Welcome to Strong Songs, a Podcast About Music. I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and as always I'm so glad that you're here.

This is the second part of our Mailbag May, a brand new tradition that may not actually

become a tradition, but I decided that I would spend the rest of May clearing out the mailbag

or at least answering as many of your questions as I could possibly fit into two episodes.

Before we get into that though, a couple of updates.

For starters, the music that you're hearing will be the theme music for strong songs

for not very much longer, maybe just another episode or so, because I will be writing new, original

all new theme music for this show because we hit our first Patreon goal of 150 backers for the show.

Thank you so much to everybody who signed up to back the show on

Patreon. I'm really excited to write new theme music for the show. The music that I've

been using is a song that I kind of started writing and never finished but created

backing tracks for just as a kind of a demo. I had it around and it's

kind of a fun jaunty little tune so I used it as intro music but it was not written to be the theme

music for strong songs so I'm excited to come up with what that might sound like.

Hopefully I won't spend too long obsessing over it.

It seems like the kind of thing that it might be fun to write a theme and then change it,

do it in different styles.

I don't know.

We'll see how it goes.

But I'm going to be working on that over the next couple of weeks,

and at some point you're going to get a strong songs episode

that will have brand new music.

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