This is the Official RU-vid Channel for Canadian CCMA and Juno Award winning keyboard player Mike Little. Mike is one of the most recorded keyboard players in Canadian Music History and has spent over 30 Years on the road backing up some of the biggest names in the biz. Mike has a passion for teaching and sharing his knowledge and is committed to sharing his experience with others. To learn more about Mike's career check out out his website at www.mikelittlekeys.com . To learn about Mikes online subscription Keyboard course which has over 300 Videos highlighting tips on both the Hammond B3 and Piano go to www.universeofkeys.com . For access to tons of free content please subscribe to this page as Mike posts regularly :) If you love the content here and want to buy Mike a coffee you can do so here paypal.me/UniverseOfKeys . Enjoy!!
Great as always! The F over G is soooo sweet! I like to think of the passing chords in zje second progression as secondary dominants with a third in the bass. Makes it easier for me 😉 can’t wait for the new courses. Have a gig on 9/14, maybe it drops in time so I can catch something 😁
Yes thank you!! There is a chapter about secondary dominants in the new material as well!! The modules will be dropping one a month starting early October :)
Back Door Man is the best coming from the psychedelic band The 🚪Doors, their debut album had the best song that introduced the band in Los Angeles, California ❤ best four piece band ever Ray, John, Robbie also himself Jim The Lizard King
Been looking for a channel which shows _this_ exactly: blues riffs on the B3 that can be used to build a lead on. Subscribed faster than that spin was played!
I used to play drums for Bobby Whitlock (Derek and The Dominos, George Harrison)….LOVE seeing a B3 channel! Later I worked with Buddy Miles for a long time….Santana connection there.
AMAZING!! I just learned more in 8 minutes than I have in years...not that I was really pursuing that knowledge base, but the point is that a little goes a long way. Mike's video examples make learning intuitive and easy.
This might not be pertinent to the video, but I felt like mentioning it anyway. Your instructions reminded me of how one of my favorite early Madonna songs, “Over and Over”, is accompanied by the same type of 1-7-4 changes. It would be interesting hearing somebody playing these same Jerry Lee Lewis riffs over that song.
You’ll probably dig it, @@UniverseofKeys. It doesn’t sound like a southern rock or southern gospel type tune, but the potential for it to be done up that way is there.
Une première leçon avec vôtre méthode ne peux me suvire comme débutante,je vais m'appliquer à la jouer chaque jour pour y parvenir.... merci pour tout vos efforts,j'aime cette chanson nostalgique et je vous tellement la jouer en piano
@@UniverseofKeys I've been working on my organ too. Been jamming out on The Thrill is Gone, Green Onions, and Whiter Shade and having a boatload of fun in the process! :D
The Leslie speaker is in an isolation booth right behind me. If you are interested I show it in this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z_5fd7iUpN0.htmlsi=Y-louVZuu8wp6-4b thanks for watching!
Great tutorial on drawbar settings. I've been playing Hammond Organs since 1970, sold them for three of my four years in college (1971-1974) and now own the 1955 Hammond C3 which a friend of Jimmy Smith had in his LA Club/Studio. In fact, Jimmy recorded a few of his albums using this C3. It's fully restored. I also am in the process of restoring a "new-to-me" X66. I love Hammond Organs! Okay, my weird question... what are the cool looking mods you have on your B3? I notice controls in the left cheater blocks as well as very interesting switches on the right side in the small cheater blocks. Serious question... what do you have installed and what function(s) do these control? Do you have a MIDI controller installed? My apologies if my questions are out of line. I am truly interested in your mods to the B3. Respectfully, Richard PS: My email is: richard@sunridgephoto.com (I don't mind it being visible as it's all over the place to begin with).
Hello, Pretty cool to have an organ w some Jimmy Smith history!! Here is a video I made on my "chopped B3". Explains what all the mods are, enjoy! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EM6mYz7Qb_U.htmlsi=0Ekdj6wYx0F1HK4d
@@UniverseofKeys, I just talked to Mike at TREK II the other day. Looks like I need to give him a call and see if he still has some of the items you have on the Chopped B3 - which is a very cool instrument. In fact, just purchased an interface from Mike for the Hammond/Leslie Leslie simulator. On order is a SS TG for the X66. What I really liked on your Chopped B3 is the back panel with the line out and Leslie connections. Is this also a TREK II part? Thank you for all of the great information. I am going to be modifying the C3 and the X66 over the next year!! Respectfully, Rich Hockett Apache Junction, AZ
Hi, Mike. First of all, congratulations for your video. I have a doubt. There's an amazing song by Focus called "Answer? Questions! - Questions? Answer!", that has a organ sound that suddenly appears with a certain movement at the beginning, causing an interesting sensation. Soon after appears the Leslie effect, but what I would like to know is if that first movement is caused by varying the position of the drawbars. It happens here (the link goes directly to the point in time): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LX4ELjQuJIY.html
Great video! I’m so happy to have just discovered your channel. I have recently joined a dance/party band so I need to up my solo game in a more rock & roll or funk style. You’ve given me great ideas! As more of a “jazz guy”, I’ve thought differently about soloing but it’s been a great challenge to take on playing in this style. I might be contacting you for more guidance. Thanks!
Peter,thanks for this! Happy to help :). Contact me at universeofkeys@gmail.com if you would like to chat more about how I can help! I do custom master classes online and also have an online course. Would love to meet. All the best!!
This is a classic example of one of those simple songs on paper but that actually requires a whole different level of ability to try and actually nail the groove and get it swinging like the great man himself and the band did, Melting Pot is a fabulous track also. Great lesson beautifully delivered as always Mike 👍
I appreciate your patience and teaching so much but dude remember when you were a beginner? This stuff is SO F-ING HARD just to space out two fingers from a current placement like you’re doing around 1:30. Feels like practice isn’t helping. And they say, “If you’re not having fun with it, Don’t do it.” Well I’m reminded of the days I’d play Nintendo and feel like breaking the controller over my knee bc it gets so damn difficult at times. AND THIS IS SLOW STUFF!! Jud’s getting frustrated!
