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Number tabs for the steel tongue drum
Toreador Song — Bizet
Free number tabs for Toreador Song — Bizet on the steel tongue drum. 29 notes, C Major scale, Easy level — play it instantly in the free Tongue Drum Online player.
The tab
3
35
5•1
8•1
8•1
8•2
9•3
0•1
8•3
0•2
9•3
0•2
9•1
8•2
97
7•1
8•2
9•1
87
7•1
8•3
0•5
W•3
0•2
9•1
8•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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Bizet's Toreador Song from Carmen (1875) is one of opera's most rousing baritone showpieces — bold, proud, and irresistibly march-like in its swagger. On a steel tongue drum the strong dotted rhythms and broad melodic leaps ring out with a striking, brass-like authority quite unexpected from the instrument. Energetic, instantly recognizable, and enormously satisfying to perform.
How to play Toreador Song — Bizet 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 Toreador Song — Bizet.
About this melody
Bizet, Carmen Act II, 1875.