How to Play A Tisket a Tasket on the 6 Hole Ocarina

About A Tisket a Tasket

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A Tisket a Tasket started life as an American playground singing game. Children sat in a circle while one walked around the outside and secretly dropped a handkerchief behind someone, who then had to jump up and give chase. The nonsense opening line is just a chant to keep the game turning. Most people know it now from Ella Fitzgerald, who spun it into a swing hit in 1938 with the Chick Webb band and had a hand in writing that version; the underlying rhyme is older and anonymous.

On the six-hole ocarina it makes a friendly first tune. The whole melody sits inside one octave, from low C up to A, with no sharps or flats, so you can learn it without ever leaving the natural fingerings.

A Tisket a Tasket Ocarina Tab

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