A ghost note is not, in fact, a drum note that has died and come back to haunt the living.

It's just a quieter note played in between louder hits.

Funk drummers make great use of ghost notes, proving once again that funk is definitely

the spookiest style of music.

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 music

with ghost notes, music with zombie notes, and sometimes music with lich, rate, and even

revenant notes.

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On this episode, it's time for Strong Groups, volume 1, a look at three classic rhythm section

groups that define and continue to define funk music.

I really just have one question for you, and that's, can we give the drummer some, because

I think we probably should.

Over the course of the four years that I've been making strong songs, I've tried to

reinforce the idea that music is a continuum.

Every great song recording and performance is just a point along an endless line of

artistic and cultural influence.

Thanks to the relative permanence of recorded audio, the drum part that you hear on a new

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