tempo changes, dynamics, articulations and improv with buckets and other found drums.
Ages 6-14.
Paperback & Enhanced CD
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hand Independence
Playing Position
Music Room Rules Lesson
The First Bucket Drumming Lesson
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
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
17. We Love Dancing
One Page Arrangement
18. Feelin' Great!
