8 *Musical* Easter Eggs in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom

[@ZeldaMusicTheory]

Love it! And thanks for the shoutout! Kevin Zelda Music Theory

[@cool_skeleton_95_]

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[@themuddywolf5794]

Collab video when?

[@cool_skeleton_95_]

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[@vendel8007]

One thing I always found so cool about the Zora's themes in BotW was that if you take the C Major scale and use the italian note names (Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti/Si Do), you will find that the two repeated notes in Mipha's theme are Mi and Fa, and the two repeated notes in Sidon's theme are Si and Do. I don't know how popular this easter egg is but it absolutely blew my mind

[@takobakogames]

That's one of my favorite Easter eggs!! Add in King Dorephan (Do Re) and Zora (So La) and you got the whole scale! Not sure if the notes used in their themes match Do Re and So La, but the names fit in, which makes me happy

[@chris_wizzudz]

Hearing Fi's theme in BotW/TotK is so wonderful every time. Introducing her as the spirit of the Master Sword was such a great addition because she transformed the sword from a simple MacGuffin into an actual character in the series. Even though she doesn't show up in spirit form anymore, she's still in the sword communicating with Link and Zelda throughout the ages. I don't think there's been one Zelda game set in Hyrule (after ALttP anyway) where Link _doesn't_ wield the Master Sword. He and Fi are two halves of one hero.

[@TheBreadPirate]

WOW! I can't believe you have so many musical easter eggs to share for future videos. This series is going to be LIT!

[@melimsah]

Last time I was this early to a video, Ganondorf was still a mummy

[@theoryforger]

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[@DAWesome_]

WOW

[@Nakaska]

6:07 Cucui Ganondorf forever mid-suavemente

[@Galinjins]

You seem to have caught me, medio suavemente

[@LeonKent]

THANK YOU FOR COVERING GANONDORF'S BATTLE THEME! I am so astounded with TotK's soundtrack, I'm so glad you're covering it!! Wonderful work!!

[@KaneRichardsmusic]

I love the amount of callbacks in the ganondorf fight! Sooo good. With the breath of the wild lick in that fight it’s not the only time they brought it back, I may be wrong but in my favorite cut scene in the game, when all the bosses try to stop link after you beat the monster army and the sages fight them, it plays the breath of the wild theme before you get blocked behind a wall of rocks

[@MxDiagnosis]

As a not super musical person who has played most Zelda games My version of finding easter eggs is suddenly crying because of the music and not knowing why but feeling all the feels from the callbacks my brain caught subconsciously 😭😭😭

[@MalachiSouth]

Facts. Usually I can't actually catch the callback but it ALWAYS hits different.

[@emersynwilson1721]

Skyward Sword is one of my favorites too! I'd love to see a full episode on the soundtrack sometime.

[@theoryforger]

You're the second person who's suggested that video, I'll have to do it sometime! It'd definitely be a super long edit, so not anytime too soon, but I'll add it to the video ideas list!

[@TTHBLOX_]

Every time i hear fi's theme and "voice" my heart HURTS

[@TheBlackRam666]

9:21 behind Fi's theme sounds like the piece from Zelda's lullaby as well

[@magicalmercy]

I love this game’s soundtrack so much, and videos like this just make me love it more!

[@WoMysticTV]

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[@BuckXI]

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[@17DecimalsPerHour]

You might be the first KZbinr who said “subscribe if you want, you don’t have too tho” if I wasn’t already subscribed I’d be subscribed now

[@urjent]

For Demon King Ganondorf, at one point it plays that epic bit from the trailer where we first heard ganondorf's voice.

[@theoryforger]

Looking back I think you're totally right! That'll have to be a bonus fact in one of the next installments. Thanks for the pointer!

[@cool_skeleton_95_]

i remember seeing your colgera video and immediately looking at your channel to see what other vids you had and you only had two. i couldnt believe it was only your second video, also youre so underrated

[@MysRyuza]

I’m so glad that you showed the Silent Guardian phasing through the wall in that specific area because I had that same experience and was appalled for the longest time that I didn’t hear people talk about that.

[@theoryforger]

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[@cairoleblanc200]

Instant follow, my guy. Idk how I haven’t encountered you before, this is exactly the type of content I’ve been looking for. I’m sooo passionate about zelda music

[@theeknife9793]

Subscribed at "SS is my personal favourite Zelda game". Thank you.

[@Maxentall]

Great video! Glad you're back on YT, was so stoked when I found your channel a couple weeks back hehe :D

[@_LightningRod_]

I love the editing man! Keep up the great content, and you'll be big!

[@theeknife9793]

Not really an Easter egg but something I found interesting. When you beat the 4 dungeons and go back to Lookout Landing there's no music. Then you have the cutscene where you see Zelda in the castle. Then the music starts playing again but it's slightly different. I don't really know how to explain it in music terms but it sounds like a "lower" version of the original Lookout Landing theme, a bit slower, and less joyful, more unsettling. And at some point during this version, you here a melody played on the piano, that you can also hear in the background of the castle theme, and also in one of the tears cutscene (I think the one where Ganondorf is riding on a horse with his army). It only lasts for a couple seconds but I thought it was cool. Then when you beat the castle's quest, Lookout Landing theme comes back again.

[@JuiceIsEqualToWater]

In the Colgera theme, you still missed one, that one iconic part, people should know what I’m talking about, is the same as some Of the Dragon Roost Island theme in Wind Waker. (It’s the music playing at this time stamp.) 10:05

[@JuiceIsEqualToWater]

Oops, I think he mentioned it in the other video, never mind, sorry!

[@nyxmiloq4167]

Another callback in Ganondorf's theme... well, his army's, is to Ganon's boss theme from A Link To The Past. Specifically, the strings in the background heard right after the Army's intro play the same motif as the brasses in the OG Ganon's theme. Forgive me if "motif" isn't the right word for this one

[@BoojieD]

That silent realm cutaway had me in stitches. Basically everyone's relationship with that part of the game.

[@Snowofthewild]

I am not a music guy at all but this was SO INTERESTING! Very glad you popped up on my homepage! Great work, I'll be staying tuned for more :)

[@poizinarrow5846]

You don’t know how happy I was to see Suavamente Ganondorf at 6:04

[@br54789]

Your editing is so funny and witty! My favorite musical call back is in the Frox battle themes. There is a motif in that song that is also played in the Hyrule Twilight theme. Also, the gossip stone chime from Wind Waker is heard at some time in TOTK, I think in the caves.

[@PenguinPoo4246]

I get the chills whenever I hear the Gannondorf phase 2 music and the health bar just destroys the screen

[@spugnoxngubcux9801]

4:40 Seeing as this plays during the final phase of the final boss fight, and also is scattered across the geoglyphs, I think it's fair to assume that this motif is meant to represent the Light Dragon.

[@theoryforger]

That's such a great insight!!

[@takobakogames]

I love your editing style and I learn so much about music in every video. I can't wait to see more from you!

[@Devontothefourth]

If you make another musical Easter eggs video you should definitely mention this one: The jingle when you open the purah pad is a sped up version of the first notes of the cave theme from Link’s awakening. I noticed this right away when the game came out, but literally noone had posted about it. Checking again now, one other person noticed it on Reddit

[@Professor_Wisteria_]

one of my favorite little easter eggs is when using Tulin's wind, the whistle sound is nearly identical to the horseshoe reed used to call Epona in Twilight Princess. super tiny detail but makes me smile every time i hear it

[@mazerunner1804]

Love this!!! I haven’t played tears of the kingdom yet but this makes me want to play it even more!!

[@BakkerfeelingAdventures]

Awesome. Great work and presentation of the video. Nicely done editing too. 👍

[@scarecrow4078]

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[@himignicest1571]

oh my gosh i will never be able to overstate how much i love this niche of music commentators UGH u give me SO. MUCH. MORE. APPRECIATION. FOR MUSIC. i love ur video styles and always will be my good sir, i get so excited about silly little things.

[@ParStenberg]

Fire Temple features a quotation of the dungeon theme from the original Zelda on the NES. :-)

[@thatguytristan3928]

When you’re building Links house near Terry Town, the music that plays is the music from when you entered a house in old Zelda games (specifically Wind Waker and Ocarina of Time), it’s just slowed down.

[@neferlow1202]

Very nice video ! Also here are two more easter eggs I found : - The instruments used for the skydiving theme are very similar to some of the different themes we can hear in the Great Sky in Skyward Sword - At the beginning of the cinematic where zelda brings the broken master sword to Mineru (which you watch after the spirit temple I recall), you can hear the first few notes of Fi's Theme from skyward sword

[@edgeoftheuntimeworld]

8:17 I was 15-16 yo back in 2011, when Skyward Sword got released. Those moments TERRIFIED me and to this day, I still haven't finished this game because of it... :'D

[@DarthTingleBinks]

As much as the movie is rumored to have Silver Surfer and Galactus as villains, the best way I can see the F4 being displaced in time (assuming they're in 616) is getting trapped in the Negative Zone. Eric brought it up briefly in the video, but I think that's going to be the main plot of the movie. They get stranded during an experiment and spend the rest of the movie trying to get out and fighting Nihilus, arriving in the present of 616 when they escape. So think what happened to Lee Shaw in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, but in Marvel this time.

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[@jenkinsfamily2229]

Another one; the bass strings at 7:19 are playing a motif from the Calamity Ganon fight (it’s also in all of the divine beast battles, right at the outset of each; that’s where It’s most clear). The composers for TOTK really didn’t have to do all of this, but they did, and now we have one of the most densely leitmotific genius scores for any game ever

[@redstonewizard08]

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[@cmelton6796]

I haven't played this game, but when you played clips that had bits from Ocarina of Time, I cried. Not joking. It's like seeing an old friend again for the first time in half your life.

[@owenkrepps4966]

Oh shit this guy knows his music

[@minovies]

3:46 super random but what is this song called!?? I love it.

[@azuzziken]

It's the Shooting Gallery theme from Ocarina of Time!

[@strat0caster124]

I was relistening to some of the TotK tracks and damn some of those easter eggs hits me like every single time. The two that instantaneously comes to my mind are, 1. Get Master Sword track in TotK. I cry every single time when it gets to that track. 2. Light Dragon's Theme. After I listened up a bit more closely to what notes they were using (and obviously it's not simply just a "cut down" version of regular Dragon themes) Another one that I don't exactly whether counts as an easter egg or not, the snare pattern in the Main Theme definitely resembles that in the SS Main Theme (Ballad of the Goddess). I consider it to be a representation of "epic traveling through the sky vibe" lol

[@n-ixq9097]

The calamity ganon section of TOTK's ganondorf theme actually uses the Gerudo variant of calamity ganon's theme (the one that plays during the thunderblight ganon battle). you can hear it best with the melody of thunderblight's version of the theme and the string instrument that plays it.

[@Lena_Sky]

How did you learn to play the piano? In a conservatory? I'm super jealous of your talent for finding music by ear !

[@theoryforger]

Haha thanks! I never went to conservatory, but I did take piano lessons for like 9 years when I was a kid. Most of what I've learned since has just been from watching music stuff on KZbin, learning new songs, and playing with other people regularly (you'd be surprised how much that last one trains your ear and your general feel for music :D)

[@choogmuncher79]

i’m not completely sure i haven’t played wind waker in a while but i think that one part in ganon’s boss theme calls back to the phantom ganon fight !

[@dam9356]

I was expecting ganondorf suavemente💀💀💀

[@KaneRichardsmusic]

Gonna miss you man! I wish you nothing but the best 😊

[@Lannisq00]

you're SO talented, can't wait for the next video :))

[@NormalLunk]

I know this video is about tears of the kingdom specifically, but one of my favorite music Easter eggs is how breath of the wild Castle town has the same music as ikana Valley from Majora's mask, and i feel like nobody gives that one enough recognition.

[@kylewhite4984]

Glad this guy is back!

[@Foodbasedgamer]

babe wake up!! new tuneforge theory just dropped!!

[@dbweinhaus]

That unidentified bowed instrument sounds like a viola de gamba, but realistically they double tracked a cello and added some echo

[@d00p58]

the geoglyph part blew my mind

[@xiodraco]

I think there's a callback to Phantom Ganon's theme in Ganondorf's second phase. It's right after the part with the BotW motif. To me it sounds quite similar to the music when you fight the horde of Phantom Ganons in the sanctum earlier in the game.

[@b4food]

I wish we had the old soundtrack back at least as a separate orchestration mechanic

[@gay.burrito]

can i just say that i absolutely love ur channel here praising and analysing zelda music is just perfect for me (also the silent realm one will never allow me to see the spirit temple the same again lol)

[@ixsmt]

at 7:19, the low string + piano ostinato plays the same motif as the piano in the blight fights in the beasts in botw :) it's barely discernible with the big string octave ostinato above it but it's under there

[@jasperjavillo686]

Another cool Easter Egg is in Remember This Name, the song that plays when Rauru seals Ganondorf away. It contains the Zelda series leitmotif, but fans of Skyward Sword will know it as The Song of the Hero, Link’s song. The really cool bit? It comes in the moment Rauru utters Link’s name.

[@theoryforger]

I love that one! I almost put that in this video, but it'll definitely come up in part 2 or 3

[@BlackStarSymphony]

I just need more videos like this and disections of the boss battles in totk.

[@thezoostation]

I think you can hear part of the Final Palace theme from Zelda II in the battle with the final form of TOTK Ganondorff

[@Greenknight3]

the spirit temple sounds so much like the temple of time theme... to preface this, I am on 2 hours of sleep so I might just be hearing things.

[@jadetuin9086]

I like this video because it points out the use of motifs in TOTK in a succinct but also funny way :~)

[@etiennechouinard1541]

For Colgera, go check The Battle Between Mehve and Corvette from Nausicaa. I'm pretty sure it is inspired from that

[@Rapid.Forcast2]

Please come back🙏🙏

[@cassidynoelle741]

3:39 That almost sounds like a hurdy gurdy, but I can’t be sure. To be fair, I’m surprised that instrument isn’t used in Zelda games more often, given its Germanic roots and relation to the organ.

[@arachnidath]

Finally, another Skyward sword fan! I have found my burial ground.

[@finalbossd]

Part of the instrumentation of part I of the demon king Ganondorf fight is a reference to Maz Koshia.

[@rachelbulger8307]

So maybe it's just me, but does the ancient zora waterworks piece from totk call back to Skyward Sword's faron woods? The lick (?) is only a couple seconds long but it really reminds me of a section of faron woods, especially the underwater version.

[@karenthreatt4498]

Personally one thing in TOTK with the band that plays near the stables like Kass plays Epona's song and like if you listen to the Main stable theme has a part that follows the same pattern

[@LmooskiGames]

The depths poi sound sounds just like the fire temple from oot

[@biggestbirddavid]

3:36 i thought this instrument sounded familiar and i decided to look into it - the closest instrument that i found was the korean ajaeng, which is a bowed instrument

[@Goldlucky13]

the little bit at 7:11 is also in wind waker when you travel, i think

[@ENZO_D]

If You make an equivalent video with iBreath of the Wild, You can tell that in the jingle when a guardian is defeated, if we listen attentively we can ear the one when Ganon appears or is defeated in The Legend of Zelda but in reverse!

[@richienagy1994]

Colgera has by far the best theme of the game’s bosses.

[@george_gamma]

I’m like 90% sure that the 3rd song hummed the gerudo valley theme not the one from links awakening

[@chrisshorten4406]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the geoglyph instrument might be a hurdy gurdy.

[@TheCayDawg]

I'm a very melody driven listener and I absolutely EAT UP motifs in compositions, especially games! Also, for the bit at 7:12 just before the BotW motif, at the beginning of that musical phrase the TotK motif happens and leads into the BotW motif.

[@amaraphoenix3542]

One of my favorite musical Easter eggs in the game is the Light Dragon's theme. SPOILERS It's such a beautiful mix of the regular dragon theme and Zelda's lullaby, but with the latter, it only plays two of the notes and hangs on them without adding the third, and then being taken over by the dragon theme. It's as if the song is trying to remember what it once was...but will never be able to recall it. So good.😢

[@BenthovenMusic]

I’m sorry but #3 just blew my brains to absolute smithereens!!!

[@theoryforger]

Same!

[@BombingGamer]

Is the song at 1:04 that’s being hummed NOT the Gerudo Valley music?

[@demonprinceofkhorne]

So with the Molgera theme, the chkachkachka bit is only in the OST version, its not actually in the main game. It was weirdly disappointing to me when I found out

[@CatalogK9]

I was actually (one of?) the one(s) to point out Fi’s Theme to Zelda Music Theory, but did you notice Zelda’s theme also playing in that scene slowly on top of it? 🤯

[@theoryforger]

I didn't! Wow, I'll have to go back and listen

[@sebastiangamboa6259]

Love ur videos bro! You have to hear the water temple from tears of the kingdom🎉🎉❤

[@motherjup1ter]

just decided to watch a random video because I had to do a quest in wind waker but I have to wait so long rn😭

[@motherjup1ter]

This was actually really fun so finna watch your other videos lol ahhaha

[@ImaSpinachLeaf]

I’m pretty sure colgera’s name is also a mix between one of the bosses who’s names starts with c (I forgor😢) and molgera

[@COSMICking831]

The ganondorf one has a abit of phantom ganon from wind waker and the calamity ganondorf from botw it a mix up one

[@hokton8555]

could molgeras theme be a reference to salias song

[@Rapid.Forcast2]

I miss you so much and I want you back😭😔

[@ethangadd7210]

Won a subscriber as soon as you said Skyward Sword was your favorite

[@Xp070]

Love me some leitmotifs