"Smoke on the water" organ in 1st verse

***Warning*** this may be the second dullest smoke-on-the-water video on earth

The video covers the rhythm part for the first verse and chorus of the Deep Purple song.
Needless to say, I'd throw in a couple of extra notes when playing live.
Reminds me... your guitar players may have worked hard to _pick_ the theme (da-da-da...). Surprise him by coming in late in the intro, or even skip it entirely.

Occasionally there is what looks like a Bb chord, which is simply a rootless Gm7. The left hand would hold the G when it's not holding the camera.

There's a detail in the prechorus ("smoke...") that often goes unnoticed: The chord is C major, but the right hand plays a broken C MINOR (making it Cmaj9? can't remember...)
Over the following Ab chord ("water"), the same broken C minor is repeated, I believe making it a Abmaj7.

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• hammond
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