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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
Down by the Salley Gardens
Free number tabs for Down by the Salley Gardens on the steel tongue drum. 25 notes, C Major scale, Easy level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
5
56
67
76
65
55
56
6•2
9•1
87
75
52
25
56
67
76
65
53
32
25
56
65
53
35
51–7 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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Down by the Salley Gardens is W.B. Yeats's poem set to a traditional Irish air, a wistful meditation on youth, love, and the weight of time. On the steel tongue drum the gentle ascending and descending phrases feel like a quiet stroll through the gardens themselves, each note sustaining into a warm haze. The poem's tender mood is perfectly captured by the handpan-like resonance of the instrument.
How to play Down by the Salley Gardens 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 Down by the Salley Gardens.
About this melody
Irish folk (Yeats).