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What is this Feeling (from the "Wicked" movie) - BUCKET DRUMMING!

Bucket drumming chart for What Is This Feeling? from the Wicked movie, with rhythm patterns and repeat counts cued to lyric phrases such as Loathing and Dear Galinda.
Grades
Grades 4–5, Elementary
Pages
5
File type
Microsoft PowerPoint
Editable
Yes

Updated Oct 26, 2026

Subject
Music, Creative Arts
Topic
bucket drumming, wicked
Resource types
Activities
Editable
Yes

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What's inside this resource

Do you need to connect with your kids with the blockbuster holiday hit?

Involve them in bucket drumming with a full arrangement of the tune that got everyone dancing, singing, and cookin' right along with "What is this Feeling" from WICKED!

There are five 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 repeated 4 or 6 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)

You can play along with the track on YouTube (just search for the movie version of "What is this Feeling?"(

Have fun with this and let us know how it goes!
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In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Perform rhythm patterns on buckets with the correct number of repeats
  • Follow a song's form by matching rhythms to lyric cues

Teaching tips

  • The lyric snippets on each slide mark where a pattern starts, which helps students keep their place when playing along with the song.

Skills covered

  • Rote rhythm learning — echoing and then playing each pattern on buckets
  • Ensemble playing — changing patterns together at each lyric cue

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Rhythm
  • Musical form
  • Repeats
  • Bucket drumming

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