November 5, 2021

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Mark Holdaway

Free Tablature for “Let it Snow”

You can learn to play this song yourself with Free Tab for Alto and 17-Note Kalimbas The classic holiday song “Let it Snow” has a great trick that usually doesn’t work on the kalimba. Some songs, including this one, modulate to a different key temporarily. Usually, when you modulate to another key, you have “accidentals” – that is, notes that are not in the original key, or even on the kalimba! Well, “Let it Snow” can be played happily on your kalimba with a bit of musical sleight-of-hand. You can hear the modulation in “Let it Snow” – it happens in the bridge at 0:42 in the video. At that

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Mark Holdaway

Four Different Kalimbas Play Silent Night – Compare Alto, treble, 17/C, 10/C

Compare: 10-Note Heart, 17-Note Heart, Hugh Tracey Alto, and Hugh Tracey Treble Kalimbas Kalimba Magic has “Easy Christmas” ebooks for each of four of our best selling kalimbas. A big part of every ebook is the sound recordings for each song. This provides us with a great data set for comparing these four popular kalimbas, side by side.   Without any prejudice, I recorded the Christmas carols on each kalimba, trying my best to make each one sound as good as it could. The sound editing and processing is fairly minimal and very similar for all four kalimbas. You get to decide: which sounds better to your ears? Which is

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