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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
Prelude in C major (WTC I)
Free number tabs for Prelude in C major (WTC I) on the steel tongue drum. 32 notes, C Major scale, Intermediate level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
3
35
5•1
8•3
05
5•1
8•3
01
12
25
5•1
8•3
05
5•1
8•3
07
72
25
57
7•2
95
57
7•2
91
13
35
5•1
8•3
05
5•1
8•3
01–7 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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Bach's Prelude in C major that opens the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I (BWV 846) is a miraculous piece of pure harmonic motion — a single arpeggiated figure repeated through a journey of breathtaking chord changes. On a steel tongue drum those rolling arpeggios shimmer and sustain in a way that brings out the harmony's inner beauty with unusual clarity. Hypnotic, meditative, and endlessly re-listenable.
How to play Prelude in C major (WTC I) 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 intermediate arrangement and a simplified, single-instrument version of Prelude in C major (WTC I).
About this melody
J.S. Bach, BWV 846.