Roland VK-8 improvised blues jam in C

Improvising over blues backing track in C, teaching myself some lead lines with the pentatonic. Backing track from bluesjamtracks.com

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Music

Tags:

• roland
• vk-8
• hammond
• organ
• blues
• jam
• pentatonic
• improvisation

[lestercsoule]

I was messing around with the pentatonic on this one because it was new to me so just trying it out, I find it to be quick & easy to produce solos using this scale.Cheers.

[MrSkalan]

hey man may I ask if you know of any kind of modern keyboard that can not exactly but almost reproduce the sound of this organ_

[lestercsoule]

@MrSkalan

well this is a modern organ! you can order and purchase this from any Roland dealer. thanks.

[Streamliner1000]

Sounds great! say, how do you get to the point that you are using all of the C blues scale notes, but avoiding making it sound like you are just going up and/or down the scale note by note? Is it a matter of memorizing which notes are in the scale, rather than memorizing the scale itself up and down? Thanks!

[lestercsoule]

@Streamliner1000 , Hi thanks for your comments, I guess it's a case of remembering shapes of notes within the scale rather than the scale itself. On this video I'm using small groups of maybe 3 or 4 notes from the scale and also running up and down.

If you remember the shape of a small group of notes like that you can then apply them in any key.

Hope thay answers your question. Lester!

[braunb87]

that line from 1:12 to 1:16 is awesome is that all pentatonic?

[lestercsoule]

Hi, Thanks alot. Yes it's all pentatonic C.

[MrV1C7OR]

@lestercsoule Here come a noob question:

What kind of amplificator or speaker do i need to play this kind of organ ?

Thank you

[PooPooOnMyNewShoe]

nice. keep it up.

[wandov8]

Congratulations,buddy. I love hammond sounds. :)

[MrSkalan]

@lestercsoule  thank you very much :D

[musicroman]

Yeah, very good

[Streamliner1000]

Hi --- thanks very much !