Tongue Drum Songbook for Beginner: Play Simple Kids Songs by Number

This book is aimed at those who want to add popular melodies to their experimentation. 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. I use circles with numbers because most modern tongue drums have numbers engraved or painted on their keys.

I do not show the note duration - I just group the circles closer to each other to show the rhythms. You can experiment with duration on your own. Because most tongue drums include and are tuned to involve the notes of the main octave, all songs from this e-book are possible to play in one octave.

This e-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.

If you have flat keys on your instrument, please use the classic music score for the piano. Contents: Introduction Rub-a-Dub-Dub The Wheels on the Bus Miss Mary Mack Happy Birthday Doggie Doggie Mary Had a Little Lamb Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star A Hunting We Will Go Kookaburra Ode to Joy Do You Know the Muffin Man? Old Bald Eagle La Cucaracha A Sailor Went to Sea Are You Sleeping?

The Mulberry Bush Old McDonald Bim Bum Biddy London Bridge Jingle Bells Tinga Layo Itsy Bitsy Spider We Wish You a Merry Christmas Brahms Lullaby Ninety-Nine Bottles Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Oh Susannah Row Row Your Boat Acka Backa Hot Cross Buns Bell Horses