How I got started on Hammond Organ
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Joe GlossopJoe Glossop tells the story of how he fell for the Hammond organ as a teenager, hooked by records from Steve Winwood, Jimmy McGriff and Georgie Fame.
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24 lessons (2h 23m) · 1 free
01. The Funk Brothers - How Sweet It Is (performance - keyboard view)
10:12
02. The Funk Brothers - How Sweet It Is
8:51
03. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (performance - keyboard view)
1:54
04. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
8:49
05. Carole King - You've Got A Friend (performance - keyboard view)
1:51
06. Carole King - You've Got A Friend
8:22
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.
Influential Mentorship
- He had a really good career playing Hammond.
- He played sessions for all kinds of people.
- His dad had a really killer sort of rock and roll blues band.
He played me a few records by:
- Steve Winwood
- Jimmy McGriff
- Georgie Fame
I became obsessed with it. 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 Mysterious Tone
I was just obsessed. I heard the tone on records and didn't know what it was.
- It's 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 sort of 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.
