Learn Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the Kalimba
A thumb piano: seventeen steel tines on a hollow wooden board. Tap a tine or sweep across them, and read songs in real kalimba number tabs.
—last tine
The lowest note is in the middle; the scale climbs outward — left, right, left.Keys 1–7, Q–U, A S DTurn your phone sideways for wider tines.
Pick a song to practise, or just pluck the tines. Songs with sharps or flats need a chromatic kalimba.
Choose a songPick a song
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Songs
Settings
100 BPM
Tine labels
ringingplay this nextDots mark higher octaves
Space listen or stop · Esc stop
How to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on the kalimba
The gentlest start — small steps that teach you where the notes live. French folk tune, 1761.
- Key
- C major
- Time
- 4/4
- Tempo
- 100 BPM
- Notes
- 42
- Level
- Easy
- Listen. Press Listen above to hear it at 100 BPM. You can slow it down in Settings.
- Play along. Press Play along and the tine to pluck lights up. Play it and the next one lights. A wrong note is named, so you know what to change.
- Play it from the notes. Once it feels familiar, play it from the sheet below without the lights.
Tabs number the notes of the scale: 1 is C, 2 is D, up to 7 for B. A dot above a number means the octave above. The lowest tine is in the middle and notes alternate left and right.
The notes
Written as kalimba number tabs, with letter names underneath. A dot (·) is a rest.
- 1C4Twin-1C4kle5G4twin-5G4kle6A4lit-6A4tle5G4star4F4How4F4I3E4won-3E4der2D4what2D4you1C4are
- 5G4Up5G4a-4F4bove4F4the3E4world3E4so2D4high5G4Like5G4a4F4dia-4F4mond3E4in3E4the2D4sky
- 1C4Twin-1C4kle5G4twin-5G4kle6A4lit-6A4tle5G4star4F4How4F4I3E4won-3E4der2D4what2D4you1C4are