The music in the video game The Legend of Zelda each musical masterpiece has roots from all over the world and different time pieces. Each song from these games all share and hold value to the people that made that sound popular many years ago. Even though the composer for many of the games Koji Kondo had limited space to work with since many of the songs had to be ported to a smaller same key instrument called an Ocarina. He was still able to create immensely powerful and beautiful pieces that were so simple and yet so creative. For example, a theme from the main village in Majora’s Mask is called Clock Town. This game has a three day cycle in which you have to complete the game because of the world ending moon that is about to crush into this place. With the help of a time bending song you’re able to complete it, but in this main Clock Town the theme is very simple. Every new day brings a new theme, something that most games don’t really have. Because of the impending doom loominating overhead the theme gets faster and more darker I truly recommend giving it a listen.     

I really connect to these pieces and this person because he was able to take simple patterns. Some patterns can be easily found on a piano as increments of three and then an ending. I truly believe that Zelda wouldn’t still be the adventure game gods that they are today without those pieces. Simple patterns that people who have never played the piano can find and with practice every day said person can continuously add more things. From what was once a simple three note scale can now be a complex rhythm with a ton of character and life filled into it. I connect with it because I know that just messing around with a piano anyone can find subtle patterns like they did in the Legend of Zelda series.

Today’s music has been very similar. Our brains like a sense of familiarity so most of pop music today sounds similar to each other from subtle lyrical sayings to larger more noticeable sounds. Now that most music  again is all done using a keyboard, computer, drum maker, and a sampler. So it takes what most people spend their entire lives following and dumbs it down. Most pop music today even uses a thing called the millennial whoop or a series of notes that make a familiar tune found in many pop songs.

 I connect with this through the simplistics of the new music being mostly digital; it loses its soul within the song as well as the feeling of playing it. More kids today just seek this simpler method when making music which does work, but leaves the feeling and the love out and just seeks the music arts for the money.