Phish, Evanescence, and a Taylor Swift Dispute

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	A hemiola is not in fact a rare celestial event. It's a polyrhythmic figure featuring a three-count superimposed over two or four.
0:09.0	Hemiolas aren't super common in popular music, but it's always nice to see them so they are sort of like
0:13.6	the Aurora Borealis of music. You 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 hemeolas on a 4-4 chorus, just a 3-beat corral under the Aurora Borealis.
0:36.7	That didn't make any sense but you know what does? Listen or support.
0:39.6	Strong songs is entirely listener supported which means I am able to make this show which I love so much
0:44.5	thanks to all of you out there who have become patrons if you like strong songs and want to
0:49.2	chip in go to patreon.com slash strong Songs and you can.
0:54.0	On this episode, we're opening the mailbag for some questions on newly invented instruments,
0:58.2	Evan essence piano, fish and Kashi counting, what it means to be a musicians musician and what to do in the concert
1:05.0	you're attending is way too loud.
1:07.1	There's plenty more too, so let's get into it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, No need for lengthy preamble. We got a lot of questions to get through and I want to fit as many as I can into this episode.
1:34.8	As always, you can send your questions to listeners at strong songs podcast.com.
1:39.4	I read every email I get, even if I don't have a chance to include your question on the show I will
1:44.2	definitely check it out so yeah listeners at strong songs podcast dot-com
1:48.1	don't be a stranger our first question comes from Phil who writes back when it was on the radio more often,
1:53.6	my wife and I would play a game with Kelly's's
1:55.6	milkshake where we would dramatically point in the air
1:58.2	every time the door chimes sound would play,
2:01.4	trying to predict when the cue would come in.
2:04.3	We did this with irregular sounds and other songs as well and often got very good at
2:10.8	predicting when those sounds would come in but to this very day we can never
2:14.4	quite pick when the Dorchime sound is going to play in milkshake.
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