Jumpin' Papa - Nord C1 Hammond B-3 Clonewheel Organ Clavia

Here is my song Jumpin' Papa. The organ is a Clavia Nord C1 - a Hammond B-3 clonewheel organ.
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Nord C1 Registrations and Settings:
Upper 88 8000 000. Chorus C3. Perc On, Soft, Fast, Third.
Lower 88 8000 000. No Chorus.
Bass lower man. 80.
Leslie simulator Slow position.
Equalizer not used.
Overdrive not used.
Reverb hall, soft, close to 50%.
Tonewheel mode Vintage 2 (high level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artefacts).
The sound is recorded line out from the organ. No additional external effects, external amplifiers or speakers are used.
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The four blues choruses I'm playing on the lower manual are improvised.
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For this song I'm heavily inspired by Papa John DeFrancescos great groove song Jumpin' from the record with the same name. So I thought I'd try to show Papa John my appreciation by naming my song after him :-)
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• Jumpin
• Papa
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• C1
• Clonewheel
• Organ
• Clavia
• Jazz
• Blues
• Hammond
• B-3
• John
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• Rounder
• rounder2u

[ajtomo]

Ah - nice one, Rounder. These are the little tricks and techniques that I wouldn't figure out by myself, and make the playing come on in leaps and intervals!

Cheers

Tom

[rounder2u]

Hi Tom

Good to hear that I can be of some help :-)

The most important thing though when it comes to left hand walking bass lines, is to practice them (only the left hand) so much that they are totally ingrained. Otherwise there will never be left/right hand independence. The left hand pattern I'm using in my 'Yellow Fall Blues' took me weeks before it was ingrained, and then the right hand was gradually becoming free to improvise to that bass line.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[rounder2u]

You will see this basic position partly in this song when the blues goes to C (subdominant) and D (dominant).

So even if I'm not actually walking that much in this song, my left hand position is prepared for walking :-) A great deal of jazz organ left hand positioning is to find and ingrain those fingerings that make you ready to walk smoothly in both directions.

(I also believe the groove will be better by not using the thumb in this and closely related patterns)

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[rounder2u]

Thanks ajtomo!

Good to hear that you like my extended pedal tone playing starting at 4.08 :-)

You will use your left thumb a lot in jazz organ left hand walking! But not in all bass line patterns :-)

Not in this pattern and not in the related pattern I'm using in my version of Jimmy Smith's 'Bucket'.

The basic position for the left hand is the pinky at the root, the index finger at the fifth and the thumb at the root one octave higher. This position makes you best prepared for walking.

[ajtomo]

Hi Rounder

V cool stuff!

I struggle a lot with my left hand playing and was just wondering why you suggest not using the left thumb? Does it make things easier?

Cheers

Tom

(LOVE 4.08 - 4.41 where you keep that G down w/ your right!)

[rounder2u]

When you have come to grips with the system of the bass line, start to play along with your left hand to this video with me :-)

Be sure to use the same left hand fingering. Do not use the left thumb.

Keep swinging,

Rounder

[rounder2u]

Hi JohnandAnnick

This is the bass line system:

The root of the chord is played at the beat 1 and 3 in every bar.

The 5:th of the chord is played at the beat 2 and 4 in every bar.

The short notes in between are either root notes or fifths of the chord.

E.g. during the chord G the bass line notes are

The beat: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4

The notes: G,g,D,d,G,g,D,d,G,g,D,d,G,g,D

(short notes in parenthesis)

I think you will see the rest of those notes by checking out my left hand in the video.

[rounder2u]

agree :-)

[JohnandAnnick1]

can u give me the notes for bass line?