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Ronnie Wibbley
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"The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

#506482 - 22/08/07 08:32 AM

Does anyone know what I'm on about here?

There's a particular chord shape on the keyboard that instantly brings back memories of the "hanging" chord at the end of a scene change jingle in light 1970s situation comedies... usually on vibes or something. From what I remember it's something similar to elements of a D major triad in the RH with a C Major in the LH, but with a couple of intervals missing.

I've forgotten how to find it, and no amount of scrabbling on the keyboard sounds right now...

Anyone?

Ron

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David Etheridge

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

[Re: Ronnie Wibbley]
#506807 - 22/08/07 01:51 PM

Iknow the type of thing you mean but I'm having to guess here:
It'll either be D/C (C, A D F#), or
C6/9/#11 (C G E A D F#).
Does that help?

Dave.
(it was the type of chord Ron Grainer used to use a lot in his film soundtracks)

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dementedchord

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

[Re: Ronnie Wibbley]
#506945 - 22/08/07 04:57 PM

back when the soap operas over here employed organists to do live sound tracks often a diminised and/or augmented chords were used for transitional tensioning... that #11 is a good one as well... when used as discribed with the 13 (6th) it basicly just outlines all the tones in a partcular key... think lydian...

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Pablo_Fanques

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

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#507674 - 23/08/07 09:56 PM

Quote dementedchord:

that #11 is a good one as well... when used as discribed with the 13 (6th) it basicly just outlines all the tones in a partcular key... think lydian...

Could be a chord derived from the Melodic Minor. Loads of Mancini/James Bond type scores and tunes are based on the Melodic Minor.

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dementedchord

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

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#508646 - 25/08/07 09:53 PM

could be alotta things pabs... but it seems to me that with a root of C and the only accidental being the F#... sounds like a IV chord in G with all the possible extensions... hence my suggestion to think lydian...

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Lou Malone

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" new

[Re: Ronnie Wibbley]
#512223 - 01/09/07 07:33 PM

Go to http://tv.cream.org/ it'll be there somewhere.

Fabulous site, but better leave an afternoon free to browse!
It's addictive!

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Lou Malone

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Re: "The Ronnie Hazelhurst Chord" [Re: Ronnie Wibbley]
#512228 - 01/09/07 07:44 PM

Sorry, just went back to that site myself and they no longer have all the tvtheme mp3s. Damn that MCPS!

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