The 12 string guitar isn't actually all that different from a 6 string guitar.

Each string is just strung twice which gives it its distinct sound.

Your finger notes and chords the same way and approach the fretboard the same way too.

The biggest difference is how long it takes to tune in.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host Kirk Hamilton and I'm so excited for a brand new season talking about 12 string guitars,

six string guitars, five and four string bass guitars, and you know other instruments too.

This is the sixth season of Strong Songs, which is kind of incredible to me.

I've been making this show this whole time with nothing but direct listener support.

Your support really does make this whole thing possible so I hope you'll consider going to the

Patreon or donation links in the show notes and chipping in.

On this season premiere, we've got a widely requested pop classic that dares to go big,

so big that it requires two of almost every instrument just to begin to contain it. It was a ton of fun to take it apart and I'm excited

to put it together again, so let's grab the talking drum, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Some songs are small and and transpose it outward and onto their own life or experiences in a sort of expansive

translation.

Other songs are big.

They're so big that it's hard to even talk about what they're really about.

They're so big that they can hold an endless number of different interpretations.

They can mean something different to each individual listener. The song that I'm going to be talking about today on our season six

premiere definitely falls into that second category. It is a huge song in more ways than one, a layered dense arrangement filled with overlapping parts and sympathetic reverberations all in the service of a broad near universal story of a lost soul seeking ascension, seeking connection, seeking

seeking a home. On this episode I am so excited to finally talk about Peter Gabriel and his

1986 hit In Your Eyes. There is so much to talk about with this song. It's even more incredible than I realize.

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