Interesting and good video and I think it would be very helpful to a beginner; in fact when I encountered my very first Hammond, this video would have been invaluable, but when I encountered my first Hammond happened in either 1956 or 57, and videos and Internet did not exist then! So I just experimented as best I could and eventually somewhat figured out what drawbars and presets do, but I did not at the time understand anything about the harmonic series or the idea behind the drawbars concept. That Hammond was in the chapel of a larger church, and there was also a three manual pipe organ in the sanctuary, which I also experimented with. My first encounter with seeing an organ being played was to watch the organist on a Sunday service, from which I figured out what the pedals were primarily used for. I also noticed that he used both feet and it seemed that he would use mostly whichever foot was closer to the note he wanted to play, so I started to do likewise on the Hammond. But did I miss something here or did you not mention bass pedals at all? The pedalboard was one of the things that I found most interesting about organs in general; I think a little of this video should include at least a superficial look at Hammond pedals and their use.
I got to stop by a local keyboard nerd's house yesterday and he had a real B3! He showed me all of this after I already watched your videos a couple times, and when I went to jam with him I was STILL throwing all the drawbars in and out freaking out like "its not working!"
Super helpful - thank you, Mike!
Glad to hear! Thank you 🙏🎹!!
Interesting and good video and I think it would be very helpful to a beginner; in fact when I encountered my very first Hammond, this video would have been invaluable, but when I encountered my first Hammond happened in either 1956 or 57, and videos and Internet did not exist then! So I just experimented as best I could and eventually somewhat figured out what drawbars and presets do, but I did not at the time understand anything about the harmonic series or the idea behind the drawbars concept. That Hammond was in the chapel of a larger church, and there was also a three manual pipe organ in the sanctuary, which I also experimented with. My first encounter with seeing an organ being played was to watch the organist on a Sunday service, from which I figured out what the pedals were primarily used for. I also noticed that he used both feet and it seemed that he would use mostly whichever foot was closer to the note he wanted to play, so I started to do likewise on the Hammond. But did I miss something here or did you not mention bass pedals at all? The pedalboard was one of the things that I found most interesting about organs in general; I think a little of this video should include at least a superficial look at Hammond pedals and their use.
Great story :)And a good point!! Thanks for sharing and commenting 👊🎹🙏🤟
Thanks 🙏👍
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I got to stop by a local keyboard nerd's house yesterday and he had a real B3! He showed me all of this after I already watched your videos a couple times, and when I went to jam with him I was STILL throwing all the drawbars in and out freaking out like "its not working!"
Hahaha. Yup. A common story unfortunately!! But once you know you know 👊👊🎹🎹
Worth mentioning that you have chorus turned on during your initial explanation of how to engage the drawbars.
Man your b3 sounds eeexactly like my a100! It got something that I never heard in another organ! Hard to put my finger on what it is!
That’s cool!!