Kalimba Songbook: 50 Easy Classic Songs
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Kalimba Songbook: 50 Easy Classic Songs Details
Thomas Balinger, Lena EckhoffKalimba Songbook50 Easy Classic Songs 50 popular songs in easy arrangements for 10 and 17 key kalimba (mbira, marimba) in C tuning. Featuring large notation and special kalimba tablature to make playing as easy as possible.Plus tips on playing position, care and maintenance, tuning your kalimba and the basics of reading music.Songs:1. All the good times are past and gone2. Amazing grace3. Aura Lee4. Banks of Sacramento5. Beautiful brown eyes6. Brahms’ Lullaby7. Buffalo gals8. Camptown races9. Colorado trail10. Cotton-eyed Joe11. Cumberland Gap12. Down by the riverside13. Finnegan’s wake14. Foggy mountain top15. Give me that old time religion16. Goin’ across the mountain17. Good night, ladies18. Home! Sweet home!19. House of the Rising Sun20. Jolly good fellow21. Kum ba yah22. London Bridge is falling down23. Long journey home24. Mary had a little lamb25. Michael, row the boat ashore26. Midnight on the stormy deep27. Morning has broken28. My Bonnie lies over the ocean29. My home’s across the smoky mountains30. Oh! Susanna31. Old folks at home32. Old Mac Donald had a farm33. On top of Old Smokey34. Over the river and through the woods35. Poor Paddy works on the railway36. Pop! Goes the weasel37. Roll in my sweet baby’s arms38. Row, row, row your boat39. Scarborough Fair40. Shenandoah41. Swing low, sweet chariot42. The first Noel43. The last rose of summer44. Tom Dooley45. Twinkle, twinkle, little star46. Up on the housetop47. Way down the old plank road48. What shall we do with the drunken sailor49. When the saints go marchin’ in50. Will the circle be unbroken
Reviews
I actually do like this book in many ways. It’s very simple and should be easy for a child or adult to use in learning to play the kalimba, even if they have never played an instrument before. But the reason I gave it three stars is that it is for my seven-year-old grandson to go along with the kalimba I am giving him for Christmas. I am not sure what age this book is meant for because some of the songs they included are not really appropriate for a child. In some cases they put every single verse of the song which is fine except for their choice of songs like “House of the Rising Sun.” I don’t think my young grandson needs to read “the only thing a drunkard needs, is a suitcase and a trunk. The only time he is satisfied, is when he’s on a drunk!” There are several songs like that! I’m not sure what my daughter will think when she reads the words to some of them. I have a feeling she might decide to make printed copies of the more appropriate songs for his age rather than give him the whole book. It seems to me there should be a book specifically for children and another for adults. “House of the Rising Sun” and “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” don’t need to be in the same book!
