Need to connect with your kids with their pop music through general music? Involve them in RHYTHM BASKETBALL with Imagine Dragons' hit from 2021, "Follow You"!

There are three 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 3 or 4 times). Then, apply it to drums!

• For this, your students will each have a basketball (can be regulation size or smaller) and bounce their ball on the ground each time they see a basketball icon. Each basketball icon is denoted as a quarter note. The rests are in between each ball for the students to hold the ball. Any smaller balls (grouped in two) will be played as 2 eighth note pairs and students will have to lower themselves a foot or two to dribble eighth notes on the floor

Here's the track so you can play along...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SbHyDLB0CI

Have fun with this and let us know how it goes!

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