Comment j'ai débuté à l'orgue Hammond
Lesson time: (0min 55sec)
Joe Glossop raconte comment il a découvert l'orgue Hammond à l'adolescence, accroché par les disques de Steve Winwood, Jimmy McGriff et Georgie Fame.
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This lesson is part of the course Le langage authentique du Hammond pour le rock et le R&B
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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.
About the instructor
Joe Glossop est un claviériste de Sheffield qui s'est fait un nom à l'orgue Hammond. Il occupe actuellement le poste d'organiste dans le groupe de tournée de Tom Jones, et a joué avec Van Morrison et James Hunter, ainsi qu'au piano et au Rhodes. Ses cours permettent de tirer le véritable son Hammond de n'importe quel clavier : le réglage des drawbars, le Leslie, la basse walking à la main gauche, et le vocabulaire d'accompagnement et de solo des traditions de l'orgue soul-jazz, blues et rock, de Jimmy Smith à Booker T. read more