About The Phonetic Stickers Beginner: You could stick the phonetic mark on the key, making it easier to find the keys when reading the music notation First, you can paste a color sticker on the longest key in the middle, and then paste another color sticker on the keys every two keys You can also label your Kalimba any way just you like Professionals: Just remove the phonetic stickers mark when you master your kalimba well
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Playing technique 1: monophonic Hold the Kalimba in both hands and pluck the keys with the nails of thumb (as shown in the picture). It is recommended that the 2-3 mm length of nails, the proper strength and angle when playing the thumb piano can make the sounds clean. As you become familiar with the position of the Kalimba keys, you can play some complex but more wonderful songs with some playing techniques, such as double-tone or glissando playing different keys at the same time to make sounds
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Playing technique 2 : Glissando Using the Glissando to Play Chords You can slide several keys through the thumb nail at once to make a chord. Compared with other musical instruments, Kalimba is set up to play chords nicely and easily. Any 3 adjacent tines will play a wonderful triad chord. Furthermore, a chord produced by a glissando will ring for several seconds, which will enable you to play a harmony melody on the other keys
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Playing technique 3 : WaWa Sound Kalimba has a main sound hole and two auxiliary sound holes. When you play kalimba, you can press your thumb into the main sound hole, which feels like you want to push the sound back, or use two middle fingers to shake on the back auxiliary sound holes to produce a Wah-wah sound. You can even make three holes work together at the same time, and the wah effect will be more obvious
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