Need to connect with your kids with their pop music through general music? Involve them in bucket drumming with a throwback from the 80s with Billy Joel's smash hit "The River of Dreams"!

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 2 or 4 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)

The background track can found here (so you can play right along!)

https://youtu.be/fo\_vn\_Ilsu8

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