
Explore the kalimba’s lamellophone design with a wooden soundboard and 17 tines in C major, and its role as melody or accompaniment across gospel and folk traditions.
Learn the kalimba technique: hold the instrument with a relaxed posture, ensure thumb mobility to reach all tines, pluck with the thumb nail or tip, mute notes, and play calmly.
Learn how the kalimba video songbook conveys each song: four repetitions with metronome and count in, tablature with red highlights, and a gradual difficulty with play along.
Explore how kalimba tablatures convey notes and rhythm, using diatonic channel numbers and tine engravings to adapt across keys with karaoke animation for practice.
Learn to play Amazing Grace on the kalimba using the kalimba video songbook featuring 30 folk and gospel songs. Follow step-by-step demonstrations to practice each song.
Learn to play angel band on kalimba through this video songbook, part of a collection of 30 folk and gospel songs.
Learn to play Banks of the Ohio on the kalimba, exploring a classic folk melody from the folk and gospel repertoire.
Learn kalimba arrangements of 30 folk and gospel songs from the Banks of the Sacramento, using a video songbook format.
Learn to play Camptown Races on the kalimba through a video songbook of 30 folk and gospel tunes.
Explore playing the kalimba with the traditional folk song come all you fair and tender ladies, as part of a 30-song folk and gospel video songbook.
Learn to play Foggy Foggy Dew on the kalimba, part of the kalimba video songbook featuring 30 folk and gospel songs.
Explore kalimba arrangements for John Brown's body from the kalimba video songbook, a part of a collection of 30 folk and gospel songs.
Learn to play Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho on the Kalimba, as part of the Kalimba video songbook: 30 folk and gospel songs.
Master the kalimba rendition of Kumbaya my lord from the kalimba video songbook, exploring a collection of 30 folk and gospel songs.
Learn to play Michael row the boat ashore on the kalimba as part of the kalimba video songbook of 30 folk and gospel songs.
Teach yourself the kalimba arrangement of nobody knows the trouble I've seen through a video songbook, featuring 30 folk and gospel songs.
Play the folk melody Oh, Shenandoah on the kalimba and explore its place in the 30-song folk and gospel songbook.
Explore the kalimba rendition of Old Folks at Home (Swanee River), a traditional folk tune. Discover practical performance ideas for 30 folk and gospel songs in the Kalimba Video Songbook.
Learn to play on top of old smoky on the kalimba with the kalimba video songbook of 30 folk and gospel songs.
Learn to play 'she'll be coming round the mountain' on kalimba as part of the kalimba video songbook featuring 30 folk and gospel songs.
Learn a kalimba arrangement of the folk song Streets of Laredo as part of a 30-song collection of folk and gospel pieces.
Learn to play Sweet Betsy from Pike on the kalimba as part of a folk and gospel song collection.
Learn the kalimba version of the Ash Grove from the kalimba video songbook’s 30 folk and gospel songs, exploring rhythm and melody in a traditional folk tune.
Learn to play the house of the rising sun on kalimba as part of the kalimba video songbook's 30 folk and gospel songs collection.
Play the kalimba version of we gather together, a thanksgiving hymn from the folk and gospel song collection, as part of the kalimba video songbook.
Learn to play we shall not be moved on the kalimba from the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 folk and gospel songs.
Explore the kalimba through a video songbook featuring 30 folk and gospel songs, including 'we shall overcome'.
Explore a kalimba rendition of will the circle be unbroken within the kalimba video songbook, celebrating 30 folk and gospel songs through accessible performance and rhythm.
Learn to play Yellow Rose in Texas on the kalimba, mastering a traditional folk tune featured in the kalimba video songbook of 30 folk and gospel songs.
From the Video Songbook "30 Themes from Classical Music"
You will learn how to play 30 Folk & Gospel Songs on the Kalimba (with 17 tines) - without any previous musical knowledge, no need to read sheet music...!
We start with the basics - holding the Kalimba & playing the first notes. This you can practice with playing 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. All of this with increasing difficulty - this is how you learn the instrument, and not just the songs in this course.
The songs in this course: 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...!
Kalimba main photo by worac, iStockphoto