Find something at home to use for drumsticks

Find something at home to use for drumsticks. You could use two wooden spoons, pencils, dowels or metal spoons.

Find something to use for a bucket

You could use a 5-gallon bucket, an ice cream bucket or even a cardboard box.

How to hold drumsticks

To hold drumsticks (or wooden spoons), pinch the stick between your thumb and the knuckle of your pointer finger. Loosely wrap the other three fingers around the stick.

Don’t use a fist grip. Don’t use a pointer grip.

Exercises 1 and 2

Practice exercises 1-2.

Exercise 1: Tap each stick on the top of the bucket 8 times with each hand. Repeat 4 times.

Exercise 2: Tap each stick on the top of the bucket 4 times with each hand. Repeat 4 times.

R = right hand L = left hand

Play exercise 1 -2 with the video

Exercises 3 and 4

Exercise 3: Practice alternating hands. Repeat 4 times.
Notice that you start each measure with the right hand.

Exercise 4: Practice a rhythm with 8th notes. Repeat 4 times.
Continue to start each measure with the right hand.

Try these exercises with the music or videos in the next few steps.

Play exercise 3 with the video

Exercise 3: Practice alternating hands. Repeat 4 times.

Notice that you start each measure with the right hand.

Play exercise 4 with the video

Exercise 4: Practice a rhythm with 8th notes. Repeat 4 times.

Continue to start each measure with the right hand.

Create your own patterns

Create your own pattern or patterns.

Remember to start each measure with the right hand.

Try out your pattern with the music in the next step or with the video in the following step.

Play the patterns you've created with the music

Play the patterns you've created with the music. Repeat each pattern 2-4 times.

Try your patterns with a pop song

This link takes you to the Kidz Bop Kids recording of "Gangnam Style".

Try the exercises and your patterns with this song or with a song you like.

This is a YouTube link.
If the link doesn't work google KidzBop "Gangnam Style"