The DuckTales Moon Theme Is WILDLY Confusing

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16:39 - “It’s all Bach?!” “ A l w a y s h a s b e e n . . . “

15/8 is such a fun signature, every other measure my heart skips a beat 🥰

16:54 Who'd have thought Scrooge McDuck could go from rich to...baroque?

Chiptune artists were, and I cannot stress this enough, cracked af.

Definitely one of my favorite pieces of music from the DuckTales NES game. The fact that they reused this music and made it into an actual song in the DuckTales 2017 reboot cartoon just proves how amazing it is. ❤

One of the most infamous 15/8 pieces in existence. It's truly amazing how such a signature could exist in a piece so impactful and ambient.

One of the best part of this tune was it was actually canonized in the new duck tales show, sung by the mother of Huey, Dewy, and Louie as a lullaby.

"This is way better than it has any business being." This is about 80% of NES music in a nutshell.

The difference between this song and the Transformers theme is that the Transformers theme was somebody slapping together loops all sloppy and quick to save themselves money on studio time, accidentally making a crazy time signature in the process. But the Ducktales Moon Theme was a clever man named Hiroshige Tonomura saying, yes, I will start this song in a time signature that makes the player feel disconnected from the earth, only for gravity to soon return in 4/4, but then back into the air we go in 15/8, then again to 4/4, bouncing up and down like astronauts, and that's special to me.

"This is way better than it has any business to be" Summarized the whole NES/SNES era of music as a whole. I believe they did so much with 4 to 8 channels of music. So many bangers.

I tried arranging this by ear years ago but never finished and I knew something was off with the time signature. You just solved a years long mystery for me tbh.

“And it comes back home again.” It just makes me think of Della Duck’s journey from the moon back home again. I’m not crying.

The silent note that aligns the intro with the 4/4 main beat gives the song a feeling of weightlessness. Like you're getting your bearings in zero G by the time the verse starts. Storytelling through time signature. That's good composition and why this song endures.

15/8 is a cool way to make you feel like you are accelerating; since you feel faster than the music

Finally found a person who plays the piano and that is so interested and happy about all the little details that happen in melodies. I've tried to share this feeling with others (even musicians) and they were like "yeah, that's just a chord change, so what?" Just wanted to share this thought with a fellow brother. Cheers to keep being excited about music in this exact way: as if we were kids who discovered this for the first time. I love it.

"Now Gizmo Duck can blast that wall"

This was the first piece of game music that grabbed me as a child. I remembered being told by my neighbor (from whom I borrowed DuckTales) that I needed to go to the moon after the other three stages, so I did. As the tune kicked up, I felt nothing but impending success in everything about it. The entire track has always felt like "don't give up, you're almost there" to me. I am not embarrassed to admit that it still kinda makes me tear up a bit when I hear it, even as a 43-year-old man. Thanks for appreciating this piece enough to show so much love!

The moon theme was actually rewritten into Della’s theme for the new duck tales series. It takes a slower pace to the song but speeds up a bit towards the middle.

The fact they were able to add to this piece in the 2017 reboot show while making it the catharsis to one of the most emotional arcs I've ever seen before was one of the best decisions that was made in the production of that show