More on the hit list with your bucket drumming kids, we present to you the Zedd/Maren Morris hit song from 2018, "The Middle"!

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). There are a few rhythms that are a little tricky, but if taught by, it's totally doable.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQzS3JnZQZM