There are 12 notes in the Western chromatic scale. They go A, B, C, D, E, G, those seven note names, and there are

sharps and flats of each of them. Except there isn't a B sharp and there isn't an

e-sharp. B-sharp is just C and and E sharp is just F. I guess they decided it

couldn't be too simple or everyone would understand it. And you know we can't have that. The And the Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcasts, about Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you've

joined me to talk about music in the key of A and music in the key of B, music in the key in the key

of G flat, and music in the key of E-sharp. I've got a bunch of your questions to get through and I'm excited to dig in so

pour yourself a cool beverage or a warm beverage if that's what you prefer. Turn up the volume and

enjoy this show. I don't think I've actually ever played a tune in the key of E-sharp.

That would just be a pretty crazy key signature to write.

It would have so many sharps you wouldn't be able to fit notes on the page, though I've definitely been playing tunes. It's usually like show tunes and

pit orchestra stuff where there will be a bunch of key changes throughout the song while the singer is kind of moving

through a bunch of different key changes and eventually it'll wind up in some key that's got B-sharps or E-sharps written into it or maybe a C-flat

written into the into the music and you really have got to kind of reprogram your brain to see a B and think, okay, that's going to be a B sharp. We've got to read that as a C.

Welcome to the show, everybody. We're doing another listener question episode this time around and I've got a bunch of great questions to get to

some of which I wasn't able to get to on the last one, some of which are new.

As always just as a reminder you can send me any questions or feedback

recommendations whatever you want to StrongSongs Podcast at gmail.com,

and you can also tweet them at me at Kirk K I R K.K. Hamilton on Twitter.

Before we get started, thanks to everybody who enjoyed the most recent episode, which is a bonus interview with my former high school band director.

I know that's not exactly the, you know, well-known songwriter or pop star that you usually would have as a guest on a show like this, but I thought that

would be a cool first guest for a bonus episode and it was really special to me to get to

talk with Janice. So thanks everybody who gave that episode a shot and listen to it and

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