ADVANCED ANALYTICS IN MUSIC PART 1
Give Yourself a Hand: the 20 Greatest Hand Clapping Songs of All Time
Get a grip on yourself with these definitive rankings of hand clapping virtuosity.
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10 min readMay 2, 2020
THE LOCKDOWN, DAY 52: Have you been bouncing off the walls so much your neighbors think you’ve started playing the bass drum?
During times of trouble (and let’s face it, has there ever not been a time of trouble?), I will stumble down pretty much any rabbit hole that has to do with music, humor and sports.
Today, I want to wrap my fingers around a sticky question: which artists have given us the best hand jobs (musically speaking, of course) in the history of pop music?
Following the example of professional sports, I’ll use advanced analytics to grade the songs using four criteria (see the…
