Hold Me played in the style of Ken Griffin
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Here's "Hold Me" on a B3 Hammond organ played in the style of 1950's Hammond artist Ken Griffin. I have played this song as Ken Griffin might have played it, using his signature harmony above the melody for the first and final parts, a repeat echo effect for ambience, likewise as Ken used, and a basic Hammond pedal sound. I did not show my pedal work in this video as Ken's pedalling was strictly left foot only so I did likewise here. His basic style was seemingly very simple, but accurately imitating it is anything but simple, and playing RH harmony above the melody was one of his exclusive trademarks and is not as simple to do as it might appear. This is a song that Ken did not play, as far as I can determine, but if he had, he might very likely have done it as I have here. The reiterative percussive bell like sound I used in the second verse was also one of his trademark effects, but my method of getting this effect is very different from the way he did it just as a simple overdub recording effect and trilling the notes by hand. I am using a square wave to modulate a gating circuit and extracting the required pitches from the Hammond's keying circuitry so the sound is similar but the approach is very different.
Ken's playing style was different from that of many other Hammond players, but he was very popular in his time, and I am now finding out that there are still many who enjoy his recordings, so I am now beginning to play songs in his style that he either did not play, or they were composed after his death. So for those of you who appreciate and enjoy the music of Ken Griffin, follow me on this channel because I will be playing lots of songs in his stylings in addition to my regular efforts going forward. The HAMMOND Guy
Sounds great ken
Cool song. HQ sound 😍❤
Brilliant, That's Ken Griffin.
HI Bill, Hope all is going well for you. I figured I'm going to start including some KG imitations from time to time, and play songs that he did not play so that anybody who really likes Ken's music might get a chance to hear what he might have done with these other songs. Fortunately the B3 that I am using now is an older model, with the earlier style of vibrato so the organ sound is right. I am, however, now using digital delay to simulate Ken's tape echo, but I can set it so that it has the authentic Ken tape echo sound, and likewise, digital simulation of the older fluid column spring reverb units get the acoustic ambience right. I haven;t done more than one KG imitation recently, but this one reminded me how Ken's seemingly simple style is much more difficult to get right then I had remembered. But it's definitely worth the effort.
Love it you got it down good organ sound ken griffin style I like the introduction
Hi Michael, thanks for the comment. As I was playing this I was once again reminded that although Ken Griffin's playing style is seemingly simple, it actually is much more difficult than it would seem at first. I know there have been many Ken Griffin imitators but very few really get it right. I heard one person say that all you have to do is "play 'You Can't be True, Dear,' in the key of G on any electronic organ using tibias or flutes and Leslie tremolo, and you'll sound like Ken Griffin."
And that is absolutely not true. To get the Griffin sound, you must first of all use a traditional tone wheel Hammond with the older style of scanner vibrato, use either a fluid column reverb or tape echo, or both together, and then use his registrations and playing tricks, the most important being the harmony above the melody, and no Leslie tremolo. Has to be Hammond scanner vibrato, and has to be the older type, which means any Hammond up through an early model B3 or C3. Late model B & C suffix 3s with the new small vibrato line on the back of the upper manual, and likewise A100s won't get the organ vibrato sound quite right although they'll br pretty close. Likewise, X66 and H series Hammond's won't sound right at all for imitating KG.