Rhythms are Fractions!  

Here is one whole measure:

Reading Rhythms on the Buckets

• The only way to read music is to look at the board - not at your bucket, not at me, not at the people around you.  If your eyes are not on the board, you are not reading the music.

• Work as a team to get through the rhythms

• Use Ta, Ti, and Ti-ka to sound out the notes

• Follow instructions for which line to play - line numbers are listed on the left

• The first thing you see is the Drum Notation - This tells you which part of the drum to use for each note

Now let's add Dynamics