Kalimba made the spice impossible when randomly brushing around. Piano players know keys close by could be used to form interesting uncommon chords to spice things up. To play the popular chord progression I -> IV -> V -> I, just find any number printing on the tines literally saying 1, 4, 5, 1 then slide away. It automatically skips notes of an interval too close to the previous one automatically, which that would sound dissonance. You can easily get your : I, ii, iii, IV, V, vi, vii chord of the tuning of your Kalimba with a gentle slide starting from the number that you want and going outwards. The green arrows are tonic major chords and red arrows are tonic minor chords.
Tonic chords means not just any chord but they could "work" together to create a song in a given key of music, creating tension and resolve back. The alternating tines are probably for ergonomics of distributing notes to both thumbs but that is not all, it allows single thumb 3 notes glissando to form tonic chords perfectly. In parallel world, we might have A B C D E F G H I J K L as notes and there is no sharp or flats since those would give the nearby alphabet without exceptions, if the English guys discovered chromatic before diatonic or something. So 7 notes looping can't be equally spaced, we need 12 notes and 2 kinds of distance : 1 semi + 2 semi. These 7 notes C D E F G A B C we see as a result of C major scale here looks linear but they aren't, only because of English alphabet tricks your eye but each one is 2 semitones apart, except BC and EF. In music theory, there is no "black" notes since actually we have 12 notes lined up linearly. Numbers in the picture are note/key agnostic, it is the member of your major key.įor example, in C key Kalimba 1 is C, 6 is A. It has alternating tines left and right to form a major scale starting from the center tine going left first. Note that the hammer can't fix everything since tine length gets more limited on the edge, not only we can't get higher, shorter tines has less decay time as well and require more force to compensate.
So it means either you bring the tuning hammer with you all the time in order to play all songs or you transpose any other song to this key you choose. It is literally centered, the root note is on the center tine. The popular 17-key version is diatonic centered around major scale. (How many notes are there and their distances, key, chords, interval, diatonic, chromatic.) This maybe the first article taking the 34-key Kalimba seriously on the net since I can't find anything elsewhere, the 17-key version is so popular it dominates the scene. This article requires a bit of music theory knowledge. This Unity project I quickly whipped up in about an hour can ask all the tines to number itself according to either major or minor scale interval starting from any note and hide unrelated ones, so we could reveal interesting properties visually. This sonic character could be in calming village music or fantasy forest theme. If you wondered why this kind of article appears in a Unity game programming blog like this, I picked up some instruments in lockdown and the diagrams here were made with Unity.! And also just so you know the Kalimba sound is leaning nice into game soundtrack territory.
We want the added flexibility of more tines to counter that! This assumes we will not re-tune the Kalimba to fit the song we want to play. In this article, I analyze the implication of this 34-key layout what possibilities are opened up. Just like how I was messing around with Unity DOTS.Īnd so with magic of today's e-commerce, it finally appears before me. I love when a brand try to pioneer something and there are not much information anywhere else, I wanted to be at the frontier and experiment. As soon as I see this arrangement which is currently not many brands are doing, I felt adventurous and wanted to explore. I wanted a Kalimba to add interesting calming arps when composing game music for long. Seeds Instruments made a pretty interesting 34-key Kalimba called the Pisces!
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