All I Want for Christmas is You, Mariah Carey - CHRISTMAS BUCKET DRUMMING!

Right in time for your Christmas instrumentalists, we present to you Mariah Carey's smash hit All I Want For Christmas is You for BUCKET DRUMMING!

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 grouped 3x + 1x with a few 7x repeats). 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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmUWWVZw28E

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

1 zip file with PDF and PowerPoint