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Beatin' Path Publications LLC

The 20 tried-and-true pieces in this collection are sequential works for hand drums, barrel drums, tubanos, congas, and small percussion. You will find everything from easy hand drum arrangements (using the echo process) to showstoppers with black light beaters or sock mallets circling and beating on the barrel drums. Teaching suggestions are included with each piece.

Drum It Up!

Book

Reproducible

Heritage Music Press

These easy grooves are a great way to teach bucket basics. They also work as warm-up exercises for bucket ensembles that are already established. Inside this book you'll find 30 simple grooves and two easy ensemble pieces, along with a concise tutorial. This reproducible book includes access to online audio files and printable student-size scores for each piece. Set up some pails, hand out some sticks, pass out the parts and let the fun begin!

Easy Buckets

Book & Online Audio Access

F-flat Books

Get ready to energize your classroom with this original song – it's got a catchy hook, a full Orff arrangement, and viral buzz! Ideal for elementary music teachers looking to spark joy and creativity, this upbeat anthem celebrates the sounds all around us and gets students singing, playing, and moving in no time. Whether your students are layering xylophone patterns, adding body percussion, or creating their own rhythms with classroom objects, this song opens the door to endless exploration. Available in print and digital formats, it includes a teaching guide with guiding questions, connection to National Core Arts Standards, a lyric sheet, and a music activity/game; a ukulele chord chart; a full-score Orff arrangement; and parts for voice, soprano glockenspiel, soprano xylophone, alto xylophone, soprano/alto metallophone, shakers, tambourine, bongo, clave, drum, bass xylophone, bass metallophone, and body percussion.

Music Is Everywhere

Classroom Kit

Nerdy Music Mama

Looking for a fun way to liven up an open house, back-to-school night, or parent-teacher conferences? Try an instrument "petting zoo"! It's a great way to promote your music program and have students and parents work together playing classroom instruments! This set is also perfect for music centers, substitute plans, or even for use with a short rhythm composition activity. A great value, this digital zip file includes PDFs and is reproducible for single-classroom use only. PDFs include five exhibit posters for different instrument groups (wood, metal, scrapers and shakers, drums and tambourines, and pitched instruments); two lesson plans (one for grades K-1 and one for grades 2-5); instructions for an open house, back-to-school night, or parent-teacher conferences; three student worksheets; Welcome, Coming Soon, and direction posters; and an instrument checklist for parents and students. A fun way to get students and parents involved with music-making in your classroom!

Instrument Petting Zoo Music Centers

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Hal Leonard Corporation

Since 1996, World Music Drumming has transformed lives and built community through ensemble drumming, singing, moving, and playing xylophones and recorders. The all-in-one format of this 20th Anniversary Teacher Edition adds: an enhanced curriculum sequence including 20 years of best practices; creative ideas and teaching strategies from WMD faculty and participants; 16 new audio recordings of each ensemble and song, including new arrangements that include piano/vocal, guitar/bass and xylophone/recorder parts; 47 new how-to videos by Will Schmid including special segments filmed in Ghana; 28 projectable, printable PDFs for cultural enrichment, assessment and ensemble parts; and an e-book with interactive audio, video, and PDF icons plus an attached DVD-ROM. Even if you already own the materials from the first edition, you will want this enhanced version with its new features and interactive layout.

World Music Drumming

Book & DVD-ROM with Online Access

Kendor Music Publishing

This book includes six percussion trios that are perfect for both classroom music and instrumental groups. Each piece is engaging and employs styles that are familiar to students. Performance notes explain style characteristics and playing techniques. Preparatory exercises are also included. All pages are reproducible for groups of any size.

Classroom Hand Drumming

Reproducible Book

Alfred Music Publishing

This inventive program is designed to help teachers and students discover the joy of creating music using homemade or found instruments. Fully reproducible, and including a data CD for projection, this teaches rhythm skills and percussion techniques using easy lessons that do not require a percussion background. Detailed information, photos, and resources are provided to acquaint educators with percussion vocabulary and techniques. The activities will engage students as they explore different timbres and search for the next great sound or rhythm!

The Bucket Book

Reproducible Book & CD

Copyright Year

Instruments are so important in a quality music education, but some struggle with using them effectively, especially if you don't have all the instruments you would like to have. Here's the answer! This book offers 30 opportunities to practice ensemble skills with whatever instruments you have - whether a plethora of fantastic instruments or simply body percussion. Develop your students' skills while they experience a variety of styles, key signatures, and rhythmic figures that will stay with them in their musical journey. Use with barred percussion, buckets, Boomwhackers, conventional classroom percussion instruments, found sounds, and body percussion. Downloadable recordings included.

Flex!

Editors Choice Year

A delightful sing-along, this engaging book is ideal for children ages 1–7 and is available in print, digital download, and online formats. The rhythmic lyrics combined with bright and captivating illustrations and the option for body percussion create an enchanting experience that will hold a child's attention from start to finish. Find the song on YouTube for a free body percussion play-along. The available teaching guide includes worksheets, resources for cross-curricular learning, sheet music, and more! The digital teaching guide also includes links to MP3s, PDFs, and more. Whether used at home or in the classroom, this sing-along book is an excellent resource for fostering musical skills in young children!

Watermelon, Watermelon

Storybook

Percussion brings a ton of excitement to the music classroom, but there can be obstacles like cost and storage. This book solves it all, so you and your students can enjoy the endless possibilities of percussion in the classroom! Fun games take the students through techniques, while over 30 grooves and songs teach concepts from call and response, ostinato, world "grooves", dynamics and meters, and more. Many grooves are paired with a suggested song and each come with helpful lesson ideas.

Buckets to Body Percussion

Themes & Variations

Easy Bucket Drumming is a collection of fun and upbeat arrangements for students age six and above. As students work through this resource, they will learn to read quarter- and eighth-note rhythms, adapt to different tempos, and develop hand independence. Students will also learn about musical concepts such as form, dynamics, accents, and improvisation.

Easy Bucket Drumming

Welcome to the wonderful world of non-pitched percussion! These instruments are affordable and accessible, students love them, and they are so good at introducing and reinforcing important concepts like beat competency, timbre, tempo, and dynamics. Bring the parade to your classroom and take advantage of tons of great new teaching ideas along with beautiful visual aids, helpful videos, and step-by-step instructions that make every lesson successful. Materials and recordings for lessons are available by digital download.

Percussion Parade

Get funky as you jam along on buckets and optional percussion! Everything is provided, from helpful warm-ups to authentic rhythms, grooves, and specific playing suggestions. Styles like southern rock, RB, and old-time rock and roll are explored with this inexpensive yet surprisingly musical found instrument. Full scores are provided for the teacher along with digital access to play-along audio recordings and separate PDFs of bucket drum and optional percussion instrument parts. Play-along tracks are included for even more rhythm-making fun! So grab your sticks, buckets, and friends, and have a blast! Songs include Free Ride; Rock Around the Clock; Shake It Off; Sweet Home Alabama and Uptown Funk.

Bucket Blast

Book, Online Audio & PDF

Get rockin' as you jam along to songs that you love on buckets and percussion! Everything is provided, from helpful warm-ups to authentic rhythms, grooves, and playing suggestions. Iconic rock songs like I Love Rock 'n Roll; Drive My Car and Smoke on the Water are the musical foundation for play-along fun. Full scores are provided for the teacher along with digital access to play-along audio recordings and separate PDFs of bucket drum and optional percussion instrumental parts. Authentic play-along tracks are included for rhythm-making fun. Grab your sticks, buckets, and friends, and Walk This Way to have a blast!

Bucket Blast: Rock Hits

Book, Online Audio & PDF Rock Hits

Trend Enterprises, Inc

Sharp, full-color photos and bright colors illustrate a variety of percussion instruments from castanets to harpsichords. Use alone or in coordination with Wind Instruments and String Instruments charts. The back of the chart features teacher-created reproducible activities, subject information, and helpful hints.  17" x 22" classroom size. A terrific wall accessory for your music classroom, band room or orchestra room!

Percussion Instruments Learning Chart

Posters

A follow up to StickBOOM! Vol. 1, these five original songs for Boomwhackers and rhythm sticks are relevant to students and engage them in active music making. Each song includes a color-coded full score, a color-coded Boomwhacker part, and a part for rhythm sticks. A teaching guide with lyric sheets is also included. The digital version includes the full score, instrumental parts and teaching guide in PDF format, as well as MP4 play-along videos and MP3 backing track recordings. Build community and musicianship through active music making with this engaging resource!

StickBOOM!, Vol. 2

Jeffers Handbell Supply, Inc

This color-coded songbook series for 13 instruments is perfect for groups of any size which have one or multiple sets of instruments. Each reproducible book contains five familiar songs, a leader/teacher guide, large-print chord and lyric sheets, a music score with chord symbols and lyrics for each song, and suggestions for classroom use.

Ring By Color - Vol. 1

Reproducible Book 13 Notes Kidsplay Instruments

It's a party on the playground, and you're all invited! After a long day of professional development, a group of music teachers makes their way to the playground and begins exploring all of the different sounds. After a few minutes, they find a groove they like and record their very first ditty. This resource gives music teachers ideas on how to incorporate this song into their curriculum to build community, make music, and have fun. Available in digital and print formats, this kit includes a teaching guide with lesson plans, lyrics, and activities, a lead sheet of the song, and a full score and parts of an Orff arrangement. The digital version also includes demonstration and MP3 recordings, with clickable links to recordings. A YouTube video of the song and rhythm stick routine is available no matter which format you choose. Great fun and a great value – you and your students are going to love this one!

Party on the Playground

Raise the curtain on blockbuster theme songs from "Star Wars"; "Rocky"; "Little Shop of Horrors"; "Mamma Mia" and more, plus hits from Bruno Mars, American Authors, Katy Perry, and Miley Cyrus with these age-appropriate skill-building arrangements for classroom percussion ensembles. Along the way, you'll reinforce rhythmic concepts, note reading, playing techniques, and so much more using the specific challenges and rehearsal strategies for all 12 tunes. Full teacher scores appear in the book, and access to online student parts for printing and projecting is included.

Rhythm-o-Rama!

Book & Online PDF

This resource contains a dozen arrangements utilizing buckets, pails, and drumsticks. In addition to guiding you through the process of setting up your bucket ensemble, this reproducible resource offers teaching and performance tips, some simple choreography, performance tracks, and student scores.

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