Charlie Harding

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3,468 appearances 25 recordings 3 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard today

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

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 24 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 8.

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I mean, I don't know how much you can say about three notes, but it was such a striking way to start this album.

Well, it's not even three notes.

It's four notes.

And I think we need to get to our town to talk about it.

We're having this argument before recording.

It's D, E-flat, B. I don't know where you're getting this phantom fourth note.

Okay, so I have here in my hands the Martin D-28.

That is the same guitar that Paul McCartney recorded Blackbird on.

Except you have to turn it around, so you're playing it left-handed.

True, I am not a lefty.

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.

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