Mas Que Nada (Bossa Nova) - Nord C1 Hammond B-3 Clonewheel Organ Clavia

[octoceasar]

I imagine myself in a tuxedo smoking some really expensive cigar, driving a vintage car all over the Brazillian terrain. Gosh, I can really feel Brazil with this.

[rounder2u]

Hi octoceasar

Poetry in comments. Many thanks! Longing for Brazil now...

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[palimbani]

wow... it was great and amazing ...

[rounder2u]

Thanks palimbani!

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[LuccaTotti]

Great version , congrats! Nice tone and playing. However I feel the swing is just a bit off and needs to be a little more relaxed. But as I'm brazilian , I guees I'm just kinda accustomed with a more bossa-like swing than the jazz swing. It's still much better than most american "bossa" players I've seen in youtoube.

Cheers

[rounder2u]

Hi LuccaTotti

Thanks! If I get a thumbs-up from a brazilian, it's more than I deserve.

Working on that elusive thing called swing is an ever ongoing activity. At least for me. Wish I could borrow a bit of Richard 'Groove' Holmes brain regarding the swing departement :-)

(for some unknown reason you comment was flagged as spam. I 'un-flagged' it, as it is as far from spam as it can be. Well, those YouTube quirks...)

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[Luciferminusone]

In the beginning and end it sounds like your farting when you hit that one key a bunch of times. Excuse you!

[rounder2u]

Hi Lucifer

Oh, dear... At least I did that in rhythm, I hope :-)

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[soulrongang]

Hi dear Rounder - very fine work! Rather a co-incidence, as I recently uploaded a bossa-nova medley containing this piece, albeit a completely different treatment than yours. Since uploading I've improved on it somewhat, and will eventually have to replace it with a more together version, nonetheless for what it's worth, one can tack this suffix after the youtube-com prefix: "watch?v=amX1vRsdaUI"

Good fun!

[rounder2u]

Thanks Ron Gang!

Yeah, that was a co-incidence for sure! Nice medley of yours :-)

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[sadsack987]

Another great video. I always learn something new or get a new idea after watching each of your vids. Coincidentally, I'm getting back on my Nord 2 after 1 year of doing mostly pop on acoustic piano. Good to see you've got more vids since last time I've been here. Love your rendition on this song... and a very gutsy ending. Fully commited to the rythm. Cool.... Keep 'em coming.

[rounder2u]

Thanks sadsack!

It's really great that we can inspire and learn from each other here at YouTube :-)

Good to hear that you like my take and the ending. One line of thinking behind my arrangement was to 'rewind' the song after the short solo part, so the song ends the same way it starts.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[auroramsx]

Really cool rendition, congratz :-)

Maybe you could throw in a registration switch somewhere or add some leslie/vibrato. I think that would make the tune -perfect-!

[rounder2u]

Thanks auroramsx!

Before the recording I actually did try a number of different variants regarding registrations and Leslie during the song, but it always ended up that I favoured this one setting. I don't know why but maybe this sound setting gets me in the right mood :-)

The difference between this recording and when I play the song is that I play the solo much longer (on top over the Em bass line, without chord changes). But for this take I kept the solo short.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[rounder2u]

Thanks Alain!

Keep Belgium swinging,

Rounder

[DX7Alex]

Nice job Rounder! The solo was nice and really tasteful. I loved the whole song!

[rounder2u]

Thanks Alex!

I decided to keep the solo rather short and 'concentrated', and instead let the other parts of the song take time.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[Heykelidikilecekadam]

rounder2u you are fantastic! keep it up

[rounder2u]

Thanks Heykelidikilecekadam!

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[MyLifeChanger]

Man thanks a lot for keep playing this awesome music! Even though I'm not in this league at all, I find it really enjoyable to listen to your playing! I wish I will be able to play this kind of music one day!

[rounder2u]

Thanks MyLifeChanger!

Well, you can start by doing like this:

1. Learn the main bass pattern (the Em pattern, with the notes E, A, B) and play that pattern until it's a part of you, totally ingrained.

2. Then you start adding small right hand figures, while keeping the left hand groove. You can add small Em blues pentatonic licks/riffs. Or the first parts of the melody.

3. Then build it from there.

In jazz organ, the left hand is always The Boss.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[gcpezzi]

Yeah man...

Damn, these Brazilians... :)

Rounder, if you like latin jazz with b3 there is an album called "Samba de Gringo" with Ehud on the hammind and Bina on the guitars. Pretty cool stuff.

And there is this other album called "Bluesamba" from Lancaster e Flávio Naves that has more of a bluesy appeal but a lot of brazilian flavors and a killer b3 timber.

Take care!

Gus

[rounder2u]

Hi Gus

Yeah, what would the music world be without Brazilians? Not so much as it is now. Jobim, just to mention one, has written some pretty amazing songs with wonderful chord progressions, melodies and rhythms.

I'll will try checking them out in a bit :-)

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[knowthetruth2]

great :)

[rounder2u]

Thanks knowthetruth!

You, indeed, are fast :-)

Keep swinging,

Rounder