#trykkleif

instead of going through the anime and marking where exactly these songs appear first, i’m going to go through the Dragonball Z BGM Collection Discs in order of tracklist since it’s easier to do that.

so the first time this appears in the disc is here at 0:08:

https://youtu.be/oQW5aiZ4Sck

in this incarnation, it’s these three notes: F4, A3, C#4. disregarding the octave, the latter two notes were brought down by a full step for the reason i mentioned in the first paragraph.

the second instance in which i could find was in this track at 0:17:

https://youtu.be/g2R8YhcNLGg

this is definitely F, B, D#. the notes that follow are going to be used in some android and cell saga tracks.

it appears again in this ubiquitous frieza saga track at 0:28:

https://youtu.be/94eJ6ljnza8

also F, B, D#

i couldn’t find any more occurrences on this disc but i didn’t really listen to all the track thoroughly since that’s more effort than i’m willing to put in LMAO

it appears again here in disc 2 at 2:33 this time with more of a melody afterwards that you’ll no doubt here in some cell saga tracks

https://youtu.be/G7tYFrEaegM

definitely F, B, D#

this track is interesting, there’s multiple occurrences. it’s here again as sort of a series of stabs? or something? it’s just musical punctuation. at 0:08:

https://youtu.be/sutd5pH_6-Y

the same use of this particular set of notes is used again at 0:33 and 0:35 brought up a step or something.

THEN it’s used more as a driving tune at 1:13 with the melody i mentioned earlier following the F, B, D#

disc 3 has a potpurri of tracks between buu saga and cell saga. this particular one i’m certain appears in the cell games saga first. iirc it’s during the cell and goku fight at some point? anyway, the song starts out with this leitmotif so i suppose it’s 0:00

https://youtu.be/CI8SzHziPWg