This book is designed for beginner musicians who want to start playing popular melodies. All song melodies in this book feature numbers written instead of the traditional music score system, making it accessible for those who cannot read sheet music. You can play by number if you have to become more familiar with musical notes. Numbers are used because most modern tongue drums have the numbers engraved or painted on their keys

In tongue drums with numbered musical notation, numbers 1 to 7 represent the keys of the diatonic major scale. Dots above or below the numbers indicate notes from higher or lower octaves, respectively. Your drum can be numbered from 1 to 8, where 8 corresponds to the note C of the next octave. For simplicity, we marked the note C of the next octave as 1 with a dot above it, as this is the convention used by most popular tongue drum models.

It's important to note that the circles do not represent semi-tones.

Each circle on the sheet corresponds to a specific note number, matching a key on your tongue drum.

The duration of the notes is shown by the parentheses following the circles - the more parentheses after the circle, the longer the note's duration.

Each tongue drum's sound scale varies significantly, making it impossible to tailor songs for every model in one book. Therefore, you might need to skip some songs if your drum lacks certain tones required for those pieces.

Every page includes QR codes that link to the appropriate song. While these examples might not feature our simplified melodies, they help you understand the melodies and rhythm.

Contents:

Alice the Camel

All Join Hands and Circle to the Left

Animal Fair

Barnyard Song

Bend and Stretch

Big Clocks

Bim Bum Biddy

Bluebird

Bought Me A Cat

Buckeye Jim

Cackle Cackle Mother Goose

Camptown Races

Chicken on a Fence Post

Come Back Home My Little Chicks

Creeping Creeping Little Flea

Crocodile

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Do Your Ears Hang Low

Elevator Song

Finger Family

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Monkeys

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree

Georgie Porgie

Halloween Song

Hickety Pickety My Black Hen

I Go Up the Apple Tree

I Went to Visit a Farm One Day

I'm A Little Teapot

I'm A Nut

Jig Jog

Johnny Works With One Hammer

Kangaroo Skippy Roo

Lightly Row

Li'l Liza Jane

Little Sally Water

My Hat

O Christmas Tree

Oh How Lovely Is The Evening

Old Mother Hubbard

One Elephant

One Potato

One Two Buckle My Shoe

See-Saw Margery Daw

Soft Kitty

Star Light

Teddy Bear

Ten Little Pigs

The Cuckoo and the Donkey

There Was A Princess Long Ago

This Little Light of Mine

This Little Pig Went to Market

This Old Man

Three Blue Pigeons

Tommy Thumb

Too Ra Loo Ra Loo Ral

Trees Grow Tall

Two Little Blackbirds Sitting on a Hill

Two Little Dicky Birds

When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears

Why Doesn't My Goose