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Ocarina Quest

Ode to Joy ocarina tabs

Beethoven’s famous theme moves step by step from C to G.

Level
Easy
Time
4/4
Tempo
100 beats a minute
Length
16 bars
Notes
CDEFG

The tabs

Read from left to right, as sheet music. Each note sits on the staff, with a picture of the ocarina under it: terracotta holes are covered, and the two small circles are the thumb holes. The note’s name is under the picture. A hollow head is a long note and a filled one a short one; a dot makes a note half as long again. For every fingering in detail, see the fingering chart.

Plays the tune at the ocarina’s own pitch.

EEFGGFEDCCDEEDD

The rest of Ode to Joy is in the app

Ocarina Quest plays the whole song with you, listens while you play and shows which notes were off.

Coming soon to Google Play

About this song

Origin: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, 1824

Where it sits on the learning path

It is the song of the unit “F and G”.