This Jack guy used to play at a professional level- and I mean in front of 10s of thousands of ppl- the big leagues. He played for artist who don't have a steady band and just put together a band for each tour- and he played with some really big names. But he didn't like the fact that the music and creativity took a back seat to having the right look, he didn't like the way there were no rehearsals or even sound checks in some places because they had them booked so solid there simply was no time. He didn't like the fact that this produced robotic performances where ppl weren't playing up to their potential- or even trying to. And the atmosphere was such that if you even acted like you might protest- they just replaced you and moved on. So, he basically chose to work for Andertons and do little gigs like this with friends because he loved the music so much he didn't want to be part of some plastic, overly commercialized, version of it. He would rather be home with his family, work for Andertons, and be able to really explore music the way he wants. In other words- he's a feakin' hero to ppl like me- I have massive respect for this man as a person and musician.
Thank you so much for breaking that down. When you went into the "jazz" part of the solo, I was thinking What the hell? but also the notes felt familiar. Then when you said it was a diminished seventh a semitone off, I was wowed. I'm very very familiar with dim7, but as a passing chord in gospel, to play it a semitone out is soooooooo clever and sounds sooooooo damn jazzy. I love the way you call it "offensive" and "violent" !!! Thanks again... By the way, I find sharp ninths "hilarious"... :)
This kind of breakdown is like soothing balm to adult learners like me whose minds are blown by awesome-sounding kung-fu keys solos at gigs. When you break it down like this to slow tai chi speed, it makes it seem entirely possible that I could learn to do this before I die. So... thank you! xx
If you play regularly, you’ll improve faster than you think. Playing with friends also helps a lot-you’ll pick up valuable skills by playing alongside other musicians
Mr D - outstanding. I was at that gig and you were on fire. Your humility being open for chats & photo’s after was greatly appreciated. But please know, you have a real gift for teaching and whilst I love the review stuff, so many of us get so much from these honest insights and tricks and tips videos. Andertons continue to get my custom over the years… but ever considered starting your own online presence? Tutorials, members content etc. give it serious thought!
I echo your sentiments and would sign up as a paid subscriber in a second. Some people can play, some people can teach, and Jack is the rare soul who does both extremely well.
What makes your lessons so excellent is that you are a player and you give practical , pro tips that I can immediately incorporate into my playing. I wish you would do regular weekly lessons.
I’d just got up and made my morning coffee thinking, well, let me find something interesting to learn from Jack while I wake up. I found you shredding on this video and it was HELL YEAH!! I didn’t need caffeine to get me going. I was shocked awake and charged with adrenaline. Who needs caffeine when you can listen to Jack?
Amazing breakdown of your playing. I could listen to you doing these aggressive organ solos all day. That held note and simple antagonistic chord progression is butter with sea salt.
Feeling so relieved that you transpose as well 😂 The bit with the diminished scale was so helpful. Always wondered how people integrate that "out sound" into pentatonics. Very helpful lesson. Thanks for sharing 🔥👍
Long time bass, guitar and drummer here, but a casual keys player. I finally joined a band playing 70% guitar and 30% keys and I’m suddenly finding myself chasing the rabbit hole of gear, sounds and style. I’ve been watching your gear review videos for a few weeks and loving them, but this video is fantastic. I can rip a guitar solo but never quite understood how to translate it to a keyboard - you really helped tie a lot to the guitar and you just took away the intimidation of trying my hand at a keys solo. Time to head to the local blues jam and take a chance on keys…. Thanks!
Deadly useful Jack. Many many many thanks. Going out well is really the hardest part, but everything you did will be useful in my next gig (using a Native Kontrol 61 and IK Multimedia Hammond B3X plugin)
Great tips and tricks and thoughts. Thank you for sharing. 🙂👍 I'm also curious, and interested in different ways to create good solo Hammond sounds on different synths. For example I have a Yamaha modx. I would love a future episode on setting up your Hammond sounds. 🎹😎
Love watching a man Fiddling with his knobs live on stage.🤣 I really enjoyed the Hammond organ tutorial you did using the Nord electro 6d 73 I think it was and of course this video is great as always. Think it would be amazing to see you doing a tutorial on a real Hammond B3 with real Leslie rudely exposing itself to show everyone the actual real beasts that all today's clones are trying to imitate and what a real Leslie actually is. Yeah there's heaps of vids of people doing that but they're not you. Maybe you've already done something like that. I don't know. I'm just putting my 20 aussie cents worth in. Thankyou for you videos. 🎶🎹🎼🎸🎹🎶🙏👋
Oh man I felt so relieved when you said, you transpose the key to your liking. I also do this quite often and it always felt like cheating to me but who cares right?
As someone who is still learning the basics, your creative thought process is super helpful!! I'll be watching this a few times to absorb all that you shared.
So cool ! Thank you ! Great tricks & licks ! and the ideas behind them ! Best trick : transpose 😂love it ! Would be nice to learn some playing techniques like the guys who are presenting all the new Keyboards! Your show is great
Such a great video Jack, thanks so much for showing us these ideas. I've learnt loads from it - the C# dimished scale idea is very cool and those go-to licks are great because they are short and easy to remember in the moment. The point about using your thumb and first two fingers only when playing fast has suddenly made licks I couldn't get before now make much more sense. Please keep up these fantastic tutorials! It's a cool idea to teach it like this based on a real solo, and gets you thinking about mixing single notes with chords and glisses etc that you wouldn't necessarily think about if it was just teaching a series of licks. Cheers!
Whoa adamwhite! Thumb and first two fingers only for playing fast! By Jove, just try wiggling your third and pink fingers fast. Slow and ever so spastic! Correctness ain’t always best. I see the light. Cheers mates
While I play keys, guitar and bass are my foremost gigging instruments and every piece of insight is relevant to not just keyboard players, but all musicians. Such solid advice and worth more than many seminars and classes I’ve sat through. This was solid!
Jack, love your videos and your playing. Just a joy to watch. I was actually trying to google you to see if lessons were available and then I found your videos/ just wanted to say thank you. They are so well done and make sense. Even for me and my adult ADHD, I can easily follow along and I’ve learned a lot. Thanks so much and greetings from Vancouver Canada.
Awesome video and love how you break down the tips and licks. I get guilty of trying to run the whole board to quickly but the way you stay in one spot and work the lick is extremely helpful and I will be stealing those runs for sure....
'Nah-ah-meen, bruv?' Comprendo, ese-vato. I really dig the instructional Jack. (Could that be a band name? "Instructional Jack?) I dig almost all the other stuff on the channel, too, but the instructional stuff kind of stands out to me. Maybe because I know so little of synths and keyboards and all that jazz, being a beady-eyed, beetling-browed guitarist like I am.
Outstanding Jack! The whole thought process behind it to build the solo. And the very true sentence: you can do almost anything you want in the middle of the solo if you get into it well and get out to it well. 😀
I'm a subscriber and have seen lots of your videos. Love 'em. I am so glad to see this video because I finally noticed not too long ago that you were doing three finger riffs. Thank for the demo in this video.
Wicked!!! I remember that one jam session we played a song Melissa Etheridge, “like the way I do” And just as I was going to start the solo indo a big obnoxious bend and my B string breaks. And I’m nothing without a G and B string. So I went into this funky rhythm following the first of each chord of the progression. Just playing some thirds or sixes in this funny rhythm, and I was hoping the other guitarist would think: “well may I should take a solo” but he just kept playing rhythm. And I am stressing because I couldn’t play what I had in mind. And I noticed that the audience was jumping on the dance floor 🪩 having fun. So I took the broken B string in between my teeth and jumped with them. And like Jack said the beginning was great the middle was in key and nice and rhythmic not flourishy but okay. And I ended with a nice dive bomb on the A5 again and it was fine. And I even got compliments from people saying: “you played with a broken string!!! Wow!” And I smiled and I thought: “If playing a bit of counter rhythmic on the first and third or 5th is playing, then why did I put so much effort in learning complex licks?” 😂 And it did make me realize that the audience are layman’s and not music snobs. They love anything as long as it’s for them in key. And it was sort of liberating - took 7 years or so to realize that 😂
More Jack awesomeness. Great playing and a genuinely modest person. Name checks for the very great SRV and Eric Johnson who were mates and jammed together. In fact he name checks some of the cream of the crop of 'Guitarists Guitarists' Jack knows his stuff.
I love watching your videos. You are great. Full disclosure . . . I hate the key of "B" too! Glad to see I'm not alone. Thank you for sharing your solo tips.
Haha, I can't play like this, this also feels like cheating, but I watched the whole 26 minutes in one go as it's really enjoyable. Just show Jack's face next time as he grimaces through his solo 😂
Hello, I would like your opinion, I migrated from stage 3 to stage 4, but I am not able to get the same sound in the organ generator! It seems to me that stage 3 sounded better!
It’s actually a diminished arpeggio, not a diminished scale a half tone out. And notice, all of the notes he plays in it are actually C7 chord tones…. E, G,Bb, and the minor 9 Db.
For those reading this that actually want to improve in your piano skills. Please do not Transpose your music. It’s better to learn and get comfortable in every key than to take the easy way out and play in C major every time.
You Transpose, Nah Lowe it I spent along time transposing and i wasnt the musician i wanted to be, Its better to learn your keys properly and unlock true musicianship. transposing is ok for producing but not for live.
"Nothing's more jazz than taking the note you're in and then playing the one directly next to it" - Made my day! 😀
This Jack guy is not only a great player but a great teacher
This Jack guy used to play at a professional level- and I mean in front of 10s of thousands of ppl- the big leagues. He played for artist who don't have a steady band and just put together a band for each tour- and he played with some really big names. But he didn't like the fact that the music and creativity took a back seat to having the right look, he didn't like the way there were no rehearsals or even sound checks in some places because they had them booked so solid there simply was no time. He didn't like the fact that this produced robotic performances where ppl weren't playing up to their potential- or even trying to. And the atmosphere was such that if you even acted like you might protest- they just replaced you and moved on. So, he basically chose to work for Andertons and do little gigs like this with friends because he loved the music so much he didn't want to be part of some plastic, overly commercialized, version of it. He would rather be home with his family, work for Andertons, and be able to really explore music the way he wants. In other words- he's a feakin' hero to ppl like me- I have massive respect for this man as a person and musician.
Thank you so much for breaking that down. When you went into the "jazz" part of the solo, I was thinking What the hell? but also the notes felt familiar. Then when you said it was a diminished seventh a semitone off, I was wowed. I'm very very familiar with dim7, but as a passing chord in gospel, to play it a semitone out is soooooooo clever and sounds sooooooo damn jazzy. I love the way you call it "offensive" and "violent" !!! Thanks again... By the way, I find sharp ninths "hilarious"... :)
You have a way of explaining that is easy to understand. Would like to see more videos like this.
This kind of breakdown is like soothing balm to adult learners like me whose minds are blown by awesome-sounding kung-fu keys solos at gigs. When you break it down like this to slow tai chi speed, it makes it seem entirely possible that I could learn to do this before I die. So... thank you! xx
If you play regularly, you’ll improve faster than you think. Playing with friends also helps a lot-you’ll pick up valuable skills by playing alongside other musicians
Mr D - outstanding. I was at that gig and you were on fire. Your humility being open for chats & photo’s after was greatly appreciated. But please know, you have a real gift for teaching and whilst I love the review stuff, so many of us get so much from these honest insights and tricks and tips videos. Andertons continue to get my custom over the years… but ever considered starting your own online presence? Tutorials, members content etc. give it serious thought!
You might just be lucky, before too long!!!
I echo your sentiments and would sign up as a paid subscriber in a second. Some people can play, some people can teach, and Jack is the rare soul who does both extremely well.
What makes your lessons so excellent is that you are a player and you give practical , pro tips that I can immediately incorporate into my playing. I wish you would do regular weekly lessons.
You know, if you're having a dull morning, just flipping to a Jack Duxbury keyboard review will cheer you up. Jack, y'all are much appreciated.
This is the kind of advice I've been looking for my entire keyboard playing life. Absolutely brilliant. 👍
I would love for you to do a series on piano solos! Also, me and my buds always play If You Ever Wanna Be In Love at our gigs! Love your playing!
James Bay “If You Ever”? I’m guessing so, cracking song right?! Really appreciate the kind words mate ✊
I’d just got up and made my morning coffee thinking, well, let me find something interesting to learn from Jack while I wake up. I found you shredding on this video and it was HELL YEAH!! I didn’t need caffeine to get me going. I was shocked awake and charged with adrenaline. Who needs caffeine when you can listen to Jack?
Amazing stuff, thanks
Thank you teacher
This Nord sounds lovely
Amazing breakdown of your playing. I could listen to you doing these aggressive organ solos all day. That held note and simple antagonistic chord progression is butter with sea salt.
Symmetry is the key the diminished scale rules.
Jack once again proves simple with lots of feeling is Great!
That was fun, thanks!
Feeling so relieved that you transpose as well 😂 The bit with the diminished scale was so helpful. Always wondered how people integrate that "out sound" into pentatonics. Very helpful lesson. Thanks for sharing 🔥👍
My guitar player gave me crap for this once; transposing is a really useful tool, unlike him 😆
Great video! Would love to see you do more of these showing some of your solo techniques. Thanks!
People talk a lot of crap about jack for some reason but he’s a great player. Keep it up bro!
Hey best tutorial iv come across man huge respect I'll definitely be watching future content, thanks for the tricks and tips 👌
This is AWESOME. Thank you.
Long time bass, guitar and drummer here, but a casual keys player. I finally joined a band playing 70% guitar and 30% keys and I’m suddenly finding myself chasing the rabbit hole of gear, sounds and style. I’ve been watching your gear review videos for a few weeks and loving them, but this video is fantastic. I can rip a guitar solo but never quite understood how to translate it to a keyboard - you really helped tie a lot to the guitar and you just took away the intimidation of trying my hand at a keys solo. Time to head to the local blues jam and take a chance on keys…. Thanks!
Thanks, fantastic advice, leveled up my improvgame!
This is a fantastic video! Thanks for letting us see how you think when in an epic solo!
Yo thanks for this insight in pro improvising, been trying to learn for a while and this helps.
Thanks Jack, appreciate your honesty.
Deadly useful Jack. Many many many thanks. Going out well is really the hardest part, but everything you did will be useful in my next gig (using a Native Kontrol 61 and IK Multimedia Hammond B3X plugin)
Jack in his element. I love the tips and tricks you share on this channel.
Glad I watched this ☺️
Absolutely brilliant lesson and video. Thankyou ever so much for sharing your experience and skills Jack! Outstanding!! 👏👏👏💪😎👍🎹🎶❤️
Great breakdown! Thanks!
Love the tutorials thanks man!
Great tips and tricks and thoughts. Thank you for sharing. 🙂👍
I'm also curious, and interested in different ways to create good solo Hammond sounds on different synths. For example I have a Yamaha modx. I would love a future episode on setting up your Hammond sounds. 🎹😎
I am afraid to transpose because I often forget to set it back! LOL
Really great video. I agree with all the comments. Still a lot of questions in my head, but this was definitely a good way to get started.
Love watching a man Fiddling with his knobs live on stage.🤣
I really enjoyed the Hammond organ tutorial you did using the Nord electro 6d 73 I think it was and of course this video is great as always. Think it would be amazing to see you doing a tutorial on a real Hammond B3 with real Leslie rudely exposing itself to show everyone the actual real beasts that all today's clones are trying to imitate and what a real Leslie actually is. Yeah there's heaps of vids of people doing that but they're not you.
Maybe you've already done something like that. I don't know. I'm just putting my 20 aussie cents worth in.
Thankyou for you videos.
🎶🎹🎼🎸🎹🎶🙏👋
MORE of this please! Love your breakdown.
Oh man I felt so relieved when you said, you transpose the key to your liking. I also do this quite often and it always felt like cheating to me but who cares right?
Very useful😊
Brilliant video. Really helpful. Thanks for this. Let’s have more of these 👍👍
Awesome dude, thanks for the knowledge 👏👏👏
Just another great video, Jack! Well done!❤
Thank you! Great video
Loved it! Very informative!
Love this. Thanks so much Jack for breaking down your (phenomenal) work!
Jeremy Pivot, jazz gibberish, and hand slides...got it! Great lesson, many thanks.
Great video!
Flipping gold knowledge that is
As someone who is still learning the basics, your creative thought process is super helpful!! I'll be watching this a few times to absorb all that you shared.
dude.... yessssssss where have you been all my life. lmao
So cool ! Thank you ! Great tricks & licks ! and the ideas behind them ! Best trick : transpose 😂love it ! Would be nice to learn some playing techniques like the guys who are presenting all the new Keyboards! Your show is great
Spending my morning looking at your NS4 videos and didn't expect to hear my name there! This was always highlight of the shows for me... lovely stuff!
Very valuable to know that sometimes it’s about being crafty more than being technical. I love these videos.
More of these.... Please 🙏
Such a great video Jack, thanks so much for showing us these ideas. I've learnt loads from it - the C# dimished scale idea is very cool and those go-to licks are great because they are short and easy to remember in the moment. The point about using your thumb and first two fingers only when playing fast has suddenly made licks I couldn't get before now make much more sense. Please keep up these fantastic tutorials! It's a cool idea to teach it like this based on a real solo, and gets you thinking about mixing single notes with chords and glisses etc that you wouldn't necessarily think about if it was just teaching a series of licks. Cheers!
Whoa adamwhite! Thumb and first two fingers only for playing fast! By Jove, just try wiggling your third and pink fingers fast. Slow and ever so spastic! Correctness ain’t always best. I see the light. Cheers mates
I'm so excited to explore what av learnt ❤😊
While I play keys, guitar and bass are my foremost gigging instruments and every piece of insight is relevant to not just keyboard players, but all musicians. Such solid advice and worth more than many seminars and classes I’ve sat through. This was solid!
Brilliant video. Keep it up. Love watching Andertons videos. Always learn stuff.
Jack, love your videos and your playing. Just a joy to watch. I was actually trying to google you to see if lessons were available and then I found your videos/ just wanted to say thank you. They are so well done and make sense. Even for me and my adult ADHD, I can easily follow along and I’ve learned a lot.
Thanks so much and greetings from Vancouver Canada.
Very helpful, Jack!! Thank you!! I enjoy your videos. 🙂
Thanks for this. Amazing tips. Keep these coming please!!
Awesome video and love how you break down the tips and licks. I get guilty of trying to run the whole board to quickly but the way you stay in one spot and work the lick is extremely helpful and I will be stealing those runs for sure....
'Nah-ah-meen, bruv?' Comprendo, ese-vato.
I really dig the instructional Jack. (Could that be a band name? "Instructional Jack?) I dig almost all the other stuff on the channel, too, but the instructional stuff kind of stands out to me. Maybe because I know so little of synths and keyboards and all that jazz, being a beady-eyed, beetling-browed guitarist like I am.
What a Masterclass! ❤
Outstanding Jack! The whole thought process behind it to build the solo. And the very true sentence: you can do almost anything you want in the middle of the solo if you get into it well and get out to it well. 😀
Lol Jeremy Pivot. Caught Oz laughing in the back
I'm a subscriber and have seen lots of your videos. Love 'em. I am so glad to see this video because I finally noticed not too long ago that you were doing three finger riffs. Thank for the demo in this video.
Fantastic video!
Amazing
Wicked!!! I remember that one jam session we played a song Melissa Etheridge, “like the way I do”
And just as I was going to start the solo indo a big obnoxious bend and my B string breaks. And I’m nothing without a G and B string. So I went into this funky rhythm following the first of each chord of the progression. Just playing some thirds or sixes in this funny rhythm, and I was hoping the other guitarist would think: “well may I should take a solo” but he just kept playing rhythm. And I am stressing because I couldn’t play what I had in mind. And I noticed that the audience was jumping on the dance floor 🪩 having fun. So I took the broken B string in between my teeth and jumped with them. And like Jack said the beginning was great the middle was in key and nice and rhythmic not flourishy but okay. And I ended with a nice dive bomb on the A5 again and it was fine.
And I even got compliments from people saying: “you played with a broken string!!! Wow!”
And I smiled and I thought: “If playing a bit of counter rhythmic on the first and third or 5th is playing, then why did I put so much effort in learning complex licks?” 😂
And it did make me realize that the audience are layman’s and not music snobs. They love anything as long as it’s for them in key.
And it was sort of liberating - took 7 years or so to realize that 😂
Masterclass. Thanks Jack!
More Jack awesomeness.
Great playing and a genuinely modest person.
Name checks for the very great SRV and Eric Johnson who were mates and jammed together.
In fact he name checks some of the cream of the crop of 'Guitarists Guitarists'
Jack knows his stuff.
I love watching your videos. You are great. Full disclosure . . . I hate the key of "B" too! Glad to see I'm not alone. Thank you for sharing your solo tips.
Great job,thanks for sharing!
Good stuff Jack,you’ve become a real good keyboardist.
This is beautiful!!! Could you do the same with mono synth solo and all the pitch bend and that kind of stuff?
this guy is a treasure
Thanks!
luv srv too...good onya Jack
More of this! Show us the kit by using it =)
Haha, I can't play like this, this also feels like cheating, but I watched the whole 26 minutes in one go as it's really enjoyable. Just show Jack's face next time as he grimaces through his solo 😂
Please do something similar with a guitar solo played on a keyboard.
How do you know Andy ? We are from the same home town !
Hello, I would like your opinion, I migrated from stage 3 to stage 4, but I am not able to get the same sound in the organ generator! It seems to me that stage 3 sounded better!
One of these days I would love to trade licks on my Stage 4 and Eltro 5.
Nord stage 4, especially the 88 hammer action keybed, was unnecessary for this.
My tip: Watch any Jon Lord or Don Airy Deep Purple vid.
Absen tetap semangat berkaria dan berkreasi semoga chanelnya tambah maju terus dan selalu hadir di hati pemirsa
It’s actually a diminished arpeggio, not a diminished scale a half tone out. And notice, all of the notes he plays in it are actually C7 chord tones…. E, G,Bb, and the minor 9 Db.
Slightly disgusting tip for Organ glisses on a hammer action keybed: lick the ball of your hand before. You can get them way smoother and faster.
nice one - will try this. And nevermind "...there is a lot of cleaning products!" 😅
I’ve always done this and wondered if I was the only one with this disgusting habit 😅….you should see the faces of students watching you do this 😅
Thank good I have a Hammond with waterfall keys.
The last thing I want it a saliva waterfall on my keys.
I love how there is not an ounce of gatekeeping in this guy.
Pentatonic is 12356 no b7
Minor pentatonic = 1 b3 4 5 b7
@@youradhere5761thank you.
Great rock but what about wooly bully watch it now
So what I took from this is other people are actually thinking while they're playing solos 🤔
sexiest keyboardist alive !
Does a real hammond do those noises when you move the drawbars?
Yes
Top tips. I'm guilty of a mucky ending sometimes. Nobody likes that.
You got me until Transpose...
For those reading this that actually want to improve in your piano skills. Please do not Transpose your music. It’s better to learn and get comfortable in every key than to take the easy way out and play in C major every time.
You Transpose, Nah Lowe it I spent along time transposing and i wasnt the musician i wanted to be, Its better to learn your keys properly and unlock true musicianship. transposing is ok for producing but not for live.