More on the hit list with your bucket drumming kids, we present Taylor Swift's hit song from 2012, "I Knew You Were Trouble"!

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 1-8 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 quarter note triplets and a repeated syncopation throughout the piece so the students aren't constantly playing the same rhythms -- lots of variety!

Here's the track so you can play along...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUn1tzyTYeo