Requests

New Tablature Schedule

This site is about Ocarinas. I am posting new melodies in sheet music and tablature form every day. (Well, not every day. I currently have about 100 tabs I’ve created but haven’t had time to add them, formally).

Requests

Let me know if there is a special request that you’d like me to tab out and I’ll do my best! I cannot read music, and I’m tone deaf (really). So I need to see the actual sheet music to transcribe it. It’s helpful to have a youtube link so I can hear the melody, but without the sheet music, not much I can do.

What Songs Can be Played?

For the most part, any song that you can sing, hum or whistle, you can play on an ocarina. Nearly all church hymns fit the vocal range that matches an ocarina. And sheet music for them is easily searchable (that is why you might see more in that category on this site). If it has deep base or high tweets in it, the normal ocarina probably can’t do it.

Your Comments Encourage Me

Please comment on the melodies/pages and feel free to use the tablature editor. Basically just click the notes and then click preview. When it’s perfect, save that string, or send it to me so I can add it. Blind adding is not available at this time, and if I don’t know the song I won’t add it. I’ve lost quite a bit of motivation, had some life changes, and it really encouraged me to see people commenting on the site.

4 hole, 6 hole, 12 hole, etc

Many of the songs that you can play on a 12, 6 and a 4 hole ocarina are the same. Anything you can play on a lower hole ocarina will play on a higher hole ocarina. More holes = More range. Less holes = less range. Not all songs that play on a higher hole will play on a lower hole ocarina. I’m more apt to transcribe a 6 hole song because it will also fit on my sister site: 12holeOcarina.com

In Danger of Closing Down!!

In the 6 years I’ve ran this site, only 1 person 2 people have donated (a very generous $25 and 1 subscriber at $10 a month). I greatly appreciate that gesture! My costs are about $15 a month for the server and I’ve paid about $800 out of pocket for themes and people to work on the site. $15 a month x 6 years = $360. In addition I’ve spent roughly $500~ in testing ocarinas, buying books related to sheet music/tablature. I wrote all of the code for the tablature editor and am not counting that labor, but I’ve put in probably 175 hours or more in tweaking the site, managing, coding, etc. A good coder (not me), might make $100 an hour for development.