Grenade (Bruno Mars) - Advanced Bucket Drumming!
More on the hit list with your bucket drumming kids, we present Bruno Mars' hit song from 2010, "Grenade"!
There are four 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 2-6 times). Then, apply it to drums!
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)
This one is quite advanced and may take a few lessons to get solidified. There are multiple sixteenth note phrases throughout the piece so the students aren't constantly playing the same rhythms -- lots of variety! It'll take a few lessons to line everyone up for the younger ones, but a chance to practice some good steady rhythms!
Here's the track so you can play along...