Need to connect with your kids with their pop music through general music? Involve them in bucket drumming with Imagine Dragons' new smash hit "No Time for Toxic People"

There are two 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)

This is a great tune (and modern as well!) to talk about Social Emotional Learning (SEL) as the lyrics lend well to behaviors, attitudes, and tendencies the students may have in our current climate.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfTjt2Dz3Cc

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

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