CSGuitar89’s free Zelda album

With the Zelda series being the home to a multitude of brilliant tunes, it should come as no surprise that the fan base is full of artistically inclined people. All over YouTube, hundreds of Zelda fans pick up their ocarinas, harps, and most recently, PVC pipes, to create their own version of Koji Kondo’s best works. Due to the music of Zelda being so vastly different from game to game and invoking different moods in each piece, it seems many fan musicians have realized the guitar may be the perfect instrument on which to play it. Being a versatile instrument, one could create that sense of mystery that comes with a song like “Stone Tower Temple,” and then turn up the amplifier to bring the listener into a journey on “The Great Sea.” Probably the most skilled at this is Dutch guitarist CSGuitar89, whose completely free Zelda album is entitled Hymns of Light and Shadows. Click the jump to read all about it!

The album is composed of 18 songs from Ocarina of Time, Majora’s Mask, The Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. For the modest price of nothing, you also get tabs and backing tracks to every song on the album so you can try it yourself!

If you’re interested in listening to this extremely talented young man, all of the links are on his website, which I have cited in the source line. Here’s a sample of one of his covers.

Overall, I really enjoyed the album, and found that sometimes his music sounded even better than the original piece! As a fellow guitarist, I really appreciated his skill and the amount of effort that it must have taken to create something of this caliber. I also really like his use of the unconventional eight-stringed guitar.

So what do you think? Will you be downloading Hymns of Light and Shadows, or will you be subscribing to him on YouTube? Will you be trying to play his music on your own? Leave your comments below!

Sources: YouTube, CSGuitar89.com