Insisting that if the young street musician doesnt apply himself more, hell never work his way up to a good busking spot in Times Square, local mother Rita Skolnick reportedly told her son Wednesday to go upstairs right now and get to practicing his buckets. When you begged me to get you those buckets, you promised youd practice an hour every day, and now they just sit there collecting dust, Skolnick shouted at her son Tyler, 15, pointing at a pair of white plastic buckets in the corner of his room. You should be setting aside a solid block of time every afternoon to sit down and practice your buckets. Thats the only way youre going to get better. Sources confirmed that half an hour later, Skolnick again yelled at her son when she went into his room and found him sitting on one of his buckets and playing video games. 