About Ocarina Fingerings

Ocarina Fingerings is a fan site that shows how to play the 12 songs from the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998) on a real 12-hole Alto C ocarina. Every note of every song is drawn as an ocarina fingering, so you can cover and lift the holes as the picture shows and the song comes out.

Where the notes and rhythm come from

In the game, A plays low D, C-Down plays F, C-Right plays A, C-Left plays B and C-Up plays high D. This site plays the same five notes one octave up on an Alto C ocarina (D5, F5, A5, B5, D6). None of them needs a sharp or flat, so they are easy fingerings for beginners.

The button order of each song matches the game. Note lengths come from the table the game uses when it plays a learned song back to you, read from the public decompilation project zeldaret/oot (in 1/60-second units). The sound of the play button is synthesized in your browser; it is not game audio.

The BGM continuations

After the six notes of Saria's Song, Epona's Song and the Song of Storms, playback continues into the melody of the Lost Woods, Lon Lon Ranch and Windmill Hut background music. You don't enter this part in the game; it is here so you can keep playing. There is no official score, so we read several public MIDI files and checked that their notes and rhythm agree, and the tempo follows the in-game speed of the six notes. Zelda's Theme, which follows Zelda's Lullaby, goes above the highest note of a 12-hole Alto C ocarina (high F), so it is not included.

The Switch 2 remake

The Nintendo Switch 2 version of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, released on November 5, 2026, listens through the console microphone, so Link responds to songs played on a real ocarina. It only recognizes songs you have already learned in the game. With buttons, low D is L, F is R, A is A, B is Y and high D is X. We checked the ocarina sheet music and fingering guide Nintendo published on its official site against Zelda's Lullaby, Bolero of Fire and Nocturne of Shadow, and the rhythm and fingerings on this site match.

Fingering drawings

The fingerings and hole layout follow the Alto C fingering chart by Noble Ocarina, a Korean maker, and match the 12-hole charts of STL Ocarina and Pure Ocarinas for all five notes. Noble's chart says Alto C, Soprano G and Soprano C share the same fingerings. Sub-hole positions vary a little between brands, but all five notes here keep both sub-holes open, so the fingerings do not change.

Who runs it

Ocarina Fingerings is a personal project by factpane, supported by advertising. The Legend of Zelda and Ocarina of Time are trademarks of Nintendo; this site has no connection to Nintendo.

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