I promised you a follow-up to a certain, Pop Tap Beat-shaped feature, didn't I? Time to deliever, then!
Sesame Street Theme
セサミストリートのテーマ
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sesami (Sesame Street)A quick look at the former SotW piece linked in the head introduction is enough of a reminder for Taiko players on how the Apple-based entry in the series has been used to get broader IPs to have a representation in the series, The Drum Master-style! In the same day of Enter The Dragon theme's debut, however, there was room for one more unique tune for the younger audience in the West... be it for either current children or the ones of decades ago, considering we're talking about the show that has been active for over 50 years!
Devised by American writer Joan Ganz Cooney and psychologist Lloyd Morrisett, Sesame Street is an ongoing television series for children, rising to fame not only for the timeless and colorful puppet cast designed by the renowned James Maury "Jim" Henson but also for being among the first programming broadcasts to be formally studied and conducted in the same vein of TV commercials' production elements and techniques, in order to be better adapted across the ages for later generations' youth and to keep itself and its messages relatable with the changing times. The series production studio of "If you can hold kids' attention, you can educate them" has brought the franchise going from the late 60ies to this very day, counting over 50 TV seasons and a plethora of side projects between movies and musicals, becoming the de-facto longest-running children's television broadcasting series with a whopping 54 years. Only Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo! franchise comes close to such a continued silverscreen presence, in reguards to the youngest ones' television broadcasting!
The same care to research that went on the show's apparel and messaging across the ages was applied to its overal musical direction the same, heralded for the earliest seasons by music director Joseph Guilherme "Joe" Raposo, coming up every year with his team with about 130 different songs to be aired in one season, between rock-and-roll-vibing pieces and some spoof nods to popular media. The Sesame Street Main Theme was also a song of his making, with lyrics duties credited to writers John Stone and Bruce Hart. It went on record of being defined by show writer Micheal Davis as "a siren song for preschoolers", considering how six different renditions of the tune were made across the ages but they lyrics' body is the same now as it was back in 1969. In the show's infancy, the opening theme to Sesame Street was known in full form by the title of "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" and it served to open the show as well to close each episode, up until getting replaced in Season 46 with the song "Smarter, Stronger, Kinder".
The version of the theme that is played in Pop Tap Beat is one of the more recent recordings, based on the version featured in the 1995 compilation album Sesame Street Platinum All-Time Favorites, later reissued in 2008 by Koch Records and officially joining the Library of Congress in 2015, for all-time preservation means. This means that, alas, there's no extended harmonica play from Toots Thielemans for this one playable rendition for the tune!
Still, I can tell you what lies ahead for people of all ages to drum on with: arguably one of the modern Oni range's most deceptive 6* charts to date. Granted, while it's no From The New World Oni-tier of trolling, this 1/12-tempo-mainer tunes has a varied plater of many compound and off beat note clusters to take care of, so that stanza repetition is little to no use to gear newcoming Donders into its slow-flowing mixture of cluster combinations to hit!
