You can click your fingers to the beat at this point. Keep the rhythm going through the song, except when the main melody is played. Try softening (Wim)- Banana by pushing and pulling the rhythm from your tummy instead of speaking it through the harmonica. Now try playing this through your 10 hole harmonica using groups of three notes: (Wim)- Banana, (Wim) – Banana, (Wim) – Banana Think Wim in your head, but only say Banana. Now keep this going but make the first part of Banana stronger and more important. Wimoweh G C Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh G D Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh Wimoweh. Now say it a bit faster, this time leaving out the Wim. We have an official The Lion Sleeps Tonight tab made by UG professional. To learn the rhythm, start by saying Wim– Ba n ana. On a 4 hole harmonica just blow two holes each time, but use the same rhythm pattern: Now try playing this through your 10 hole harmonica in C major using groups of notes: Repeat the phrase a few times and you should feel a rhythm taking shape. Now say it a bit faster, making the first part stronger and more important.
This is the rhythm which supports the whole song. Start by saying Wim- o-weh. This is what we want to reproduce with the harmonica. Note how relaxed it is and how it it makes you want to sway. B is blow (breath out). We’re using harmonicas in the key of C majorįirst, take a listen to the song on line with a grown up and get a feel of the rhythm. Orange music is for ten hole harmonicas. A number tells you which hole to play. This uses the 1st, 2nd and 3rd strings.If you find this helpful. Purple music is for four hole harmonicas. Beginner's guitar lesson: the melody for 'Wimoweh' also known as 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight'. Some parts sound slightly better on a 10 hole harmonica, others work fine on a 4 hole. In this part, we’ll work on the rhythms. In part 2 we’ll look at the melodies, then in part 3 we’ll work out some extra fun parts to finish the job. Let’s look at how a group of harmonica players can perform the song. Most of us know it from Walt Disney’s film The Lion King. Welcome to our African extravaganza! Wimoweh comes from the Zuluword Mbube, meaning Lion. The song was composed and first recorded by Solomon Linda in South Africa in 1939.
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