Right in time for your Christmas instrumentalists, we present to you Gayla Peevey's smash hit re-imagined for a Trap Music Remix, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" for Bucket Drumming! There are four 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 grouped 3x + 1x). 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) Even though it's a chorus/verse rotation over and over again (as you music teachers know the chart by heart), the arrangement has a bit of variations in rhythm ;)

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

https://youtu.be/QRkrRVc0lYg

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