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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
Abide With Me
Free number tabs for Abide With Me on the steel tongue drum. 28 notes, C Major scale, Easy level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
2
21
12
23
34
43
32
21
13
32
21
16
65
5•1
87
76
65
53
3•1
87
76
65
54
43
32
23
31
11–7 scale note• above = higher octave• below = lower octaveabc = key in the app
▶ Play it in Tongue Drum Online
Open the free player on the C Major scale, then tap the petals or press these keyboard keys in order, following the tab above:
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Abide With Me is a poignant Victorian hymn set to William H. Monk's Eventide tune from 1861, written to comfort those facing life's twilight moments. On a steel tongue drum the slow, unhurried melody is extraordinarily moving, the long note values giving the instrument's natural sustain room to fill with rich overtone colour. A deeply soothing choice for meditative playing or quiet evening practice.
How to play Abide With Me on a tongue drum
The numbers above are the standard tongue-drum number notation. Each digit is a note of the C Major scale, counting up from the lowest tongue. A dot above a number raises it one octave; a dot below lowers it. The small teal letters show the matching key in the Tongue Drum Online player.
Start slowly, one phrase at a time. Let each note ring out fully before striking the next — the long decay is the whole character of the instrument. This is a easy arrangement and a simplified, single-instrument version of Abide With Me.
About this melody
Eventide, William H. Monk 1861.