Level up your organ playing with five easy licks from Sweetwater’s Jacob Dupre! Click here for more keyboard lessons 👉 ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybFzNBWKH-43gw_c4qWLv7s
When you start your glissandos low, those notes don't project much. The trick is to start with the volume pedal pushed down (loud) and back it off as you ascend. This, along with slapping a bass, are two of the most funnest things one can do musically. And smoking dope.
6:47: that C9 voicing is identical to Gmin6 as used for the intro to Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are”. Notes are just notes; what the chord actually is comes entirely from the context in which it is used.
Two of my favorite Hammond/organ/ keyboard players are Tony Kaye and Geoff Downes. Both brilliant musicians, stand up guys with a great sense of humor, and two individuals I have been lucky to spend time with on several occasions.
One of the big things you can do is this.....start from an upward glissando at a low range, and end that glissando with a Shearing block chord that is sustained, and "forte." I call this "The Swoop Up To Chord Burst." This glissando technique on the Hammond was inspired by big band jazz music, where the brass and reeds do portamentos up on the notes. Slides, that is. You can even do "squabble". To do this, you use intervallic seconds or even thirds (2 or 3 tones close together) and do staccato on every hit, and add some rubato to that squabble-that -make the staccato hits slow, then speed it up, and slow it down again, like you are "babbling" or doing a conversation on the Hammond. Squabble sounds something like "ba ba ba ba ba ba" or "be be be be be be"....something like that.
This was great! I'm completely clueless on organ and when you approach it like it's a piano it sounds... well kinda terrible. This was super helpful to get started. tnx!
Thanks a lot for this Jacob, these are some really interesting ideas to play around with. The chord moves sound great with an organ sound and add nice variety to single note lines. Please keep up your tutorials as they are very helpful - if you have time, a video on ideas for playing with a Fender Rhodes sound would be awesome. Thanks!
So clear and easy to follow. Jacob Dupre, this is so very helpful for a piano player who is loving growing his B3 experience. You give remote lessons? (That's a serious question).
Thanks for sharing. Non-keyboardist here. This is very cool. When you glissando are you hitting both the white and black keys at same time, or just the black keys. Fingertips, palm of hand? I can't tell what's happening from the video. Thank you! (edit: I looked up another video doing rock hammond suggesting using sortof the outer edge of the palm so I'll try that).
He’s playing black and white on those glissandos. Typically, palm-dominant when moving up and fingertip-dominant moving down. Think about wiping a table surface. Don’t press down too firmly.
Thanks for the tips, Jacob! "Remember, always practice with a metronome." There are a ton of metronome apps, and I'm sure they all have their advantages. But which one are you using in the video?
Nice licks Jacob, much appreciated! Hey, I think your gospel lick4 might be a 1-4-1-4-1 pattern ... so instead of Eb to an Fm triad, it may be various Eb inversions to Ab inversions?
Can you explain how the Keybed feels? Im currently deciding whether I will buy a Nord Electro 6 D oder HP. Im pretty sure this Stage 3 also has Hammer Action Portable. How is glissing and fast organ action feeling on this Keybed?
Hi, Elias. The Stage 3 is a fully weighted keyboard so it will not feel like an organ. While key feel is highly subjective (kind of like mattresses), Jacob did do a great experiment where he weighed the action of a bunch of different keyboards for comparison. You can check that out here: www.sweetwater.com/insync/keyboard-action-and-key-weight-experiment/ Thanks! Jason Filloramo, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1281, Jason_Filloramo@sweetwater.com
The Nords allow organ sounds to be triggered at the high contact point, so the keys don't have to be depressed so deep. It improves the organ experience vastly compared to other weighted keyboards. The HP weighted keyboards are too heavy and bouncy though, the HA versions (available on Stage with 88 keys) are a lot better, especially for organ. The semi-weighted ones are the best for organ work, but not so good for piano.
That's sad indeed, but the Hammond home organs are pretty much 10 a penny & they get thrown out when nobody plays them anymore - and unlike their big tonewheel siblings they are quite cheap... Still, it always pains me too to see them discarded like that.
I’d have got it home somehow, even if I’d had to drag it all the way. However, they are pretty dam heavy so I would have had to stay by it and make some phone calls for help. I once saw a pretty reasonable Les Paul style guitar in a skip at the local recycling yard. The mean old guy at the yard wouldn’t let me climb in to get it out...it could have been useful for spares
I started my journey as keyboardist when I found a Lowrey Special organ by a dumpster in my apartment building they had a tiny Leslie built in. I got it on to a shopping cart by the dumpster with the help of a king stranger took it home, cleaned it out side just in case it was a home to some critters, let sit for a coiled days, replaced a broken plug, luckily it worked… mostly and never looked back
I wonder how fast those nord stage 3 88 keys react. If you play organ you need light tones and no sluggish piano, I mean repetition of a single key with 2 fingers for example
I’ve setup a small studio at my house and always wanted the Hammond sound. IK Multimedia has the "Hammond B-3X" software made in conjunction with Suzuki. It’s amazing how true the sound is. There is a Leslie with it, which can be started/stopped while playing.
Exactly! My synth was available in both weighted and synth action keyboards, and I chose the synth action. Piano players think it isn't a "real" keyboard, but for anything other than piano, it's better. If you want a piano, play a piano!
If you're a pianist, then get an organist to play this. They're vastly different instruments, and one massive difference is the use of a volume pedal - which nobody playing a Nord or any other wannabe ever seems to use... Try a *real* Hammond, just to experience the sound and possibilities a console (A100 B3 C3 etc) coupled with a Leslie cab can give. No Nord can ever equal that - difference between riding a wooden rocking horse door kiddies vs a real thoroughbred.
Maybe but in the end, in a live situation with a band, 95% of the public will be impressed with hearing the wooden horse. 🤷♂ (if played correctly of course)
Level up your organ playing with five easy licks from Sweetwater’s Jacob Dupre! Click here for more keyboard lessons 👉 ruclips.net/p/PLlczpwSXEOybFzNBWKH-43gw_c4qWLv7s
Minor pentatonic scales with inverted fifths , magic of Jon Lord.
Never too old to learn... thank you
When you start your glissandos low, those notes don't project much. The trick is to start with the volume pedal pushed down (loud) and back it off as you ascend. This, along with slapping a bass, are two of the most funnest things one can do musically. And smoking dope.
it sounds like my favorite decade the 60s
Whatever Sweetwater pays Jacob is not enough!
I started out on organ as a child and still play from time to time. My passion for synths has taken a lot more of my timw
I hope we'll be lucky enough to see a part 2! These are so great, I can immediately introduce them into my playing
6:47: that C9 voicing is identical to Gmin6 as used for the intro to Billy Joel’s “Just The Way You Are”. Notes are just notes; what the chord actually is comes entirely from the context in which it is used.
The minor lick was cool!
Absolutely love this contemporary twist on an 'old ' instrument. Brilliant
Great tut. Thanks for sharing
Set the Wheel to control the leslie fast/slow and have more fun playing the amazing Hammond-sound;)
That last lick you showed, played straight is right out of the Bach corpus.
Always wanted a B3, but recently acquired an M3 will it give me that same awesome sound. I don't play the organ.... yet
I am enjoying these short lessons, Sweetwater.
Awesome thank you
Man, you have incredible feel
Two of my favorite Hammond/organ/ keyboard players are Tony Kaye and Geoff Downes. Both brilliant musicians, stand up guys with a great sense of humor, and two individuals I have been lucky to spend time with on several occasions.
Love the simplicity of the lesson thank you
Love this. Play with the Leslie to add tension.
I've always been a Hammond fan! And a great video too, thanks for sharing 🤘
Excellent as ALWAYS, Jacob!!!!
This is exactly the music i wanna know!!!! Thanks for showing me!!
Dupre Didactic!! Nice work; Hammond sound needs more love
Thanks for these great tips!❤
Thanks for the lesson Woody Goss!
thank you very much for great lessons.
Awesome!
One of the big things you can do is this.....start from an upward glissando at a low range, and end that glissando with a Shearing block chord that is sustained, and "forte." I call this "The Swoop Up To Chord Burst."
This glissando technique on the Hammond was inspired by big band jazz music, where the brass and reeds do portamentos up on the notes. Slides, that is.
You can even do "squabble". To do this, you use intervallic seconds or even thirds (2 or 3 tones close together) and do staccato on every hit, and add some rubato to that squabble-that -make the staccato hits slow, then speed it up, and slow it down again, like you are "babbling" or doing a conversation on the Hammond. Squabble sounds something like "ba ba ba ba ba ba" or "be be be be be be"....something like that.
Thank you for keeping these videos coming... every video inspires and motivates me to continue learning piano!
This beast
thank you! can you do more with the C2D Nord please!
This was great! I'm completely clueless on organ and when you approach it like it's a piano it sounds... well kinda terrible. This was super helpful to get started. tnx!
Very clear articulation and visual presentation!
Big 👍for Mr. Dupre. I always learn from his videos.
Something to try out on my MODX!!, 🍻 Jacob 👍🎹🎶
I've been bashing away at organ for decades and this vid reinforced some of the things I'm doing right and some new things to learn. Thanks for this
Very cool!
Excellent picked up some cool ideas for piano too.
Thanks for showing these great tips👍👍👍👍
Thanks a lot for this Jacob, these are some really interesting ideas to play around with. The chord moves sound great with an organ sound and add nice variety to single note lines. Please keep up your tutorials as they are very helpful - if you have time, a video on ideas for playing with a Fender Rhodes sound would be awesome. Thanks!
just what I needed, thanks!
Super!
Perfect
Incredible video! So valuable, great info and explanation. Thanks
Cool Video Guys!!
Yes, playing the organ is very different.
So clear and easy to follow. Jacob Dupre, this is so very helpful for a piano player who is loving growing his B3 experience. You give remote lessons? (That's a serious question).
Thanks for sharing. Non-keyboardist here. This is very cool. When you glissando are you hitting both the white and black keys at same time, or just the black keys. Fingertips, palm of hand? I can't tell what's happening from the video. Thank you! (edit: I looked up another video doing rock hammond suggesting using sortof the outer edge of the palm so I'll try that).
Many ways to do it, depends.
He’s playing black and white on those glissandos. Typically, palm-dominant when moving up and fingertip-dominant moving down. Think about wiping a table surface. Don’t press down too firmly.
Thanks for the tips, Jacob! "Remember, always practice with a metronome." There are a ton of metronome apps, and I'm sure they all have their advantages. But which one are you using in the video?
There's a certain charm to an old-fashioned mechanical metronome.
Crazy how much the glissando sounds like a record changing rpm!
Nice licks Jacob, much appreciated! Hey, I think your gospel lick4 might be a 1-4-1-4-1 pattern ... so instead of Eb to an Fm triad, it may be various Eb inversions to Ab inversions?
Thank you so much 👌👌
This was really cool. I especially liked the last lick. Thanks for sharing this.
okay, that was really helpful. thank you!!
Very informative! Great tools for the proverbial tool box of music
Can you explain how the Keybed feels? Im currently deciding whether I will buy a Nord Electro 6 D oder HP. Im pretty sure this Stage 3 also has Hammer Action Portable. How is glissing and fast organ action feeling on this Keybed?
Hi, Elias. The Stage 3 is a fully weighted keyboard so it will not feel like an organ. While key feel is highly subjective (kind of like mattresses), Jacob did do a great experiment where he weighed the action of a bunch of different keyboards for comparison. You can check that out here:
www.sweetwater.com/insync/keyboard-action-and-key-weight-experiment/
Thanks!
Jason Filloramo, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1281, Jason_Filloramo@sweetwater.com
@@sweetwater thanks for the kind answer, I will check this out right now
The Nords allow organ sounds to be triggered at the high contact point, so the keys don't have to be depressed so deep. It improves the organ experience vastly compared to other weighted keyboards. The HP weighted keyboards are too heavy and bouncy though, the HA versions (available on Stage with 88 keys) are a lot better, especially for organ. The semi-weighted ones are the best for organ work, but not so good for piano.
VERY NICE
I was walking my dog a few years ago and i saw a hammond organ out on the side of the road left in the rain, it was very sad :(
@jollytunes ha nice
That's sad indeed, but the Hammond home organs are pretty much 10 a penny & they get thrown out when nobody plays them anymore - and unlike their big tonewheel siblings they are quite cheap...
Still, it always pains me too to see them discarded like that.
I’d have got it home somehow, even if I’d had to drag it all the way. However, they are pretty dam heavy so I would have had to stay by it and make some phone calls for help.
I once saw a pretty reasonable Les Paul style guitar in a skip at the local recycling yard. The mean old guy at the yard wouldn’t let me climb in to get it out...it could have been useful for spares
I started my journey as keyboardist when I found a Lowrey Special organ by a dumpster in my apartment building they had a tiny Leslie built in. I got it on to a shopping cart by the dumpster with the help of a king stranger took it home, cleaned it out side just in case it was a home to some critters, let sit for a coiled days, replaced a broken plug, luckily it worked… mostly and never looked back
B3 with Leslie: 3 to 5 thousand dollars
Most any other organ: FREE! Just come pick it up!
Great video, with a simple explanation!
Great lesson
Great stuff, thanks for the ideas!
Impressive!
Nice n swishy!
Where is the up and down for the various organ sounds like rock organ, church organ etc
Thanks lots, the C6 “scale” is lost on me. What is the scale?
Is this related to Bebop Scale? Thanks!
Barry Harris dim 6 scale
I wonder how fast those nord stage 3 88 keys react. If you play organ you need light tones and no sluggish piano, I mean repetition of a single key with 2 fingers for example
Piano starter myself from the 60's/70's
13:22 that's what she said
if I make my organ say "grrrr wham" I'd be happy
Thanks Jacob. Some cool little tricks and licks to get the most out of those wonderful sounds! #sweetwater
But can it sound like a Leslie speeding up from standstill? That is a sound on it's own and very mechanical by nature.
I’ve setup a small studio at my house and always wanted the Hammond sound. IK Multimedia has the "Hammond B-3X" software made in conjunction with Suzuki. It’s amazing how true the sound is. There is a Leslie with it, which can be started/stopped while playing.
Are you hitting both the black and white keys with your gliss or just the black keys (which is what it looks like from the view here)?
what fingers do you use to gliss?
Is it a black key gliss or a white key gliss?
Great but how about wooly bully watch it t😮
best amp for hammond clone roland vk7? tx
Gimme’ Some!
Thank you from 🇩🇿
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Local funeral home has a graveyard (pun) full of them with Leslies… not kiddin’…!!
Watching that iPhone slip down the keys making me nervous
😅😅😅
😂
Half of playing a B3 is using your controls for effect and expression.
Really nice thanks. Loving the sound and the rythm.
С настоящим HAMMOND, это , конечно, не сравнить, просто электронное подобие, для начинающих😅
Amen to that.
Piano keys are not ideal, you really want a synth action. You don’t want slow weighted action you want quick snap back easy to press keys.
I dislike playing organ on a weighted keyboard and also dislike playing piano and EP on an unweughtrd keyboard.
Exactly! My synth was available in both weighted and synth action keyboards, and I chose the synth action. Piano players think it isn't a "real" keyboard, but for anything other than piano, it's better. If you want a piano, play a piano!
I have been wondering how much these cool looking keyboards cost. $6,000. Oh my goodness
They are a professional keyboard
Barry Harris 6 dim!
If you're a pianist, then get an organist to play this.
They're vastly different instruments, and one massive difference is the use of a volume pedal - which nobody playing a Nord or any other wannabe ever seems to use...
Try a *real* Hammond, just to experience the sound and possibilities a console (A100 B3 C3 etc) coupled with a Leslie cab can give.
No Nord can ever equal that - difference between riding a wooden rocking horse door kiddies vs a real thoroughbred.
Maybe but in the end, in a live situation with a band, 95% of the public will be impressed with hearing the wooden horse. 🤷♂
(if played correctly of course)
Yeah, the chiropractic fees are a killer if you have to hump around all that gear and no musician can afford them these days😮
My Nord C1 WITH expression pedal, Leslie 770 and Leslie preamp 2 does exactly what you mean.
For the algo
You want this instrument to perform as a Hammond. Well, that is easy, just procure a Japanese-made Hammond.
nice video...can i get an AMEN...
Epic means long.
Too bad we don't have technology to overlay the keyboard to see exactly what notes you're playing instead of trying to decipher it thru your fingers.
hand fisting the keyboard.....ok
As long as it gives everyone a good feeling…😊
It.s not a HAMMOND, it's a copy.
That NORD's sound is not very HIP...sorry man 🎼
Picky, picky, picky!
Can you actually use a Hammond product for this video? Seriously. Do the instrument justice.
For Sure. Thank you
I think the point of this video is to give non hammond owners some inspiration to use the hammond sound on their instrument.
Seemed like this worked perfectly fine.
Great lesson