The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: Every Song and What It Unlocks
Every ocarina song in the Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time, who teaches it, what it does, and how the new humming and microphone controls change the way you play them.
Link sets out from Kokiri Forest in the Nintendo Switch 2 remake of Ocarina of Time, released November 5, 2026. Image: Nintendo.
The Nintendo Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launched November 5, 2026, and it keeps the same core ocarina system that defined the 1998 original: thirteen songs, six of them warp melodies taught by Sheik, and one you write yourself. What changes is how you play them. Link's Fairy Ocarina and the Ocarina of Time itself now respond to the Switch 2's microphone, so you can hum, sing or play a real instrument instead of tapping face buttons in sequence.
Learning songs just changed
Every song still has a hard-coded five or six note pattern, and the button method from the original game never goes away: hold up on the control stick to raise the ocarina, then press the mapped buttons in order. The new option sits on top of that. Nintendo's own product page for the remake describes it as the ability to "play Link's Fairy Ocarina or the Ocarina of Time with traditional button controls or try humming, or even playing your own instruments into the Nintendo Switch 2 microphone." A small on-screen prompt confirms the mic is picking up your pitch before Link performs the song back.
Hori is also releasing a licensed electric ocarina built around the same microphone input, with a Free Play mode for individual notes and an Auto-Play mode that performs a full learned song with one press. Neither the mic feature nor the accessory is required to finish the game; buttons alone still clear every songbook triggered gate in the story.
The six songs that move the story forward
These are taught by name, in a fixed order, and the game will not let you skip ahead without them:
- Zelda's Lullaby — from Impa, after escaping Hyrule Castle as a child. Opens doors and gates marked with the Triforce crest and freezes ReDeads and Gibdos when played nearby.
- Epona's Song — from Malon at Lon Lon Ranch. Fills bottles with milk as a child and calls Epona to your side as an adult, once you've raised her.
- Saria's Song — from Saria in the Sacred Forest Meadow. Lets you contact her for hints and is required to progress at a few specific points.
- Song of Time — learned at the Hyrule Castle moat once you hold all three Spiritual Stones. Opens the Temple of Time and moves the blue time blocks found in several dungeons.
- Sun's Song — found written on a wall beneath the Kakariko graveyard. Flips day to night or back on demand and briefly stalls undead enemies outdoors.
- Song of Storms — from the windmill man in Kakariko Village, as an adult. Summons rain, and drains the village well when played at the windmill itself.
Our launch coverage of the remake's price and features has the edition breakdown if you're still deciding which version to buy before diving into the songbook.
The six warp songs Sheik teaches you
Once Link grows up, Sheik appears at six separate points to teach the Prelude of Light and the five temple warp songs. Learn them in this order and you'll always have a shortcut back to wherever you're headed:
- Minuet of Forest — Sacred Forest Meadow. Warps you there, steps from the Forest Temple entrance.
- Bolero of Fire — past the broken Goron City bridge. Warps you to Death Mountain Crater, beside the Fire Temple.
- Serenade of Water — inside the Ice Cavern. Warps you to Lake Hylia, just outside the Water Temple.
- Nocturne of Shadow — Kakariko Village, after the Water Temple is cleared. Warps you to the graveyard, at the Shadow Temple's doorstep.
- Requiem of Spirit — Desert Colossus. Warps you back there, facing the Spirit Temple.
- Prelude of Light — the Master Sword pedestal in the Temple of Time, taught after you clear any one of the six main temples. Warps you straight back to that pedestal from anywhere in Hyrule.
The song nobody teaches you
The Scarecrow's Song breaks the pattern: no NPC hands it to you. As a child, find the scarecrow named Bonooru near Lake Hylia and play any eight-note sequence into him. Track down his taller cousin as an adult, play the Ocarina of Time anywhere nearby, and that scarecrow appears on demand wherever you find similar spots across Hyrule, giving a quick platform or distraction in a handful of optional puzzle rooms. It is entirely self-composed, so the "right" answer is whatever eight notes you picked as a kid.
If a song won't register
If the microphone option refuses to register a song, check the basics before assuming it is broken: background music or a TV competing with the input, a controller held too close to a fan or vent, or humming the melody faster than the game's pitch-matching window can track each note separately. Switching to buttons for one attempt, confirming the note order is right, then going back to humming usually isolates the problem fast.
The ESRB's rating for the Switch 2 release lists Animated Blood and Fantasy Violence, consistent with the dungeon combat around most of these song pickups. Full pricing and platform details sit on Nintendo's official product page, and the Wikipedia entry for Ocarina of Time covers the wider development history if you want the background on where this songbook came from in the first place.