ADVANCED ANALYTICS IN MUSIC PART 2
Get a Grip: The Top 10 Hand Clapping Songs of All Time
These artists have given us the best hand jobs (musically speaking, of course) in the history of Rock ’N’ Roll!
As we enter month nine of the shutdown, a crazy project like ranking the top 10 hand-clapping songs of all time doesn’t seem so crazy.
The bad new is I didn’t comprehend the depth of this rabbit hole going in, so it took forever to finish this two-part quasi-treatise. The good news is, by the time you finish reading it, we may be out of quarantine.
Believe it or not, hand clapping and pandemics go way back. According to the Guardian, hand clapping dates back to 1473 with the first outbreak of cholera as a signal to let others know you were infected.
Then, in the early 17th century, Gospel music began using hand-clapping and foot-stomping as a rhythmic accompaniment to unite the entire congregation in religious fervor. Four hundred years later, the hands still can’t be beat when it comes to staying with the beat.
Following the example of professional sports, I used advanced analytics to grade the…
