The 42nd Street Drummer

This drummer came all the way from Russia and he can still tell you that we as Americans are cheap bastards. He keeps it real.

Fastest Hands on the East Coast

Another amazing bucket drummer in NYC. Check out how fast he rips those buckets.

They Be Stealin My Bucket

Give the drummer his bucket back.. ;)

Tin Bucket Drum - The Story of the little Bucket Girl

The first girl bucket drummer I have come across.Would like to see this.


blog.iaminawe.com/2006/06/02/tin-bucket-drum-poster/

The Bucket Boys - High-Energy bucket drumming

The Bucket Boys are an extremely talented group of teens from Chicago’s South Side who have been putting their percussive skills on display throughout the city for years. Performing synchronized drumming routines on plastic buckets, these kids were everywhere – along the Magnificent Mile and, during baseball season, outside of Wrigley Field – any spot where their performance would draw heavy crowds.

In the late summer of 2002, the Bucket Boys realized an opportunity of a lifetime…

Discovered while performing for crowds along Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago they were given a chance to show off their dynamic skills at Chicago Bulls home games. Standing ovations translated into increased numbers of performances for the Bulls’ faithful. Then another opportunity of a lifetime for the teenage group presented itself – a performance at the 2004 NBA All-Star Game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles with the likes of Outcast, Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé.

What followed was ABC and Hank Williams, Jr. The Bucket Boys joined talents with the famous country star on Monday Night Football’s “Are You Ready For Some Football?!” openings.

Fast-forward to the present…..

The Bucket Boys are still everywhere. Today, however, “everywhere” has expanded to include appearances across the country for NBA and NCAA teams, regular appearances at Bulls home games and functions and a commercial spot with KFC.

Keep an ear out for the Bucket Boys. These young men are going to be making a lot of noise – in more ways than one.

http://www.gameops.com/act/act/bucket.php

Crate Drumming

Street drumming solo performance on a bucket drum or rather crate, played by one of the most unquiet drummers on this planet - Markus Deutschmann alias "Markusio Alemankale".

Early Subway Bucket Drumming

Ryan Donowho of Pagoda bucket drumming in the subways of New York.

JUNK FUNK Jam Session Pretty Sick

www.myspace.com/junkfunkbeats

Interview with Osiris Stargod and Funk Plastic

Osiris Stargod
A funky-ass name for a funky-ass drummer with one funky-ass groove. But would you believe it, he’s from Missouri, albeit St. Louis. Stargod came to New York to “develop [him]self as a percussionist and see where [he] stand[s] in the world of music and performance.”

Stargod has been a performer all his life, even in grade school. Once he got to high school he made it official by joining the marching band. Although he was cut his Freshman year for, well, being a freshman, he went on to be captain of his high school’s and college’s drumlines up through sophomore year of college. After that, Stargod took off to focus on sharing his gift in a different way - teaching.

Stargod, who is also a spoken word poet and hip-hop artist is uniquely eloquent. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, here are some words straight from the man himself.

Osiris Stargod on…
Being born - “I was born drummin’. I was beatin’ in my mother’s womb, I sent her into labor.”

Teaching - “That’s actually, my greatest gift…I’m the world’s greatest drummer because I make other drummers better than me.”

Performing - “Gigs limit by ability to give my gift and my love for music to everyone. Playing on the street gives me the arena to play for people that may not come to the club, or don’t have money for the club. Street performing is not about not being able to play in the club, it’s about giving you gift out to the world. So someone that’s walking by, that’s had a bad day…they hear some good music and it takes them away for a moment. So I like to play on the street because it gives me the ability to give my gift back to the world.”

Drums - “I don’t play drums, I am the drum. So everywhere I go I drum so I could make sounds everywhere. So, someone heard me drumming on a trashcan that said, ‘Yo, I got some bongos that I know you could make sing…and I’m not doing nothing with them, so here’ that was the universe telling me ‘ok.’”

Music - “That’s the greatest gift, breakin’ peoples’ hearts. Makin’ ‘em come out of their stone.”

Osiris Stargod has been in NY since June 13th. He came after he was found playing on the streets in California and someone presented him with a ticket, gave him $200 and said “Go to New York and play in New York, man. That’s where you need to be…New York is where they’ll let you know if you’re good or you’re not.” And, as Stargod testifies, it’s the truth.


Tide “Funk Plastic” Irving
When I took this video a few weeks ago, Funk had been in New York for 2 days. Initially from Portland, OR, he came to audition for stomp but got axed in the first round. No matter, “There’s certainly been a warm reception out here in regards to street performing.”

From a young age Funk was “indoctrinated into music. My dad’s a pastor, [and] all my siblings are musicians.” The street performing and buckets, however, “came by way of desperation.” High unemployment rate once Bush took office meant restaurants started cutting back on musicians. Funk explains, “I had just picked up some buckets because I was trying to eat…[and] to try and avoid eviction”. After 5 and half years, though, “it’s just become my mainstay and my passion…This [is] my passion…because this is a bigger stage than I’ve ever played on, it’s a universal stage, you know?...We’re sending positive messages out to this environment and that’s what’s crucial about street performers.”

Thus, “[New York] is like a Mecca for me…’cause bucket drummers originated here. In order to validate what I do as a bucket drummer…I had to come to New York for the grand initiation…But much to my surprise I’ve given the New York drummers the grand vaporization…so New York is taking notes.”

To clear up the name, Tide is “Funk Plastic” but when him and Stargod started jamming together they just seemed to merge and they had the instinctive knowledge that they were a group and were both “Funk Plastic.”

http://concretebeat.blogspot.com/2007/08/bucket-drums-and-bongos-funk-plastic.html

How to Bucket Drum

Bucket drumming is where you drum on 5 gallon plastic buckets. It is a form of busking that is only profitable when around lots of people, for example subways, or markets in big cities. Larry wright is a credited street drummer who uses 5 gallon plastic buckets, who busks in New York city subways.

Steps

1. Find some 5 gallon plastic buckets. You can find them at a local hardware store, fairly inexpensive. For starters you'll only need 2. One to sit on and one to play.
2. Practice your drumming. Practice different styles of music, for example Latin, hip hop, rock, jazz, to develop different rhythms and grooves, so your drumming doesn't all sound the same.
3. Once you have gotten used to the buckets, take them out in public, find a busy place, set up your buckets and start groovin.

Tips

* Don't forget to set up a bucket so people can put money in, because if they like what you're doing they'll throw some money in.
* You can get 3 basic sounds on a bucket. The rim, the surface, and if you lift up the bucket with your foot, and hit it in the center while lifted, it makes a lower, more bass-drummy sound.
* Once you're attuned to your bucket, incorporate more buckets, or even other sounds if you want.

Warnings

* This can be very physically enduring. It's not like a regular drum kit, where you get bounce from the heads. When you play on the rims, there is no bounce, so be prepared to sweat, and feel the burn.

Things You'll Need

* Buckets
* Thick Sticks
* Endurance

http://www.wikihow.com/Bucket-Drum


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Children and Bucket Drums

At 5 years old, Art Reiner discovered the art of percussion — underneath his grandmother’s kitchen sink.

Grabbing her wooden spoons, he tinkered with the pots and pans. “One-and-uh-two-and-uh-three,” he’d play, clanging on the cooking utensils.

“It drove my mother crazy. I think my grandmother pretty much let me do whatever I wanted,” Reiner said.

Fifty-one years later, he’s still playing on pots and pans. Only now he’s making a living at it, and teaching young children to do the same.

Standing in front of a small class of 6- to 10-year-olds, Reiner instructed them to turn over their red, yellow and blue buckets.

“Kids can get the idea without playing on an expensive instrument,” he said.

“We’re going to blend together to make some music,” he told them. Raising a hand, he counted off as his future musicians went to work on their buckets.

Reiner only had a few days to take 20 elementary age children and turn them into a percussion team that would be ready to perform with the Kokomo Park Band at Highland Park for tonight’s concert.

He was charged with that task as leader of the Kokomo Park Band’s Youth Percussion Workshop held earlier this week at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library.

Reiner didn’t hesitate when asked about the key to building a cohesive percussion team in such short time.

“Focus,” he laughed.

Some students caught on easier than others.

“When I was 3 and church ended, I used to go up there and play the drum set,” said Xavier McCarter, 7.

That’s when Xavier’s mother, Keisha McCarter, learned her son had a gift.

“I just like the drums because it makes cool noises,” Xavier said.

Under Reiner’s guidance this week, Xavier has learned more about rhythms and sound variations.

Aside from the musical skills, Reiner wants his students to leave with life lessons.

“It’s good for their self-esteem,” Reiner said. “Anytime a child finds something to do and realizes they’re good at it, it helps them.”

“[Music] helped me to find an identity.”

Children also learn to concentrate better, follow directions and explore their creativity, he added.

Those participating in the percussion workshop will have a chance to display their skills tonight in Highland Park, performing at 7:30 p.m. before the regularly scheduled 8 p.m. Kokomo Park Band concert.

“I expect them to be able to perform with the Kokomo Park Band,” Reiner said of his students.

Afterwards, he hopes they will continue with their musical endeavors — in middle school, high school, professionally or in their own kitchens.

“That’s why I have pots and pans. They’re fun to play on.”

http://www.kokomotribune.com/multimedia/local_story_178000912.html