You have never played music before or you cannot read sheet music, but you want to play famous and inspiring hymns and spirituals. Don't worry! You will begin to play right away. I made my pictured sheet music as simple as possible. You'll play by number-coded circles. No musical staff or notes. The easy-to-play songs and melodies were adapted especially for beginners. The melodies have been transposed to one octave and simplified. Also, the number-coded notations have been added and complex notes and symbols have been reduced. Such simplification makes it possible for people to play melodies, especially those who can't read music or who have never played music before. For tongue drums that have numbered musical notation, numbers 1 to 7 represent the keys of the diatonic major scale. All songs in this book have been written with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys. There are the following hymns and spirituals in this book: Amazing Grace Babylon's Falling Be Still My Soul Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly Elijah Rock Every Time I Feel the Spirit God Is So Good Great Big Stars Great Day He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Holy, Holy, Holy I've Got Peace Like a River Jesus Loves Me Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Just As I Am Kumbaya, My Lord Michael Row the Boat Ashore O Sanctissima! Praise Him, All You Little Children Shall We Gather at the River Silent Night, Holy Night Sinner Man Soldier of the Cross Song of Praise The First Noel Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Are Marching (Siyahamba) We Wish You a Merry Christmas When the Saints Go Marching In Who Built the Ark?

You have never played music before or you cannot read sheet music, but you want to play famous and inspiring hymns and spirituals. Don’t worry! You will begin to play right away. We made our pictured sheet music as simple as possible. You’ll play by number-coded circles. No musical staff or notes. The easy-to-play songs and melodies were adapted especially for beginners. The melodies have been transposed to one octave and simplified. Also, the number-coded notations have been added and complex notes and symbols have been reduced. Such simplification makes it possible for people to play melodies, especially those who can’t read music or who have never played music before. The steel tongue drum and the handpan are percussion musical instruments designed to help you focus on your feelings, sensations, and body. You don't need classical music training or knowledge of music theory to play them. The primary purpose is relaxation, meditation, and traveling through your inner world. No previous training or skills are necessary to enjoy these fascinating instruments. For tongue drums that have numbered musical notation, numbers 1 to 7 represent the keys of the diatonic major scale. For example, a C Major scale would be: 1 =C (do), 2 =D (re), 3 = E (mi), 4= F (fa), 5 = G (sol), 6 = A (la), 7 =B (ti / si), 8 (i) = C (do) Your drum can be numbered from 1 to 8, where 8 is note C of the next octave. We use the number 1 with a dot above the digit for this note because the most popular models of tongue drums use this enumeration. All songs in this book have been written with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys. This book is aimed at those new to music and musical instruments, whether child or adult. It allows for simple and easy learning that requires no previous knowledge of reading music. Because most tongue drums include and are tuned to involve the notes of the main octave, all songs from this book are possible to play in one octave. You may need to skip some songs if you have less than one octave of keys on your drum. Each tongue drum is very different and it is impossible to accommodate songs for all kinds of tongue drums in one book. There are the following hymns and spirituals in this book: Amazing Grace Babylon's Falling Be Still My Soul Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly Elijah Rock Every Time I Feel the Spirit God Is So Good Great Big Stars Great Day He's Got the Whole World in His Hands Holy, Holy, Holy I've Got Peace Like a River Jesus Loves Me Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Just As I Am Kumbaya, My Lord Michael Row the Boat Ashore O Sanctissima! Praise Him, All You Little Children Shall We Gather at the River Silent Night, Holy Night Sinner Man Soldier of the Cross Song of Praise The First Noel Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Are Marching (Siyahamba) We Wish You a Merry Christmas When the Saints Go Marching In Who Built the Ark?

You have never played music before or cannot read sheet music, and yet you want to play inspiring hymns, famous religious folk songs, and spirituals? Don’t worry! You will begin to play right away. Many spiritual "sorrow songs" are slow and melancholic and are ideally suitable for kalimba. We made our pictured sheet music as simple as possible. You’ll play by number-coded circles. No musical staff or notes. The easy-to-play songs and melodies were adapted especially for beginners. You will be able to begin to play right away if the keys of your instrument have number notations. Most kalimbas already have them. Our sheet music is universal and suitable for 10-17 note kalimbas. Each of the modern kalimbas usually has engraved numbers and letters representing the name of the notes. The low notes are in the center of the kalimba. The notes become higher as you move away from the center. The order of the notes alternates from right to left, going outward as you move up the scale. Taking “C D E F G A B C”, “C” is on the right side, and then you will find “D” on the left. The standard 17-note kalimba contains 3 octaves: 1) a full 2nd small octave, 2) a 3rd small octave, and 3) 3 notes from the 4th small octave. The 2nd small octave goes from C4 to C5 and is depicted in our sheet music as simple numbers. The notes from the 3rd small octave have numbers with one dot above each number. The 3 notes in the 4th minor octave - C6, D6, and E6 - are depicted by numbers with two dots above them. We also put one or two dots above the numbers in the sheet music if they use an octave other than the main kalimba octave. The dots will help you to begin to play immediately. Note: songs have been transposed for a diatonic range. Some melodies might be changed and simplified. Updates: We appreciate your feedback, which helped us identify and correct all of the typos. Thank you for bringing them to our attention. This book includes 46 hymns and gospel songs: Amazing Grace Babylon’s Falling Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Elijah Rock Every Time I Feel the Spirit Go, Tell It on the Mountain God Is So Good Great Big Stars Great Day Holy, Holy, Holy I've Got Joy Joy I've Got Peace Like a River Jesus Loves Me Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Just As I Am Kumbaya, My Lord Michael Row the Boat Ashore Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen Praise Him, All You Little Children Shall We Gather at the River Silent Night, Holy Night Sinner Man Soldier of the Cross Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door Swing Love, Sweet Chariot The Little Light of Mine There’s a Meeting Here Tonight We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Are Marching (Siyahamba) We Shall Overcome When the Saints Go Marching In Who Built the Ark? Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

You have never played music before or cannot read sheet music, and yet you want to play inspiring hymns, famous religious folk songs, and spirituals? Don't worry! You will begin to play right away. Many spiritual "sorrow songs" are slow and melancholic and are ideally suitable for kalimba. We made our pictured sheet music as simple as possible. You'll play by number-coded circles. No musical staff or notes. The easy-to-play songs and melodies were adapted especially for beginners. You will be able to begin to play right away if the keys of your instrument have number notations. Most kalimbas already have them. Our sheet music is universal and suitable for 10-17 note kalimbas. Each of the modern kalimbas usually has engraved numbers and letters representing the name of the notes. The low notes are in the center of the kalimba. The notes become higher as you move away from the center. The order of the notes alternates from right to left, going outward as you move up the scale. Taking "C D E F G A B C", "C" is on the right side, and then you will find "D" on the left. The standard 17-note kalimba contains 3 octaves: 1) a full 2nd small octave, 2) a 3rd small octave, and 3) 3 notes from the 4th small octave. The 2nd small octave goes from C4 to C5 and is depicted in our sheet music as simple numbers. The notes from the 3rd small octave have numbers with one dot above each number. The 3 notes in the 4th minor octave - C6, D6, and E6 - are depicted by numbers with two dots above them. We also put one or two dots above the numbers in the sheet music if they use an octave other than the main kalimba octave. The dots will help you to begin to play immediately. Note: songs have been transposed for a diatonic range. Some melodies might be changed and simplified. Updates: We appreciate your feedback, which helped us identify and correct all of the typos. Thank you for bringing them to our attention. This book includes 45 hymns and gospel songs: Amazing Grace Babylon's Falling Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Elijah Rock Every Time I Feel the Spirit Go, Tell It on the Mountain God Is So Good Great Big Stars Great Day Holy, Holy, Holy I've Got Joy Joy I've Got Peace Like a River Jesus Loves Me Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Just As I Am Kumbaya, My Lord Michael Row the Boat Ashore Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Praise Him, All You Little Children Shall We Gather at the River Silent Night, Holy Night Sinner Man Soldier of the Cross Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door Swing Love, Sweet Chariot The Little Light of Mine There's a Meeting Here Tonight We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Are Marching (Siyahamba) We Shall Overcome When the Saints Go Marching In Who Built the Ark?

We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. All 70 songs in this book have been written without using the classic music score system, because it is for absolute beginner who can not read sheet music. This book is aimed for those who want to add popular melodies to their experimentation. We use circles with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys. We do not show the note duration. You can experiment with a duration on your own. We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat the recordings. All songs from this book are possible to play in one octave. These songs are suitable for a diatonic 8-note tongue drum, which should have numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 1 of the next octave. Please note: if you have a model of the tongue drum with 5 tongues, or if some keys from the octave are missing, you will not be able to play all of the songs in this book. The songbook includes very simple, popular children’s and folk songs, but even well-known children's songs played on the tong drum will create an unusual magical sound. Table of contents PART 1 A Hunting We Will Go Acka Backa Bell Horses Bobby Shafto Doggie Doggie Frog in the Meadow Hot Cross Buns London Bridge Long-legged Sailor Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack Ninety-Nine Bottles Old Bald Eagle One, Two, Three, Four Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Wheels on the Bus PART 2 Alphabet Song A Sailor Went to Sea Are You Sleeping Baa Baa Black Sheep Baby Bumble Bee Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cotton Eyed Joe Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doctor Foster Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Happy Birthday Humpty Dumpty I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas I Love Little Kitty It's Raining Jack and Jill Jingle Bells La Cucaracha Lavender’s Blue Little Jack Horner Michael, Row the Boat Ashore My Hat Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard Row Row Your Boat The Backer The Beep and the Pup The Mulberry Bush This Old Man Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas PART 3 Bim Bum Biddy Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cock-a-Doodle Doo Fiddle-De-Dee Itsy Bitsy Spider Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra Li’l Liza Jane Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Peace Like a River The Big Sheep Tinga Layo To Market, to Market

Leroy Harper Easiest Tongue Drum Songbook Ever! 100 Songs for Tongue Drum. 100% note-free! If you want to play popular songs on your Tongue Drum without having to read music, this book's for you. The Easiest Tongue Drum Songbook Ever! is full of songs-but 100% note-free. Playing by tongue drum tablature, you'll have mastered your first song after just a few minutes-without having read a single note! All you need is a tongue drum (8, 11 or 13 tongue diatonic model) and you'll soon be playing Amazing grace, Camptown races, Oh Susannah, When the saints go marchin' in and dozens of other popular songs. Chord symbols and chord diagrams for guitar are included so your friends can join in the fun. Songs: 1. Ah, vous dirai-je, maman 2. All the good times are past and gone 3. Amazing grace 4. A-tisket, a-tasket 5. Auld lang syne 6. Away in a manger 7. Baa, baa, black sheep 8. Banks of Sacramento 9. Banks of the Ohio 10. Beautiful brown eyes 11. Billy the Kid 12. Boil them cabbage down 13. Brahms' Lullaby 14. Buffalo Gals 15. Camptown Races 16. Cape Cod girls 17. Christ was born on Christmas Day 18. Cock a doodle doo 19. Colorado trail 20. Come, Thou fount of every blessing 21. Cotton-eyed Joe 22. Crawdad song 23. Cumberland Gap 24. Deck the halls 25. Don't this road look rough and rocky 26. Down by the riverside 27. Down by the station 28. Finnegan's wake 29. Foggy mountain top 30. Git along little dogies 31. Give me that old time religion 32. Goin' across the mountain 33. Good night, Ladies 34. Go, tell it on the mountain 35. Hark! The herald angels sing 36. He's got the whole world in His hands 37. Hickety, pickety, my black hen 38. Hickory dickory dock 39. Home! Sweet home 40. House of the Rising Sun 41. How firm a foundation 42. Humpty Dumpty 43. Hush, little baby 44. In the bleak midwinter 45. Itsy-bitsy-spider 46. Jesu, joy of man's desiring 47. Jingle bells 48. John Brown's Body 49. Jolly good fellow 50. Joy to the world 51. Kum ba yah 52. Lavender's blue 53. Little brown jug 54. London Bridge is falling down 55. Long journey home 56. Mama don't 'low 57. Mary had a little lamb 58. Michael, row the boat ashore 59. Midnight on the stormy deep 60. My Bonnie lies over the ocean 61. My home's across the smoky mountains 62. Nobody knows the trouble 63. Ode to joy 64. Oh! Susanna 65. Old folks at home 66. Old MacDonald had a farm 67. One elephant went out 68. On top of Old Smokey 69. Over in the meadow 70. Over the river and through the woods 71. Poor Paddy works on the railway 72. Pop! Goes the weasel 73. Ring around the rosy 74. Roll in my sweet baby's arms 75. Row, row, row your boat 76. Rub-a-dub-dub 77. Scarborough Fair 78. Shenandoah 79. Shortnin' bread 80. Silent night 81. Sleep, baby, sleep 82. Still, still, still 83. Swing low, sweet chariot 84. The alphabet song 85. The bear went over the mountain 86. The boar's head carol 87. The farmer in the dell 88. The first Noel 89. The last rose of summer 90. The Minstrel Boy 91. The wild rover 92. This old man 93. Tom Dooley 94. Twinkle, twinkle, little Star 95. Up on the housetop 96. Way down the old plank road 97. Wee Willie Winkie 98. What shall we do with the drunken sailor 99. When the saints go marchin' in 100. Will the circle be unbroken

The steel tongue drum (aka tong drum, tank drum, gluck-o-phone, hapi drum, mandala, or lotus drum) and the handpan (aka hank drum, UFO drum, zen drum) are percussion musical instruments designed to help you focus on your feelings, sensations, and body. You don't need classical music training or knowledge of music theory to play them. The main purpose is relaxation, meditation, and traveling through your inner world. Playing traditional music notes is difficult for people who have no musical knowledge. You need to know the rhythmic value of each note, its place on the staff, note duration, and its combination with other notes. To be aware of all this simultaneously demands music experience and advanced skills. Nevertheless, even if you have never studied music, you can begin to play complicated melodies, and also experiment with your tongue drum in a meditative way. No previous training or skills are necessary to enjoy these fascinating instruments. It is impossible to play them incorrectly. Anyone can play them: those who want to develop a good sense of rhythm and an ear for music, those who are seeking relaxation after a hard day at work, those who have always had an interest in learning how to play a musical instrument, and those who want to introduce something unusual into their lives and explore their inner selves. All songs in this book have been written without using the classic music score system because it is for absolute beginners who cannot read sheet music. We collect very simple and well-known songs and melodies with easy rhythms. You can begin to play just now using circles that contain either a number, without having to consider note duration, key, or time signatures. These numbers correspond to those on the keys of your tongue drum. So you just need to follow the numbers. We use circles with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys. We do not show the note duration - we just group the circles closer to each other to show the rhythms. You can experiment with a duration on your own. Because most tongue drums include and are tuned to involve the notes of the main octave, all songs from this book are possible to play in one octave. This book includes very simple, popular children's and folk songs, but even well-known children's songs played on the drum will create an unusual magical sound. Attention: Songs have been transposed for a DIATONIC range. Some melodies might be changed and simplified. Contents: Alphabet Song A Hunting We Will Go A Sailor Went to Sea Acka Backa Are You Sleeping Baa Baa Black Sheep Baby Bumble Bee Bell Horses Bim Bum Biddy Bobby Shafto Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cock-a-Doodle Doo Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doggie Doggie Fiddle-De-Dee Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Frog in the Meadow Happy Birthday Hot Cross Buns Humpty Dumpty I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas I Love Little Kitty It's Raining Itsy Bitsy Spider Jack and Jill Jingle Bells Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra La Cucaracha Little Jack Horner London Bridge Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack My Hat Ninety-Nine Bottles Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Bald Eagle Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard One, Two, Three, Four Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Row Row Your Boat Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Beep and the Pup The Big Sheep The Mulberry Bush The Wheels on the Bus This Old Man Tinga Layo To Market, to Market Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas