Syncopation, Subdivision & The Four Chords

Strong Songs

Kirk Hamilton

Music Commentary, Music, Musicreviews

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Strong Songs mailbag is overflowing, so it's time to dive in and answer some listener questions. NOW ON PATREON Strong Songs now has a Patreon! If you liked this episode (or, you know, any of them), we hope you'll consider supporting the show. Learn more here: https://www.patreon.com/strongsongs LISTENER Q&A Kirk digs into creative subdivision, syncopated melodies, major 9th chords, famous drum fills, chiptunes, "bad" singing that's actually good, jazz chords, Indian drum languages, and how to be a better music listener. Update 12/23/2020: Kirk has traveled back in time to correct this episode's erroneous diagnosis of a strange sound on Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." SHOW NOTES/LINKS ———————————— "The Four Chords" as performed by The Axis of Awesome on YouTube ———————————— A cool breakdown of the "Amen Break" drum fill ———————————— "Puttin' on the Ritz" by Irving Berlin, performed by Ella Fitzgerald Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "First Tube" by Phish from Farmhouse, 2000 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" by Anne Bredon, recorded by Led Zeppelin on their self-titled debut, 1969 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd from their amazingly titled album (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd), 1974 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Just a Friend" by Biz Markie from The Biz Never Sleeps, 1989 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Liquid Dance" by AR Rahman, Palakkad Sriram and Madhumitha from the Slumdog Millionare soundtrack, 2008 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify A cool demonstration of Konnakol performed live by Umamahesh, Umashankar, and Selvaganesh ———————————— "Prom Night" by Anamanaguchi, 2014 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Spectra" by Chipzel from Spectra, 2013 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify "Strike the Earth!" by Jake Kaufman from the Shovel Knight soundtrack, 1989 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michael's Mount" by Aphex Twin from Drukqs, 2001 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— "Well You Needn't" by Thelonious Monk from Misterioso (Live), 1965 Listen/Buy: Apple Music | Amazon | Spotify ———————————— NEWSLETTER/MAILING LIST Sign up for Kirk's mailing list to start getting monthly-ish newsletters with music recommendations, links, news, and extra thoughts on new Strong Songs episodes: https://kirkhamilton.substack.com/subscribe STRONG MERCH! Visit the Strong Songs merch store for some very cool t-shirts, mugs, totes, and more: store.strongsongspodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to Strong Songs a Podcast About Music. I am your host Kirk Hamilton and as
0:09.1	always I'm so glad that you've downloaded this MP3 to your podcast listening device and that you're
0:15.2	ready to dive into the world of music once more.
0:18.7	This is a listener Q&A episode.
0:20.4	We have had a ton of people send in really good questions for the show and I have a million to get to so I want to get right to it
0:26.8	We're just gonna we're gonna blast through as many of these questions as we possibly can I have learned since the last Q and a that there's really just no way that I'm going to be able to answer every question that everybody sends in.
0:36.0	So if I don't get to your question, I apologize and I do have a big master list of questions
0:41.0	that I do refer back to sometimes.
0:43.5	So you never know.
0:44.2	If I don't get to your question on this episode,
0:46.2	maybe I'll get to it on the next Q&A episode.
0:48.8	As always, if you would like to send in a question
0:50.9	for that next Q&A episode,
0:52.3	or if you just want to send feedback or really just a song recommendation or anything.
0:56.0	You can email me at Strong Songs Podcast at gmail.com or you can tweet at me at Kirk Hamilton.
1:01.0	That's K-I-R- K Hamilton. Just before we get started, I sent out
1:06.2	one newsletter, this is my own newsletter, which talks a lot about strong songs, which is also
1:10.3	about my own musical projects, links to cool articles and videos, all kinds of stuff
1:14.4	like that. I will be sending out another one, you know, probably in the next week or two.
1:18.6	So if you'd like to sign up for that, you can do that at tiny letter.com slash Kirk Hamilton, and there is a link to do that tiny letter dot com slash Kirk Hamilton and there is a link to do that down in
1:25.4	the show notes. All right let's get to it. Our first question actually came from
1:29.4	quite a few listeners who wrote in about a song called The Four Chords by a group called The
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