My choices for 2008 are...

Recording at home
Budget production tricks
Modality
The Studio As An Instrument
Building a Song from the Ground Up
Standars vs Covers
Melodic Contstruction
Dominant 7th

arranging
acoustics
chord resolution
Common Chord Progressions
scat singing
Funk
modulation
The Role Of The Producer
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
voice leading

my own suggestions:
-recording techniques (just to name one example: how do portishead get this 'record-player-kind-of-sound'?)
-Dixieland (which instruments are used, what's the function of each one, etc.)
-cadences (but not only IV-V-I and ii-V-I)
-guitar picking styles/techniques

just want to say, you're doing an amazing job, and hope soon we'll be able to hear you in other countries as well

I am most interested in:

Metric Modulation

Instrumental Soloing
Modality
(with emphasis on inside/outside, tension/release soloing)

The Role Of The Producer

Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
(with emphasis on swing and shuffle feels)

Group Harmonies

Thank you for opening up next year's programs to suggestions from the audience. I'd love to hear programs about the following in 2008:

A Capella Singing
Acoustics
Arranging
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Dissonance
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser, Melodic Construction
Piano
Pitch And Frequencies
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Standards And Covers
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato

First of all, I love Pandora!

IDM.. wasn't on the list, but I'd like to know hear and learn more about it. Also, Instruments Imitating Life (if this means making your guitar talk) as well as recycled sounds. Console is a great example of recycled sounds in music, as I hear beats and rhythm on the city streets daily.

Nice....

Excellent! Great to hear it. Definitely helps me prioritize this multitude of options. Other opinions?

All of the above

Electric instruments that are not guitars (as opposed to acoustic versions of instruments)
Sid Anything (e.g Sid Metal) (type of 8bit music)
About what Funk is
More guitar effects and how they relate to styles of playing
Fuzzy vs Sharp vs Smooth guitar sounds (sort of similar to the last one that)
Comedy Lyrics :�)

Mine:

A Capella Singing
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Country and Bluegrass, Yesterday and Today
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Guitar Shredding
Improvised Singing

Metal In All Its Forms - HELL YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

Overdrive And Distortion
The Slowest And The Fastest
Three Centuries Of Composers
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

Here are some of the topics that stand out from the list for me.

Arranging
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Dissonance
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Electric Bass
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser, Talkbox, Ring Modulation - a big one for me
Guitar Shredding
Instrumental Soloing
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Metal In All Its Forms - most keen on this one
Modality
Overdrive And Distortion
Recording At Home
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
The Dominant Seventh
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato

That's a lot, I know, but they all essentially pertain to learning more about my style of choice - hard rock and metal. So if it's got to do with electric guitars, especially distorted, I'm all for it! Plus some good song-writing and music theory ones as well. Knowledge = power, right?

Thanks heaps for all these, I'll have to get round to listening to some of the back catalogue at some point, as well as keeping an eye on what looks like a promising collection of topics for next year. Keep up the awesome work, and keep lobbying to have Pandora available in Australia once more!

anything about jazz, because I don't get it ( you'll help me understand , won't you? )
and The Rhythm Changes

Thank you for the gift of music you are giving. I am following your lead this Christmas. For the lessons - what turns you on the most? What will help me, the average schlep see / hear it in a brand new way? I'm all for it. Reading what you have to say about artists and their work while I'm listening is a wonderful education - for those who haven't tried it... Your commentaries are so GOOooood so I trust this will be too....

That being said: a capella
arranging
blues styles
building a song
chord progressions
chord resolution
eight bars - twelve bars
country - blue grass
funk
jazz
electric guitar effects
instrumental soloing
music of Mexico
music of India
music of Africa
music of Brazil
music of the carribean
music of Japan
music of Russia - Ukraine - Prague
group harmonies
lyrical cliches
melodic construction
recording at home
ninths, elevenths, thirteenths

.. also suggest you review the Karl Haas shows in conjunction with your classical expansion, and for ideas for Wed nites. A lot of his musical ideas could be filled in with music of other genre by someone with his kind of encyclopedic knowledge in non-classical realms (The music genome project?)! ? maybe even air the Karl Haas shows on alternate Wednesdays or at another slot - as you have obviously gotten around the sampling copyright issues already?!:
"... To help answer many anticipated questions, the recordings of Karl thousands of programs cannot be sold to the public because of copyright restrictions on the music used in the shows. However, the Haas family is exploring ways to preserve this treasure trove of musical knowledge and make it available to the public..."
Please see if you can help them out. God would love you for it ;^) JSS

Anything about songwriting..that really interests me. Also the role of the producer seems very interesting to me

I know that is a lot but I think all the topics are interersting.

Arranging
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Dissonance
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Guitar Shredding
Group Harmonies
Melodic Construction
Metric Modulation
Modality
Modulation
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Scratching and Turntablism
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Three Centuries Of Composers
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato

Thanks!

Of those listed, I vote for:

Acoustics
Arranging
Chord Resolution
Lyrical Cliches
Prepared and Invented Instruments
Song Forms

But to be honest, it all sounds interesting...

Here's my list in order of priority:

Recording At Home
Melodic Construction
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Lyrical Cliches
Improvised Singing
The Role Of The Producer
Arranging
Dissonance
Classical Guitar
Piano
Prepared And Invented Instruments
Metric Modulation
Modality
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
Guitar Shredding
Metal In All Its Forms
Revealing A Few Genes

I am an amateur pianist, rhythm guitarist, and one-time violinist who also likes to play around with lead guitar, pennywhistle, low whistle, dumbek, 'oud and mandolin. I studied violin for 2 years and piano for 9. I would have graduated with a minor in music if I had only taken choir (the thought of which bored me to death). I have always fantasized about recording and having my own rock/world fusion band.

Thanks Pandora for making the best source for discovering music on the web! Keep the great podcasts coming.

I love them all, and have learnt a lot from the shows I didn't think I'd really be interested in.

For me, I like most the shows on vocals, songwriting, the art of recording and fundamentals of things like chord progressions and the like. These would include:

acoustics
building a song...
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Pitch And Frequencies
Recording At Home
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Slowest And The Fastest
The Studio As An Instrument
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

It's all great - keep up the good work. All we need now is access to Pandora in Australia :)

Here's a vote for twang!

It seems to me that one of the best things you could do is look at some genomic dimension, such as twang, across musical genres. So, looking at a property like twang and thinking about why certain musics are so twangy--not just bluegrasss but perhaps jazz manouche, Irish music, Hawaaian music etc. It would also be interesting to allow people to see both similarities and differences in "twanginess" across genres (Django Reinhardt creates a different twang than Doc Watson). If you could explore the extent to which twang is a property of the instrument, such as the dobro or steel guitar, versus the song construction (the "high lonesome" harmonies of bluegrass or British ballads)

On other topics, if you choose to look at a given instrument, looking at it across musics would be great. I think about the accordion in this sense.

Cheers,

Marc

Excellent! Excellent. This definitely helps me a lot.

I'm going to start working on a tally from all of your messages. I'll report back with some numbers...

Would be interested in topics including: Acapella singing, vocalizing, warming up the voice, damaged vocal chords. Enjoyed the podcast!

Alright, I have some tallies. THANK YOU, again, for speaking up. It definitely helps stoke our fires to record more when we hear that you are out there and listening.

Interestingly, nearly all of the 63 topic ideas received at least one vote. Here are some, however, that appealed to many of you.

Here are those numbers...

5 votes for:
- Funk (Rafael, Nano, Alan, Ido, Jim)
- Eight Bars, Twelve Bars (Nano, Jim, Greg, Tony, David)
- Lyrical Cliches (David, Jim, Greg, Sean, Aric)
- Recording At Home (Jim, Greg, Doug, Aric, David)
- 9ths, 11ths, 13ths (Aric, Nano, Jim, Greg, David)
- Song Forms (Nano, Greg, Tony, Sean, David)

6 votes for:
- Chord Resolution (Jim, Greg, Tony, Ido, Nano, Sean)
- Melodic Construction (Nano, Jim, Greg, Doug, Aric, David)

7 votes for:
- Arranging (Jim, Greg, Tony, Ido, Nano, Sean, Aric)
- Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato (Nano, Greg, Rafael, Tony, Ido, David, SYoung)

And winning, with 8 votes:
- Building A Song From The Ground Up (Greg, Rafael, Tony, Doug, Jim, Nano, Aric, David)

Bring on more voting, though! I don't mean to indicate that the polls are closed... these are merely interim numbers.

A few of these (Vocalizing, Building Ground Up) are going to take a while to produce, but we'll definitely get the script and pre-production gears a-turning.

My wish list, blues, drumming, eight bar 12 bar, rhythm changes, piano, recording at home, the saxophone family, arranging, vintage keyboards, and maybe even a couple surprises that aren't on the list. Thanks for asking.

Cadences would also be cool, and more on the saxophone family and brass in general. Like when I listen to Sam Cooke's Bring It On Home To Me or Somebody Have Mercy, it's how the brass is layered that speaks just as loud as the romance in these songs, couldn't imagine the first one w/out it. Guess those who music speaks to best are the ones who hear what some songs would be w/out some instruments or types of layering, and can truly appreciate and love what they are with it. Keep up the great lessons and info. Peace.

Wow, that's a tough list to narrow down. But if I have to pick....:)

A Capella Singing
Acoustics
Arranging
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Brass Family: French Horn, Euphonium, Tuba
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Classical Guitar
Common Chord Progressions
Country and Bluegrass, Yesterday and Today
Dissonance
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Eras Of Jazz
Group Harmonies
Improvised Singing
Instrumental Soloing
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Modality
Modulation
Piano
Pitch And Frequencies
Recording At Home
Revealing A Few Genes
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Standards And Covers
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Role Of The Producer
The Saxophone Family
The Studio As An Instrument
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

I love that all, especially

Acoustics
Arranging
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Dissonance
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Group Harmonies
Instrumental Soloing
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Melodic Construction
Metric Modulation
Modality
Modulation
Overdrive And Distortion
Piano
Pitch And Frequencies
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Standards And Covers
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Toms
The Tritone
Vintage Keyboards: Organs and Electric Pianos
I know that pandora have a lot more interesting and useful radio programs but u restrict the number of listeners. WHY WHY WHY?????????? please don't do thatttttt

Hey Kevin,

If you do a Tango episode, be sure to get in touch with the awesome SF tango group, Tango no. 9. They definitely know their stuff! http://www.tangonumber9.com/

My favorites:

Arranging
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Dissonance
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Electric Bass
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Group Harmonies
Melodic Construction
Metric Modulation
Modality
Overdrive And Distortion
Recording At Home
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Role Of The Producer
The Studio As An Instrument
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

Here's what I'd like most to hear:

Common Chord Progressions
Country and Bluegrass, Yesterday and Today
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser, Talkbox, Ring Modulation
Eras Of Jazz
Guitar Shredding
Metal In All Its Forms
Music of Mexico: New Styles (banda, norteno, duranguense)
Revealing A Few Genes
Scratching and Turntablism
Standards And Covers
The Studio As An Instrument

I'd like to throw in a vote for ACAPELLA SINGING.

Thank you for what you do!

I would really like to learn about the following:

Arranging
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Drumming: Subleties Of Feel
Drumming: Acoustic Meets Synthetic
Funk
Lyrical cliches
Modality
Modulation
Pitch and frequencies
Stylized singing: vowel shapes, slurring and scatting
Vocalizing: Range, tone and vibrato

I would like some technically methods and set ups for recording voice in the studio. Also, jazz and brazilian style guitar lessons.

I would love to see an episode (or two) on vocal and/or instrumental improvisation. You guys are great, keep it up!

><> M@

Kevin, Genome Gang -
Words fail. I am astounded and humbled by the scope and ambition of the Music Genome Project, and grateful that you will share with us. This is what the internet is supposed to do - connect everyday people with the vast world of EVERYTHING, in a useful and beneficial way. So few things fail to fulfill their initial promise, finding something that satisfies in such an elegant format is inspiring. I can hardly believe that you are offering to educate us as well - I plan to utilize upcoming programs in homeschooling my children in 2008. I recommend this site to everyone I meet. Thank you, thank you.

All potentially fascinating subjects. But these intrigue me most:

Acoustics
Role of the producer
Drumming _ subtleties of Feel
Electric Guitar Effects
Jazz forms The Head and the Solos
Metal in All Its forms
Ninths, Elevenths, and Thirteenths
Stylized Singing
Modality

Thanks!

My Picks

Improvisation, Voice leading; Funk; Jazz Forms Head and Solo; 9,11,and 13th chords; The Saxophone Family;

I only discovered Pandora an hour ago and I think everything about it is amazing.

My Choices:

Acoustics
Building a song from start to finish
Chord resolution
8 Bars 12 Bars
Group Harmonics
Instrumental Soloing
Song Forms
Dominant 7th
Vocalizing
Voice Leading

Thanks for listening

I'm interested in:

Arranging
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Dissonance
Dynamics
Electric Bass
Electric Guitar Effects pt 2
Guitar Shredding
Instruments Imitating Life
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Metal In All it's Forms*********My top pick!!!
Metric Modulation
Modality
Modulation
Overdrive and Distortion
Pitch and Frequencies
Revealing a Few Genes

That's a good start.

I've enjoyed many of your segments, however I'm really most interested in electric guitar and have listened to few that won't apply to it.

It's been very hard since all of these topics are interesting. Nevertheless, I managed to pick my top 20 and put them in order, the first one being the most interesting (to me).

Here it goes :

Dissonance
Electric Bass
The Clave
The Rhythm Changes
Beat Matching and DJ Moves
Instruments Imitating Life
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
Extreme Electronic Music: Glitchcore, IDM
Melodic Construction
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Tango
Music of Mexico: Traditional Forms (ranchera, son, mariachi)
Guitar Shredding
Overdrive And Distortion
Arranging
Chord Resolution
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
The Toms
Instrumental Soloing

Thanks for all that you do Kevin

I tried to whittle down the list. It was very difficult, since I thirst to hear everything that you guys do at Pandora. I love the podcasts. I love how Pandora has managed to stay classy. extremely awesome, and extremely educational.

Here is my chosen topics for 2008 in the order of preferences at this moment in time.

Topics I like for 2008:
Metal In All Its Forms (YEAH!!!!!)
Dissonance
Acoustics
The Studio As An Instrument
Vintage Keyboards: Organs and Electric Pianos
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Drumming: Acoustic Meets Synthetic
Chord Resolution
Pitch And Frequencies
Classical Guitar
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Melodic Construction
Overdrive And Distortion
Funk
Common Chord Progressions
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser,
Eras Of Jazz
Guitar Shredding
Recording At Home
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
Tango
Lyrical Cliches
Revealing A Few Genes

I love pandora....it's on for many hours a day, at work and home. Great stuff.

And this series has gotta be the best way of learning about music

Some ideas:
1) Counterpoint and related ideas. What's a fugue? How does it differ from a canon etc.? How did contrapuntal music develop from its precursors?

2) Instrumental history. How do baroque instruments differ from modern ones? What sounds do they make?

3) Instrumentation and timbre. OK, I know that each instrument has its own overtone signature. But how do they work? What makes a trombone sound like a trombone, and something like (say) a trumpet, but nothing like a guitar?

4) Development of jazz styles, particularly bop and related styles

I'll come up with more, I'm sure

Peter

What an amazing lineup! I love this podcast!

My picks...

Arranging
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Country and Bluegrass, Yesterday and Today
Dissonance
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Extreme Electronic Music: Glitchcore, IDM
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Group Harmonies
Improvised Singing
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Metal In All Its Forms
Metric Modulation
Music of Mexico: Traditional Forms (ranchera, son, mariachi)
Modality
Modulation
Recording At Home
Revealing A Few Genes
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Scratching and Turntablism
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
Tango
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Role Of The Producer
The Slowest And The Fastest
The Studio As An Instrument
The Tritone
Three Centuries Of Composers
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

Uh, ok, better do this evry week instead of bi-weekly! LOL

Recording At Home
Modality
Modulation
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Electric Bass
Vintage Keyboards: Organs and Electric Pianos
Tango
Common Chord Progressions
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Instrumental Soloing
Scratching and Turntablism
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda

I've learned so much about music theory because of this podcast! What makes you guys different is that you provide links to examples of theory in modern music... I can't get enough!

- syncopation

- african origins of funk (e.g., interlocking parts)

This may be nerdy and all, but how about something on contemporary composers (Modern and post-Modern)? Could be a very good companion piece to Alex Ross's book "The Rest is Noise."

Acoustics
Arranging
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Country and Bluegrass, Yesterday and Today
Dissonance
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Eras Of Jazz
Funk
Group Harmonies
Improvised Singing
Instruments Imitating Life
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Modality
Modulation
Pitch And Frequencies
Recording At Home
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Standards And Covers
The Rhythm Changes
The Studio As An Instrument

I would be most interested in:
Arranging
Classical Guitar
Common Chord Progressions
Electric Bass
Eras Of Jazz
Instrumental Soloing
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Melodic Construction
Recording At Home
Standards And Covers
The Rhythm Changes
The Role Of The Producer
Three Centuries Of Composers
Voice Leading

Thanks.

Classical guitar, three centuries of composers, and new styles of Mexican music jumped out at me. This is going to be great.

You folks do a great job. Topics that I think would benefit both casual listeners and musicians might be: melodic construction; chord resolution; dominant seventh; building a song from the ground up; ninths, elevenths and thirteenths. Again, I enjoy both the site and Pandora Presents. Thank you.

A Capella Singing
Beat Matching and DJ Moves
Dissonance
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser, Eras Of Jazz
Group Harmonies
Improvised Singing
Instrumental Soloing
Melodic Construction
Prepared And Invented Instruments
Revealing A Few Genes
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Standards And Covers
The Role Of The Producer
The Studio As An Instrument
Voice Leading

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Your operatic grasshopper JPMorgen John Peter Merrick from Portland Oregon...

Guitar Shredding and
Instrumental Soloing

Extreme Electronic Music: Glitchcore, IDM

Beat Matching and DJ Moves

Building A Song From The Ground Up

Drumming: Acoustic Meets Synthetic

Scratching and Turntablism

Revealing A Few Genes

You guys do a great job, but somehow my recommendations got published to the lists wrong. What I would actually like to hear/see are:

song forms: verse, chorus, bridge and coda
chord resolution
dominant seventh
blues styles of St. Louis, Chacago and Memphis
dynamics - building contour and drama
ninths, elevenths and thirteenths
intrumental soloing
eight bars, twelve bars, whiskey bars

Thanks

Are you still doing new programs? I'm worried because we are into February now and nothing new has been posted so far this year. . . don't go away!

In my eyes the most interesting aspects are those relating music to media, especially:
Acoustics
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Recording At Home
Scratching and Turntablism
The Role Of The Producer
The Studio As An Instrument
Transatlantic Pingpong

We are returning! Indeed we are.

We're spending February trying to figure out how to get more people subscribing to this series.

So please, tell your friends, tell your neighbors and familials -- subscribe to this show! That's the only way we can afford to keep making them.

('Tis a free subscription, but we do have to please our sponsors... you know how it is.)

Thanks for caring, and for listening,
Kevin

HOW do I "subscribe????"

i LOVE your site. you are epic, amazing, phenomenal. a thousand gratitudes. my interest in music has been sparked to an all time high.

can I get pandora radio on my verizon cell phone.

can I get pandora radio on my verizon cell phone.

Thank you for all your work on these, I've genuinely enjoyed the dozen or so 2007 shows I've heard. Almost all the topics for 2008 look interesting, but to keep it manageable, my top 10 votes, in decreasing order, are:

Recording At Home
Acoustics
Arranging
Drumming: Subtleties of Feel
Drumming: Acoustic Meets Synthetic
Piano
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Vintage Keyboards: Organs and Electric Pianos
Voice Leading
A Capella Singing

I also have a request. If possible, can all the song samples for a topic be gathered together under a single button? Or can we have a single-click to play the next sample? Right now it seems like a lot of clicking to follow a link, play the sample, page back, follow the next link, etc.

Thanks.

These topics are the most interesting to me:
Chord Resolution
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Dissonance
Group Harmonies
Voice Leading

Cool. "Chord Resolution" is getting a lot of requests; I'll be sure to get with Russell Johnson to work on that one, too.

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Thanks for listening, guys! Any more votes of what you want to hear covered in the new season?

Definitely
Recording at Home
The Dominant Seventh
The Role of the Producer

Ive enjoyed most of the shows so far, especially the ones on Meter and Synthesis. Understanding the filters in synthesis actually helped me in my analog electronics classes - its the exact same concept. More stuff on synthesis would be cool. From your above list, these ones looked especially cool (even if i already missed the voting).
Acoustics
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Classical Guitar
Common Chord Progressions
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Guitar Shredding
Metal In All Its Forms
Revealing A Few Genes
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths

keep it up, these music theory podcasts are great!

melodic constuction

I like the music theory and history the best.

My Faves:

Acoustics
Arranging
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Building A Song From The Ground Up
Chord Resolution
Common Chord Progressions
Dissonance
Drumming: Acoustic Meets Synthetic
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Eight Bars, Twelve Bars
Electric Bass
Electric Guitar Effects Pt. 2: Flanger, Phaser, Talkbox, Ring Modulation
Funk
Guitar Shredding
Group Harmonies
Improvised Singing
Jazz Forms: The Head And The Solos
Lyrical Cliches
Melodic Construction
Metric Modulation
Modality
Modulation
Overdrive And Distortion
Pitch And Frequencies
Ninths, Elevenths, Thirteenths
Scratching and Turntablism
Song Forms: Verse, Chorus, Bridge, Coda
Standards And Covers
Stylized Singing: Vowel Shapes, Slurring, Scatting
The Clave
The Dominant Seventh
The Rhythm Changes
The Role Of The Producer
The Slowest And The Fastest
The Studio As An Instrument
The Toms
The Tritone
Transatlantic Tennis
Twang
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
please! I would love to understand the distinction.

Give Kevin a raise... a staff... and free him up to do them all. This is my favorite podcast period!

My top choices for this year:
Eras Of Jazz
Melodic Construction
Music of Mexico: Traditional Forms (ranchera, son, mariachi)
[I'd love to see you dissect many regions of the world and have this be it's own category of episodes]
Group Harmonies
Pitch and Frequencies
Blues Styles of St. Louis, Chicago and Memphis
Rhythm Changes
Dynamics: Building Contour And Drama
Vocalizing: Range, Tone, Vibrato
Voice Leading

Wow... maybe just all of them...