Oh cool - I never thought of learning stuff off you tube and I did not know there was keyboard tv. Awesomeness = thanks so much for introducing me to a whole new world! Just what I needed.
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Now I need to stop the frames so I can figure out his drawbar settings. He's got 4 sets but I'm not sure which set applies to which keyboard, so I can just try them all. I still haven't found the sound he uses for the soft chords at the very beginning.
Some time in the year before I got sober I bought a Yamaha keyboard. I think it was about 80 bucks. Battery powered but you could get a wall wart to power it. I chose it just because it was one of the few inexpensive ones that had full size piano keys. It has something like 99 voices, built in speaker. Isn't going to bring the house down, but it was fun. I still have it actually, it sits in my music room and I sometimes use it for tuning - it's easier for my wife to tune her banjo to the clean plain sound of the Yamaha than any combo I can pull out on the Hammond. The Hammond/Leslie cost me about 60x what I paid for the Yamaha... LOL. Hammond has never been about putting 1000 sounds in one box, although the drawbars give infinite combinations and gradations, there are many things it just won't do. It won't do a Rhodes or a Vox or a Farfisa or a Saw, or anything close... so no Beach Boys or Chris Montez or David Lee Roth out of a straight Hammond. Mine has a few extra voices (which you have to know the secret button push to get to) but it's nothing like some of these other combo clones from Nord, Roland, etc. that do every organ you can think of - as well as an often pretty fair imitation of a Hammond, or at least certain common Hammond settings. Yes, one of the hidden voices is the Van Halen Jump saw.... that coming out of a Hammond keyboard is more than a little strange.
I was going on 9 years sober when the music bug bit me for real, and that's when I started playing bari sax. But I have a bunch of instruments - other saxophones, trumpet, etc. The bari has been my main thing all along, but about 4-5 years ago I started learning more and more about the Hammond and fantasizing about a big old vintage B3 and Leslie. I decided to get the electronic XK instead, because I am not an electronics (or electromechanical) techie and it seems like you either have to be one - or be on very friendly terms with one - if you want to keep a 40, 50 year old, 450-lb electromechanical Hammond B3 going. But I still want one someday... yeah, I like Jimmy Smith and Charles Earland and others but Booker T has that laid back groove I could just listen to for hours. Whenever I find one of those chords (the above video... where he goes from the inverted C major to the F#7.... oh yeah) I can just listen to it reverberate in my head. And as I've seen from these videos, he's a pretty good teacher too. Free lessons on the web from the great Memphis Groovemeister.
I agree - and I agree about the Roland, which is what I have, and I agree about the need for vintage, and yes it's a fantasy because I just don't know how I'd marry one of those and live up to my vows either... but now you've got me thinking about rearranging the furniture... and my instruments are already trickling out from the music room so and we can't afford another addition... lol
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I love music ... learned piano from Grandma and played trumpet in grade school and high school ... marching band, etc. ... I was usually 2nd chair in the band (in the '60s)(of about 14 trumpets) ... I listened to vinyl LP records ... mostly of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass ... and late night, mostly the old 'black' Blues and Soul music ... I thought Jimi Hendricks was nuts ...
There are/were so many great artists out there, it's hard to choose ... John Denver was one of my favorites before alcohol stole his life early ... as much as I love music, it was plain to see early on, that I did not possess the 'gift' ... you know, that special talent where your very 'being' (soul) comes out in the purest of melodies ... It always amazes me when an artist can take you anywhere, anytime, on a journey to a forgotten place, or on a trip to a special kind of heaven on earth with such pleasure ... enough, so as to take the pains of life and make them melt away ...
The only place I ever had that effect on others was when I pulled a TDY (Temporary Duty Assmt) in the military ('70s)... my ability to play 'Taps' in the 'Color Guard' was exceptional ... not a happy occasion, but very 'moving' ... the sergeant said I always made him cry ... and that it was all they could do to fold the Flag ... (we did 20 to 30 services a month for 3 months) ...
I love Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Ravel, Stravinsky, Gershwin, etc. ... Opera too, if I knew what the hell they were saying ... Bluegrass, yep ... I love it all
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I'm going to post you a Samuel Barber song in another thread that represents living in addiction - surrender - and the calm of finding recovery to me. Adiagio for strings op. 11
If you get the chance to buy this, and listen to it on surround sound - crank it - and lay down on the floor in the middle of your room with your eyes closed ---- just my suggestion of course. You know I'm a little nuts right?
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I love music ... learned piano from Grandma and played trumpet in grade school and high school ... marching band, etc. ... I was usually 2nd chair in the band (in the '60s)(of about 14 trumpets) ... I listened to vinyl LP records ... mostly of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass ... and late night, mostly the old 'black' Blues and Soul music ... I thought Jimi Hendricks was nuts ...
I always like the Tijuana Brass, but it always seemed like the trombone was phoned in from the next room. I guess Herb didn't care for loud smears... but the TJB had a lot of catchy tunes. I always liked their version of "Love Potion No. 9" - it's totally burlesque and nothing at all like the original.
And speaking of brass... there's Blood Sweat & Tears. The opening horn lick to "Lucretia McEvil" is still one of the fattest, nastiest, and just hair-standing, exciting intros I've ever heard. Rest of the song is ok too, but hard to live up to that intro.
And when I was a kid, got the TJB Christmas album. A lot of jazzed up classics and a few original tunes like "The Bell That Couldn't Jingle". Stuff like that is full of memories. I don't usually add a new album to my Christmas playlist very often. Last time it was SNZ's Christmas Caravan, around 1999. A few folk standards but a lot of original material, including "Hot Christmas" featuring a bass sax (not bari) solo.
Hey barisax, ... Remember TJB's 'Whipped Cream' album cover ??? ... every young man's dream back then ... LOL
And the Brass on the Blood, Sweat, & Tears album was awesome ... another record I wore out ...
Whipped Cream was a classic. And the model had to actually sit for it and they had to keep it all in place under the hot lights. Now they'd just do it with Photoshop. Heck a lot of the music they do with a computer too.
I'm still learning chords and terminology but every now and then I stumble across one and recognize it. A few weeks ago I was playing around on the organ and said hey! That's the opening fat chord to "Spinning Wheel". I forget what key but it's a #9 chord. Basically a 9 chord but the 9th sharped. Changes it from pleasant to wicked. And the first notes of "Lucretia" are just a D and E played together - four notes all together, with an octave in between. Haven't deciphered the rest of the progression yet.
Another cool thing I discovered just last night: play any 4-note full diminished chord on a keyboard. Full dim is all of the notes separated by a minor third, or three keys chromatically. Example C, Eb, F#, A. Now if you flat *any* of your four notes by a half tone, you get a 7 chord - four different keys of 7 chord are one finger move away from a full dim.
Trivia time: BS&T had an album cover shot "No Sweat" of the band members in a steam room. Which of those band members appeared in another *much* more well known steam room scene?
Ha! ... ... ... not only do I not have your musical knowledge and skills ... the trivia part of my brain doesn't seem to work too good either ... LOL I remember the steam room album cover but I was just a couple years into the military at that time ... '73 ... ... ... so my memories are mostly of military trivia ... LOL ... Ahhh, Viet Nam and the 'hippies' ... ... ...
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Actually "Blue Lou" Marini and Tom "Bones" Malone were with BST on that steam room cover, and they're both in the steam room scene with Steve Lawrence in The Blues Brothers - where it's revealed after Jake & Elwood cut the deal with Sline, the whole band is in there with them.
