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Percussion

Bucket Bands & Flexible Percussion

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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

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

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

Book

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

Hal Leonard Corporation

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

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.

Give Me a Bucket

Have you ever wondered how to use all of the varied percussion instruments you’ve picked up through the years to help deliver a fun and rigorous music education? This book shares great strategies for integrating all your classroom percussion instruments using "hoop groups" to help in the organization. Students will have the time of their lives experiencing different timbres and playing techniques, while learning at the same time.

Woods, Metals, Shakers, Skins

Get out your bucket drums and play along with some of the greatest classical music hits of all time! Teaching suggestions, playing tips, and parts for bucket drums and optional classroom percussion are provided in this reproducible book. Full-performance and accompaniment-only tracks are included with the online media.

Bucket Classics!

Book, Online Audio & PDF with Reproducible Student Parts

Change up your rhythm teaching with this new projectable and reproducible resource. With simple plastic cups and great rhythmic songs, you can teach rhythm reading, accurate performance, physical coordination, music literacy, and teamwork. The printed song collection features singer lead sheets with musical cup patterns in standard notation as well as easy-to-read iconic cup notation for the patterns in each song. The musical cup language, such as tap table, pat cup, and pass cup, is explained with pictures and detailed descriptions. Each book comes with online access to audio recordings and demonstration videos of each cup pattern. From simple to more challenging patterns, these ten songs and activities will add a flexible way to engage music students in rhythm reading and performance.

Musical Cups

Book & Online Audio Reproducible & Projectable

Series

Get your students stuck on music with this creative compilation of ready-to-go and rollicking repertoire. In this collection you will find three different Stick-Station playing experiences, eight Rhythm Readiness Exercises, ten Folk and Patriotic Song Play-Alongs, and 16 StickWorks scores, which are arrangements designed to play along with classical and popular works of music. All scores are designed in full color and are included on the CD for projection. In addition, Artie has included high-quality audio tracks, suggestions for creating and storing your StickStations, and a plethora of teaching tips.

KidStix

Book & Enhanced CD-ROM

Here is one complete resource that allows your students to jam along on percussion tracks with authentic play-along tracks. Styles from rock, pop and alternative are explored - and everything, from helpful warm-ups, grooves, specific playing suggestions, and digital access to play-along audio recordings and separate PDFs of the percussion instrument parts are included. Grab your cowbell, shakers, tambourines and drums. Songlist includes: Another One Bites the Dust; All Right Now, Human; We're Not Gonna Take It; Shut Up and Dance and Happy.

Beat Blast

Plank Road Publishing

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.

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

Book & CD w/ Reproducible Student Parts

Rhythm sticks provide a great way for young students to have an active performance experience and learn to read rhythms. With the advent of bucket bands, the experience has become even more fun. This creative collection brings you six seasonal arrangements that can be performed with just the tracks and rhythm sticks, the tracks and a bucket band, or a combination of the two. 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. Songs include: Carol of the Drum; O Christmas Tree; Sing We Now of Christmas; What Child Is This?; Good King Wenceslas and We Wish You a Merry Christmas.

Rhythm Sticks & Bucket Bands for the Holidays

Get your students playing fun rhythms on a variety of instruments while teaching them the importance of cooperation. "D.R.U.M." is an acronym for Discipline, Respect, and Unity through Music. The book is organized in two sections, Jam Rhythms and Jam Rhythm Ensembles, and Ensembles Based on Speech, and the appendix offers many helpful teaching suggestions as well as pictures and tips on how to play 15 different percussion instruments. An outstanding book!

D.R.U.M.

This shares how the author put together a drum circle program that reached hundreds of students. This humorous quick read addresses everything from how to arrange the instruments and students, to the basics of proper drumming, how to start a groove, and how to have a drum circle without drums! The positive effect of a drum circle is that it connects people through a shared musical experience that builds community while celebrating individuality.

The Accidental Drum Circle

Kendor Music Publishing

For general music and instrumental class use, each of the six reproducible small ensemble pieces in this collection offers a fun, exciting way to foster and encourage musical creativity and self-expression. They may be performed as body percussion pieces as well as substituting sounds using percussion/rhythm instruments, "junkyard" sounds or kitchen/household instruments. Students will learn how to read and perform short, basic rhythms and apply them to pieces in rock, jazz, Latin, march, and classical styles. A brief description and history of each style is included.

Body Jams

Reproducible Book

Combining body percussion, vocal percussion and mouth sounds, this uses grooves and rhythm activities that are accessible, educational and fun. Suggested activities are provided for each groove that will extend them into a performance piece. From grammar to gamelan, poetry slams to palmas, and tone poems to tongue twisters, students will strengthen their listening and rhythm skills while exploring music and cross-curricular concepts.

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