Africa, Toto - BUCKET DRUMMING!
- Grades
- Grades 5–12
- Pages
- 5
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Creative Arts, Music
- Topic
- Bucket drumming, Africa by Toto
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
Need to connect with your kids with their pop music through general music? Involve them in bucket drumming with Toto's hit from the 1980s, "Africa"!
There are five color-coded PDF pages along with the form identifiers listed next to each phrase. Discuss form with the students and teach them (by rote) the rhythms in the PDF score with the corresponding repeats (most are repeated 2 or 4 times). 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)
Here's the track so you can play along...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWfY9GRe7SI
Have fun with this and let us know how it goes!
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Maintain a notated percussion pulse across repeated figures
Track section changes through a multi-page song arrangement
Coordinate the final rhythmic cue with the written ending
Teaching tips
Rehearse each repeated rhythmic cell separately before connecting the full five-page form.
Mark the point where a section changes so performers enter the next pattern together.
Practise the final cue independently, then attach it to the preceding repeated figure.
Skills covered
Rhythm reading — performers follow note groupings and rests in a bucket part.
Form tracking — repeated sections and page transitions organize the arrangement.
Ensemble coordination — shared change and ending cues require aligned entries.
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What is included in the download?
A five-page PDF bucket-drumming score for “Africa” by Toto.
How can I rehearse the arrangement with a class?
Teach each repeated pattern separately, practice the transitions and ending, then connect the sections for a full run-through.
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Bucket drumming
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