8th Grade Vocal Music Resources

Rhythm Basketball JAMPack (9 Custom Arrangements, 20% off!)

By Jason Litt

Get your basketballs out for Rhythm Basketball and have some musical fun for the remainder of the year to keep your kids engaged (while displaying some true athleticism)

In this Rhythm Basketball JAMPack! you will receive 9 custom arrangements that are 20% off when bought all together with basketball notation for your kids to read along to

Your students will each have a basketball (can be regulation size or smaller) and bounce their ball on the ground each time they see a basketball icon. Each basketball icon is denoted as a quarter note. The rests are in between each ball for the students to hold the ball. Any smaller balls (grouped in two) will be played as 2 eighth note pairs and students will have to lower themselves a foot or two to dribble eighth notes on the floor. If you don't have basketballs, you can use a tennis ball, a kick ball, a dodgeball -- essentially anything that gives you a bounce and an accent as you hit it on the floor!

Included in this pack are:

  • ABC, Jackson Five
  • Believer, Imagine Dragons
  • Can't Stop the Feeling, Justin Timberlake
  • Fight Song, Rachel Platten
  • High Hopes, Panic! at the Disco
  • Imperial March, Star Wars
  • Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson
  • Thunder, Imagine Dragons
  • Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars

All songs can be found on YouTube, Amazon Music, Pandora, or other streaming services

$24.03
$19.43

BTS Percussion Pack! (Body Percussion, Rhythm Basketball, Bucket Drumming)

By Jason Litt

In this BTS Percussion Pack, it's all BTS all the time with 3 different types of lessons for your primary and intermediate musicians!

  • Dynamite, Body Percussion
  • Permission to Dance, Bucket Drumming Arrangement
  • Dynamite, Bucket Drumming Arrangement
  • Butter, Bucket Drumming Arrangement
  • Dynamite, Rhythm Basketball

When purchased here all together, save an extra 10% off of each!

$15.86

Buckets of Buckets! MegaPack of Bucket Drum Warmups/Games (20% OFF!)

By Jason Litt

Looking to start (or end your year) with a few fun Bucket Drumming resources... and at 20% off when purchased as a MegaPack right here? Say no more and try out BUCKETS of BUCKETS!

Included in this are 4 great resources for your bucket drumming kids:

  • Super Bucket Drumming Bros.
  • Stick it to the Buckets! (Sticking Patterns for Bucket Drums)
  • Bucket it, DYNAMICALLY! (60 Dynamic Exercises for Bucket Drums!)
  • Poison Bucket Patterns! (Poison Patterns/Poison Rhythms)

Check out the resources by clicking above and decide if this is right for your students who can benefit from the lessons. Each resource includes a powerpoint file and PDF file and satisfies assessment requirements for your students in game, practice, and sequential formats

$12.15

Body Percussion VARIETYPack! - 7 resources @ 15% off!

By Jason Litt

Looking to get back into the swing of things or begin with simple percussion techniques? Try out some of our BODY Percussion in the VARIETYPack, 7 full resources full of warmups, techniques, and songs as well!

Included are

  • Body Jam 16 - Sight Reading Body Percussion with multi layered sections great for splitting A, B, C, and D groups
  • Body Percussion Warmups - multiple slides of warmups to get your kids started off right
  • ABC, The Jackson Five (Body Percussion Arrangement)
  • Believer, Imagine Dragons (Body Percussion Arrangement)
  • Dynamite, BTS (Body Percussion Arrangement)
  • Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars (Body Percussion Arrangement)
  • Thunder, Imagine Dragons (Body Percussion Arrangement)
$16.75

Musical JEOPARDY! MEGAPack - 4 musical games!

By Jason Litt

In this MEGAPACK of Jeopardy, you will get everything you need run a Jeopardy! style game of review with 5 different games with 4 categories each game!

Instrument Jeopardy

Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Strings

Percussion Jeopardy

Pitched Percussion

Unpitched Percussion

Percussion FX

Percussion Techniques (How to Play)

Solfege Jeopardy

Give me a Hand - A description of the hand sign and students will have to guess which syllable
Take a Look - Students will see the sign and have to guess which syllable
Scale it - The following and preceding notes in the solfege scale

Extended Solfege - Lowered and raised versions of common solfege

Notation Jeopardy

Level 1 - Easy
Level 2 - Medium

Level 3 - Medium Difficult
Level 4 - Difficult

Notation Jeopardy 2.0

Spell it out! (Spelling words with treble clef notation)

Add it up! (Adding notation values up to arrive at an answer)

Give it a rest! (Questions about rests, rest names, and durations)

Duration nation (Identify duration of notes)

Students can elect to pick $200, $400, $600, $800, or $1000 answers. After clicking on the amount, the answer will appear on the next slide. Students (keeping in true Jeopardy! fashion) can answer in the form of a question

After the money is awarded (You can split sides of your class, boys vs girls, class vs class, however you want it!), there is a link in the bottom right hand corner to go back to the title screen and game board.

After extracting the ZIP file, make sure to install the Jeopardy! font included, or else you'll see random characters all over -- not good eats!

$15.80
$13.80

2022 Bucket Drumming UltraMix! (8 arrangements @ 20% off!)

By Jason Litt

Looking for a load of 2022 repertoire (that's clean!) for your bucket drums? Look no further to keep all of your kids drumming throughout the year!

In this megapack, you will receive 8 custom arrangements of the most recent popular music from the leading artists at a 20% discount when bought all together here...

All music can be found on YouTube (or Amazon music, Apple Music, Pandora, etc) as the accompaniment tracks and played in the background.

You can preview the music in the store by browsing through the bucket drumming arrangements (most are designed for upper elementary, middle, and can easily be played by high schoolers)

Have a great time with this!

For notation:

  • All regular notation is to be played on the buckets (or drums, or ground, however you wish),

  • The X notation that is stacked with quarter notes are played as shots (think like a marching band snare drum -- playing the drum and stick simultaneously as a rimshot or on top of each other -- whatever will you get you the best accent!)

  • 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)

$22.80
$17.35
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BOY BAND BUCKLE BUNDLE! - 6 arrangements @ 15% off!

By Jason Litt

With the boy band crazy you grew up with, we now feature the BOY BAND BUCKET BUNDLE, a collection of six bucket drumming arrangements to popular Boy Bands from the 80s and 90s your kids will ask to play over and over again!

Youtube links and mp3s can be found on the individual pages -- your kids will LOVE this, and at 15% off here when it's all purchased together, it's a win-win!

(and how cool could you stage it for a BOY BAND concert?) :D

$21.44
$18.03
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Rhythm Stick 6pack - Rhythm Read-a-Longs (20% off!)

By Jason Litt

Got Rhythm Sticks and that's all you got? Keep your kids busy from 2nd to 5th grade (and even older!) with Rhythm Sticks 6pack, an assortment of Rhythm Stick Read-a-longs!

In these resources, you will see the entire arrangements structured across multiple slides in coded colors with the corresponding repeats. There will be eight boxes that hold each beat along with one of three action icons.

  • Sticks - Click your sticks together
  • Quarter Note - Hit your sticks on the ground (or chair or desk or lightly on your lap)
  • Eighth Notes (if applicable) - Hit your sticks on the ground (or chair or desk or lightly on your lap)
  • Quarter Rest - Rest

Teach the entire thing line by line through a rote method and play through at the end!

$19.65
$15.73
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