Easy-to-Play Gospel Songbook for Kalimba: Play by Number. Sheet Music for Beginners

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?