Ultimate Easy Tongue Drum Guide: Even if you've never played music before

The steel tongue drum (aka tong drum, tank drum, gluck-o-phone, hapi drum, mandala, or lotus drum) and the handpan (aka hank drum, UFO drum, zen drum) are percussion musical instruments designed to help you focus on your feelings, sensations, and body. You don't need classical music training or knowledge of music theory to play them.

We collect very simple and well-known songs and melodies with easy rhythms. You can begin to play in just two steps. First, you will play using circles that contain either a number, without having to consider note duration, key, or time signatures. These numbers correspond to those on the keys of your tongue drum. So you just need to follow the numbers.

You can get an idea of how the song might be played by listening to the YouTube clip of the same song, which you can access with the QR code below each song. Then, if you find that you can play the song with more confidence, you can try using the second page of the same song, with the actual notes. There, the same melody is written in a traditional manner with all the necessary musical symbols. However, we simplified the melodies in this step as well, transposing the most songs for one octave, leaving the numbers under the notes. We hope that playing these simple melodies will bring you a new relaxation and meditation experience filled with a lot of joy.

Contents

Alphabet Song

Bobby Shafto

Cobbler, Mend My Shoe

Chumbara

Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong

Five Little Monkeys

Humpty Dumpty

I Love Little Kitty

Jack and Jill

My Hat

Old Mother Hubbard

Rain, Rain, Go Away

The Big Sheep

This Old Man

Ten in the Bed