In this course you will learn how to play 30 Folk & Gospel Songs on the Kalimba (with 17 tines) - without previous musical knowledge, you don't even have to be able to read music notes.
We start with the basic playing techniques (holding the Kalimba and playing the first notes) and refine them with a few simple exercises. If the basis and playing the notes works, you can practice and deepen melody playing with 30 well-known and popular Folk & Gospel Songs.
The melodies and an accompanying band can be heard in the song videos, the well-known "Karaoke" technique underlines the tine symbols to be played in the tablature - you can see what you hear. In addition, an animated graphic of a Kalimba shows where the tines are. And all of this with increasing difficulty - this is how you learn the instrument, and not just the songs in this course.
The songs: Amazing Grace / Angel Band / Auld Lang Syne / Banks of the Ohio / Banks of the Sacramento / Camptown Races / Come all you fair and tender ladies / Dixie / Down by the Sally Gardens / Foggy Foggy Dew / John Brown's body / Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho / Kumbaya my Lord / Michael row the boat ashore / Nobody knows the trouble I've seen / Oh, Shenandoah / Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) / On top of Old Smokey / Red River Valley / She'll be coming round the mountain / Sometimes I feel like a motherless child / Streets of Laredo / Sweet Betsy from Pike / The Ash Grove / The house of the rising sun / We gather together (Thanksgiving Hymn) / We shall not be moved / We shall overcome / Will the Circle be unbroken? / Yellow Rose in Texas
The tuning of the Kalimba and the usual tablatures are also explained, there is also a short video on the history and structure of the Kalimba.
The ideal course for newcomers, music lovers and Kalimba fans. And for everyone who has already heard of the Kalimba and wants to know more. And of course want to learn to play the instrument ...!
Kalimba main photo by worac, iStockphoto
