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A hundred melodies, and where each one came from

100 tunes, all public domain, every one transcribed from a named source rather than from memory. Each has its own page: hear it, see its shape, and find out what it actually asks of your hands.

By difficulty: 47 easy, 27 medium, 26 hard. The grade is measured from the notes, not assigned by opinion.

Classical 30 Christmas 15 Nursery rhyme 13 Irish folk 12 Scottish folk 7 American hymn 3 English folk 3 Further afield 17

How many of them each instrument can play

Fewer is not worse. A diatonic kalimba has no sharps and a pentatonic pan has no fourth or seventh, so those instruments simply are not offered the tunes they cannot say. Each number has its own page explaining where it comes from.

The kit is missing from that chart on purpose: a beat has no pitch, so the drums are taught from six grooves of their own rather than from these melodies. The two lowest bars are misleading for the same reason. A handpan is taught from twenty pieces written for it, and a guzheng from six technique studies; the melodies they borrow from this catalogue come after that, not instead of it.

Classical

30 melodies

Christmas

15 melodies

Nursery rhyme

13 melodies

Irish folk

12 melodies

Scottish folk

7 melodies

American hymn

3 melodies

English folk

3 melodies

Further afield

17 melodies from 13 traditions