How to Play Hanging Tree on the 6 Hole Ocarina

About the Hanging Tree

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The words to The Hanging Tree come straight from Suzanne Collins’s novel Mockingjay, where Katniss remembers her father singing them. For the 2014 film the verse was set to a spare, folk-like melody by members of The Lumineers working with composer James Newton Howard, and Jennifer Lawrence sang it on screen. What starts as one voice grows into a crowd, which is the whole point of the scene.

This short arrangement reaches up to a high E, the top note of the phrase and the trickiest breath on a 6-hole ocarina. Take that climb gently and the rest falls easily under the fingers.

Hanging Tree Ocarina Tab

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