4th Grade Music Composition Independent Work Packet

Getting your Bucket Drumming kids ready to go reading triplets can be easy with "Bucket Drumming in 3s with multiple levels of rhythms ready to challenge kids to work with alternating hands

In this resource you will receive 30 resources which scaffold up

1) Quarters, Triplets

2) Adding in Stick Clicks or Rim Clicks (The "X" notation)

3) Adding in Quarter Rests

4) Adding in consecutive triplets

5) Quarter note triplets

Looking for a background track to practice triplets? Think of none other than Semper Fidelis by JP Sousa!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeD9Nk8-tY0

You can either

1. Warmup as a class together

2. Ask students to play it individually as a pass off

3. Print out a few for your kids and have them play one at random and make a cacophony of triplet drumming!