Charlie Harding

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3,358 appearances 24 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 22 Sep

Charlie Harding’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In interviews, he's talked about how he likes to start songs with something a little unusual, something new to him.

Often finding a chord that he doesn't even know what it is is a really inviting place to begin.

So the first notes that he played for Andrew Watt was this on the guitar.

Okay, yeah, okay, there are four notes there.

Because you're saying that that last note is actually a pair of notes.

Yes, it is a D, a C, an E flat, and a B.

Dr. Sloan, professor of musicology with a jazz background.

What on earth is that tension?

What is that dissonance?

I mean, if we call the root note D the tonic of the chord, then we're looking at a D13 with a sharp nine and a dominant seven.

It's like a D flat nine add 13, right?

It's a D7 flat nine add 13.

Yeah.

Paul, you're working us here.

We go from that chord to a slightly more sonorous sound.

Still very tense though.

Very tense.

And then a kind of pseudo resolution.

We are finally arriving to our home chord.

The chord is G. But always in the bass is this D. Instead of feeling like home, right?

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