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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
La donna è mobile — Verdi
Free number tabs for La donna è mobile — Verdi on the steel tongue drum. 28 notes, C Major scale, Easy level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
5
55
5•3
0•3
0•2
9•1
8•1
8•1
8•1
86
66
65
55
5•2
9•2
9•2
97
77
75
55
55
56
65
5•3
0•3
0•1
85
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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Verdi's 'La donna è mobile' from Rigoletto (1851) is one of opera's catchiest and most spirited tenor arias — a lilting waltz about the fickleness of women that the Duke of Mantua sings with irresistible swagger. On a steel tongue drum the bouncy 3/4 melody dances with a bright, bell-like charm. Endlessly recognizable and genuinely fun to play.
How to play La donna è mobile — Verdi 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 La donna è mobile — Verdi.
About this melody
Verdi, Rigoletto Act III, 1851.