Deck the Halls

The first part is somewhat calm and composed with some double notes at a sixth apart interval. 

The second verse is more playful, breaking up the double notes which were in crochets, into quavers. 

Tabs: Standard Notation and Number

Music Box Dancer

 Please enjoy playing this arrangement of the much beloved song composed by Frank Mills.

Standard notation

With numbers

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

This is a simple arrangement of the song, though some of the hand crossing might take a bit of practice to play smoothly.

Music sheet (standard notation) created using Maestro app on Android.

Standard notation with numbers

Senorita

This is a simple arrangement. However, it is tricky to play the chorus - where Camila and Shawn sang together. I arranged them in octaves. Easy arrangement but difficult to play. 

Video: 

Tabs: 

Sonata in C K.545 by Mozart

This is an arrangement which is great to practise running notes (scales), and the alberti bass on a kalimba. 

Please remember to mention my YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/c/TayLeeYen) if you're uploading your playing of this piece. 

Enjoy!

Standard Notation

Number notation

The Addams Family Theme Song

This is my first kalimba video using green screen, or green cloth in my case. To me, it is a fun song to play because of the tapping and the rather simple melody. The arrangement that I've made for the song is quite easy too. However, I haven't converted this into number tabs yet. Right now, the arrangement is only available in standard notation. 

Please note that much of the idea on how to play the song on the kalimba, is derived from this video by Teacher Neo, also known as kalimbie x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkkeP72GpVU

Satu Malaysia

I haven't done written down the notes nicely yet, but here's what I jot down for my own practice purpose. It contains the numbers for melody line of Satu Malaysia.

Setia

Setia is a Malaysian patriotic song originally sung by Francissca Peter. In this kalimba arrangement, I had tried to arrange in such a way that at any one point of the song, only one note is played. If you see multiple notes, they are usually broken chords meant to be played as glissando. However, there are a couple of notes which I had forgotten to split up, and they end up being played together. 

Number notation: 

Standard notation: 

Sejahtera Malaysia

Please find attached the kalimba music sheet for Sejahtera Malaysia, a well-beloved Malaysian patriotic song. 

Number notation:

Standard notation:

Moon River

I think the best known version of the song is the original performance by Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). However, to date, I still have yet to watch the movie.

My first encounter with the song was through a big Oldies songbook with number tabs. The reason I loved it back then was because it was easy to play with very few notes. The first time I heard an artist singing the song was likely to be the version by Andy Williams - which I heard from a cassette recording. It was much later before I learned of the origins of the song. 

As for this kalimba version, I think it is fairly easy to play - just like the song itself, simple and enchanting. 

Video record:

Number tabs:

Standard notation: 

Lao Shu Ai Da Mi 老鼠爱大米 Mice Loves Rice

This was one of the super popular songs back in my teenage years. I still find the song very adorable even till now :)

The tabs are free for non-commercial use. I would appreciate if you could acknowledge the source of the arrangement by linking your video covers to: https://yellowbirdkalimba.blogspot.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/c/TayLeeYen . Thank you, enjoy playing the song. 

Video cover:

Number tabs: 

Standard notation: 

Minuet in G (Bach)

Minuet in G appeared in "Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach". When I first learned to play this piece in the 90s, I thought it was composed by J.S. Bach. However, I just learned minutes ago from Google search that the song is now attributed to Christian Petzold, and this has been the case since 1970.
I modified the second part of the song to make the whole song playable in one single key.

I hope that you will enjoy playing this, as much as I do - I find this song very soothing.

The tabs are free for non-commercial use. I would appreciate if you could acknowledge the source of the arrangement by linking your video covers to: https://yellowbirdkalimba.blogspot.com/ or http://www.youtube.com/c/TayLeeYen . Thank you :)

Number tabs and standard notation:

La Petite Fille de la mer (Little Girl of the Sea) by Vangelis

I modified the chords and some of the notes to make this playable on the kalimba. Thanks to Xandra. Von (from YouTube) for recommending this song to be played on the kalimba :) I love this song!

Music sheet:

Selamat Hari Raya (Saloma)

This is one of the most popular songs sung in Malaysia during the Aidil Fitri celebrations each year.

Song recording:

Lagrima (Fransisco Tarrega)

I learned about this song from Ayrone Fantay in the Kalimba and Sansula Instrument Lovers FB group. Fell in love with it immediately.

Video: https://youtu.be/C2QSoLscJi4

In May (Franz Behr)

Kalimba cover of 'In May' by Franz Behr. This is a children's song, the second song from PIANO PIECES FOR CHILDREN, Everybody's Favorite Series No. 3. Many piano players would recognise this song.

This song is suitable for kalimba beginners.

Video: https://youtu.be/w0evv7Yk4l0

Echoes in Rain

I really love this song! There are two parts running consecutively throughout the entire song, with the main melody phrase 3134 3532.

Click here for the recording, and here for the tutorial. This is the first kalimba tutorial I've done!