Welcome to the enchanting world of kalimba music!

Here’s everything you need to begin creating beautiful melodies.

No prior musical experience or ability to read sheet music is necessary to start playing right away. Playing is as simple as following the numbers.

Simple melodies for 8 - 17-key kalimba

This sheet music is designed to be adaptable for any kalimba, whether you have a compact 8-note instrument or a larger 17-note version.

Play right away with numbered notes

Each circle on the sheet corresponds to a specific note number, matching each key on your kalimba.

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. A whole note has three parentheses, and the durations of other notes are illustrated in the accompanying picture. A dot after the note indicates an additional half-parenthesis duration.

A dot above a note indicates a higher octave, as is common on kalimba keys.

It's important to note that the circles do not represent semitones, as kalimbas are typically not tuned in semitones.

Every page includes QR codes that link to the appropriate song. While these examples might not feature our simplified melodies, they help you understand the melodies and rhythm.

This songbook includes the following songs:

Alabama Gal

Alice the Camel

All Join hands and Circle to the Left

Animal Fair

Barbara Polka

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

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo

Come Back Home My Little Chicks

Creeping Creeping Little Flea

The Crocodile

Diddle Diddle Dumpling

Do Your Ears Hang Low

Elevator Song

Finger Family

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Monkeys

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Frog Went A-Courtin'

Georgie Porgie

Go Tell Aunt Rhody

Goosey, Goosey Gander

Halloween Song

Hickety Pickety My Black Hen

I Go Up the Apple Tree

I Love Little Kitty

I Went to Visit a Farm One Day

I'm A Little Teapot

I'm A Nut

Jig Jog

Johnny Works With One Hammer

Kangaroo Skippy Roo

Ladybird, Ladybird

Lazy Mary

Lightly Row

Li'l Liza Jane

Little Sally Water

My Hat

My Paddle

O Christmas Tree

Oh How The Lovely Is The Evening

Old Mother Hubbard

One Elephant

One Potato

One Two Buckle My Shoe

Peace Round

See-Saw Margery Daw

Simple Simon

Soft Kitty

Star Light

Teddy Bear

Ten Little Pigs

The Cuckoo and the Donkey

The Farmer in The Dell

Land of The Silver Birch

There Was A Crooked Man

There Was A Princess Long Ago

This Little Light of Mine

This Little Pig Went to Market

This Old Man

Three Blue Pigeons

Three Little Kittens

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

Where Is Thumbkin?

Why Doesn't My Goose