Drawbar Registrations For Soloing
In the last lesson we explored comping on the Hammond organ and some specific exercises and drills that we can do to strengthen our right hands comping.
The next 2 lessons in the course will address right hand improvisation techniques and concepts.
Before exploring how to construct improvised phrases, we will recap the most common and useful drawbar registrations that are used for right hand soloing in jazz organ.
Useful Drawbar Registrations
We will start with some useful drawbar registrations that are commonly used in jazz organ for right hand soloing and improvisation.
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The ‘Jimmy Smith’ Registration
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The ‘Charles Earland’ Registration
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The ‘Groove Holmes’ Registration
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The ‘Erroll Garner’ Registration & Squabbling
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The ‘Full Organ’ Registration
Lesson Downloads
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Common Drawbar Registrations File Type: pdf
Related Lessons
In this 5 minute masterclass Tuomo demonstrates 3 common blues lines that can be played over a 251 cadence in the key of F.
Using the tune “Georgia” – we will also explore the concept of the major blues scale and how to apply this to major 251 progressions.
We are going to combine out knowledge of chord tone soloing with approach patterns, enclosures, and non-diatonic passing tones.
Practice Tips
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Understand the effect of the percussion switch which allows the performer to toggle between the 'Jimmy Smith' registration and the 'Groove Holmes' registration.
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Configure the 'Erroll Garner' and 'Full Organ' registrations and experiment with the fast Leslie setting.
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Imitate Robert's demonstration of the 'squabbling' technique using the 'Erroll Garner' registration.
