Games & Grooves for Bucket Band, Rhythm Sticks, and Lots of Joyous Instruments

Always a classroom favorite, bucket drums and other percussion instruments are ideal ways to teach rhythmic concepts. This valuable resource is a great way to feel the joy of group performance without breaking your budget. Designed for beginners and intermediate students, these short pieces can be flexibly adapted using the materials included. Unlike some bucket band music, this collection is written with just one bucket part, intended to be performed on a small to medium-size bucket. Every selection features rhythm sticks, though the tracks are designed to work with buckets alone or any combination of the parts provided. Options change from tune to tune and may include Boomwhackers, ukulele, cowbell, shaker, guiro, and more. There are two basic types of tunes: games and game-like tunes, and grooves. The games each stand on their own, and the grooves are short, repetitive, and fun to play, with many repeats. Titles include Grizzly Bear Groove; Buckets Are Forever (A Secret Agent Groove); Grape Jelly Groove; Divide Echo; Build-a-Beat; Rhythm Roundabout and more! The book and CD option includes the teacher's handbook, reproducible student parts, and performance/accompaniment recordings. The PDF and MP3 bundle includes the same materials digitally.