The Mellotron Group

I've noticed that chords with wide intervals sound good, no matter what notes you use. Of course, "good" is purely subjective...but I have noticed that.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> did you guys know that if you put your fingers on the keys and kinda do,  
> like, every other key and sometimes a black one here and there you get a 
> better  sound than when you push down a bunch that are right next to each other 
> all at  once?
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> In a message dated 4/25/2013 9:53:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> markpringnz@... writes:
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> Simple chord theory isn't difficult, and for popular music at least you  
> don't need to know much, you could probably harmonize most popular music with  
> 2 or 3 chords, 4 if you want to sound sophisticated! There are loads of  
> tutorials available on the net. 
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> My limited knowledge came from "The  Pocket book of piano chords for 
> dummies" which covers nearly every chord you  could think of and "Music 
> Composition for Dummies." 
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> Once you get used  to the various chord shapes on the keyboard you can 
> improvise without thinking  about what chords you are actually playing. I'm a 
> bit like Fritz I often don't  know what chord I am playing but probably for 
> different reasons! However it  does help to know what key you are in but even 
> that is not  essential.
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> There are rules but they are made to be broken. J S Bach did absolutely  
> astonishing things with harmony which should sound dreadful, and admittedly do 
>  when I play them, but in the hands of a good player they sound  wonderful.
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> Mark
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> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:42 AM, R l <_bluesrock77@..._ 
> (mailto:bluesrock77@...) > wrote:
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> Chord construction...it sounds good for a non-musician like  me...could you 
> please ellaborate?
> tks
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> From: _tomdcour@..._ (mailto:tomdcour@...) 
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:04:29  +0000
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Dying  Day.
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> My daughters piano teacher recently gave me a "refresher" course on  chord 
> construction- very interesting really, think I wrote like 15 songs  right 
> after!!
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> From: Tony Moffett <_atm655@..._ (mailto:atm655@...) >
> Reply-To: "_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) " <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) >
> Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 9:56  AM
> To: "_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) " <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The  Dying Day.
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> Bernie I think it's holding down more than one key at a time.
> Some arbitrary names were assigned to them by folks in the "way back  
> times".
> It's my guess, I could be wrong.
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> Tony
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> On Apr 25, 2013, at 6:43 AM, "tron400" <_tron400@..._ 
> (mailto:tron400@...) > wrote:
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> What are these "chords" you speak of?
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> Bernie
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> --- In _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) , fdoddy@  wrote:
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> > I never know the chords I play
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark  <markpringnz@>
> > To: newmellotrongroup <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) >
> > Sent: Wed,  Apr 24, 2013 3:21 pm
> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying  Day.
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> > Thanks. This is a bit embarrassing, I am not certain of the  chords as it 
> was a live improvisation. I think it started in e minor and  it's mainly a 
> mixture of descending 5ths and 4ths, it wanders around in F  for a bit then 
> ends in C. The sound is a mixture of the Mark II violins  from Redtron and 
> the tremolo strings preset from the Synth 1 VST. I  recorded it using Reaper 
> and added some extra reverb in Audacity.
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> > Mark
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> > On Thu,  Apr 25, 2013 at 12:09 AM, R l <bluesrock77@> wrote:
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> > Very sweet. The  opening chord and sound reminds me of In the wake of 
> Poseidon...what are  they?
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> > To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
> > From:  marabus@
> > Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:57:01 -0400
> > Subject:  Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Dying Day.
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> > Nice mellow piece
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> > Pete
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> > On  4/24/13 4:56 AM, Mark wrote: 
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> > For Anzac Day  
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> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuloWbKMapo
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> >  Mark
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