How Creative Limitations Shaped Ocarina of Time's Best Music

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  @Necrossauro · 5 years ago (edited)

  I also like that when you learn these 3-note-motif songs you are Kid Link, and when you learn the other songs which has more complex melodies you are Adult Link, kinda like when you just got your instrument you learn simple songs first but as you practice and grow you learn more complex songs

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  @ARZiehm · 5 years ago

  Daily reminder that The Song of Healing from Majora's Mask is just Saria's Song backwards - It's truly crazy how different the two songs feel while utilizing the exact same melodic notes

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  @KarlMarcus8468 · 4 years ago

  I'm like 99% sure playing this game as an 8 year old planted the seeds of wanting to become a musician. These songs will be in my brain until I die.

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  @MidbusRR · 4 years ago

  Calling the initial notes a 'question' and the remainder of the section an 'answer' is genius because it even makes sense considering the Ocarina as a magic conduit : you, as the player, ask for a certain power through the ocarina, but only play the question: then, in response, power is granted through playing the Answer

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  @Warri0rLink · 5 years ago

  Me: “Wow! These Ocarina songs are so iconic! I wonder if I could write something cool with these five notes!”<br><b>Scarecrow’s Song</b><br>Me: ⬅️➡️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️

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  @NintendoCapriSun · 5 years ago

  The cool thing about the Serenade of Water is just how malleable its chord structure can be, regardless of whether it&apos;s being used as a i-IV or vi-II. How malleable? Well, it is the first two chords in the Smash Ultimate theme song, but it&apos;s also the first two chords of &quot;Mad World&quot;&apos;s chorus.

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  @Maplewest · 5 years ago

  8-Bit Music Theory: Teaches us about the genius of Ocarina music.<br>Background: Absolutely getting wrecked by Moblins in the deep forest maze.

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  @wbuck · 5 years ago

  I always thought this would be a cool idea for a video - you definitely didn’t disappoint! Zelda’s Lullaby is really interesting because it predates this game mechanic - it was used in Link to the Past. I would assume Kondo started with that and expanded his pitch set from there - by adding the tritone and octave you mention in the video.

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  @TheKeyofGStudio · 4 years ago

  Exposure to the works of Koji Kondo at such a young age is legitimately why I&apos;m a musician today. Around maybe five or so, I sat at my grandmother&apos;s piano and figured out so many songs from OoT, and it only grew from there. My friends and fellow musicians always tell me that the music I write sounds like it belongs in a Zelda game, and it makes me feel so proud to have been influenced by such a great composer as Kondo. I got a tattoo of the treble clef from this game on my right wrist; that&apos;s where it feels like the music flows, and I like to remember where that love for and connection to it came from.

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  @samkauffman53 · 4 years ago

  He didn&apos;t mention that Zelda&apos;s Lullaby predates Ocarina of Time. It was in Link to the Past! So in order to use it in OoT, Kondo already had three of the five notes set in stone, giving him even less flexibility for the other songs.

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  @Casual_PKBeats · 5 years ago

  There&apos;s no doubt about it, Koji Kondo is the greatest game composer. There&apos;s always been something so masterful about those early Zelda games&apos; soundtracks, and Ocarina of Time has always stuck to me in a way almost no other game soundtrack has (as someone who really enjoys prioritizing melodies and such lol). Great video, loved hearing this get talked about

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  @majora4prez543 · 5 years ago

  What&apos;s interesting to me is that Zelda&apos;s Lullaby actually wasn&apos;t composed with these specific limitations in mind; it&apos;s actually reused from A Link to the Past. Was it just a happy accident that this song fit into the patterns of the ocarina songs in Ocarina of Time, or did Koji Kondo choose the notes and patterns for Ocarina&apos;s music based on this already-existing piece?

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