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Joined: Apr 24, 2006 Posts: 236 Plantation, FL 
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Posted on Oct 03 2006 09:31 PM
OK, the melody to Telstar is easy to figure, it works out of the A major scale. Anybody have any recent intelligence on the rhythm accompiament? I've seen/heard simple 4-chords to more complex monstosities. Here is what M. Sato has to say about the chords: http://msato.net/Band/coad/teruster2.html
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Joined: Apr 24, 2006 Posts: 236 Plantation, FL
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Posted on Oct 05 2006 11:23 AM
Anything in the SG101 Yahoo archives on Telstar? Anyone have a copy of the sheet music they would part with? I've heard it referred to as "the same chords as 'Heart and Soul' " or some thing like that. Come on SG101, I'm sure someone got something on this song theye want to share.
www.theFinDicators We are not the Fin-Dictators as sometimes spelled on marquees. —What day is Surf Rock's birthday? Looks like Surf Rock and I was born the same year. Maybe we are both Libras? |
Joined: Feb 27, 2006 Posts: 10331 southern Michigan
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Posted on Oct 05 2006 11:30 AM
Cliff, try this. I figured out these chords around '96, since the Space Cossacks used to play it in the early days. I really don't know if they are correct or not (I had them in a Word file, but don't have the time to check them right now), but it might help anyway. (And though I wouldn't bet my life on it, I suspect the chords are correct - it's pretty simple stuff.) The Tornados: Telstar intro: F#-G-G#-A-E verse: A-F#m-D-E bridge: A-F#m-D-E (four times) verse again, bridge again modulation: A-A#-B-C-C# verse II: D-Bm-G-A end: D - - -> —Ivan |
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Joined: Apr 24, 2006 Posts: 236 Plantation, FL
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Posted on Oct 05 2006 12:29 PM
Ivan, I will give it a try. I have spent decades coping riffs off records, tapes and CD's, but I couldn't figure out the tonality of the chords from the original Tornados recording. Well maybe if I quit my job and twiddled in my basement long enough I'd eventually get it. The C#m's are the part I I couldn't "hear". Thank you very much,
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Posted on Oct 05 2006 03:30 PM
I have a copy of the 1962 copyright sheet music. It shows the song in the key of C and the minor chords are minor 7ths. —There is Surf east of Sepulveda. |
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Posted on Oct 12 2006 04:31 AM
Here is the chart I made for the Shadow's version of "Telstar": Telstar E / / / F / / / F# / / / G / G# / (Intro} A F#m Bm E F#m Bm F#m Bm A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E F#m Bm F#m Bm A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E Drums Xâs 2 measures A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E F#m Bm F#m Bm A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E A F#m Bm E D Bm Em A D Bm Em A A# B C C# D D Bm G A D Bm Em A Bm Em Bm Em D Bm Em A D D D D Dm Dm D Casey |
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Posted on Nov 05 2006 12:45 PM
I always had trouble trying to find out the chords of the high pitched harp sounding instrument. Still not positive. |
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