True, it can be loud when you’ve got 30 students with sticks in their hands.

We have provided some suggestions for dampening and making the buckets quieter in our bucket guide bonus. This guide is provided free with this program.

The key to not having a headache at the end of a bucket drumming session is effective classroom management. Review the bucket drumming classroom management system article included in this program.

If you follow all the suggestions in that document, the bucket drumming shouldn’t be too loud. The buckets are not too loud if the only time they are played is when the students are playing all together.