Link's ocarina has five buttons, and each one plays a single note. Every song in Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask is built from those five, which makes them some of the easiest real tunes to learn on a 12-hole ocarina.
On a 12-hole Alto C ocarina the buttons are these notes: A is D4, C-down is F4, C-right is A4, C-left is B4 and C-up is D5. All five are natural notes from the middle of the range, so there are no half-holes and no forked fingerings. Learn these five fingerings and you can play every song on this page.
The six songs people teach Link as he travels Hyrule, roughly in the order the story reaches them.
| Song | Buttons | Ocarina notes | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zelda's Lullaby | C-left, C-up, C-right, C-left, C-up, C-right | B D A B D A (B4 D5 A4 B4 D5 A4) | Proves Link serves the royal family and opens doors and blocks marked with the Triforce. Learned from: Impa, in the Hyrule Castle courtyard. |
| Epona's Song | C-up, C-left, C-right, C-up, C-left, C-right | D B A D B A (D5 B4 A4 D5 B4 A4) | Calls Epona, and gets milk from cows. Learned from: Malon, at Lon Lon Ranch. |
| Saria's Song | C-down, C-right, C-left, C-down, C-right, C-left | F A B F A B (F4 A4 B4 F4 A4 B4) | Lets Link talk to Saria from anywhere, and cheers up Darunia. Learned from: Saria, in the Sacred Forest Meadow. |
| Sun's Song | C-right, C-down, C-up, C-right, C-down, C-up | A F D A F D (A4 F4 D5 A4 F4 D5) | Turns day into night and back, and freezes ReDeads for a moment. Learned from: The wall of the Royal Family's Tomb in Kakariko Graveyard. |
| Song of Time | C-right, A, C-down, C-right, A, C-down | A D F A D F (A4 D4 F4 A4 D4 F4) | Opens the Door of Time and moves the blue Time Blocks. Learned from: Zelda, at the Hyrule Castle moat. |
| Song of Storms | A, C-down, C-up, A, C-down, C-up | D F D D F D (D4 F4 D5 D4 F4 D5) | Brings rain, drains the Kakariko well and opens hidden grottos. Learned from: The man in the Kakariko windmill. |
Sheik teaches the six warp songs, one near each of the adult temples. Each takes Link back to the place it was learned.
| Song | Buttons | Ocarina notes | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minuet of Forest | A, C-up, C-left, C-right, C-left, C-right | D D B A B A (D4 D5 B4 A4 B4 A4) | Warps to the Sacred Forest Meadow, outside the Forest Temple. Learned from: Sheik, in the Sacred Forest Meadow. |
| Bolero of Fire | C-down, A, C-down, A, C-right, C-down, C-right, C-down | F D F D A F A F (F4 D4 F4 D4 A4 F4 A4 F4) | Warps to Death Mountain Crater, near the Fire Temple. Learned from: Sheik, on the bridge in Death Mountain Crater. |
| Serenade of Water | A, C-down, C-right, C-right, C-left | D F A A B (D4 F4 A4 A4 B4) | Warps to Lake Hylia, by the Water Temple. Learned from: Sheik, at the end of the Ice Cavern. |
| Nocturne of Shadow | C-left, C-right, C-right, A, C-left, C-right, C-down | B A A D B A F (B4 A4 A4 D4 B4 A4 F4) | Warps to the Kakariko Graveyard ledge by the Shadow Temple. Learned from: Sheik, in Kakariko Village. |
| Requiem of Spirit | A, C-down, A, C-right, C-down, A | D F D A F D (D4 F4 D4 A4 F4 D4) | Warps to the Desert Colossus and the Spirit Temple. Learned from: Sheik, at the Desert Colossus. |
| Prelude of Light | C-up, C-right, C-up, C-right, C-left, C-up | D A D A B D (D5 A4 D5 A4 B4 D5) | Warps to the Temple of Time. Learned from: Sheik, in the Temple of Time. |
Majora's Mask brings back the Song of Time, Epona's Song and the Song of Storms with the same notes, and adds songs of its own, listed here roughly in the order Link learns them. In his other forms Link plays Deku pipes, Goron drums or a Zora guitar, but the notes are the same five.
| Song | Buttons | Ocarina notes | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Song of Time | C-right, A, C-down, C-right, A, C-down | A D F A D F (A4 D4 F4 A4 D4 F4) | Returns Link to the dawn of the first day and saves the game. Learned from: Zelda's memory, when Link gets the ocarina back. |
| Song of Healing | C-left, C-right, C-down, C-left, C-right, C-down | B A F B A F (B4 A4 F4 B4 A4 F4) | Soothes troubled spirits and turns them into masks. Learned from: The Happy Mask Salesman, in the Clock Tower. |
| Sonata of Awakening | C-up, C-left, C-up, C-left, A, C-right, A | D B D B D A D (D5 B4 D5 B4 D4 A4 D4) | Wakes sleepers and raises Woodfall Temple. Learned from: The captive monkey in Deku Palace. |
| Song of Soaring | C-down, C-left, C-up, C-down, C-left, C-up | F B D F B D (F4 B4 D5 F4 B4 D5) | Warps to any Owl Statue Link has activated. Learned from: A stone tablet on the way to Woodfall. |
| Oath to Order | C-right, C-down, A, C-down, C-right, C-up | A F D F A D (A4 F4 D4 F4 A4 D5) | Calls the Four Giants on the final night. Learned from: The Giant of Woodfall. |
| Goron Lullaby | A, C-right, C-left, A, C-right, C-left, C-right, A | D A B D A B A D (D4 A4 B4 D4 A4 B4 A4 D4) | Puts Gorons to sleep. Learned from: The Goron Elder, then the baby Goron. |
| Epona's Song | C-up, C-left, C-right, C-up, C-left, C-right | D B A D B A (D5 B4 A4 D5 B4 A4) | Calls Epona. Learned from: Romani, at Romani Ranch. |
| New Wave Bossa Nova | C-left, C-up, C-left, C-right, C-down, C-left, C-right | B D B A F B A (B4 D5 B4 A4 F4 B4 A4) | Restores Lulu's voice and wakes the giant turtle. Learned from: The hatched Zora eggs at the Marine Research Lab. |
| Song of Storms | A, C-down, C-up, A, C-down, C-up | D F D D F D (D4 F4 D5 D4 F4 D5) | Brings rain. Learned from: Flat's ghost, in the Ikana Graveyard. |
| Elegy of Emptiness | C-right, C-left, C-right, C-down, C-right, C-up, C-left | A B A F A D B (A4 B4 A4 F4 A4 D5 B4) | Leaves a statue of Link's current form. Learned from: Igos du Ikana, in the Ancient Castle of Ikana. |
A scarecrow hints at these two variations on the Song of Time. Neither appears on the Quest Status screen.
| Song | Buttons | Ocarina notes | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inverted Song of Time | C-down, A, C-right, C-down, A, C-right | F D A F D A (F4 D4 A4 F4 D4 A4) | The Song of Time backwards: slows the clock to a third of its speed. |
| Song of Double Time | C-right, C-right, A, A, C-down, C-down | A A D D F F (A4 A4 D4 D4 F4 F4) | Each of the first three notes of the Song of Time played twice: skips ahead half a day. |
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for Nintendo Switch 2, released on November 5, 2026, can listen through the console's built-in microphone. Nintendo's page for the game suggests humming the songs into it, and says you could even try playing them on a real ocarina.
To try it on a 12-hole Alto C, learn the five fingerings at the top of this page and play each song at a steady, moderate volume near the microphone. We haven't measured how strictly the game checks pitch, so if a song isn't recognised, slow down and give every note its full length.
Saria's Song, Epona's Song, Zelda's Lullaby and the Song of Storms are each a three-note figure played twice, so you only have to remember three notes. Once those are comfortable, the warp songs are a good next step.
Bolero of Fire is the longest at eight notes, but it starts by rocking between F4 and D4. Those two fingerings differ only in the right middle and right ring fingers.
Where the library has a tab for a song, its name links to it. Several of those tabs are the longer melody the game's soundtrack builds around the song, such as the Lost Woods theme behind Saria's Song.
Both games also have a Scarecrow's Song, which is any eight notes you make up yourself, so it has no fixed tab.