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Oh geez I don't know the bass side of music that well. I think I recognized one or two of the melodies there, but even then I could not think of what piece of music they are from.

Should I put the same info in the Discord discussion so more people can see it?

Yeah I just created a Discord account.

I am not accusing Koji Kondo of plagiarism or anything like that. I just thought it was interesting. Since baseball is quite popular in Japan, maybe he subconsciously heard this song while Majora's Mask was in development. Or maybe it is just a complete coincidence. Only Koji Kondo knows.

Yeah, I realised this last year when my mum was watching a documentary about baseball. Take Me Out to the Ball Game was played in one part of the show and when I heard it I was like "Hang on a minute, those first few notes sound a lot like Clock Town's theme."

Also, another similarity I discovered in a different game is Banjo-Tooie's Glitter Gulch Mine theme. The "chorus" of that song is just an elongated version of the "Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits" 7 note tune.

The notes for Shave and a Haircut are C G G A G B C. The notes for the first bit of Glitter Gulch Mine's chorus is C G G A G, G A G F E G, C G G A G, G A B C. Grant Kirkhope has just held off the "two-bits" resolution (B-C) until the fourth bar.

Again, not sure if anyone has already discovered this before me.

Hello, a&g again,

Ok, I have discovered a similarity between Majora's Mask Clock Town theme and the famous baseball tune "Take Me Out to the Ball Game". It is just 7 notes, but they are the main notes of each song.

The first notes of the chorus to TMOttBG are C, C, A, G, E, G and D (song is in C major scale). Clock Town's theme is in the key of D major, except for the third day which is in the key of B minor (which is essentially D major). Now, shifting each of the TMOttBG notes up by 2 gives you D, D, B, A, F sharp, A and E (which means the song is now in D ). Both the newly transposed Ball Game song and the Clock Town song are in the same key, but to change it up, the final five notes of the first 7 notes of Ball Game (B A F# A and E) are changed to C# B A B G, in order to differentiate the two songs.

As to whether it was an intentional similarity, I would say yes. There are a lot of Links (pun intended) between Majora's Mask and baseball:
-Three strikes and you're out? You only have 3 days before the world ends.
-The goal of both games is to get back "home", going through the days/bases.
-The Bomber kids seem to be wearing baseball attire that children usually wear
-There is a baseball minigame in A Link Between Worlds, a game in which you can find Majora's Mask in Links house, hinting at the future MM 3DS remake.

I just thought this discovery was really interesting, not sure if anyone has noticed it before.

Also sorry for the bad English music terminology, I am a music theory noob.

Lol I saw that doing the rounds on fb. Australia does most certainly exist - we are the shitposting capital of the world!

I guess a&g or alleys would be an ok nickname

I'll get around to posting my first actual post later today

Henlo, I am alleysandgullies, occassional user/lurker of NinSheetMusic and the forums who has finally decided to make an account and try to give back.

I'm just going to use Razer's introduction template because I like it:

Name: Jack Muir
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Location: I live in Victoria, Australia
Musical stuff: I have never owned a musical instrument, and the only musical education I was taught was in the first 2 grades of high school (years 7 and 8, what I think would be classified as middle school for American folks), which didn't contain anything regarding music theory, just seeing if we could play a basic tune on a guitar and sing songs. Pathetic education. Since I am interested in music I had to teach myself the basics. I have made a few pieces of music in Sony ACID Music Studio but apart from that I don't play an instrument or anything. But I love video game music.
Favorite piece of music (non-video game): That's a tough one, probably Wonderboy by Tenacious D. But I just watched one of their DVDs so that may be recency bias playing its part in my decision.
Favorite game music: It's in my username, from the Toy Story 2 game
Favorite video game: Banjo-Tooie
Favorite color: Blue
Favorite food: Chicken Parma
Favorite school subject: In high school it was maths, in university it is politics
Language: English

So yeah, hi