Steel Tongue Drum - Video Tutorials
Welcome to our Steel
Tongue Drum page. Learn more about the sound of our Steel Tongue Drum and the benefits of purchasing a Deep Olive Goods Steel Tongue Drum.
Steel Tongue Drum Tutorials
To help you play your new Steel Tongue Drum, we've put together some video tutorials to help you on your journey. We hope you enjoy your new steel Tongue Drum!
Introduction to our Steel Tongue Drum
- Quick Start Guide (pg i): YouTube link
- Helpful Hints for Playing (pg ii): YouTube link
First Patterns (pages 1-2)
- 4-Note Patterns (pg 1): A-C YouTube link, D-F YouTube link, G-I YouTube link
- 4-Note Patterns (pg 2): J-L YouTube link, M-O YouTube link, P-R YouTube link
Simple Melodies
3-5 Note Melodies (pages 3-14)
- Hot Cross Buns (pg 3): YouTube link
- Mary Had a Little Lamb (pg 3): YouTube link
- Sleep Baby Sleep (pg 4): YouTube link
- Rain, Rain Go Away (pg 4): YouTube link
- Ring Around the Rosy (pg 5): YouTube link
- Pop! Goes the Weasel (pg 5): YouTube link
- Nothing But the Blood of Jesus (pg 6): YouTube link
- Go Tell it On the Mountain (pg 7): YouTube link
- Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (pg 7): YouTube link
- There's a Hole in the Bucket (pg 8): YouTube link
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat (pg 8): YouTube link
- This Little Light of Mine (pg 9): YouTube link
- Charlie Over the Ocean (pg 10): YouTube link
- Old MacDonald Had a Farm (pg 11): YouTube link
- Peace Like a River (pg 12): YouTube link
- Taps (pg 13): YouTube link
- Reveille (pg 14): YouTube link
Intermediate Patterns & Melodies
8 Note Patterns (8th note rhythms)
- 8 Note Patterns (pg 15): A-C YouTube link, D-F YouTube link, G-I YouTube link
- 8 Note Patterns (pg 16): J-L YouTube link, M-O YouTube link, P-R YouTube link
5-7 Note Melodies (pages 17-24)
- Jesus Loves Me (pg 17): YouTube link
- Amasee (pg 18): YouTube link
- Alabama Gal (pg 18): YouTube link
- Lone Star Trail (pg 19): YouTube link
- Amazing Grace (pg 20): YouTube link
- Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen (pg 21): YouTube link
- This Train is Bound for Glory (pg 22): YouTube link
- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (pg 23): YouTube link
- Auld Lang Syne (pg 24): YouTube link
16 Note Patterns (16th note rhythms)
- 16 Note Patterns (pg 25): A-B YouTube link, C-D YouTube link
- 16 Note Patterns (pg 25): E-F YouTube link, G-H YouTube link
- 16 Note Patterns (pg 26): I-J YouTube link, K-L YouTube link
- 16 Note Patterns (pg 26): M-N YouTube link, O-P YouTube link
Hit Song Tutorials
Hit Songs 1970's-2000's: Rated G (pages 27-29)
- I Can Only Imagine - MercyMe (pg 27): YouTube link
- My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion (pg 28): YouTube link
- Isn't She Lovely - Stevie Wonder (pg 29): YouTube link
Hit Songs 1980's-2010's: Rated PG (pages 30-33)
- Thriller - Michael Jackson (pg 30): YouTube link
- The Cave - Mumford and Sons (pg 31): YouTube link
- Don't Stop Believing - Journey (pg 32): YouTube link
- Counting Stars - OneRepublic (pg 33): YouTube link
