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Bergerac
RAY RUSSELL
‘This 1980's police show theme was part-
inspired by, er, The Police. JOz BENNETT
interviews guitarist Ray Russell.
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TECHNIQUE
Ray worked hard getting the tone and note
production exaetly right, which is one reason why
the transeription doesn't stay in one fingerboard
position: “When the main theme is playedon the
guitar [bar 50] it starts on the Sth fet, fourth
string —Kind of second postion D Dorian, but it
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for each. The interval are quite large, so the
fingerings ean be tricky. [also played it very near
the bridge, so the strings sort of whined
‘The track changes key and mode at several
points, vering subtly in and out of D Dorian, D
hharmenie minor, A natural minor, and F major. But
because the theme is so melodie, is better to
follow the theme precisely rathor than improvising
= you can easily put your own slant on it by using
different bends, sides, hammer-ons and so on.
‘There are wo guitars on the recording, and our
transcription includes the essential pats of both
Ray: “After the main theme and rhythm section, I
‘overdubbed what I cal ‘sprangs’. You know, like
the Andy Sumnmors chord past from Walkin’ On
‘The Moon, with chorus, delay and compression. Its
all suspended chord, sus4s and so on.
GUITAR SOUND
Apart from the techniques mentioned, that biting
guitar tone isan essential part ofthe feel ofthe
track, Ray used a Sinclair eustom soid-body
similar toa Strat, with active EMG pickups. "I was
using MXR effets atthe time ~ just ehomas and
delay stomp-boxes, into miked up Fender Twi,
‘sTremember in the mid-eighties we re
recorded the theme, just to update the production
really ~ I used a Steinberger C series, a Bradshaw
pre-amp, and Groove Tubes to get the tone. But
you can win when you change atheme. The week
after the new version was used, the producer hod
‘to.gp on the BCS Points Of View and justify why
the theme had changed. I just shows how
‘important TV themes ean be to people!” #52
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