Rock and Roll Organ Lessons : How to Play Gritty Hammond Organ

[TheClassicMusicMan]

that sounds like shit..

[TheMadMusicMan]

Yeah, and turning up a Leslie and Hammond all the way in a small to medium sized room is a sure way to go deaf soon enough. I've been playing long enough to experience the damaging effects of instruments being played far too loud. It has nothing to do with being "tough", it's about not having to wear hearing aids for the rest of your life! A better method for overdrive is either a Trek unit or a good tube Marshall like John Lord. Not cranking the Leslie and the Hammond full out...

[tmwck]

You may want to go to school before you try to teach some the wrong way to play :)

[LSDpeasantry]

boy get ya ass in the woodshed

your chops are WEAKKKK!!!!

[lynnsp]

Can't find the answer to this... there is an effect I used to see players do... as I remember, they would hold a chord .. switch the b3 power off .. making the chord notes go flying crazily off in pitch. ... then quickly click the power back on to continue playing. Haven't seen people do that on a b3 for 30 some years ... any videos around of using that effect ?

[kaferere]

@lynnsp The old hammonds had two motors. One "start" motor and one "synchronous" motor that locked to the mains frequency. The synchronous motor needed to be driven up to speed by the start motor. Once the synchronous motor was near 60 (or 50) cycles per second, it would run in perfect tune and the "start" motor was disengaged. However, by engaging the start motor again, the organ would lose synch and sound almost haunted. You could quickly flick the synchronous motor on and off for same effect.

[angie4josh]

I still come back to this video to bare witness to the handicapped look on this dude's face when he says "I said it was pretty growly"

Brings a tear to the eye and an awkward shock to the system.

[olegschramm]

And when you play "the beast", you have to literally attack the mother***r. That's the only way. Jimmy Smith is our god on that matter... Learn kids, learn... AND PRACTICE!!! AND USE PEDALS!!!

[olegschramm]

Jon had it wired to a Marshall, through a sophisticated string of gadgets, including a ring modulator, fuzz box, flanger to begin with. Also he had a switch between the Leslie and Marshall, which allowed him to use them both, or separately. Matthew Fisher of Procol Harum used to put his Leslie in the dressing room, and ran couple of mikes to the two (!) double Marshall stacks onstage, to overcome the roar of guitar player. Learn, kids, learn, before it all dissapears, and fall into obscurity.

[progjazzfusion]

expert? just another indie band guy who cant play and doesnt know what he's talking about

[tomaskyska]

If you got a Jon Lord sound, you need mix four microphones - 3 for leslie, 1 for guitar tube amp (Purpendicular, Abandon)!!! Machine Head album is recorded only with Marshall amp... You are crazy Man (in this video)!!!!!!

[tornspeedo]

No comment is the best comment. surfboardrecords (dot com)/?q=node%2F292

[marshallman83]

@vannin666 He did. A Marshall stack! You need to set the levels on a keyboard & guitar amp very low cause the keys have a higher frequency than guitar.

[butchsoy]

This guy is a FAKE.......The way he plays is a keyboard neophyte.... Blabber mouth...Show rock licks is the keys and less in your mouth.

[oontyex]

what drawbar settings are you using to get that grinding kinda sound?

[reichmarshall]

My my, what scintillating commentary.

[angie4josh]

@reichmarshall lol. my thoughts exactly

[angie4josh]

I just love the handicaped look on his face when he proudly says "I said it was pretty growly"

[Iamthemole1986]

a big fat juicy.... gravelly organ sound (yea sure, thats what he was thinkin about when he said it)

[RayManzarekGod]

Are you kidding me... I had a THIRTY SECOND AD BEFORE THE VIDEO.

[dessiplaer]

You can get the Jon Lord sound by tapping the signal directly off the preamp inside the organ and running that signal into a guitat amp

[LinkBulletBill]

Well you can get the same affect by buying a Marshall Guv'Nor pedal, but by removing the cover, being left with the buttons, knobs and hardware. Then you find a blank space on your Hammond (HARD!), then go by the back an cut holes (HARD!) and place it in as if it fits, and screw it in... And from the outside it would look like the Hammond was build with these switches... So well I just have to press the switch to unlock the beast, but it's risky and hard work...

[LinkBulletBill]

Oh yeah! I forgot! You have to tap it in with your Hammond (HARD!!!!!!)! So yeah, you have to know the wiring of your Hammond... And well then, you can have the Leslie with the distortion you want... I can explain how I did, but it's hard... I recommend for anyone to not do it, until you are professionally trained how to do stuff like that... Well actually the truth is, I helped my dad do that... He did most of the work, lol! I'm just 17, and I asked him if it's possible and it was...

[digger12del]

That is correct to sound like John Lord's B3 sound, the video is wrong!

[boatsbassplayer]

so fare anch io -.-

[angie4josh]

0:32 to 0:37

this idiot wipes his nose and then throws snot all over the keys. what a fucktard.

[angie4josh]

"like a guitar being set on fire"

what the FUCK are you talking about.

you are such a moron.

i think the worst part of this video is when he sais... "i said it was growly" SO FUCKING RETARDED if i wanted to watch a retard at the organ i would just go to church, but this tops it all PATHETIC!

[angie4josh]

lol you dont even play organ you fucktard, all youre channel is is pussy ass guitar lessons.

and I deftly doubt you can play organ better than me.

[TheMadMusicMan]

You are such an idiot. I play the organ more than I play guitar these days.I play Guitar at home a lot and sometimes when I play out, but I paly the Hammond and keyboards probably 95% of the time. My videos here aren't super special I just did a few worship songs because I had some people ask how to paly them. I don't have a Hammond at home, but I do at church. I can play 20 times better than you.

[TheMadMusicMan]

I checked out some of your videos... basic stuff... nothing special. I'll bet you can't play and Jazz, Gospel, or anything other than basic chords, also learn how to get some good draw bar tones for your left hand bass.

[angie4josh]

name dropping faggot.

[BehindFishEye]

Lord played through a Marshall, there's a vid on YouTube about it. The other way is to floor the organ pedal and overdrive the tube Leslies.

Use only A100, C3, RT3, or B3. There is simply not enough power in spinet Hammond Organs to create that gravely overdrive roar.

[LinkBulletBill]

Well Leslie and Marshall, with a Marshall for sure you can overdrive it much more than a Leslie, but going to far, you'll only hear distortion, a Leslie and Hammond goes to the right overdrive sound... But still... Well my way is with a pedal too, the Marshall "Guv'Nor" pedal...

[bruno06arg]

I think the best way to make the Jon Lord sound is using a Marshall amp with overdrive.

[danitz56]

how did you rig it to plug in to the amp?

[bruno06arg]

I don't know, ask Jon Lord, lol. Actually, I used a Korg X50 with an overdriven organ I created in that keyboard. I think I get pretty close to the 'Jon Lord Sound'.

[Shwaggetyshfifty]

you need to install a line out on the organ. there are instructions to do this with just about every model.

[gingervytis]

With a line out signal, you won't get the classic hammond grit, which comes from the pre-amp overdriving the Leslie's internal amp.

[Shwaggetyshfifty]

yeah but with a line out you can actually use the marshall amp, and i don't think there would really be any other method, unless you somehow wired the preamp of the hammond straight to the power stage of the marshall, using perhaps the input transformer from a 122, but that would remove possibility of preamp tone control. remember, some people like there hammond gritty with plenty of warmth and soul, and some like it kicked out of a marshall stack

[gingervytis]

Right. I bought $8 worth of 1/4" jacks and made an IO loop on my B3's pre-amp. I loop through an old Yamaha digital reverb before going to the Leslie. It's just my living room setup.

[Shwaggetyshfifty]

i set up with different equipment just about every time, with varying success, but at the moment the line out is all i have to work with.

[dickravis]

lord split his signal.

into a marshall stack and then a pair of leslies.

147's i believe.

you can roast me all you like for this blaspheme, but lord's organ sound isn't my favorite.

gimme the organ sound that steve marriott had on humble pie's 'smokin' record any day.

yes, he played the hammond on their records.

soulful and delicious.

[jeffhamula]

you gotta have the goods to get that tone.