5 Levels of Ocarina Players (how to know your level + how to improve)

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Күн бұрын

It's hard to know what to do next when you learn an instrument, especially one as niche as the ocarina. Hopefully I can help!
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00:00 Intro
00:22 Level 0
00:54 Level 1: First Ocarina
04:06 Level 2: Basic Proficiency
06:11 Level 3: Getting Serious
09:28 Level 4: Performance Ready
13:04 Level 5: Actual Pro
15:18 You don't have to reach the next level
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@hms.fortune5829 6 ай бұрын

Instructions unclear, I am now the ocarina

@AndyCormierYT 5 ай бұрын

If you are what you eat, I am 153 ocarinas

@heikichikazu5942 4 ай бұрын

I humbly request that you make a website that keeps track of how many ocarinas you eat throughout your life!! This matter is both concerning and intriguing and would be greatly appreciated to have accurately documented, weekly updated sources!! Sincerely -ocarina sceintist "0car1nazRc00L"

@kaznrg Жыл бұрын

Picked up a Night by Noble after watching your videos about six months ago. Joined a Ukrainian folk music band and played at the EU committee in Thailand two months ago. Made a video recording of the whole show too and ate some of the most amazing hors d’œuvres I’ve ever tried. Never imagined my first show on the ocarina would be in front of hundreds of politicians and influencers. Now I’m waiting for a Night by Noble soprano C.

@irregulargorilla8217 Жыл бұрын

My God, THAT is a flex

@ReachStudioPro 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this! Not only is this amazing but it's so encouraging to see someone go "Yeah so I got an Ocarina, learned it and did all these amazing things in just 6 months". It's nice to see someone who actually went from 0 to advanced. All I wanted for a while now is to see a comment like this. Hearing professionals talk about getting good at an instrument is not as impactful as reading or hearing about someone who had started from the bottom and got the results. Now I have it confirmed. I can learn this instrument and get good at it. Practice every day!

@tanyabrown9839 5 ай бұрын

Congrats. I hope my playing improves as yours must have. I find ocarina playing far easier than playing piano, something I had a couple years of lessons in.

@aidenwalsh4320 4 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉 Brilliant

@TheBinchoutan Жыл бұрын

I've owned an ocarina for many years now, but I'm only just now buckling down again and truly learning it. I'm relearning how to read sheet music (I learned in elementary school playing clarinet, and again in junior high in a music exploration class, but forgot it both times) and I'm practicing daily. I think my biggest goal is to be able to sight read music, and be able to play songs by ear. Thank you for your videos! I love watching them!

@tuesday_adelaide4902 Жыл бұрын

Slowly but surely trying to move from a level two to a level three! Definitely saving up for a method book. I have a partner who plays Jazz so I’ve been getting a little help here and there.

@Elmarias777 Жыл бұрын

I just got my first ocarina two weeks ago. A nice ceramic one from STl. End of last week, found out about plastic ocarinas and ended up ordering 3 plastic ones. 2 tenor 1 soprano. My daughter heard me practicing the other day and wanted to learn too. (she is 8). So now we will be practicing together and enjoying our musical journey together! Night by noble soprano and 2 C tenor from STL. I always loved wind instruments (played flute, trombone and oboe in band in school) but always wanted to learn ocarina. not having funding or time while younger, i am now embarking on this journey, in part, thanks to your video that popped up two months ago! So, thanks for the push, input and advice through your videos. I hope to ensemble with you some day, maybe even with my daughter beside.

@That_Wise_Sage_ Жыл бұрын

I just bought a night by noble thanks to your recommendations! At this point, I believe I'm a level 2. I hope to someday be able to play the ocarina like you, so I'll keep practicing! Thank you for all that you do, and happy tooting!!

@shirethe Жыл бұрын

Spending like idk an hour or 2 a day for a week i managed to be fairly proficient playing Lullaby of Woe from the Witcher 3, Toss a Coin to your Witcher, Ballad of the Windfish from Link's Awakening, just from the ocarina tab website you linked simply because i was bored of playing happy birthday or other basic starting songs. Aside from that, I managed to figure out by ear most of Halsey's Gasoline and the final fantasy main theme because i knew how to basically do it on an acoustic guitar already.

@sunshin3697 Жыл бұрын

Being even just a level 3, I feel so proud! I love the Ocarina.

@TommyViper 8 ай бұрын

I finally started playing the ocarina back in August. I never got the chance to really play a whole lot at one time but right now, I'd say I'm between a level 1 and level 2 but closer to a level 2. I essentially had no musical background whatsoever, so I taught myself everything I know so far. But I did things a bit backwards because I was so excited to start playing that I just found some tabs and started playing some Zelda songs using the tabs since I knew what they sounded like. But then I decided to learn the scale since I had no idea what notes I was even playing and now I can play the scale and even some songs just by the letter of the note I need to play. So, I'm not up to sheet music level yet but I can play some songs from memory and generally speaking, as long as I've heard the song before and I know what note I need to play, I can play it that way without the actual tabs. Oh, and I'm playing on a pendant as well! The Kokiri Edition to be exact. :)

@TheFellerHasAChannelGodDamnIt Жыл бұрын

I bought a Bass Triple Chamber Ocarina off of Imperial City. One hell of a starter I'd say.

@AndyCormierYT Жыл бұрын

frankly the only ocarina you’ll need for a very long time, unless you end up wanting something more portable 🫡

@YOUR_NARRATOR975 Жыл бұрын

My ocarina comes tomorrow (or friday) and I can't wait

@tanyabrown9839 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, I have been thinking about buying a method book and this video has convinced me now to get one. I got my ocarina a week before xmas (5 weeks ago) and with it I've had 80hrs practice, its one of those cheap do not buy ocarinas (it's actually fairly good, I can play almost 50 songs well now using sheet music but are also learning to play by ear) and have a professional ocarina from songbird on its way to me. I'm wanting to some time put my piano playing together with some ocarina playing and make some youtube music videos.

@Jeffkanku 5 ай бұрын

I am pretty happy at a high 3 or low 4. The thing that’s holding me back is that I only play what I like. And I’m fine with that

@AndyCormierYT 5 ай бұрын

I’m a big fan of NOT overdoing hobbies! unless you have a strong desire to be *excellent* at something or otherwise need the skills, there shouldn’t be any pressure to do more than you want to

@Jeffkanku 5 ай бұрын

@@AndyCormierYT agreed! I do practice everyday, and I teach some people on the side. I wouldn’t call myself a professional. I remember taking saxophone lessons and having to practice everyday because my mom said so. I had to practice so much stuff I didn’t actually like that I was so fed up at a point that I didn’t play any music for 3-4 years. That’s why I stick to things I like. Some stuff is difficult, some stuff is easy. :)

@cormacscorner 3 ай бұрын

I feel like I have most of the skillsets needed to transition to level three, but I’d probably need to learn more songs and sheet music before leaving level two. Great video!

@musicteacher1981 Жыл бұрын

For multichamber ocarina I studied with The Art of Ocarina, volumen two, from STL. A very good method, with a CD to hear the lessons. The difficulty of the lessons increase in a progressive way. It’s a good option to practice double ocarina. Of course it’s important to begin with a 12 hole ocarina and then continue with a double one.

@cormacscorner 3 ай бұрын

Does is have regular sheet music or some other system? I heard some of stls books have a different kind of notation.

@musicteacher1981 3 ай бұрын

@@cormacscorner It has regular sheet music.

@czntrm 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for this breakdown! I'd say I'm a mid 3 (there's still a few things in level 3 that need work, but I'm pretty confident). I'd like to get to level 4 eventually and that'll be good enough for me.

@looptexxpage569 2 ай бұрын

That last part about ocarina of time really called me out lol! At first I only got that ocarina model because I was (and still am) a huge fan of that game but eventually I got myself an actual ocarina and I wanted to see what I could do to improve because I made my own oc and I want to cosplay her and decided she plays ocarina and blah blah blah yeaahhhh why are you still reading this lol anyways thanks for the video it helped a lot!! :D

@emeraldsword4528 2 ай бұрын

I'm mostly level one, but my collection has aspects of level three. I should get them out again and start practicing.

@astridposey Жыл бұрын

I'm a level five on Viola, and got there probably my senior year in high school. I'm probably in a transition from level 3 to 4 on ocarina right now.

@kalebwaguespack3302 6 ай бұрын

Id say I was almost at level 3 when i played Ocarina regularly, but I lost it so i havent played in a while. I was upper level 2 with aspects of level 3. I have about a decade on trumpet from middle school to college Marching band so I think that helped a lot. I want to buy a new one to pick it back up and take it more seriously this time, but I kinda wanna buy something to challenge myself. So i was thinking of getting the songbird triple harmony if/when it comes back in stock.

@DishonorableMentions452 4 ай бұрын

6:06 i have ceramic wood a plastic ocarina, i got rhem from my birthday and Christmas whigh one shoukd i use

@johncaswell2648 Жыл бұрын

Weird, by this scale I guess I'd be level 4, but I don't know if that's how I would have classified myself. I had a cheat code, I play saxophone, not just used to but still currently do. I waffle between which one I'd consider my main, right now I think it's sax because I recently picked up a baritone and I'm having a blast exploring the low range. Then again I do wander cons with my ocarina and play for people and even garner some small applause sometimes so maybe that's accurate. Hard to wander around a convention floor with even a soprano saxophone so I've never tried that lol. *edit* Just wanted to add I've been playing ocarina for about 3 years now, starting with one I 3d printed for myself at the start of the pandemic, so even with the "cheat code" I had, it wasn't instant.

@AndyCormierYT Жыл бұрын

having a musical background is the best cheat code for getting good at the ocarina quickly! since the instrument is comparably easy to get proficient with, the thing most new players struggle with when improving is the musicianship and music theory side. if you have that taken care of and practice consistently, you only really need to work on furthering the specific instrument skill rather than total musical proficiency. I’d definitely believe you’re level 4!

@golbatgirl 8 ай бұрын

I think I'm somewhere between a 2 and a 3. I have a musical instrument background so it was easy for me to pick up learning the ocarina. I can already read sheet music and sight read with a decent percent of accuracy. The one thing I don't have is learning from a method book. Been looking into getting one but money is currently a little tight.

@albertmartinezjimenez3484 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for all the videos, I'm just starting with the Ocarina and I just bought the KNIGHT by Noble because of your recommendations. Since I had the damned €10 replica and it looks like a screaming cat😅😢 I hope I can enjoy it and reach your level one day! 😊

@drabkebab Ай бұрын

My Ocarina level is -1 but I hope to reach at least level 1 over the summer :D

@limonscore 9 ай бұрын

I am currently practicing Ocarina for 3 Hours and can play all scales fluid and do alternative fingerings for better dynamics I study oboe, piano and singing to get on a professional level and have played some recorder and nose flute before (and I have perfect pitch so thats a cheatcode)

@ongyuxuan6989 3 ай бұрын

I keep on rewatching this video to see where I am, and I feel like it's been half a year and I'm still at level 3, just interpreting it differently every time 😂. I've been practicing every day 30 minutes each. Hope i can get better at my ico double ac fast soon. It took a lot of time for me to get used to the new extremely-breath-sensitive. It's a little harder for me on many common ocarinas because ocarinas are mostly tuned to 20 degrees by default but my country's average temperature is around 27 degrees. So many techniques have to be slightly tweaked as the overall breath pressure required is very low.

@thedogbozz311 Жыл бұрын

I am just a child whos never played a woodwind befor yet i feel like after only a few days i got to level 3.

@felixmeier3298 Жыл бұрын

i think i am at the very start of level 2, but not really there yet XD I have the night by noble AC, but i think i want to get a soprano one, because i like the higher pitched sounds.

@eclipse_eternal8178 10 ай бұрын

Im at level -1, I'm still waiting for my ocarina to arrive 😂 Although im trying to learn the basics of how to read sheet music to prepare :)

@ArtemisDalmasca Жыл бұрын

I think I'm at a mid point between 1 & 2... Leaning more towards 1. I haven't had as much time as I'd like to practice my Ocarina, but with various tab formats, I've been getting better according to my hubby. I also chose the worst time to pick one up, as I bought my Noble at 7 months pregnant, and am currently due tomorrow... So my breath control is very bad right now with a baby on my lungs lol. I can play nearly half of Toss A Coin To Your Witcher from memory though, and has been the dominant song I've been working on when I have time

@spectacularstarlight8206 3 ай бұрын

congrats! I hope your child is doing well!!

@aidenwalsh4320 4 ай бұрын

I did smoke on the water. This is a success 🙌.

@vhfgamer Жыл бұрын

You missed the 6th tier. The Sojiro tier. Personally, I'm a tier 2 with tier 3 aspects. I want to go further with it, but putting in the time to practice is holding me back. I really should stop cracking jokes on youtube and get on it!

@AndyCormierYT Жыл бұрын

he’s beyond all of us, true

@Neymar10Bonito 5 ай бұрын

I am new I read music but not Ocarina tab sheet, I am learning Amazing grace now lol 😅

@AndyCormierYT 5 ай бұрын

Keep it up! I don't recommend staying on tabs forever, but they can certainly help bridge the gap to learning sheet music :)

@GlenShannon 11 күн бұрын

I play recorder semi-professionally, and am new to ocarina. Using the left pinky and right thumb to cover holes feels really strange!

@ryanhendricks1027 10 ай бұрын

Whats the song playing during the "Level 3: Getting Serious" section? I definitely recognize it from Zelda but can't put my finger on the name, but I want to learn it.

@dustblight 2 ай бұрын

i know this is an older comment so you might've already found the song, but in case you haven't yet, it's forest haven from wind waker!

@diamondly6250 11 ай бұрын

i want to get to level 3 and play Zelda songs while walking around the line a the next zelda game launch at Nintendo NY :)

@michaelkibble740 2 ай бұрын

I need help with my STL Ocarina. I can't play it right help me Andy please.

@mich83wot 11 ай бұрын

I somewhat like the fact that I could essentially skip playing alongside something in tune to PLAY in tune. Absolute hearing's a devil. I got a Night by Noble less than a month ago now, am comfortably in Level 2, was considering a digital method book and signing up for music courses just for the sheet music part, AND (bonus) was looking at STL's multi-chamber ocarinas.. before watching this video. Intuition?

@JustinSmith-ym4me 10 ай бұрын

Just out of curiosity where did you go to school?

@DADTHEFATHER 12 күн бұрын

You're a level of 5 to me💯

@amckay003 5 ай бұрын

I would disagree with the ocarina being easier than the recorder but that may just be because I started with a tin whistle before I got an ocarina. And I know, the tin whistle and recorder are different but I could play the recorder perfectly fine after learning the tin whistle. In my mind though, the recorder style instrument is easier than the ocarina.

@AndyCormierYT 5 ай бұрын

I’d argue that because a recorder can do octave jumps on the same fingering, it’s harder for beginners without precise enough breath control to stay in the proper octave. ocarinas, on the other hand, will generally only get a bit sharp or flat if you have improper airflow on a given fingering that said, I have nearly 13 years of ocarina experience and only played recorder in elementary school, so like you said, it may be a question of what type of instrument you’re more comfortable with

@amckay003 5 ай бұрын

@@AndyCormierYT That is a good point about breath support. So little air is needed for the tin whistle or recorder and when I got an ocarina it sounded flat at first because I was so used to a tin whistle.

@tanyabrown9839 5 ай бұрын

A recorder was far harder for me....