Level up your organ playing with five easy licks from Sweetwater’s Jacob Dupre! Click here for more keyboard lessons 👉 ua-cam.com/play/PLlczpwSXEOybFzNBWKH-43gw_c4qWLv7s.html
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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 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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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 👉 ua-cam.com/play/PLlczpwSXEOybFzNBWKH-43gw_c4qWLv7s.html
Never too old to learn... thank you
Minor pentatonic scales with inverted fifths , magic of Jon Lord.
Whatever Sweetwater pays Jacob is not enough!
I hope we'll be lucky enough to see a part 2! These are so great, I can immediately introduce them into my playing
Absolutely love this contemporary twist on an 'old ' instrument. Brilliant
The minor lick was cool!
it sounds like my favorite decade the 60s
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
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.
Love the simplicity of the lesson thank you
That last lick you showed, played straight is right out of the Bach corpus.
I've always been a Hammond fan! And a great video too, thanks for sharing 🤘
I am enjoying these short lessons, Sweetwater.
Set the Wheel to control the leslie fast/slow and have more fun playing the amazing Hammond-sound;)
Love this. Play with the Leslie to add tension.
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.
Dupre Didactic!! Nice work; Hammond sound needs more love
Awesome thank you
This is exactly the music i wanna know!!!! Thanks for showing me!!
Excellent as ALWAYS, Jacob!!!!
Man, you have incredible feel
Great tut. Thanks for sharing
Excellent teaching, Thank you!
Thank you for keeping these videos coming... every video inspires and motivates me to continue learning piano!
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
thank you very much for great lessons.
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.
Thanks for these great tips!❤
Just got my sv-1 back from repair…I’m 4 years rusty but after practicing these, I’ll be good to go…thank you
Thanks for the lesson Woody Goss!
Something to try out on my MODX!!, 🍻 Jacob 👍🎹🎶
This beast
Thanks for showing these great tips👍👍👍👍
Excellent picked up some cool ideas for piano too.
Big 👍for Mr. Dupre. I always learn from his videos.
Very clear articulation and visual presentation!
Incredible video! So valuable, great info and explanation. Thanks
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!
Awesome!
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!
Always wanted a B3, but recently acquired an M3 will it give me that same awesome sound. I don't play the organ.... yet
Very cool!
Very informative! Great tools for the proverbial tool box of music
just what I needed, thanks!
Thanks Jacob. Some cool little tricks and licks to get the most out of those wonderful sounds! #sweetwater
Perfect
This was really cool. I especially liked the last lick. Thanks for sharing this.
Super!
thank you! can you do more with the C2D Nord please!
Great video, with a simple explanation!
Crazy how much the glissando sounds like a record changing rpm!
Cool Video Guys!!
okay, that was really helpful. thank you!!
Thank you so much 👌👌
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 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.
VERY NICE
Nice n swishy!
Great stuff, thanks for the ideas!
Great lesson
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.
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!
Impressive!
Thank you from 🇩🇿
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if I make my organ say "grrrr wham" I'd be happy
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.
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?
13:22 that's what she said
Really nice thanks. Loving the sound and the rythm.
Thanks lots, the C6 “scale” is lost on me. What is the scale?
Great but how about wooly bully watch it t😮
Gimme’ Some!
Is this related to Bebop Scale? Thanks!
Barry Harris dim 6 scale
what fingers do you use to gliss?
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.
Where is the up and down for the various organ sounds like rock organ, church organ etc
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
Is it a black key gliss or a white key gliss?
Watching that iPhone slip down the keys making me nervous
😅😅😅
😂
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)?
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.
Piano starter myself from the 60's/70's
Local funeral home has a graveyard (pun) full of them with Leslies… not kiddin’…!!
best amp for hammond clone roland vk7? tx
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!
nice video...can i get an AMEN...
For the algo
Half of playing a B3 is using your controls for effect and expression.
You want this instrument to perform as a Hammond. Well, that is easy, just procure a Japanese-made Hammond.
Epic means long.
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.
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.
It.s not a HAMMOND, it's a copy.
hand fisting the keyboard.....ok
As long as it gives everyone a good feeling…😊
That NORD's sound is not very HIP...sorry man 🎼
Picky, picky, picky!