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

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Uploaded by on Apr 21, 2008

Here are some useful tips on playing gritty sounds on a Hammond organ in rock music. Watch this free video on music theory.

Expert: Craig Dockery
Bio: Craig Dockery is an accomplished musician and graphics artist. Craig plays multiple instruments and has played in many bands. Currently he is the front man for indie darlings, The Vinyltones.
Filmmaker: matt senatore

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

  • you gotta have the goods to get that tone.

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  • Ummm you need a few marshall stacks hooked up to that ;)

  • that sounds like shit..

  • 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...

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

  • boy get ya ass in the woodshed

    your chops are WEAKKKK!!!!

  • @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.

  • 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 ?

  • @reichmarshall lol. my thoughts exactly

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