Big Color-Coded Songbook for 8 Note Bell Set: 78 Easy-to-Play Songs

The unique advantage of bell sets is the fact that each note is created by an individual bell, and so the notes that are not used in a particular song can be removed and the student has a greater chance for success. A handbell orchestra acts as one instrument, with each musician responsible for their particular notes, sounding their assigned bells whenever those notes appear in the music.

Give each participant one or two bells and ask them to join in a simple melody. Independently, whether the player has musical knowledge or not, the band will sound harmoniously with just a little bit of training. Most solfeggio teachers advise that it's better to begin not with a piano, but with a simpler and more accessible instrument.

However, like other "serious" musical instruments, bells can help in

1) teaching note duration,

2) understanding different pitches,

3) recognizing different musical scales, and

4) the acquisition of a sense of rhythm and melody.

If you are a beginner, playing by note can be difficult. It is easier to follow color-coded circles with note letters. Just by following the color circles, you will sound like an experienced musician.

All songs were written with circles in the musical staff, and there are no stems or flags - only notes on the line - to keep it simple. This book was written with beginners in mind.

The color of the bells or resonator blocks must be the same as the color of the bells below.

C (Do) - red,

D (Re) - orange,

E (Mi) - yellow,

F (Fa) - green,

G (Sol) - light blue,

A (La) - blue,

B (Ti) - violet,

C8 (Do) - white

CONTENTS

A Hunting We Will Go

A Sailor Went to Sea

Acka Backa

Amazing Grace

Alphabet Song

Are You Sleeping?

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baby Bumble Bee

Bell Horses

Bim Bum Biddy

Bobby Shafto

Brahms Lullaby

Chumbara

Cobbler, Mend My Shoe

Cock-a-Doodle Doo

Cotton Eyed Joe

Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Doctor Foster

Doggie Doggie

Fiddle-Dee-Dee

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Monkeys

Frog in the Meadow

Happy Birthday

Here We Go Looby Loo

Hot Cross Buns

Humpty Dumpty

I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas

I Love Little Kitty

It's Raining

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Jack and Jill

Jingle Bells

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Kookaburra

La Cucaracha

Lavender's Blue

Li'l Liza Jane

Little Jack Horner

London Bridge

Long-legged Sailor

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Michael, Row the Boat Ashore

Miss Mary Mack

My Hat

Ninety-Nine Bottles

Ode to Joy

Oh Susannah

Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum

Old Bald Eagle

Old Blue

Old McDonald

Old Mother Hubbard

One, Two, Three, Four

Peace Like a River

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Ring Around the Rosie

Row Row Your Boat

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

See-Saw Margery Daw

Ten in the Bed

Ten Little Fingers

The Baker

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

The Bee and the Pup

The Big Sheep

The First Noel

The Mulberry Bush

The Wheels on the Bus

This Old Man

Tinga Layo

To Market, To Market

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

We Wish You a Merry Christmas

When the Saints Go Marchin In

Wishy Washy Wee

Yankee Doodle