Most scales pick and choose from among the 12 tones available to them but there is one

scale that uses all the notes, it's called the chromatic scale.

The chromatic scale is the easiest one to remember because you just play every single

note in order.

White keys, black keys, the answer is yes.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music, music that beautiful arrangement of sounds

that bows to no scale or harmonic system, it simply moves us, however we may choose

to break it up or define it.

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On this episode we're traveling back to the 1990s when a new generation of female singer

songwriters were stepping into the spotlight and in some cases sitting down at the piano.

One such songwriter happened to write one of my favorite songs of all time so let's

clear our throats, find our voice and do this thing.

A great song can start big with a huge ensemble crashing down all at once, certainly nothing

wrong with a big entrance, the whole band starting all at the same time, but a great song

can also start small, just a singer and a single instrument or even, in some cases,

just a small collection of notes.

It can be a nebulous thing, three notes in close chromatic proximity, their rhythm somewhat

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