About Colorful Ways to Improvise on the Organ (Vidas Pinkevicius)

[@VirtuousPraiseworthy]

What a huge service to share this! Thank you very much for sharing your skill and secrets---and for taking time to do so. Blessings.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thank you! Apply these tips in your practice. They really work.

[@TamsinJones]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I will enjoy trying these ideas out.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

You're welcome! They really work.

[@FromHolbergsTime]

Beautiful teaching and lovely sounds!
Glenn

[@lesknoll9492]

Very interesting! I will practice using these techniques for a long time! I like that you use a harmonic structure approach to improvisation. Some of the beginning playing sounds like it could be for movie soundtracks. Also interesting about the variation in intervals between chord changes that can be done. To think that at one time the Catholic Church deemed it a mortal sin to use the tritone interval! Easy to follow teaching technique. What a joy it would be to take a master class from you. As a total deviation, I will be using these techniques on a theater organ.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thank you! It's not very hard to replicate it. Try it out.

[@marklee7864]

Wow!!! Thank you for special informations when i make improvisations for mass. How thankful!! I appriciate your nice lecture. I would be glad if i could learn with you!!!
👏

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks for watching! You can join our Total Organist community if you like.

[@andreasspahn3263]

Thanks for that easy improvising Method. I learned the classical style and was always unhappy with it. I will use this idea in future. Vidas, Thanks for your inspiring videos.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks Andreas! These tips really work.

[@jdavidhart]

Great ideas! Your presentation style was welcoming and friendly.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks! Try my tips in your practice. They really work.

[@williamnesbitt9633]

Great bit of teaching.

[@james.flores]

Very interesting, Vidas. I’ll have to give it a go.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks James! Have you tried it already?

[@timothytikker3834]

The first example you played was in façt in the octotonic scale, also known as Messiaen's second mode of limited transposition. Alternating the two major triads a tritone apart would be a subset of that mode.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Yes, I love it!

[@emilypaille8704]

I love your accent!!!!

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Emily Paille haha! Did you love accent more than improvisation?

[@emilypaille8704]

@@SecretsofOrganPlaying No but it sure is close! 😆

[@zeusincoming282]

That Sinister sound ;-) Impending doom, death, sorrow, evil is lurking.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Yes, but just change the mode and improvisation will turn to depict some lighter mood too.

[@paidup914]

I think the minor 3rds and tritone relations could be used for Good Friday music.

[@Downthebayou]

Thank you!!

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Good luck in your improvisations!

[@GiovannaBarbati]

Thank you, very well explained and interesting!

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks for watching!

[@musamor75]

Very interesting and enriching concepts. I was wondering if the instrument you played was in Weltmeister tuning. Or there were some natural thirds in there? Thank you for posting. Best regards.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Kirnberger III temperament. Thanks!

[@musamor75]

Please forgive me, I meant Werkmeister tuning. I was thinking of something else (mental cross sections sometimes catch up with us !).

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks for watching. This organ has Kirnberger III temperament with a few of pure major thirds.

[@wurlitzer895]

@@SecretsofOrganPlaying I always suspected that organs and organists were temperamental creatures....

[@craigbrowning9448]

The Black Natural Keys make seeing what he is doing difficult.

[@SecretsofOrganPlaying]

Thanks and stay tuned for more!

[@bananabanana2887]

@@SecretsofOrganPlaying lol u didn’t even read the comment