Rock Organ Licks played SLOW 

I just love the sound of a Hammond organ. Especially the one with the Lesli speaker. Excellent Tutorial.

Even most of us won't admit it, but if you didn't listen to your piano teacher to do your scales 2 hours each day, your gonna regret you didn't listen when trying this 😅

When do you get to the “slowed down” part?

Talk tu much

You play just fine, Nick. Your teaching skills are also excellent. I have a 1935 Hammond A, upgraded to a B with the addition of Leslie switches, percussion, etc, into what is correctly called an AB. It is the finest beast Hammond ever made. The B3, of which I have had many, has the same balustraded legs but despite having everything and more than a B3, especially in extra tonewheels that were removed by bean-counting accountants. It looks identical to it’s descendant, the B3 but the main body furniture is a few inches less deep at the back. The extra depth of the main cabinet was created when wood was pretty cheap and Hammond were targeting schools, churches and other places where the organ needed to look more like a piano. Strange thinking perhaps, but true. My instrument was fully restored to it’s current immaculate condition and MIDI OUT was also added to the lower which involved adding velocity sensors to every single key. It may also be of interest that my Hammond was made by The Hammond Clock Company as it is made in the 1st year of issue before The Hammond Organ Company actually existed. The plaque insider states that it is not for sale and is made purely for demonstration purposes. This particular instrument is an unmatchable gem and I am incredibly lucky to be it’s custodian albeit for not much longer as I am 72 this year and not in the best of health. I noticed that, like me, you appear to operate your Leslie speaker with a foot switch. This is the best way to do it, needless to say. It keeps your left hand where it needs to be, attending to the bass notes, of course. I know not whether you would agree but I always try and explain to synth and other modern keyboard players that playing Hammond type of cloning on anything but a Hammond does little to turn us into organists, largely due to modern keyboards being set up with sustain pedals. This tends to mean we end up playing piano style on an organ, which really misses the point of learning to crawl about on the keys picking notes and sequences without any way of sustaining them except holding the notes down with your fingers, and not doing so with your foot on a pedal. Playing a real Hammond enforces correct and ancient technique without which the organ parts we chose to play just don’t sound right. Therefore, tough as this must sound, I personally recommend owning a proper tonewheel Hammond or even a clone as long as you do not attach a sustain pedal to it. Failing to can still sound pretty good, though, but one ends up playing notes that would not be possible to play on the real thing. My conclusion is that anyone watching this lesson who is trying to get into proper Hammond techniques should find it to be incredibly helpful to watch this uploaded video. It really is brilliant and should save years of struggling away trying to find the right scales and traditions of true Hammond playing. MC - retired pro.(Scotland)

Are you a Uriah Heap fan? Any Heap riffs would be cool. When I was just 17.....

still far to fast - thats not teaching. your self indulging.

I like how you describe the “slide off” technique. We organ players, or any keyboards for that matter, can’t bend notes like guitarists can, so this is the next best thing. EDIT: When I said “slide off” I meant “grace note”.

Another run of Jon Lord’s I really like, is the organ riff at the end of the live version of “Smoke on the Water”, from the ‘Made in Japan’ album. That thing is absolutely smokin’! I believe he is holding down a C in the bass, while (whilst) soloing in G minor blues. Or another way of saying that might be: He’s soloing in the “i” while holding down a “IV” in the bass. It seems to make for a very tense and suspenseful sound, because that IV in the bass is just dying to be resolved to the I. Do I have that about right? 🤔

How about a break down of Keith Emersons Hammond organ work of the ELP song Knife Edge. An exciting tune. Thank you. 🎹

Wondered if you can demo how they get the fast almost slapping sound in the song Hush by Deep Purple.

I'm a guitar player just trying to pick up a few licks for my demos and this was immensely helpful! Thank you! All those guitar triad ideas translate nicely and made it easy to follow along.

I've just been watching and listening to , Walking In The shadow Of The Blues by Whitesnake , to try and learn guitar part . But watching this I think I could learn keyboard part but a lot simplified version . Is there any chance you could teach us something like this instead of runs . I haven't got a hammond but have good organ sounds on cheap synths and keyboards that would do the job . Also Dont Break My Heart Again . Then there is Smoke On The Water , Child In Time , Perfect Strangers , Purple . No Quarter , Trampled Underfoot , Zeppelin. Stargazer , Tarot Woman , Rainbow . No More Hero's, Hanging Around , Down In The Sewer , Walk On By , The Stranglers . To name but a few

Seems like one would need a pretty hearty keyboard to do those slides without breaking something. Is that correct? Great playing! Really inspiring stuff. I love that style.

This is great stuff 👍 I doubt that I'll ever get anything bigger than my humble Yamaha Reface YC but these kinds of tips help me learn to make it bark.

Excellent mate, thanks very much for this. I'm mostly a synth-head but want to learn this sort of thing so this video is ideal. It does make me feel a bit inadequate though ;)

Where do you get the threaded bracelets from, that you wear on your right wrist? They look cool, and are good musician-ware.

Played guitar since the Beatles came to America but lately I've desired to play our churches double keyboard Wulitzer. Thanks for teaching.

Just spotted you fingered a C bass note on both manuals with the same hand. Love it Nick.

Glad you're playing slow

Is there any chance you could do some Booker T and the MGs? I’ve been listening to the album Doin Our Thing and I can’t help but hear you ripping these. I can’t find any tutorials anywhere and would love to hear any of the songs in the album. “You Don’t Love Me” is what made me think of you and come comment this.

This is so appreciated. Exactly what I needed.

This was awesome! Can i ask some slightly unusual advice? Long story short, I used to be a bass player but lost my right arm in a motorbike crash. Really miss playing music so I've taken up blues harmonica. But this sounds awesome! I'd love to be able to play this type of organ. Am I correct in thinking a lot of these rock / blues licks would work well playing with one hand? Or am I going to get tripped up somewhere? And where wouldyou start?

Liking the warm up Nick.. you lost me on draw bars ;-)

Oh I love that sound! Thanks!

Teşekkürler.

You can basically use a C minor blues scale for everything

Thanks a lot Nick for taking the time to slow these down, there are a lot of cool ideas there! I like the fast Bb - B - C - Eb one you do in F with the Leslie on fast and then roar up to the high C - it's a great one for adding some drama! A good bit of advice I was given is to think of two 'grips' for the blues scale, so for example in the key of C grip 1 is starting on C and where your fingers naturally land, and grip two is starting on G. Then trying to find licks for each grip, and then linking them together. It helps it seem much more manageable! Thanks again, Adam

Dear Sir, if you call this "slow", what would be fast? Are you natural born coffee? Great video and thanks very much, but please consider that there are still quite average normal people trying to learn around and not in a hyper fitness center. Have a cuppa tea :-)

A Hammond is a Hammond, stays a Hammond, will be a Hammond for ever! Never mind!👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😎🤣😂😘

May I ask you: Is there ever a time you can play your C-3 clean without so much overdrive? Or yours has been wired to be “naughty” all the time? I like a 1968 Mark-1, Rod Evans era Deep Purple sometimes.

Thank you Master ! I will see this soon and practice . I am an old beginner but I know I can do that . Thumbs up !

Tag'd you by mistake but I'll be here anyway Rock on ☆

What about the organ lick in the middle of Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff”?

Awesome!!!!! Thank you!!!

Great video nick. Love that john lord, santana & world in action theme rock organ sound. 👍

U don’t talk too much your insight is very helpful thank you great vid 😊

Cheers Nick! Great licks! I’m going to have some fun trying them out tomorrow when the Nord arrives! 🎹

This is Amazing 😊, thanks for this Video

Looking forward for thoes Jon Lord Drawbar settings. You got a subscribe for that!

i cant thank you enough .

Ah I love that Leslie sound. Love doing these runs. Cheers mate.

Hi Nick .. Awesome Licks, Trills… I’m New to Playing the Organ. I’m a Saxophone player. On this Video at 20:13 & 20:35. Your doing a Run down, Could you Make a Video or show me exactly how to Accomplish this. Is it 2 fingers ? That’s what will help me out… Appreciate your videos.

Outstanding

Well Nick, I did enjoy it :) Thanks....

Great but you Need whooly bully watch it now 😮

I have to slow down the play of this video to half speed to see it slowed down.

Upon a rewatch I'm still enjoying this peak quality content

Yess!! 🔥

I got myself a maintenance free hammond sx2000 w/internal leslie...I love it and it's cheap to operate in comparison to the original.also got kurzweil k2600x ,,,I love b3.

Wow. I just got an old Hammond M102 series organ and have got it working. Now I have something to practice on it and learn a bit how to play it. This lesson was fantastic. Thanks Nick.

Very nice, Thank you, Sir.

you said SLOW i want my money back!

Exactly what I needed! No nonsense, right to it.

Is there a spot on this video where you explain where your distort effect is coming from?

GREAT JOB! Thanks for posting.

Played slow ? .

Slow ?😂

Love the grind

I used to be the National Hammond Service Technician for Hammond South Africa 1980. I went on to run my own service company until 2015. Part of our service was Hammond Hire to big concerts. A100 and 147. What are the controls to the left of the preset keys on the lower manual?

Nice, nice, nice !

Excellent!

Mazanita

This music >>>

Thanks!

Is that after market distortion/overdrive on that C3?

Thank you so much, Nick!

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thank you. On a differs note, how much caffeine do you drink a day?

Nice sound that’s for sure.