What to read after 63 Simple Songs for Bells, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, and Resonator Blocks. Without Musical Notes?

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.

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, 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. 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

Droctor Foster

Fiddle-De-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 Beep 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