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Kalimba Christmas Songs PDF, 31 Tabs in Numbers and Letters, 17 Key Kalimba in C

Name: Kalimba Christmas Songs PDF, 31 Tabs in Numbers and Letters, 17 Key Kalimba in C
Brand: NewelByAmmar
SKU: 4598839677
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A printable kalimba songbook of 31 Christmas carols and holiday songs, in kalimba tab notation for a 17-key kalimba in C. Every song has big number tabs with octave dots, the letter name under every note, the rhythm marked, and a QR code to its own free page on the online kalimba: tap Play along there to hear the tune and play along on screen.

WHAT'S INCLUDED (instant download, 2 files)
• Songbook PDF, US Letter (8.5 x 11 in), 39 pages, 0.5 MB
• Songbook PDF, A4 (210 x 297 mm), 39 pages, 0.5 MB

INSIDE
• How to read the tabs (2 pages): the 17 tines with their numbers, dots and letters, and the rhythm marks
• Clickable contents: tap a title to jump to the song
• 31 songs, each on a single page, so there are no page turns while you play, printed big enough to read from a music stand
• Index by difficulty (worked out from the number of notes, how wide a song reaches and how many tines it uses): 2 easiest, 4 easy, 11 moderate, 9 harder and 5 challenging songs
• Why these songs are free to play: for each song, who made it, when, and the score or engraving the tab follows
• Play along free online: how the play-along works (scan a song's QR code, tap Play along, press Listen)

THE 31 SONGS
• Angels We Have Heard on High, Auld Lang Syne, Away in a Manger, Carol of the Bells (Shchedryk), Deck the Halls, Ding Dong Merrily on High, The First Noel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen, Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo), Good King Wenceslas, Greensleeves (What Child Is This), Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Here We Come A-wassailing, The Holly and the Ivy, I Saw Three Ships, In the Bleak Midwinter, It Came Upon the Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Joy to the World, O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum), O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles), O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, O Holy Night (Cantique de Noël), O Little Town of Bethlehem, Once in Royal David’s City, Silent Night, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Up on the Housetop, We Three Kings

HOW THE TABS ARE MADE AND CHECKED
• The notes come by code from the song master of the free Newel Labs online kalimba, where each melody was transcribed from or checked against a score (a scan of an old print, a typeset edition or an engraving); the book's appendix names it for every song
• Automated tests read every tab back out of the finished PDFs and compare it with that master, note for note, length for length and bar for bar, and scan every QR code
• 7 of the 31 tabs are marked Simplified on their page, which says what was changed: mostly a sharp or flat note that a kalimba in C doesn't have
• Every tune is in the public domain in the US: published before 1931, traditional, or otherwise long out of copyright; the appendix gives the basis and the source for each song. Rules in other countries can differ
• No song words are printed with the tabs; 5 Simplified notes quote a few words of the song to show where the changed note is

GOOD TO KNOW
• This is tab notation for a 17-key kalimba in C (C4 to E6), not staff notation. On an 8-, 10- or 21-key kalimba in C the numbers mean the same notes, as long as your kalimba has the tines a song needs
• The play-along pages are free for everyone at newellabs.com; this book is the printable version, with the rhythm marks the web pages don't show
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• Print at 100% (Actual size); every page keeps at least 0.5 in (13 mm) of white space, and the song pages print in black and white
• Fonts (Inter and Fraunces, SIL Open Font License 1.1) are embedded in the PDFs
• For personal use; please don't share or resell the files

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