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🗓️ 13 June 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | An ostinado is a melodic motif that repeats over a moving bass part. The repeating notes sound different as the notes around them change. |
0:09.5 | Ostinados appear in all sorts of popular music, which goes to show there's a difference between hearing a musical term and hearing of it. |
0:26.0 | Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music. I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about songs |
0:30.1 | written around Astonados, songs written without ostinados, and songs where the |
0:34.0 | ostinado is Obligato. |
0:37.4 | Strong Songs is an independent podcast. I don't have an editor or a team of writers. and Songs where the Ostinato is obligato. |
0:39.5 | Strong Songs is an independent podcast. |
0:41.6 | I don't have an editor or a team of writers. |
0:43.4 | I can call in to help me out. |
0:48.0 | It's just me in the studio, making each episode by hand just for you. |
0:52.3 | So if you'd like to support me making it, go to patreon.com slash strong songs. |
0:58.0 | On this episode, we're talking about a band chosen by all of you, specifically all of you who support strong songs on Patreon, who get to pick one artist per season for me to cover |
1:02.1 | on the show. |
1:03.2 | Good news, you picked a really strong one this time, so let's slide down the base, layer |
1:07.3 | some keys, and get it done. |
1:13.6 | Music bass, layer some keys, and get it done. Music is magic. I truly do believe that. |
1:32.8 | You can break down music as much as you want, diagramming song forms and writing our chord |
1:38.3 | progressions, identifying the various frequencies that vibrate in harmony and in tension |
1:43.2 | with one another. But at that point, |
1:45.3 | the spell has already been cast. It's already passed you by. If you want to see the magic of music |
1:50.7 | firsthand, all you have to do is sit down and make some. Because every time a person sits down to |
1:59.2 | make music, every time they turn a thought into something real or convert a melody in their head into a melody played on an instrument, a spark fires, a magical spark, and a transformation takes place. |
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