63 Simple Songs for Bells, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, and Resonator Blocks. Without Musical Notes: Just Follow the Color Circles (No Music Reading? No Problem! Play Right Away)

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We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. This book includes 63 familiar and easy-to-play folk songs and melodies. Each song here is written with color circles and letter notes inside. Most songs have been simplified and transposed for one octave. . Since this book is aimed at the absolute beginner without any knowledge of reading music, we do not use here the classical music staff and do not show the note duration. You can experiment with the duration on your own. Attention: This learning sheet music will be most useful for the bell set with the color scheme in the picture: C = red, D = orange, E = yellow, F = green, G = light blue, A = blue, B = violet, C8 = red. If you have very little music experience, playing by note can be difficult. It is easier to follow color-coded circles with note letters. By simply following the color circles, you will sound like an experienced musician. This songbook uses the Chroma-Notes Colored Music System, popular in the US. We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, and grandparents. Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and through being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable. The simple method of using circles as an aid allows the flexibility that existed in traditional ways of teaching. We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat the recordings. Contents: Alphabet Song A Hunting We Will Go A Sailor Went to Sea Acka Backa Are You Sleeping? Baby Bumble Bee Baa Baa Black Sheep Bell Horses Bim Bum Biddy Bobby Shafto Brahms Lullaby Chumbara Cobbler, Mend My Shoe Cock-a-Doodle Doo Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong Do You Know the Muffin Man? Doggie Doggie Doctor Foster Fiddle-Dee-Dee Five Little Ducks Five Little Monkeys Frog in the Meadow Happy Birthday Hot Cross Buns Humpty Dumpty I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas I Love Little Kitty It’s Raining Itsy Bitsy Spider Jack and Jill Jingle Bells 31 Jolly Old Saint Nicholas Kookaburra La Cucaracha Little Jack Horner London Bridge Mary Had a Little Lamb Miss Mary Mack My Hat Ninety-Nine Bottles Ode to Joy Oh Susannah Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum Old Bald Eagle Old Blue Old McDonald Old Mother Hubbard One, Two, Three, Four Rain, Rain, Go Away Ring Around the Rosie Row Row Your Boat Rub-a-Dub-Dub See-Saw Margery Daw Ten in the Bed The Bee and the Pup The Big Sheep The Mulberry Bush The Wheels on the Bus This Old Man Tinga Layo To Market, To Market Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star We Wish You a Merry Christmas Review: The 👌 - “This book is amazing for beginners! The color-coded notes make it super easy to play songs on bells or xylophone, even if you don’t read music. The songs are simple, fun, and perfect for kids. Great quality and very helpful for music therapy sessions!” Review: Easy color coded note system - There don’t seem to be many kids song books available with color coded notes to use to play the desk bells. My grandchildren can easily play the songs following the easy color coded notes system. This was a good find.