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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
O Store Gud (How Great Thou Art tune)
Free number tabs for O Store Gud (How Great Thou Art tune) on the steel tongue drum. 33 notes, C Major scale, Easy level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
2
23
35
56
65
53
32
21
13
32
21
12
23
35
56
6•1
87
76
65
54
43
35
56
65
53
32
25
56
65
53
35
51
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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O Store Gud — the Swedish hymn tune made world-famous as "How Great Thou Art" — was written by Carl Gustav Boberg in 1885 after witnessing a dramatic thunderstorm resolve into serene calm. On a steel tongue drum the sweeping, hymn-like melody feels vast and contemplative, each long phrase evoking the grandeur of nature and the stillness that follows. Its spacious tempo and stepwise motion reward players who appreciate meditative, landscape-scale music.
How to play O Store Gud (How Great Thou Art tune) 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 O Store Gud (How Great Thou Art tune).
About this melody
Swedish hymn tune, Carl Gustav Boberg 1885.