Joe Bennett Music Services | Forensic Musicologist

This week Tony and I explored all things Ukulele! Originating in the late 19th century and later absorbed into American popular music, the ukulele is often associated with novelty or informality, but its history spans Tin Pan Alley standards, folk revivals...

This week Tony and I hit the studio! Electric Lady Studios began as Jimi Hendrix’s answer to the high cost and limitations of rented studio time during the sessions for his 1968 album Electric Ladyland. In 1968 he bought The Generation, a defunct Greenwich...

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I appeared on CBS this morning, in discussion with journalist and songwriter David Pogue about What Makes For A Great Christmas Song? (video link). Here’s the first part of the article:
Every year at this time, some of the greatest songs in the world pop up in our playlists. Most of them are decades old, or even centuries. If anyone knows what makes a Christmas song immortal, it’s Berklee School of Music forensic musicologist Joe Bennett...

This week Tony and I hit the floor! ‘Four on the floor’ refers to a rhythmic pattern in which the bass drum hits on every beat of a bar of 4, creating a steady pulse associated with disco, house, and much contemporary pop. Although now common across...