Playing Melodic Rock Hammond Organ

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In this clip we are going to talking about how to play melodic parts and some solo kind of things with a rock and roll Hammond Organ. A lot of it compared to piano is a little bit simplified compared to piano or electric piano you know your going to hold out one note and you get the same idea across because it sustains it's go on until I let off of it, you know so that's going to change the entire way that this whole thing works and you know, you are playing in the context of the band you know you can just throw out one note on top of everything. Like there doing all the cord changes here lets play some stuff, lets play some stuff down here on the bottom. And then all you have to do is the left hand is going to act like the rest of the band this hand is going to be all an organ has to play. You know you can use what they call the hammer on and the hammer off like the you know where you just kind of grace notes and that kind of thing and just use, play two notes at a time. You know there a some kinds of things like fiddle players will be like playing a like open string and will be like just kind of chilling on the one note and that?s what you can do here so lets just hang on this one so. You know you can use these simple little techniques and all the sudden it just fills that sound out just because of how full the Hammond sound is already. Now when you play with percussion that changes everything all the sudden you can?t hold notes out, because the percussion only resets when you let up off a note. Which can be a technique that you want to use but if you want to keep that percussion going? You know that you want to make sure that you pull up those fingers that whole time or if you don't want to use that, you use that as maybe is the beginning of a phrase. You know that kind of a thing you can use it as you like just keep it in mind you can only use the percussion, or the percussion only turns on again once you keys or you hands all the up off the keys.

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