In a stark departure from our popular music series, here's a bucket drumming arranging of the Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov covered by VADrum! A terrific segue into your composer unit, involve your kids in this famous piece with some drumming!

There are five all-color coded slides along with the form identifiers listed next to each phrase. Discuss form with the students and teach them (by rote) the rhythms on the powerpoint with the corresponding repeats (most are repeated 1 or 2 times)

All regular notation is to be played on the buckets (or drums, or ground, however you wish), and the X notation (with a down stem) are played as stick clicks above their head (or you could apply it to a tambourine or other auxiliary instrument)

The orchestral mp3 track with background drums can be found here:

https://youtu.be/9L63did-xJc