
Learn to play Kalimba melodies without prior musical knowledge. Explore the instrument's structure and history, tuning, basic melody techniques, exercises, tablature, and progressively challenging song videos with animations and karaoke.
Explore the kalimba, a flexible lamellophone with sound board and tines, used for melodies and accompaniment in traditional African music, including mbira from Simbabwe with 17 tines in c major.
Hold the kalimba with relaxed posture in both hands, ensure the thumbs reach all tines, and pluck with the thumb nail or tip in a gentle downward motion, muting notes.
Learn to tune the kalimba with a chromatic tuner and tuning hammer, measuring tine length from bridge to end and adjusting by shortening or lengthening the vibrating part.
Learn how Kalimba song videos guide you through four repetitions, metronome timing, and tablature with a highlighted Kalimba, increasing difficulty and slow, precise practice.
Explore how kalimba tablatures work, including diatonic versus chromatic notation, channel-based systems, two tablature types, and rhythm and lyrics with chords and karaoke animation.
Master kalimba playing through exercises using 3 to 6 notes, building finger coordination and melodic phrasing across the kalimba video songbook spanning six genres.
Practice kalimba with exercises ranging from 8 to 17 notes, drawn from a songbook of 30 songs across six genres, with no music notes.
Explore Aura Lee in the Kalimba video songbook, a collection of 30 songs across six genres designed for Kalimba players with no music notes.
Learn to play Oh my darling Clementine on kalimba using the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 songs across 6 genres and no music notes.
Kalimba video songbook presents Oh Susanna as part of 30 songs across six genres, with no music notes, enabling accessible learning through expressive plucked melodies.
Learn to play Tom Dooley in the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 songs across 6 genres with no music notes.
Explore playing Yankee Doodle on the kalimba through a video songbook of 30 songs across six genres.
Master the kalimba through the Byker Hill lesson in a video songbook of 30 songs across six genres, focusing on playable arrangements with no music notes.
Learn to play 'Eileen Aroon' on the kalimba, applying a no-music-notes approach from the Kalimba Video Songbook across six genres.
Explore Loch Lomond on the kalimba with the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 songs across 6 genres and no music notes for guided play.
Learn to play Scarborough fair on the kalimba with the kalimba video songbook, a 30-song collection across six genres, designed with no music notes.
Explore the Croppy Boy as performed on kalimba through the video songbook, featuring 30 songs across six genres, with no music notes required.
Learn to play die gedanken sind frei on the kalimba, exploring a melody from the 30-song, 6-genre video songbook with no music notes.
Play "Im Frühtau zu Berge wir ziehn" on kalimba using a video songbook of 30 songs across 6 genres, featuring no music notes for approachable, note-free learning.
Explore playing 'Im Märzen der Bauer' with the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 songs across six genres, all presented with no music notes.
Explore kalimba playing with a video songbook featuring 30 songs across six genres, designed for no music notes, including 'Kein schöner Land'.
Learn kalimba through a video songbook featuring 30 songs across six genres with no music notes, and encounter the German phrase wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen.
Learn to play au clair de la lune on the kalimba using the video songbook format, exploring six genres with no music notes.
Master Hänschen klein through the kalimba video songbook, exploring 30 songs across 6 genres with no music notes.
Master kalimba by playing 'Hush, little baby' from the kalimba video songbook, featuring 30 songs across six genres with no music notes.
Explore a kalimba video songbook featuring thirty songs across six genres, with no music notes, including the piece Kommt ein vogel geflogen.
Explore the kalimba rendition of twinkle, twinkle, little star through a video songbook featuring 30 songs across 6 genres, all without music notes.
Master away in a manger on the kalimba through a video songbook featuring 30 songs across six genres, with no music notes.
Learn the Christmas is coming kalimba piece from the Kalimba Video Songbook, a 30-song course across six genres with no music notes.
learn to play 'I saw three ships' on the kalimba with video demonstrations from the kalimba video songbook, showcasing a traditional tune across six genres.
Explore a kalimba video songbook lesson featuring 'Ihr Kinderlein kommet,' delivering a 30-song, six-genre collection with no music notes, designed for expressive, accessible plucking and learning.
Learn to play oh du fröhliche on kalimba through a video songbook featuring 30 songs across six genres, with no music notes.
Explore Choralfantasie by Beethoven through Kalimba arrangements in the Kalimba video songbook, featuring no music notes across six genres.
Explore a Eurovision melody inspired by M.-A. Charpentier, presented in the Kalimba video songbook to illustrate genre variety across 30 songs in 6 genres.
Explore kalimba performance across 30 songs in six genres, presented in a video songbook with no music notes, including Mozart's Üb immer treu und redlichkeit.
Explore Mozart's theme from the clarinet concerto KV622 and its adaptation for kalimba, highlighting musical motifs and expressive phrasing within the kalimba video songbook framework.
Master the theme from Beethoven's 6th symphony on the kalimba in a video songbook with no music notes, featuring 30 songs across 6 genres.
In this course you will learn how to play 30 songs from 6 genres on the Kalimba (with 17 tines) - and that without previous musical knowledge, you don't even have to be able to read music notes.
We start with the basic playing techniques (holding the Kalimba and playing the first notes) and refine them with a few simple exercises. If the basis and playing the notes works, you can practice and deepen melody playing with 30 well-known and popular songs from 6 genres.
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. In addition, an animated graphic of a Kalimba shows where the tines are. And all of this with increasing difficulty - this is how you learn the instrument, and not just the songs in this course.
The songs included:
Folk: Oh my darling Clementine / Oh Susanna / Aura Lee (Love me tender) / Tom Dooley / Yankee Doodle / Song from Ireland & Great Britain: Byker Hill / The Croppy Boy / Scarborough Fair / Eileen Aroon / Loch Lomond / german Folk songs: Die Gedanken sind frei / Im Frühtau zu Berge wir ziehn / Im Märzen der Bauer / Kein schöner Land / Wem Gott will rechte Gunst erweisen / Childrens songs: Au claire de la lune / Hänschen klein / Hush, little baby / Kommt ein Vogel geflogen / Twinkle, twinkle, little star / Christmas songs: Oh Du fröhliche / Away in a manger / Christmas is coming / Ihr Kinderlein kommet / I Saw Three Ships / Classical music: Choralfantasie / Eurovisionsmelodie / Üb immer Treu und Redlichkeit / Thema aus dem Klarinettenkonzert KV622 / Thema aus der 6. Sinfonie
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. And for everyone who has already heard of the Kalimba and wants to know more. And of course want to learn to play the instrument ...!
Kalimba main photo by worac, iStockphoto