Simple Beats the Easy-Peasy Songbook for Tongue Drum: Beginner-Friendly 62 Kids Songs

This book is designed for absolute 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 absolute beginners who cannot read sheet music. You can play by number if you’re not 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 in understanding 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
Im A Little Teapot
Im 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