Intro: 'All About My Girl' - Jimmy McGriff
Lesson time: (2min 10sec)
Joe Glossop teaches the stop-time intro to Jimmy McGriff's 'All About My Girl', built from sixths, minor thirds and the blues scale split between the hands on the Hammond.
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Lesson transcript:
Intro with Stops
The intro with the stops is all about those six and minor thirds we talked about.
Percussion Technique
- In this instance, we do it with the left hand as the right hand plays the line.
- That's how you're answering it; that's kind of up to speed.
Slowing Down
If you just slow it down, the stops that happen slightly later involve similar sort of concepts.
Blues Scale
It's all blues scale, but with that six thrown in as well. There's a slight difference at the end of that line.
Phrase Variation
I can't remember how he phrases it exactly, but I think that's what he does. He keeps it all very simple.
Riff and Reply
The second time around on the brakes, where there's the riff and the reply:
- Because of the reply, the stops there are slightly varied.
- It's something like... I think that that's pretty much what he plays on there.
About the instructor
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. read more