How I got started on Hammond Organ
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Joe GlossopJoe Glossop shares how he discovered the Hammond organ as a teenager, hooked by records from Steve Winwood, Jimmy McGriff and Georgie Fame.
What's in the course
21 lessons (1h 25m) · 1 free
01. The Small Faces - Tin Soldier (performance)
1:16
02. The Small Faces - Tin Soldier (analysis)
7:03
03. Deep Purple (John Lord) - Smoke On The Water (performance)
1:02
04. Deep Purple (John Lord) - Smoke On The Water (analysis)
8:38
05. Allman Brothers - Whipping Post (performance)
1:23
06. Allman Brothers - Whipping Post (analysis)
8:39
Lesson transcript
My Journey into Music
I got started playing when I was about 13 or 14. I had a really good piano teacher who was trying to get me into gigging, which is what I wanted to do.
He had a remarkable career playing the Hammond organ and had played sessions for all kinds of people. His dad even had a killer rock and roll blues band.
Discovering New Sounds
During our lessons, he played me a few records by:
- Steve Winwood
- Jimmy McGriff
- Georgie Fame
I became completely obsessed with the sound. He very kindly lent me an old organ of his that was in storage, and it all just kind of kicked off from there.
The Hook
I heard the tone on records and didn't know what it was. It was kind of a mysterious thing.
It's not a piano or a guitar, these kind of obvious instruments.
Then, he played me a couple of things, and I thought, "Hang on, that's that thing that I've always loved but didn't know what it was."
Suddenly, I was just hooked.
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Joe Glossop is a keyboard player from Sheffield who has made his name on the Hammond organ. He currently holds the organ chair in Tom Jones's touring band, and has played with Van Morrison and James Hunter, as well as on piano and Rhodes. His courses get the real Hammond sound out of any keyboard - drawbar registration, the Leslie, the walking-bass left hand, and the comping and soloing vocabulary of the soul-jazz, blues and rock organ traditions, from Jimmy Smith to Booker T.
