63 Simple Songs for Bells, Xylophone, Glockenspiel, and Resonator Blocks

I call this series “I don’t read music” since I am 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. I believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable.

This e-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 e-book is aimed at the absolute beginner without any knowledge of reading music, I 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.

I recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening to the rhythm before beginning to play. My sheet music is only a guide. The most important thing is to listen and repeat the recordings.

Attention:
This learning sheet music will be most useful for the musical instruments with the color scheme below:

C = red, D = orange, E = yellow, F = green, G = light blue, A = blue, B = violet, and C8 = red

If the colors of the keys of your instrument don’t match the colors of the notes in our book, we offer an uncolored version as an alternative. You can mark the circles with the color that matches your bells or the keys of your xylophone using a PDF editor or print the pages and color them with pencils.

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