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E Romanian Hijaz 9 handpan chords
Romanian Hijaz sits on E harmonic minor, so the i chord is E minor and the raised D# gives you a bright B major. Start with the three cards below, then move on. The app has 30 chord cards for this scale. New to handpan? Read Handpan 101: how to play a handpan first.
Also written E Hijaz or E Romanian Hijaz.
A little history
Hijaz is a scale family with roots in the Arabic maqamat, as Isthmus Instruments puts it. The Romanian version starts on the fourth degree of the Hijaz scale. On E that gives E F# G A B C D#, which is E harmonic minor. The raised seventh, D#, is what makes a major chord on B possible.
MAG Instruments calls it the most popular Hijaz variant and says it sounds exotic and Middle Eastern. Isthmus Instruments says it was an early handpan scale that has stayed on many makers' lists.
How to read a chord card
- The darker colour is the root; the lighter colour, the other chord tones.
- The line under the pan names the notes, root first, with their field numbers.
E Romanian Hijaz 9
E3 ding, A3 B3 C4 D#4 E4 F#4 G4 B4
Starter progression: Em, Am, B (i, iv, V), top shell only.
Playing a C# pan? Open C# Hijaz / Orion 9.
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