Scarecrow's Song ideas: famous tunes in eight notes

By Linh Nguyen · 9 November 2026

The Scarecrow's Song is eight notes you make up yourself, then have to remember a whole game later. A tune you already know is the easiest to remember. These are famous tunes with eight notes that fit the game's ocarina, each a single button press with no pitch bends.

The game's ocarina has five notes, D, F, A, B, high D, and only one whole step between them, so most melodies can't be played on it without bending a note. The few below can. Each card shows the eight buttons on Switch 2, with the note under each, and the N64 buttons below. The link opens the whole song in the Scarecrow's Song composer in the same key, so you can hear where the eight notes come from and play the rest on a real ocarina.

Learn any song on the ocarina

For any other song, find its sheet music or a MIDI file. Open the composer, then either import the MIDI (or MusicXML) file, or copy the composer's prompt into an AI with the sheet music attached and paste back its answer. You get the whole song as a 12-hole ocarina tab you can listen to and play along with. Then copy the share link and save it: the song lives in the link, so you can come back to it, or send it to a friend.

Here is one done that way, start to finish: My Heart Will Go On, the whole song as an ocarina tab.

For a Scarecrow's Song, pick eight notes from it and change any the game can't play without a bend. The composer shows the game's buttons above every note.

On Switch 2 you may not need the buttons at all: the game hears songs you hum or play into the microphone.

All Ocarina of Time songs as 12-hole ocarina tabs