Bucket Drumming 201, Ongoing: Learn to Play More Rhythms

Completed by 10 learners

Ages 8-11

Live Group Class

This ongoing course will have your learner playing slightly harder rhythms to music videos using patterns and notation.

Debbie VanAtter

Average rating:

5.0

Number of reviews:

(116 reviews)

Live video meetings

1x per week

4-6 learners per class

25 min

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What's included

1 live meeting

25 mins in-class hours per week

Homework

2-4 hours per week. Daily practice is highly recommended. Learning a new musical skill takes time and correct practice. It is recommended that learners look at the rhythms and play them until they play the rhythms correctly. Then, rhythm players should play the rhythms correctly until they cannot play them incorrectly. It is impossible to know how much time each learner will need to accomplish this, but it's helpful to at least give 30 minutes of practice daily on all rhythms covered in class, especially focusing on more difficult rhythms. For best results, students should repeat exactly what was covered in class on non-class days.

Assessment

Learner progress will be continually assessed in class and immediate, positive, constructive feedback will be given. Learners should be ready and willing to demonstrate rhythms by themselves in class after they learn them and show their hands and instruments in class. In music, improvement is always the goal, and feedback can help us to learn better techniques for playing and correct rhythms.

Class Experience

Bucket drumming is so much fun to learn to do!  If you know how to read music and can play easy rhythm patterns on a bucket, this class is for you.  You will just need a large bucket and some drumsticks that are the same size and thickness.  This class is fast-paced, small-group-sized, and fun.  You will learn how to play slightly more difficult rhythm patterns in different places on your bucket.  We will practice rhythms before playing them along with a video.  In this class, we will learn by playing and by repetition.  This class does not teach beginning rhythm notation reading.  Please refer to the beginner class, Bucket Drumming 101, Ongoing:  Learn to Play Rhythms, to begin to learn to read rhythm notation.  This class is fast and learners gain knowledge through experience rather than by direct instruction.  Here is a sample of the class material for the first four weeks.  Videos will vary, but the class structure and student experience will be very much the same each week to provide practice, reinforcement, and repetition until mastery is achieved.  Additionally, students will learn a drum rudiment called the single stroke roll and practice it in variations occasionally throughout each season, as well as the flam.  We will begin and end our class together with a little talking to build our friendships.

Week 1 (August 28):  Play rhythms with quarter notes (ta), half notes (ta-ah), pairs of eighth notes (ti-ti), groups of sixteenth notes (tika tika), and quarter rests (shh).  We will practice whatever students show the most need for doing before we play along with a video or two.  Students can play rhythms as a solo to show understanding when ready to do so.  Students usually can choose between videos provided for them.  Student choice is a big factor in our class experience.
Week 2 (September 4):  Play rhythms with quarter notes (ta), half notes (ta-ah), pairs of eighth notes (ti-ti), groups of sixteenth notes (tika tika), and quarter rests (shh).  We will practice whatever students show the most need for doing before we play along with a video or two.  Students can play rhythms as a solo to show understanding when ready to do so.  Students usually can choose between videos provided for them.  Student choice is a big factor in our class experience.  Practice the single stroke roll.
Week 3 (September 11):  Play rhythms with quarter notes (ta), half notes (ta-ah), pairs of eighth notes (ti-ti), groups of sixteenth notes (tika tika), and quarter rests (shh).  We will practice whatever students show the most need for doing before we play along with a video or two.  Students can play rhythms as a solo to show understanding when ready to do so.  Students usually can choose between videos provided for them.  Student choice is a big factor in our class experience.
Week 4 (September 18):  Play rhythms with quarter notes (ta), half notes (ta-ah), pairs of eighth notes (ti-ti), groups of sixteenth notes (tika tika), and quarter rests (shh).  We will practice whatever students show the most need for doing before we play along with a video or two.  Students can play rhythms as a solo to show understanding when ready to do so.  Students usually can choose between videos provided for them.  Student choice is a big factor in our class experience.  Practice the flam.

I hope to see you in class soon!  Teacher Debbie :)

Learning Goals

Students will improve their existing abilities for reading music and play slightly more difficult rhythms in various places on their buckets.  Since this is not an entry-level or beginner class, we will maintain a fast pace to practice new rhythms as many times in the class period as is possible before playing the new rhythms with a play-along video.  As time permits, we will review older play-along videos at the end of class.

Other Details

Parental Guidance

There is no sensitive or mature content in this class.

Supply List

A large bucket to hit and drumsticks to play with are required.  Learners will also need to access the Outschool classroom to open the class slides including play-along videos for daily practice.  Learners will need to show their hands, sticks, and the bucket in class.

External Resources

Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.

Sources

The learner will learn how to access the class slides in class. They will need to access the Outschool classroom and pull up the slides to practice each day. The play-along videos they need for practice will be embedded in the class slides. Everything they need is provided in the class slides. Learners also have the option to watch their previous classes and play along with the class. Printing is not an option provided, but parents who can devise a way to print slides are welcome to do so. Freepik, various free websites for the musical notation images, teacher expertise/knowledge, and at least one bucket drumming video from YouTube per class are used as sources. Class slides cite all of the sources on that slide. We will use play-along videos from Elementary Groove Tracks, Sammy Foster, C Tatro, VanAtter Studios, and possibly other bucket drumming teachers.

Meet the teacher

Debbie VanAtter

Joined April, 2020

5.0

116reviews

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Teacher expertise and credentials

2 Degrees

Master's Degree in Education from University of the Cumberlands

Bachelor's Degree in Music or Theatre or Arts from Vanguard University

I am a certified music teacher.  I am certified to teach all grades.  I have years of experience teaching music and literacy for all grades, P-12.  I have taught bucket drumming since 2017, and have taught it online since early 2020 on Outschool.  It's awesome to teach drumming!