KALIMBA. Play by Letter: 22 easy to play songs for beginners

If you are a beginner, playing by notes can be difficult. It is easier to follow letters.

Traditional Kalimba Tablature calls Tabs.

Each tab should match the number of tines on your kalimba. For example, if your kalimba has 8 tines, you need to search for “8-note kalimba tabs.”

Our sheet music is not Tabs and it is not for a specific kalimba, but it is universal and suitable for any 8-17 note kalimbas.

Follow the letters… and begin to play! Even if you don’t know musical notes, you will confidently be able to play easily using the letter notation!

This book might include only letters and it will be enough to begin to play,

but we decided to add classic note symbols to help teach them and show musical notation.

All songs were adapted especially for the kalimba, which is a diatonic musical instrument and has no flat keys.

Most songs will be played within one octave.

Attention: Songs have been transposed for a DIATONIC range. Some melodies might be changed and simplified. If you have flat keys on your instrument, please use the classic music score for the piano.

List of songs adapted for kalimba:

Part 1

Skip, Skip, Skip to My Lou

Humpty Dumpty

My Hat

I like to Eat (Apples and Bananas)

Cobbler, Mend My Shoe

Lost My Gold Ring

This Old Man

Baby Bumble Bee

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Cherry Blossom

Ring Around the Rosie

Rain, Rain, Go Away

A Ram Sam Sam

Little Jack Horner

It's Raining

Au Clair de la Lune

Debka Hora

My Bonnie

House of the Rising Sun

Part 2

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Alphabet Song.