Playing Light Sounds on Hammond Organ

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In this clip, we're going to be talking about how to get a sweet, airy kind of sound out of the Hammond. The Hammond can express such a range of emotions, and it's great when it gets just that sweet sound. I don't know any other way to describe it, except sweet and airy. Before, we used the really low draw bars for the growly stuff. And then we also have the upper and kind of the mids. We're not going to use the upper so much because they're just too high. It sounds like someone going insane. Nobody wants to hear that. So, the way to get the syrupy sweet sounds is--I like to use the three white draw bars in the middle. And maybe just--and you can pick which one you want. A single draw bar by itself, if it can cut through, it sounds so nice. So, you know, you can get a...you know, and you can just get a little--you can bring in like--you want to get it a little lower or a little bit higher. And it's great to play with these things in the middle of the song. Like I said before, maybe this is your full-on chorus sound. You're doing...and then by the time it moves back to a bridge or some kind of break in between there, you just want to make it really kind of really even more airy. And you can hear the draw bars going in and out a little bit more here, but when you're in the context of a band and everybody's playing along, you're not going to be able to hear that. All of a sudden, you're just going to be able to hear it get a little bit sweeter.

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