Sure I can appreciate Booker T, and especially I am truly amazed by 'The Incredible" Jimmy Smith, who most single-handedly in the late '50s lifted the jazz organ from, well, kind of a novelty to a true soul jazz tour de force in music. Not to forget Richard 'Groove' Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco and Barbara Dennerlein, and more in the list of really great jazz organ players.
There was a political leader in USA around the year 1900 named Booker T Washington, and the organist Booker T Jones (who composed Green Onions) is named after him.
I'm not sure though about the origin of the name of the wrestler Booker T :-) but wikipedia says his real name is Booker Tio Huffman.
Thanks tavcarovski! That's right, that's right I'm sad and blue 'Cause I can't do the Boogaloo I'm lost, I'm lost Can't do my thing That's why I sing Gimme, Gimme Dat Ding "Gimme Dat Ding", by The Pipkins. A great song! Homage to the Metronome, easily found here at YouTube. Keep swinging, Rounder
Guide!??!?! Why is everyone looking for a "guide"?? C'mon. The guide is the record. Sheet music can't express the feel that one can only grasp by spending time playing along with the original record. If you want to get good at your instrument and play like Booker T, then go straight to the source, and learn it off the record, by ear, like most of your favorite musicans have done.
You are right, but let me, please, fill in here a little more :-)
Video tutorials and written guides with playing/learning tips might serve as an extra helping hand. I have great help of reading tips, looking at other players fingerings/hands, etc, in addition to analyzing recordings when learning, and I don't think I'm totally alone.
I'm sure you understand by now that my my guide does not contain sheet music :-)
You will have great fun with your Nord Electro 3. It's good gear!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Click the 'show more' text above (to expand the info text field) if you are interested in my drawbar registrations and sound settings for Green Onions.
The 'trademark' chorded chorus and it's bass line comes from an (video) interview I saw with Booker T in Keyboard Magazine. The solo is a copycat version of Booker T's solo from the 1962 original recording. I have tried to capture in detail all ornaments/fast notes/grace notes that Booker T plays during his four chorus long solo.
Thumbs up if you've heard the mp3's of the HOAX Hammond built on the FPGA format and you'd like to have one- a single installable circuit board that sounds identical to a real B3, because it's not sampled it's generated like the multi-thousand dollar 'new B3'.
Thanks for the tip. I checked it out here at YouTube, and at a first glance it sounds all good. Don't know anything more about the product though.
It is really great that we now, since a few years back, have a number of high quality alternatives for the still unsurpassed pinnacle, the B-3/C-3/A-100. And those new alternatives, clonewheels, etc, doesn't come with the prohibitively back-breaking weight!
@rounder2u Oh' come on, what is a couple hundred pounds amongst friends? The B3 looks better on a stage than a little red toy looking thing and it does sound...BEST. If you are going to rock you better pay some kind of price. People now pay for conveeenyence and don't like to get their hands dirty. I no longer play out, but when I did I lugged an M3 and a Leslie 122 to every gig and I was a guitar player! If you have 4 guys in a band and there is a van or box van then what is up?
And this sudden defence for the hauling around of the back-breaking, four friends craving, van craving gear comes from the same man who just the other day gave me a tip of checking out a tiny, single installable circuit board, the size of half an laptop and the weight of a paperback airport novel!
:-)
PS. No denying the unsurpassed sound of the all-tubed B-3/C-3/A-100 with the Leslie 122, though.
@rounder2u No defense here, just a little motivation for seeing real organs on a stage instead of modern plastic, but point taken I suppose. I'm a fan of all sorts of technology- old &new. I am very impressed with how the mp3's sound of the HOAX Hammond emulator that I heard, but would like to know from a 'dyed in the wool Hammond player' if the HOAX has that rich headroom that reacts with tube amps/Leslie's the same way as a real Hammond tone wheel organ.
Well, generally speaking, it's impossible to duplicate analog produced sound by digital means to 100%. In the case of the B-3/C-3 I would say the organ output is pretty close to 100% with the latest gear (e.g. Suzuki Hammond B-3 or say a Nord C2).
But then we have the all-tubed Leslie 122 that plays such a big part of the B-3/C-3 sound. And we are not as close to duplicate that 122 sound as we are duplicating the B-3/C-3 sound.
@rounder2u Yes, I agree with you on that. I've built many tube amps and they have so much going for them. The fact that a Hammond tone wheel organ is pretty much as close to an electric guitar with it's wire wound magnetic pick-ups and it's disturbed w/ a tone wheel the same way a string disturbs it, this make the tube a amp an ideal match. I bought a great sounding China made Dinosaur guitar amp- closely matched LEDs for clipping, nothing new, but w/ modern tech can get closer.
Hi Rounder, my name is Brian I'm just starting to learn Piano and slowed tutorials are amazing. Green onions this is one of my all time favorites too, can you please send me your written guide. Thanks you very much
I've sent my written Green Onions guide to your YouTube message inbox now.
Practice a lot and you will improve a lot. There is no mystery to learning playing an instrument, if we don't call practicing hours a mystery :-) You can read more about general practicing tips in my guide.
I doubt Booker T could have imagined that he wrote himself and his song into the musical history with an evergreen during that day in '62. But he did :-)
Rounder, thanks so much for your interest and enthusiam. It means a lot. I'm printing the manual for the "Nord Sound Manager" today, (it hooks the C-2 and its programs to a computer through a USB) and trying to figure that all out. As soon as I can, I'll post a video from my small pocket camera.
Won't be long til "the thrill (of getting new stuff) is gone" and I get back to my limitations as a musician.
I sold my Duc to pay for the Nord, probably a good thing at my age and failing vision.
The C2 is on, I presume, all stops are out (in a metaphorical way, as that registration really is not one of my favorites!) and the whole place is swinging?!
The thrill will last, I promise :-)
A friend of mine rides a Duc 996, and I'm surprised every time I see him, that he is still alive... He say it is very comfortable... You just have to pass 100 mph... Then the aerodynamics kicks in, and you're not laying pressed like a frog on the tank any longer :-)
@Mooser42001 Oh, the 996 is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than my Supersport, the 996 is a four-valve, fuel-injected, water-cooled (who will be the Jan and Dean of Motorcycles?) model, and my SS900 was carbureted, air-cooled, two-valve, wrap it up, wrap it up, buddy, gonna shut you down. I've still got my Honda VTR 1000 (Super Hawk) and it get's me where I wanna go, to Surf City, of course, where it's two-to-one. Two girls for every boy! Just imagine that!
Got, got it home! You know, driving while playing the Nord and reading the instruction manual is no more dangerous than texting while driving. Anybody could do it.
Not that I wish to imply... but someting tells me down under just became a bit safer...
Your apparently inherent multitasking capability will serve you well at the organ bench! I often wish that I had at least one more brain when playing jazz organ. Or, if that is too much to ask for considering todays surgical achievements, at least one fully functional...
Thanks Rounder. I'm going to Chicago.... I mean Portland, tomorrow and pick it the Nord, and I'll post at least a demo video right away. BTW, thanks for listing all the settings on your vids.
Looking forward to you coming back with your shining C2! You will have your hands full, I can promise, despite it's just 40 lbs. Of course the B-3 and the Leslie sim is the main attraction, but you will also have a lovely sampled baroque organ in the same package to soothe your true love with when she is missing all furniture traded in to get the organ for free :-)
PS. Great that you have use of the settings I provide for my videos.
She was very nice about it. But my decision to buy was followed by an invitation to join a band that works a lot. I would be ecstatic if I could earn part of the cost back by playing music with it. This is a blues and R&B band, and having all the resources of a B-3 in a 40 lb. package could add a lot to the band. I'm working on the songs in the set-list now, and hopefully I'll be at least acceptable by the first rehearsal next week.
She was very nice about it. But my decision to buy was followed by an invitation to join a band that works a lot. I would be ecstatic if I could earn part of the cost back by playing music with it. This is a blues and R&B band, and having all the resources of a B-3 in a 40 lb. package could add a lot to the band. I'm working on the songs in the set-list now, and hopefully I'll be at least acceptable by the first rehersal next week. At any rate, I'll have an impressive rig, and that helps.
I wish you could have seen the way I manuevered my help-meet from "No! We can't possibly buy that now!" to "Okay, sell a bike, and the inflatable and some other stuff first" to "Oh, go ahead and buy it now" All I had to do was fake a terminal illness, and say I needed an organ transplant!. I should offer a correspondence course in marital law, I really should! And if I lock myself in the studio, maybe she won't ask why I recovered so quickly.
I must agree that I did reflect over the fact that your better half at first seemed to be conspicuously absent in your decisionmaking when buying the organ. But I don't think we have seen her cards yet. If someone cuddle up and in the voice of an sweet angel asks for a tiny small gesture in the form of tiny small yacht trip around the globe, all expenses paid, by your organ transplant by the way... Well, we only need one kidney I've heard.
Hello again rounder! Thanks for the response. I was invited to join a local working band, and the choice was between my synth (inadequate, but light) or hauling around a Hammond (OOTQ!) That left the Nord.
The keyboard package will be visually impressive and give them a sound advantage no other group in the area has. Also, the top tier of the stand puts the synth keyboard right in front of my face. Another visual advantage for the audience.
You just turn all stops out, turn the Drive knob to a maximum, push the pedal to the bottom, press all keys at once, and soon you will be the next rock star!
This advise is totally free. I only ask for a one time stadium back stage pass at your world tour :-)
Great! It's fantastic!!! But I want asking you, how do yo do to improvise with right hand (with all type of rhythm), and do with left hand you repeat the same melody without go time-out? I ask you this because i want to made that genre, and i must play deep purple with a band. Thanks and sorry for my english!
You ask how to achieve left and right hand independence, e.g. play a steady walking bass line with the left hand while improvising on top with the right hand.
I have sent you a long answer what you can do to learn left/right hand independence, to your YouTube message inbox :-)
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
If my C1 went down a flight of concrete stairs and shattered, I'd buy me a Nord C2 first thing in the morning.
There are a few really great tonewheels on the market today and it is a close call, but I'd go for the C2. Excellent B-3/C-3 clonewheel, really great Leslie sim, and a Vox, a Farfisa and a high quality sampled pipe organ in the same package. Not bad.
More bass? Might be equipment related or a strange YouTube glitch if that's the case.
The bass goes down all the way to 34 Hz on a Hammond, and there is quite a lot of bass here I believe. Not extreme bass, but bass, yes, for sure.
This means that equipment that handles at least 45 Hz without rolling of dB in the bass is needed here (a flat frequency curve if possible). Good headphones will do the job, a good hi-fi or PC speakers with a good sub-woofer.
I've been anxious to play it since I first heard it. And... it wasn't so long ago... but, anyway, you did a great job and I would be very grateful to you for your guide, Rounder.
Great video, just recently becoming more interested in learning how to play organ andIm planning on watching the rest of your videos. Could I have the guide? it would be really helpful.
You will have great fun playing the organ :-) If you are interested, you might wanna check out my full-length up-tempo version of 'The Cat'. In that recording I use a number of typical jazz organ techniques (pedal tones, call&response, chord slides between manuals, etc)
I've sent my guide for learning how to play Green Onions to your YouTube message inbox.
Hi there, could I please get your guide? I'd be v grateful as I love this tune. I've amassed a collection of around 21 different artists' versions of it!
I'm not sure if you are keeping on the swing...
SCscreamGT 13 hours ago
Wow...I am learning to play this at the moment...You amaze me Rounder
thedeadlyrambo1 2 weeks ago
Hi deadlyrambo
Thanks!
If you find some use of this take, and my other three Green Onions tutorial clips when learning the song, that's great :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 weeks ago
i could listen to that bass line all day
MrSupermoto990 2 weeks ago
Hi MrSupermoto
The bass line pattern (during those 4 solo choruses) can esily get you hooked, and it is also a great foundation for improvisation :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 weeks ago
good effort, you can appreciate just how good brooker is eh
kempouk 3 weeks ago
Thanks kempouk!
Sure I can appreciate Booker T, and especially I am truly amazed by 'The Incredible" Jimmy Smith, who most single-handedly in the late '50s lifted the jazz organ from, well, kind of a novelty to a true soul jazz tour de force in music. Not to forget Richard 'Groove' Holmes and Joey DeFrancesco and Barbara Dennerlein, and more in the list of really great jazz organ players.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
can you dig it suckaaaa ???!!?!!
snorlaxx1337911 3 weeks ago
Hi snorlaxx
That's another Booker T I believe, but I might be wrong on this ;-)
Keep swinging & wrestling,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
@rounder2u i was just kidding obviously =) so booker t seems to be a regular name or rather an artist name in english?
snorlaxx1337911 3 weeks ago
Hi snorlaxx
Booker is a regular english name.
There was a political leader in USA around the year 1900 named Booker T Washington, and the organist Booker T Jones (who composed Green Onions) is named after him.
I'm not sure though about the origin of the name of the wrestler Booker T :-) but wikipedia says his real name is Booker Tio Huffman.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
zero, c est mal jouer
magunum32 3 weeks ago
Hi magunum
Vous pouvez également utiliser des nombres négatifs :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
left hand needs some groove practice, timing is everythang
blindgod78 3 weeks ago
Thanks blindgod!
Indeed and always, and just like in archaeology: Timing is everything :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
I would love to get your guide! Thanks!!! This song is so classic
jskuzma 3 weeks ago
Hi jskuzma
I've sent my Green Onions guide to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 weeks ago
I would love to have your Green Onions guide. You are very generous! Thank you.
sfkxyz 4 weeks ago
Thanks sfkxyz!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 weeks ago
Great job!
TheAlekos1999 1 month ago
Thanks Alekos!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 1 month ago
OMG! I am just wondering where the racist types of comments are.
irwinchurch25 1 month ago
I'd like the written guide for learning how to play Green Onions. I'm at the hunting and pecking stage.
thanks, Hahthor.
Hahthor 1 month ago
Hi Hahthor
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 1 month ago
@rounder2u
nicely played... but you could really use a metronome :)
tavcarovski 1 month ago
rounder2u 1 month ago
fantastic!
Kapwnage0 1 month ago
Thanks Kapwnage!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 1 month ago
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This vid is a favorite on Malabo
rufusnolan512 1 month ago
Guide!??!?! Why is everyone looking for a "guide"?? C'mon. The guide is the record. Sheet music can't express the feel that one can only grasp by spending time playing along with the original record. If you want to get good at your instrument and play like Booker T, then go straight to the source, and learn it off the record, by ear, like most of your favorite musicans have done.
mattberkeleymusic 1 month ago
Hi mattberkeleymusic
You are right, but let me, please, fill in here a little more :-)
Video tutorials and written guides with playing/learning tips might serve as an extra helping hand. I have great help of reading tips, looking at other players fingerings/hands, etc, in addition to analyzing recordings when learning, and I don't think I'm totally alone.
I'm sure you understand by now that my my guide does not contain sheet music :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 1 month ago
Wonderful playing; I'm so inspired. I just received a Nord Electro 3 and have started playing around with it. Could you send me your guide?
brookeawatkins 2 months ago
Hi brookeawatkins
Thanks!
You will have great fun with your Nord Electro 3. It's good gear!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Click the 'show more' text above (to expand the info text field) if you are interested in my drawbar registrations and sound settings for Green Onions.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Hello hope you are having a Merry Christmas I was wondering where you found sheet music for this? or did you play by ear thank you
TheNorthernSoulKing 2 months ago
Hi NorthernSoulKing
Merry X-mas to you too.
I have learned and play the song by ear.
The 'trademark' chorded chorus and it's bass line comes from an (video) interview I saw with Booker T in Keyboard Magazine. The solo is a copycat version of Booker T's solo from the 1962 original recording. I have tried to capture in detail all ornaments/fast notes/grace notes that Booker T plays during his four chorus long solo.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
@rounder2u I have the concord and I just cant get it to sound like the B3 wish I could find the sheet music for this
TheNorthernSoulKing 2 months ago
Hi NorthernSoulKing
Don't hold your breath, please, regarding sheet music for Green Onions...
You see, from what I've seen, even what we can call 'official' sheet music for the song have unfortunately been highly inaccurate...
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
@rounder2u Thank you
TheNorthernSoulKing 2 months ago
Rounder: Nice! I would really appreciate your Green Onions guide.
Thanks, az1qsx2w
az1qsx2w 2 months ago
Thanks az1qsx2w!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Thumbs up if you've heard the mp3's of the HOAX Hammond built on the FPGA format and you'd like to have one- a single installable circuit board that sounds identical to a real B3, because it's not sampled it's generated like the multi-thousand dollar 'new B3'.
paulj0557 2 months ago
Hi paulj
Thanks for the tip. I checked it out here at YouTube, and at a first glance it sounds all good. Don't know anything more about the product though.
It is really great that we now, since a few years back, have a number of high quality alternatives for the still unsurpassed pinnacle, the B-3/C-3/A-100. And those new alternatives, clonewheels, etc, doesn't come with the prohibitively back-breaking weight!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
@rounder2u Oh' come on, what is a couple hundred pounds amongst friends? The B3 looks better on a stage than a little red toy looking thing and it does sound...BEST. If you are going to rock you better pay some kind of price. People now pay for conveeenyence and don't like to get their hands dirty. I no longer play out, but when I did I lugged an M3 and a Leslie 122 to every gig and I was a guitar player! If you have 4 guys in a band and there is a van or box van then what is up?
paulj0557 2 months ago
Hi paulj
And this sudden defence for the hauling around of the back-breaking, four friends craving, van craving gear comes from the same man who just the other day gave me a tip of checking out a tiny, single installable circuit board, the size of half an laptop and the weight of a paperback airport novel!
:-)
PS. No denying the unsurpassed sound of the all-tubed B-3/C-3/A-100 with the Leslie 122, though.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
@rounder2u No defense here, just a little motivation for seeing real organs on a stage instead of modern plastic, but point taken I suppose. I'm a fan of all sorts of technology- old &new. I am very impressed with how the mp3's sound of the HOAX Hammond emulator that I heard, but would like to know from a 'dyed in the wool Hammond player' if the HOAX has that rich headroom that reacts with tube amps/Leslie's the same way as a real Hammond tone wheel organ.
310 lbs could be 130 w/ a HOAX:-)
paulj0557 2 months ago
Hi paulj
Well, generally speaking, it's impossible to duplicate analog produced sound by digital means to 100%. In the case of the B-3/C-3 I would say the organ output is pretty close to 100% with the latest gear (e.g. Suzuki Hammond B-3 or say a Nord C2).
But then we have the all-tubed Leslie 122 that plays such a big part of the B-3/C-3 sound. And we are not as close to duplicate that 122 sound as we are duplicating the B-3/C-3 sound.
My two cents...
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
@rounder2u Yes, I agree with you on that. I've built many tube amps and they have so much going for them. The fact that a Hammond tone wheel organ is pretty much as close to an electric guitar with it's wire wound magnetic pick-ups and it's disturbed w/ a tone wheel the same way a string disturbs it, this make the tube a amp an ideal match. I bought a great sounding China made Dinosaur guitar amp- closely matched LEDs for clipping, nothing new, but w/ modern tech can get closer.
paulj0557 1 month ago
Hey Rounder can you send me the guide?
Thanks
Workinonthatnovel 2 months ago
Hi Workinonthatnovel
Done that. Check out your YouTube message inbox, please, and you'll find my Green Onions guide waiting for you.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Hi rounder How can i get ur guide for green onion song? Thank u
delsaldiego 2 months ago
Hi delsaldiego
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Thank you
e0012455 2 months ago
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e0012455 2 months ago
Hi Rounder, my name is Brian I'm just starting to learn Piano and slowed tutorials are amazing. Green onions this is one of my all time favorites too, can you please send me your written guide. Thanks you very much
e0012455 2 months ago
Hi Brian
I've sent my written Green Onions guide to your YouTube message inbox now.
Practice a lot and you will improve a lot. There is no mystery to learning playing an instrument, if we don't call practicing hours a mystery :-) You can read more about general practicing tips in my guide.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
I would love to use the guide to learn this, Rounder. Would you be able to send me one? Thanks!!!
babisror 2 months ago
Hi babisror
To learn this classic is always a good idea :-)
You'll find my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Could you send me a guide? :D
TheAh19 2 months ago
Hi The Ah19
You have my guide for learning how to play Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Hi Rounder, the guide was deleted by a mistake :-( Could you please send me once more? So sorry.
loztube777
loztube777 3 months ago
Hi loztube777
No problem. Done.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Rounder, if you get any more awsome you will die of awsomeness.
mrslig100 3 months ago
Thanks mrslig!
Well, I think that kind of ending of the song of life would be quite out of reach, no matter how I tried, but
when one has to go, that would not be the worst way for sure :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
@rounder2u
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mrslig100 3 months ago
@rounder2u hey man do you think you could send me a guide? id love to learn this amazing piece! thanks so much man!
bkizzleish 2 months ago
Hi bkizzleish
You'll find find my Green Onions guide waiting for you in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 2 months ago
Amazing tutorial! Can you please send me the guide?
Jan B.
loztube777 3 months ago
Hi Jan
Thanks!
You have the guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
how much ?
Warshadow4 3 months ago
Hi Warshadow
How much for the C1? I don't know as it is out of production since some time. The successor is the Clavia Nord C2.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
@Warshadow4
The cheapest they are at the moament are £2,179.00
If your me in a nutshell, beyond your dreams but im poor :(
mrslig100 3 months ago
this sounds sicccckkkkk! LOVE IT
scrumpymondo 3 months ago
Thanks scrumpymondo!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Rounder
Thanks for the lessons. I would like to start reading those 1700 words.
Dan C.
CaptainKana 3 months ago
Hi Dan
My pleasure.
And you can start :-) Check out your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Very cool video!
I would love to have your guide also!
nsimjazz1
nsimjazz1 3 months ago
Thanks nsimjazz
You'll find my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Hi Rounder, thanks for posting these videos....I'm having fun learning to play this song. I would love a copy of your guide too!
1bluesguitar 3 months ago
Hi bluesguitar
Thanks!
My Green Onions guide is waiting for you now in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Thanks for producing these videos, I would appreciate a copy of your guide.
flowsetter 3 months ago
Thanks flowsetter!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
this is excellent
love the bass parts :)
greenmatrix
greenmatrix151023387 3 months ago
Thanks greenmatrix!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
I'D LOVE the guide
ericfsu14 3 months ago
Hi eric
You have a copy of my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
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I'd sure like to get your guide too, please.
My computer is not near the Keyboard.
Love the Nord Sounds.
Good choice Rounder, Jukebox
jukeboxjohnny 3 months ago
Thank you much
DavidFerrington 3 months ago
I'd sure like to get your guide too, please
DavidFerrington 3 months ago
Hi David
You have a copy of my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
could you let me have your music trancript. Sounds great
51cldg 3 months ago
Thanks 51cldg!
I have sent my guide for learning how to play Green Onions to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 3 months ago
Rounder! Any way I could get the written guide? I want some funk out of this keyboard. Thanks much. - Jimmy
MrJimDaniel 4 months ago
Hi Jimmy
You have just recieved my written guide for Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
I would like the written guide on how to play this. Thank you!
SamuraiNinjaGrl 4 months ago
Hi SamuraiNinjaGrl
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
BRILLIANT!AWESOME PLAYING!
MoonWalker778 4 months ago
Thanks MoonWalker!
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
@rounder2u,
:))
MoonWalker778 4 months ago
but i know a little about organs, i have a old hobby house Hammond ;) can't play notes though. peace ;)
Damce 4 months ago
Hi Damce
An old hobby house Hammond. Sounds nice. And you can learn by ear (and when watching videos) by sight :-)
No need really to be able to read notes/sheet music. Even the jazz giant Wes Montgomery couldn't read notes, but he was still one of the very best.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Dressmann FTW!
PianoMosh 4 months ago
Hi PianoMosh
Hmm, this wasn't the easiest one... Dressmann as in some norwegian clothing stores company??
I'm sorry but I think you'll need to help me out here :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
@rounder2u Yeah, it's a norwegian clothing stores company :)
PianoMosh 4 months ago
I only ride my bike ;) but love some good music ;)
Damce 4 months ago
Just love this tune! Have done ever since it was first played!
przwll 4 months ago
Hi przwll
I doubt Booker T could have imagined that he wrote himself and his song into the musical history with an evergreen during that day in '62. But he did :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
BTW, I've been riding since I was 18, and I've never had a scratch. My secret? It's simple! Leave no turn unstoned!
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
'Leave no turn unstoned' :-) :-) :-)
I think that a prerequisite for keeping that stategy working might be a very low 'CPA'.
(Cop per area)
Keep swinging at your C2,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
@rounder2u hahahaha wtf
Damce 4 months ago
Hi Damce
Yes, we have all kinds of discussions here. Bikes, clothes, etc. Sometimes they're even related to the song :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Rounder, thanks so much for your interest and enthusiam. It means a lot. I'm printing the manual for the "Nord Sound Manager" today, (it hooks the C-2 and its programs to a computer through a USB) and trying to figure that all out. As soon as I can, I'll post a video from my small pocket camera.
Won't be long til "the thrill (of getting new stuff) is gone" and I get back to my limitations as a musician.
I sold my Duc to pay for the Nord, probably a good thing at my age and failing vision.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
The C2 is on, I presume, all stops are out (in a metaphorical way, as that registration really is not one of my favorites!) and the whole place is swinging?!
The thrill will last, I promise :-)
A friend of mine rides a Duc 996, and I'm surprised every time I see him, that he is still alive... He say it is very comfortable... You just have to pass 100 mph... Then the aerodynamics kicks in, and you're not laying pressed like a frog on the tank any longer :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
@Mooser42001 Oh, the 996 is a couple of orders of magnitude greater than my Supersport, the 996 is a four-valve, fuel-injected, water-cooled (who will be the Jan and Dean of Motorcycles?) model, and my SS900 was carbureted, air-cooled, two-valve, wrap it up, wrap it up, buddy, gonna shut you down. I've still got my Honda VTR 1000 (Super Hawk) and it get's me where I wanna go, to Surf City, of course, where it's two-to-one. Two girls for every boy! Just imagine that!
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Got, got it home! You know, driving while playing the Nord and reading the instruction manual is no more dangerous than texting while driving. Anybody could do it.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
Welcome home (in more than one piece)!
Not that I wish to imply... but someting tells me down under just became a bit safer...
Your apparently inherent multitasking capability will serve you well at the organ bench! I often wish that I had at least one more brain when playing jazz organ. Or, if that is too much to ask for considering todays surgical achievements, at least one fully functional...
Keep swinging at your C2,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
This is great thanks. Please send the "lengthy" description. I just got a 58' M3 to learn this on.
Thanks
Mobileflattop 4 months ago
Thanks Mobileflattop!
Nice gear! The M-3 is the model Booker T. used when recording the original '62 Green Onions take.
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging at your M-3,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Thanks Rounder. I'm going to Chicago.... I mean Portland, tomorrow and pick it the Nord, and I'll post at least a demo video right away. BTW, thanks for listing all the settings on your vids.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
Looking forward to you coming back with your shining C2! You will have your hands full, I can promise, despite it's just 40 lbs. Of course the B-3 and the Leslie sim is the main attraction, but you will also have a lovely sampled baroque organ in the same package to soothe your true love with when she is missing all furniture traded in to get the organ for free :-)
PS. Great that you have use of the settings I provide for my videos.
Start swinging at your mighty C2,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
She was very nice about it. But my decision to buy was followed by an invitation to join a band that works a lot. I would be ecstatic if I could earn part of the cost back by playing music with it. This is a blues and R&B band, and having all the resources of a B-3 in a 40 lb. package could add a lot to the band. I'm working on the songs in the set-list now, and hopefully I'll be at least acceptable by the first rehearsal next week.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
Good luck at your first rehearsal! You'll do fine!
Keep swinging at your C2,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
She was very nice about it. But my decision to buy was followed by an invitation to join a band that works a lot. I would be ecstatic if I could earn part of the cost back by playing music with it. This is a blues and R&B band, and having all the resources of a B-3 in a 40 lb. package could add a lot to the band. I'm working on the songs in the set-list now, and hopefully I'll be at least acceptable by the first rehersal next week. At any rate, I'll have an impressive rig, and that helps.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
I wish you could have seen the way I manuevered my help-meet from "No! We can't possibly buy that now!" to "Okay, sell a bike, and the inflatable and some other stuff first" to "Oh, go ahead and buy it now" All I had to do was fake a terminal illness, and say I needed an organ transplant!. I should offer a correspondence course in marital law, I really should! And if I lock myself in the studio, maybe she won't ask why I recovered so quickly.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
I must agree that I did reflect over the fact that your better half at first seemed to be conspicuously absent in your decisionmaking when buying the organ. But I don't think we have seen her cards yet. If someone cuddle up and in the voice of an sweet angel asks for a tiny small gesture in the form of tiny small yacht trip around the globe, all expenses paid, by your organ transplant by the way... Well, we only need one kidney I've heard.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Hello again rounder! Thanks for the response. I was invited to join a local working band, and the choice was between my synth (inadequate, but light) or hauling around a Hammond (OOTQ!) That left the Nord.
The keyboard package will be visually impressive and give them a sound advantage no other group in the area has. Also, the top tier of the stand puts the synth keyboard right in front of my face. Another visual advantage for the audience.
Yes, the group does make videos, and I will post.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
@Mooser42001 "and give them a sound advantage" Well, after I learn to play it, of course. There is that.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
You just turn all stops out, turn the Drive knob to a maximum, push the pedal to the bottom, press all keys at once, and soon you will be the next rock star!
This advise is totally free. I only ask for a one time stadium back stage pass at your world tour :-)
Keep swinging at your C2,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Great job on this! My old M-100 Hammond needs this song to cleanse its soul - can you share a copy of your Green Onion learner's guide? Thanks!
TriodeLuvr 5 months ago
Hi TriodeLuvr
Thanks!
A very suitable song for your M-100 :-) You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging at your M-100,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
@rounder2u Rounder! Hello! I just bought myself a C-2! Yup, took the plunge. Will play through my Pro 3-x and two Peavey KBA-100s.
I can't believe I will be able to go anywhere with a B-3 and Leslie in a small sedan!
Thanks for all your demos. They were a big help.
Mooser42001 4 months ago
Hi Mooser
Welcome back!
That's really great gear news from you! With the C2, it's Leslie sim, and two 15" woofers you're home :-)
And it is for sure also important that your gear doesn't weight 500Lbs/250Kg, and that you can carry your clonewheel under one arm.
Good to hear that you've had some use of me tickling those ivories. Thanks!
Remember, please, to drop me a line if you do upload some C2 videos of yours.
All the best,
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 4 months ago
Great! It's fantastic!!! But I want asking you, how do yo do to improvise with right hand (with all type of rhythm), and do with left hand you repeat the same melody without go time-out? I ask you this because i want to made that genre, and i must play deep purple with a band. Thanks and sorry for my english!
edoemerson93 5 months ago
Thanks edoemerson!
You ask how to achieve left and right hand independence, e.g. play a steady walking bass line with the left hand while improvising on top with the right hand.
I have sent you a long answer what you can do to learn left/right hand independence, to your YouTube message inbox :-)
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
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edoemerson93 5 months ago
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@rounder2u Thank you again!!! I hope i will be great a quarter than you. I watch other videos: YOU ARE INCREDIBLE!!!
edoemerson93 5 months ago
Excellent tutorial my friend!!!....Your guide on how to play this tune would be greatly appreciated...thanks..
On side note...how do you like your Nord C1?...I'm considered buying one and would appreciate some feedback on the unit...thanks again!!!...Twister
MrTwister3356 5 months ago
Thanks Twister!
You have my Green Onions guide in your YouTube message inbox now.
If my C1 went down a flight of concrete stairs and shattered, I'd buy me a Nord C2 first thing in the morning.
There are a few really great tonewheels on the market today and it is a close call, but I'd go for the C2. Excellent B-3/C-3 clonewheel, really great Leslie sim, and a Vox, a Farfisa and a high quality sampled pipe organ in the same package. Not bad.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
Hello! :) this video is awesome! i would really appreciate the guide as well!
JannaMusic 5 months ago
Thanks Janna!
You have my guide for learning how to play Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
epic song
Pokemonrulez675 5 months ago
Hey I would love the guide to this song. Also you may want to try adding more punch to your bass. I couldn't hear it as clear has the treble lead.
numanuma20 5 months ago
Hi numanuma
You have enabled some kind of lock for incoming messages, so I couldn't send you my guide, sorry.
Please, send me a message or a comment when you have checked that out and I will try re-send my guide to you.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
Hi numanuma
More bass? Might be equipment related or a strange YouTube glitch if that's the case.
The bass goes down all the way to 34 Hz on a Hammond, and there is quite a lot of bass here I believe. Not extreme bass, but bass, yes, for sure.
This means that equipment that handles at least 45 Hz without rolling of dB in the bass is needed here (a flat frequency curve if possible). Good headphones will do the job, a good hi-fi or PC speakers with a good sub-woofer.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
Can you send me a guide please?
wolffiresnake 5 months ago in playlist More videos from rounder2u
Hi wolffiresnake
Sure! Check out your YouTube message inbox, please, and you'll find my guide for learning how to play Green Onions.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
Could you send me one too? Thanks a lot.
APARADER 5 months ago
Hi APARADER
I've just sent my guide for learning how to play Green Onions to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
i know probably a billion people have asked for the guide, but i would really love one. thanks!
evanbrown2 5 months ago
Hi evanbrown
You have one now :-)
Check out your YouTube message inbox, please, and you will find my guide for Green Onions.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 5 months ago
Hi rounder, could i have the guide too? Thanks.
aclk3000 6 months ago
Hi aclk
You have my guide for learning how to play Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox now.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Hi,
I would love to get the guide, too. Thanks in advance
fpdecroly 6 months ago
Hi fpdecroly
I did try to send my guide to you, but you have activated some kind of lock for incoming messages, so I couldn't send my guide to you, sorry.
You can send a message when you have checked that out, and I will try again.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Love to have the guide...
steigdg1 6 months ago
Hi steigdg
You have it now...
Check out your YouTube message inbox, please, and you'll find my Green Onions guide.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Hi, great performance. Can I also have that guide you made, please?
MrJMattila 6 months ago
Thanks Mr Mattila!
I've sent my guide to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Very great performance, enjoyed it! Would like your guide, please.
iXen97 6 months ago
Thanks iXen!
You have my guide for learning how to play Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
@rounder2u Thank you a lot, too. Will work hard about it :)
iXen97 6 months ago
Good to hear iXen.
Follow my guide to the letter and you will be getting there, swinging and groovin' Green Onions.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
I've been anxious to play it since I first heard it. And... it wasn't so long ago... but, anyway, you did a great job and I would be very grateful to you for your guide, Rounder.
Oh,,, and keep swinging, ya all.
Hemidesequaver 6 months ago
Hi Hemidesequaver
Thanks!
You have my Green Onions guide now, in your YouTube message inbox.
Yes, let's keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Thanks a lot, appreciate it!
guichoflo2 6 months ago
Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed it - would definitely like the guide please.
sd60f 6 months ago
Hi sd60f
Thanks!
You have my guide for learning how to play Green Onions in your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Great video, just recently becoming more interested in learning how to play organ andIm planning on watching the rest of your videos. Could I have the guide? it would be really helpful.
guichoflo2 6 months ago
Thanks guichoflo!
You will have great fun playing the organ :-) If you are interested, you might wanna check out my full-length up-tempo version of 'The Cat'. In that recording I use a number of typical jazz organ techniques (pedal tones, call&response, chord slides between manuals, etc)
I've sent my guide for learning how to play Green Onions to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
Hi there, could I please get your guide? I'd be v grateful as I love this tune. I've amassed a collection of around 21 different artists' versions of it!
Thanks!
SpionVids 6 months ago
Hi SpionVids
A Green Onions collector? Nice!
I've sent my guide for learning how to play Green Onions to your YouTube message inbox.
Keep swinging,
Rounder
rounder2u 6 months ago
thank you for your response and thank you again for this cool video
Fry1174 6 months ago
Nice tutorials. Great to see someone willing to share is knowledge
I too would be interested in your written gu