Playing Bass on Hammond Organ

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In this clip, we're going to be talking about the bass pedal board for the Hammond organ. As you can see, it's not connected right now. It's actually over in the storage area over there. And when you're playing rock and roll organ, that's probably the best place for that thing to be. The Hammond really wasn't built for rock and roll. It just happened to be the best rock and roll sounding organ that was out there. It was just one of those happy accidents. So, the pedal board, in more traditional use, would be for jazz players. So, you know a jazz player would be--a jazz organ player would be comping the chord with his left hand and be soloing with his right and would be doing the bass pedals on his lower hand, or with his feet. Now we talked before about there being draw bars for the bass pedal. Basically, these two draw bars are the same thing as this--the bottom two draw bars on each one of these sets of draw bars. So if you want to get a bass pedal sound, you can still play that bass pedal with your--or play that bass sound with your left hand. And then be doing whatever you want on the top hand. So, you could be doing... *plays organ* You get the same idea without having to have the bass pedals. And also, the bass pedals take a long time to learn how to play, which is why they're in the storage space.

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