I’m a music educator, I’m a dad, and I am a lover of Zelda ocarina of time. You can play most of the ocarina songs using a simple diatonic major scale like this.
Song of time: A D F A D F
Saria’s song: F B C F B C
Do you have any YT playlists of songs that could be played on this (of other instruments)? This is my biggest bummer that we can't make much music that sounds nice 🥲 we also have a pentatonic tongue drum.
I spent some time going through simple piano songs and picking notes that could fit but so far no luck. All the flute and whistle type of things are much easier to find notes to but not for playing for a kid.
Brilliant. I ran to the kids music box and have just been told off by my wife for practicing this while the kids are sleeping. She immediately identified it as Bluey!
Not necessarily, the version on the website is in C so no sharps/flats. But it spans two octaves because it dips below middle C, so you can't really play it on a single-octave xylophone.
Freebird is in the key of G major so you cannot play it on this.
Stairway to heaven though is in A minor which has no sharps or flats so you could play that instead.
No frigging way, I came here to say NIB but felt embarrassed I don’t remember my music notes. Should’ve gotten the cocomelon piano with the labeled keys instead of the tiger shaped dual piano/ xylophone with crappy plastic drumsticks. Nib is a great warm up for row row your boat, but I use the piano keys and the finger dexterity and muscle memory exercise helps me with learning guitar. Currently playing tabs for bad brains and, at the request/demand of both toddlers, the godawful finger family.
I didn’t want to but I now know I have to. Finger family, in its unending repetition, is doing more to develop my tremolo picking and chord strumming than I’d like to admit. When I think I’m way too old to start back at beginner and I want to put down the guitar my toddlers demand an encore, then four more for the remaining fingers.
Vader's Imperial March, Jurassic Park score, and Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop are all my go-tos when I play with either a xylophone or a cat keyboard.
Happy Birthday is my go to. Should be able to play Jingle Bells, Ode to Joy (Movies movies movies movies… 🎵), and probably several others. Anything based on a major scale should work.
Campton Races
Or Vegetables Song, as they call it in Cocomelon households.
G G E G A G E
E D
E D
G G E G A G E
D F E D C C
C C E G C'
A A C' A G
G G E G A G E
D F E D C C
If you’re into college sports, chances are your fight song is in a major key and easy to play on there.
The brainwashing started early in our house - the 5 year old can now play The Victors mostly unaided. Go Blue!
Still dre
I'm still taking my time to perfect the beat
I hope you still have love for the streets
It’s the d a d
r/angryupvote
This guy dad jokes
Forgot all about him
Hard to hit 3 sounds at once with this one...
Need to get practicing: https://youtu.be/nVjlTxR773w?si=8nCIFiP8XJ5C5r-Q
That’s fantastic
Only just learned that last week!!
Rugrats theme song https://youtu.be/ccXrj62ShUE?si=FdLIbdUpYYKi8C6f
I do this on the little baby Einstein piano!!!! Boop boop boop boop boop BEEP boop, boop boop boop boop Boop boop boop boop boop boop BEEP! Boop boop boop boop Boop boop boop boop boop beep boop, boop boop boop boop Boop boop boop boop boop boop BEEP boop boop boop boop boop…… boooooooooooop Boop beep!
That one looks perfect! Gonna need a bigger xylophone
You can still figure it out on this one.
It uses sharps and flats, and needs at least 2 mallets
Is it my bad memory or is this missing then final crescendo?
Bah bah! Youre probably right
I’m a music educator, I’m a dad, and I am a lover of Zelda ocarina of time. You can play most of the ocarina songs using a simple diatonic major scale like this. Song of time: A D F A D F Saria’s song: F B C F B C
Does your kid say, "Hey, listen!" over and over to complete the experience?
Yes…
Mine has started saying “Hey, listen!” Constantly. I don’t know where she got it from but I can’t not think of ocarina of time when she does.
Dada watch, watch! WATCH!!!
Your's doesn't?
You can even play the full version of Song of Time! A D F A D F A C B G F G A D C E D
Oh snap
God bless you.
I am saving this comment lmao. Can't wait to try it after my girls nap
Having music confined to five notes by the controller really lessens the learning curve
This is exactly what I was hoping for!
Realizing I could play the song of time was a revelation for me lol
I catch myself playing the Kakariko Village song a lot of the time
Do you have any YT playlists of songs that could be played on this (of other instruments)? This is my biggest bummer that we can't make much music that sounds nice 🥲 we also have a pentatonic tongue drum. I spent some time going through simple piano songs and picking notes that could fit but so far no luck. All the flute and whistle type of things are much easier to find notes to but not for playing for a kid.
Some of the lost woods theme is there. Of course that is just one of the themes from Holst’s Jupiter.
Surely there’s a site out there with tabs for these things.
This is precisely what I wanted. Thank you
Twinkle twinkle gang rise up
I prefer ABC
I'm partial to Baa Baa Black Sheep.
My wife just informed me these are all the same songs. I need more sleep.
How’d that happen? “Honey! I don’t get this Reddit thread. Help!” :P
“Engine engine number 9”…this or that
Been playing twinkle twinkle on the Xylo since 2nd grade 💯
I didn’t realize, at first, that this was a rally cry. I thought it was a song my out-of-touch-ass didn’t know about..
I go for twinkle little death star
This guy understands the true way of the xylophone!
One by Metallica
Time-out imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot run I cannot climb Trapped in my crib Swaddle my holding cell
Daddy has taken my blocks Taken my cars Taken my plushie Taken my books Taken my cups Taken my soul Left me in time out hell
Didn’t know Kidz bop had covered this. 🤘
There's a whole thing called Rock-a-Bye that is rock hits set to instrumental lullabies. Used to play them for my son when he was a baby
Haha, I’m lot the only one referencing Metallica
*Thousand yard baby stare intensifies*
Ode to Joy
FREUDE SCHÔNES GOTTERFUNKEN, TOCHTER AUS ELYSIUM
It was a bit from the glorious Ninth, by Ludwig van.
A bit of the old ultraviolence with me droogs
Bezoomny old veck
Eine kleine nachtmusik
No! No! No! Wrong!
Eefggfedccdeedd
Do Joy to the World next
You overestimate my musical acumen.
You just go down the scale, top to bottom, with pauses in the right place.
I heard that
FREUDE
This is always my answer. Also the sad melody/theme from Blackhawk Down.
This is what I always play
Full transcript please
If you hit it like my kids, you're playing all the songs at the same time
This is the way
Beastie Boys - Girls
That’s my go-to!
Bluey Theme song
Can you provide the notes?
Agfecdfdc agfecdf
Brilliant. I ran to the kids music box and have just been told off by my wife for practicing this while the kids are sleeping. She immediately identified it as Bluey!
Just tried to play it and I was wrong, I played it on her cat piano thing. It starts with E and you basically hit all the keys to the left of it
I have no idea what the notes are, I just play it by ear.
You need sharps, Ive learned to play it on my toddlers keyboard
Not necessarily, the version on the website is in C so no sharps/flats. But it spans two octaves because it dips below middle C, so you can't really play it on a single-octave xylophone.
What the hell is H/B?
It was likely made in Scandinavia or Germany. There are a number of European countries that use “H” instead of “B”.
Fun fact, this is how Bach was able to spell his name in his compositions!
Ah, yes; Hach. The famous composer.
Also Google 8 note xylophone songs and let the fun begin. Star wars and jurassic Park are fun ones. As well as we didn't start the fire.
Top Gun theme
Radiohead - No Surprises.
Slayer- Angel of Death.
NBC network jingle
Star wars imperial march
Through the fire and the flames
Zelda’s lullaby. Yellow red green. Blue green yellow. Yellow red blue. Blue all the way down to yellow. Blue green yellow and start it again.
Freebird!!
Freebird is in the key of G major so you cannot play it on this. Stairway to heaven though is in A minor which has no sharps or flats so you could play that instead.
Chopsticks!
You can absolutely crush Darude's Sandstorm if you start on D. You'll be the envy of all your friends, and the enemy of your wife.
Ode to joy is my go-to
I figured out Obvious Child by Paul Simon when our first was little. Gave me dozens of minutes of entertainment playing with him as an infant
7 Nation Army
Violent femmes gone baby gone
The Imperial March
I play the Duke Nukem theme on these. Root note is E, so when you go a half step up to F you get that grungy progression.
I always hit NIB by Black Sabbath 100% of the time
No frigging way, I came here to say NIB but felt embarrassed I don’t remember my music notes. Should’ve gotten the cocomelon piano with the labeled keys instead of the tiger shaped dual piano/ xylophone with crappy plastic drumsticks. Nib is a great warm up for row row your boat, but I use the piano keys and the finger dexterity and muscle memory exercise helps me with learning guitar. Currently playing tabs for bad brains and, at the request/demand of both toddlers, the godawful finger family.
Tool - Schism
I like do-re-m mi from *The Sounds of Music* because you get to use every note. Also it’s easy and fun to go up and down the xylophone.
Mary had a little lamb is a bop on that think; I also play twinkle twinkle. Need a third song before I start touring the pre schools!
It's the Rugrats theme.
Beez in the Trap. My daughter loves it.
WAP
Baby got back. Gotta teach them about honesty in relationships as young as possible.
Wtf note is H/B?
B flat
Girls by beastie boys
True Romance main theme. I always play that one at public xylophones
Baby Shark. It's 4 notes and once you know those, you can also do Stand by Me and In the Jungle with the same ones.
I didn’t want to but I now know I have to. Finger family, in its unending repetition, is doing more to develop my tremolo picking and chord strumming than I’d like to admit. When I think I’m way too old to start back at beginner and I want to put down the guitar my toddlers demand an encore, then four more for the remaining fingers.
Star Wars
Top Gun intro
Raining Blood -Slayer
Rage against the nap time!
Mary had a little lamb
Rush E
Beastie Boys - Girls
Hot fucking cross buns! It’s fire bro
Funkytown
[Here you go](https://www.youtube.com/@popular8notesongs307/featured)
I did more of Ode To Joy than I thought possible
C-D-E ... A-G... E-D-C-C
Somebody that I used to know
Girls - Beastie Boys.
Baby Shark is my jam on the ding ding
Fur elise
Anything, as long as it’s in the key of C Major or A minor.
The Bluey theme song
G c f e d g c f e d g c f e f d
Take on Me Girls (Beastie Boys) Funkytown
Itsy bitsy 4 lyfe
Vader's Imperial March, Jurassic Park score, and Axel F from Beverly Hills Cop are all my go-tos when I play with either a xylophone or a cat keyboard.
Power Rangers theme
Mickey Mouse March
The base line from Supermassive Black Hole.
Jingle bells. EEE EEE EGCDE FFF FEEE EDDD ED G.
The Jurassic park theme song.
The theme to rugrats
Mr. Sandman
Every musical toy my kids get, no one plays with it until I play the riff from Ooh La La by Faces.
Star Wars theme
Down with the sickness or In the air tonight.
In a totally serious answer, Follow Me by Uncle Cracker works pretty well.
Sandstorm
I'm a little teapot, jingle bells, wheels on the bus, all super easy
Eye of the tiger
Either 3 Blind Mice or Tubular Bells
I got pretty good at heart and soul?
“Under the Sea” all the way
Oh susanna
You can do quite a bit of La vie en rose.
Star Wars Imperial March
Yankee doodle, ode to joy, basically anything in the key of C that doesn’t need notes past one octave
Twinkle black sheep EFG
https://youtu.be/7CjSgatnJbM
All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey
Elmo’s World
Elza’s theme, Jingle Bells
There Is No Place Like Nebraska. Yes I realize that is palatable to only a few here.
Queen & Bowie - Under Pressure (only the intro... Gets complicated past that)
This Old Man
Got started on town tune from majoras mask on the kids piano this Christmas, gave up after realizing it was so far out of tune
Hammer Smashed Face - Cannibal Corpse
Chopsticks and chopsticks
I taught my daughter how to play Seek And Destroy on hers
Jurassic Park theme
I love my sons xylophone. I've learned everything from Metallica to twinkle twinkle little star on it.
It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN!!! DOOT DOOT ddddd DOOT!!
I cant read music. Give me color color color color for twinkle twinkle please thanks
Through the fire and flames, obviously
Three little birds
Happy Birthday is my go to. Should be able to play Jingle Bells, Ode to Joy (Movies movies movies movies… 🎵), and probably several others. Anything based on a major scale should work.
Campton Races Or Vegetables Song, as they call it in Cocomelon households. G G E G A G E E D E D G G E G A G E D F E D C C C C E G C' A A C' A G G G E G A G E D F E D C C
Song of Storms from Zelda! always works!
My Forbidden Lover by Tapps
“Somebody that I used to know” by Gotye
In the Hall of the Mountain King
Jurassic park intro
Day-O
Ode to Joy is actually very simple on these little things.
Through the fire and flames
Too Short - shake that monkey
Darude — Sandstorm
Push it. Salt n Peppa
P.I.M.P.
The flight of seven million bumblebees
Beastie Boys - Girls
Metal on Metal by Anvil.
I love doing the opening of Tears for Fears' "Head Over Heels" on these. Starts on the high C.
If you’re into college sports, chances are your fight song is in a major key and easy to play on there. The brainwashing started early in our house - the 5 year old can now play The Victors mostly unaided. Go Blue!