No, you have to use note 0 right on the last but one.
Another hymn tune, Eudoxia, uses only the lowest five notes.
The Skye Boat Song, six notes pentatonic. (1-2-4-5-6-8)
I looked up how to play jingle bells on the piano and it seems that you can play it on xylophone as well so here it is.( I only know it in numbers so A B C D and E is just 1 2 3 4 and 5)
333,333,35123.
4444,4333,32232,5.
333,333,35123.
4444,4333,55421.
Hope you like it, sorry if its bad.
Yes - unfortunately you can only play the refrain; the chorus goes out of range. (An old thread, but revived earlier this year, and if you can’t talk about toy xylophones at Christmas then when can you?)
Nitpick: xylophones are made of wood. Glockenspiel is a better general term for tuned percussion instruments.
I know what I want for christmas now…
Plus an easy tune i bet would be “love me tender” by elvis as I learned to play that on a Merlin game in the 80’s 1434 525… i think it was a Merlin game.
True, but the typical child’s toy has bars which are made of such thin metal they don’t really have the proper ringing tone of a glockenspiel, and are more xylophonic in character even though not made of wood.
Family legend has it that I demonstrated early musical prowess when I was given a toy xylophone for Christmas at age 3 and soon was able to play this song by ear.
Sorry to bother… I’m not musically inclined at all. The only ‘instrument’ I play is an 8 button arduino computer that I’ve built and thus I am visiting this page to find songs to play. How could I play Finlandia? I am not able to play things by ear, not even close. But I love Finlandia and it’s my school’s Alma Mater so I’d love to be able to play. Also, I can’t read sheet music.
If you could, I’d greatly appreciate if you could provide how to play the main theme with notes 1-8, C-C, or A-H. 1-8 is preferred but anything works. Hope you see this and hope you are so kind as to fulfill my request.
“Wooden Heart”, which I remember playing on my girlfriend’s calculator (which could play tones) back in about 1981. It goes like this:
123, 354, 4656543, 56543, 354, 432, 5, 3; 123, 354, 4656543, 56543, 354, 432, 3, 1; 132, 234, 23, 2345, 556, 6, 8, 765; 123, 354, 4656543, 56543, 354, 456, 7, 8.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
FFDFFFE
FFDFFDFGFE
and generally round and round and round on those four notes forever.
The person answered that the robot only played the first two lines, but NO, it’s not that line you’re thinking of. The accidentals are in “Buy ME some peanuts” “Three strikes you’re out AT the old ball game.” Accidentals in caps.
Also, if the robot had gone on it would have run out of notes. That song goes past 8 notes on “E-ver get back”.
Here is a song which can be played on a one-octave xylophone very easily:
I have a little puppy (monotone on low C)
He has a stubby tail, (monotone on D)
He isn’t very chubby, (monotone on E)
He’s skinny as a rail. (monotone on F)
He’ll always be a puppy, (monotone on G)
He’ll never be a hound, (monotone on A)
They sell him at the butcher’s store (monotone on B)
For thirty cents a pound. (monotone on high C)
Bow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, wow, (descending scale)
HOT DOG! (high C, low C)
ETA: Didn’t notice this was a resurrectionist thread. Are there any zombie songs that fit?
I was able to play the xylophone line in Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out” on a toy xylophone.
Bohemian Rhapsody shouldn’t be too hard to nail.
shark attack scenes in Jaws?
Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack?
Iron Man?
My Sharona?
World at War theme?
Ha. My go-to song for these toys is another 80s pop tune with a memorable glockenspiel melody: “Forever,” by Little Steven [Van Zandt] and the Disciples of Soul.
I think it has one accidental in it, though, so I have to kind of muff over that note.
Ah, most of the ones I thought of were named. But here’s some others I’ve played on my kids’ Fisher-Price Xylo/Glock without too much “muffing” (and overlooking key changes)
Sweet Caroline
Windy (the Association)
Whiskey Bar (Doors)(with some double-note fakery)
California Dreamin’
A fair approximation of the Swan Lake theme
You can do a reasonable blues based on the 5th of the instrument. That is, if it’s in C major, play a G blues.
The very first app I got on my new iPhone is a one-octave keyboard called “Real Piano”. I can play the main theme of Finlandia with only six notes, C through A:
EDEFEDECDDE
EDEFEDECDE
GGGAEEGGDDF
FEDECCDEE
GGGAEEGGDDF
FEDECCEDCC
If you have autotune you can play anything great.