The Tears of the Kingdom community has moved on to creating their own in-game music

This game is going to have such a long tail

We’re still writing about Zelda: Breath of the Wild news on occasion despite the fact that it’s over six years old at this point, and Tears of the Kingdom‘s reach just might outlast it. Amid all of the frankly insane devices and creations we’ve seen the community come up with, this new wave of videos showcases another creative element: music.

How the community is creating music in Tears of the Kingdom

What the community is essentially doing is using stakes and lasers [beam emitters] (or other things) to create musical notes, which are then strung together through specific stake placements and item manipulation. Given how easy it is to head to a Zonai device dispenser, amass stakes, and save/quit in a field while experimenting, anyone who is willing can give it a shot.

Check out this short tutorial from Twitter user bran8bit.

just discovered you can create a wider range of pitches by attaching stakes to one another ????
new DAW just dropped https://t.co/PfmVIail5A pic.twitter.com/BvVytBNCc3

— bran (@bran8bit) June 10, 2023

Since then, the community at large took this knowledge and ran with it. Take this invention from Twitter user kabukichi00: they use an existing in-game platform to perfectly recreate the ever-present “Song of Storms” track.

ティアキンで嵐の歌を演奏してみた
#ゼルダの伝説 pic.twitter.com/kJVi1k5LZZ

— かぶきち (@kabukichi00) June 14, 2023

Another clip from kody_botw shows off how players can manually create music by lifting a laser cannon up with Ultrahand, and even play along with the background track.

リンクの個人練習#ゼルダの伝説 #TearsOfTheKingdom #Zelda #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/ZhLKCPSCg8

— コディー (@kody_botw) June 13, 2023

Then there’s this clip from noteabletony, who goes a step further and gets a minecart involved.

Making music in Tears of the Kingdom ????‍♀️⛲️ #TearsOfTheKingdom #zelda #LegendofZelda #totk pic.twitter.com/dS1QxDbqTp

— note-able (@noteabletony) June 12, 2023

Welp, I still have more Street Fighter 6 and Diablo 4 to play, but this is my evening sorted! I suspect in just a week’s time we’re going to see a clip of an entire symphony recording out of this game somehow.

Chris Carter

EIC, Reviews Director – Chris has been enjoying Destructoid avidly since 2008. He finally decided to take the next step in January of 2009 blogging on the site. Now, he’s staff!

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