Saxdude26 Plays: Gerudo Valley (TLoZ: Ocarina of Time) - on Alto Sax

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Published on July 30, 2013 2:05:46 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dzwpkKq2XI

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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)

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Me playing the Gerudo Valley theme, from "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time", on the Alto Sax.

Requested by PhantomHaloWolf.
This was an interesting tune to try out. The melody and note structure is definitely built to be more workable on a stringed instrument, and thus it makes the fingering and note arrangement very intricate. Not impossible, but not easy... and if you can feel the beat of the music and flow with it, working through this tune is actually okay.
The biggest problem with it is the high notes and the way they are arranged. There's no neat way to go about them on a saxophone, and even small phrases like that can make a moderately difficult tune considerably more frustrating. The same goes for the opening melody, it's built for harp and guitar so I didn't even touch it.

So, I guess it's sort of an advanced medium tune? You can get the hang of it, but picking it up and just learning it isn't all that doable. Hence, no tutorial this time.

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