May 19, 2021

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Mark Holdaway

New eBook: Intro to 10-Note Kalimba in C

This is a 32-page PDF ebook with live links to the sound files, instruction on special techniques. Very colorful! Also, with links to other resources for this 10-Note Kalimba. Instead of writing about what this ebook is about, I thought I would just show you some of the pages from the book. First, this is the tuning and kalimba setup that this ebook works for: Here is one of the more advanced songs in this book – which is also the song in the video I made to promote this book: And here is that same song, on video: A New 10-Note Kalimba in C How to Play 10-Note Kalimbas

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Mark Holdaway

“I Can See Clearly” or “How to Make Flats and Sharps on the Kalimba”

In order to play songs with accidentals or modulations on the diatonic Kalimba, you need extra notes. Here, I pick them up off of three different Kalimbas in different Tunings. “I Can See Clearly” by Johnny Nash. Yes, yes, I could have played this on a Hugh Tracey Chromatic Kalimba. But instead, I take the easy way out, using three diatonic kalimbas instead. Diatonic Scale, Diatonic Kalimba If you don’t know the word “diatonic”, learn it! It describes a kalimba that has only notes from some major scale: “Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do…” It could have 8 notes, 10, or 17 notes… but the notes are all

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