Kalimba Songbook - 52 Folk & Gospel Songs: Kalimba Songbooks, #1

By Reynhard Boegl and Bettina Schipp

Songbook with 52 of the best known Folk and Gospel songs, prepared for easy playing with the Kalimba with 10/17 tines. 
Numbers and symbols (that often can be found on the Kalimba tines) set the tone, the vocal melody determines the rhythm - the easy way of making music!

 

No knowledge of music notes is necessary - play by numbers- suitable for beginners!

 

Every song was recorded - melody with band and melody without ("playalong"). 
The MP3 sounds are available online (webaddress in the book) in a player with adjustable playback speed. 

Including lyrics, guitar chords, guitar fingerings and suggestion for strumming. This can also be found on the website as PDF download and explanatory video.

 

The full package for starting with the "thumb piano" and making music with friends!

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9781386628279

Reynhard Boegl

Reynhard Boegl - since 1984 live and studio musician (harmonica, guitar, vocals), music teacher, sound engineer, graphic artist and lyricist, song and textbook author. Lives and works in Linz / Austria and has published almost 100 song- and textbooks for various instruments.

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Table of content

Kalimba 10 / 17 - symbols

The tablature

Sounds

Amazing Grace

Angel Band

Auld Lang Syne

Aura Lee (Love me tender) *

Banks of the Ohio

Banks of the Sacramento

Barbara Allen

Camptown Races

Come all you fair and tender ladies

Dixie

Down by the Sally Gardens

Drunken sailor

Foggy Foggy Dew *

For he’s a jolly good fellow

John Brown’s body

Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho

Kumbaya my Lord

Let the midnight special

Merrily We Roll Along

Michael row the boat ashore

Muss i denn (Wooden Heart)

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

Nobody knows the trouble I've seen

Oh my darling Clementine *

Oh, Shenandoah *

Oh Susanna

Old Folks at Home (Swanee River)

Old MacDonald had a farm

On top of Old Smokey

Over the river and through the woods

Red River Valley *

Row, row, row your boat

Scarborough Fair

She'll be coming round the mountain *

Skye Boat Song

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child

Streets of Laredo *

Sweet Betsy from Pike

Swing low, sweet chariot

That's what's the Matter

The Ash Grove *

The house of the rising sun

Tom Dooley

We gather together (Thanksgiving Hymn)

We shall not be moved *

We shall overcome

When Johnny comes marching home

Whiskey in the Jar

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Worried man

Yellow rose in Texas *

Yankee Doodle *

Chords

Rhythm pattern

Misc

Imprint

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* only for Kalimba with 17 tines

Kalimba 10 / 17 - symbols

The tones of a Kalimba with 10 or 17 tines in C major. Including the corresponding numbers which are used in the book. The numbers with dots are one/two octave higher, which is the same as on many kalimbas. If the numbers are printed in bold, the corresponding reed is on the left side of the instrument.

The tablature

(1) chords, for Kalimba in the key of C

(2) lyrics, if you sing them you know the rhythm of the melody

(3) number of the tine, see graphic in the page before

Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &: rhythm pattern for guitar - see attachment

Amazing Grace

Trad. / Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &

That was grace that taught my heart to fear,

and grace my fears relieved.

How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed!

Through many dangers, toils and snares,

I have already come.

That was grace that brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.

The Lord has promised good to me,

his word my hope secures.

He will my shield and porion be, as long as life endures.

Yes, when this lesh and heart shall fail,

and mortal life shall cease.

I shall possess, within the veil, a life of joy and peace.

The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,

the sun forbear to shine.

But God, who call'd me here below, will be forever mine.

Angel Band

Trad. / Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &