As a beginning church organist I am so grateful for this video 🔥

My favorite organ sound is "Whiter Shade of Pale", makes me love the Hammond, 6886.

There are keyboard players.....and there are "Hammond" players. There are things the Hammond does that can't be done on anything else. When I try to explain this to some people they don't understand.......till they hear it. Thanks man.

Excellent demonstration of Hammond Organ drawbar technique. This is why the Hammond is one of the most versatile instruments ever produced.

Excellent! Well done musically as well as technically... The Hammond sound is such a gift to music.

This is a FANTASTIC VIDEO! Drawbar settings tutorials only ever show you places to start and end, I've never been able to find a video that taught how to use them dynamically like this. THANK YOU SO MUCH

Wow, you are a legend! I'm finally understanding where to kick on the leslie and how to use the different drawbars. You and your organ have a lot of soul.👍

That´s why the organ sound is so awesome and have a great value for the music.

Brilliant lesson Mike...shows that LESS can be MORE when it comes to drawbars...Even one by itself creates a mood that is intimate.

Well done! I also will never listen to that song the same way ever again!

Love it!!

Awesome demonstration on such a beautifully selected song - thank you, Mike!

Really nice! So refreshing to see/hear more than just the 888000000 registration. I think there are 253 million possible drawbar combinations. Let's use 'em! Also, give a close listen to Joachim Young's playing on Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle". He's a master of tone-shaping on the Hammond.

Most excellent, love your sense of development -- thank you!

Wow wow wow!!! That was an incredible explanation! Thank you so much!!

AWESOME-THANK YOU FOR THE CLEAR EXPLANATION AND DEMONTRATION

Thank you so much for giving the best examples of drawbars.

In the mid 70s I played in a band for a living for a couple years. One day Ray Charles came to our town and they needed an organ for the show. Our keyboard player had a B-3 at home and he let them use it. Don't know if Ray actually played it at all but your Jon Lord story reminded me of this. Too bad our keyboard player didn't get Ray to sign his B-3 like yours. As a big Deep Purple fan, I really enjoyed your Jon Lord story.

Thank you very much for this wonderfull lessons. Greatings from Switzerland.

I loved this whole vibe...and then you played maybe the 2nd-best Crowded House song. Instant subscribe for the Froom-love.

Just found your channel! I bought a Hammond XKC1 and this is what I needed to get started. Thanks

Playing organ since mid 70’s and still love learning from guys like Mike. Drawbar settings can make or break a track. Great video and haunting vibes. Thanks so much

The best tutorial i've ever seen on drawbars. Thanks for sharing.

Absolutely brilliant video and demonstration Mike. As a piano player who just bought an organ, this is invaluable since it’s an overwhelming jump to make.

This was extremely helpful. Awesome playing!

Just found this channel and love everything about it. Really learn alot.

Awesome explanation!!!!! Simple with examples. Perfect!! Thanks!

That was a perfect approach for this style. 100% I have gotten a lot of mileage out of 16’ or 8’ in exactly the same way. Thank you for demonstrating this approach in a real-time application. Great job.

Thanks, Mike! As a curious guitarist who occasionally bashes at the keys & loves the B3 sound, I finally understand the drawbars -- after asking a couple B3 players. I'm thinking about adding 'virtual B3' to a recording, so the Crowded House playthrough was invaluable (also picked up a few tips from your Jon Lord video).

Working that Leslie with the drawbars. Cool

This was beautiful man

This was super helpful. Thank you so much!

Man! I have to try this! Long time guitarist just learning piano and organ. Awesome tutorial! This is definitely going to be my next song to learn.

Thnx. Mike for this very usefull lesson. I hope you post much more content we can learn from👌

Fantastically great job by a dude that obviously knows his way around the venerable B3. Good at ya, Mike!

Love this video , the song that made me fall in love with the Hammond was “ id rather go blind “ on Rod stewarts Never a dull moment album . Ian Mclagan was my hero. I also love his Hammond work on Reason to Believe . He got the high notes to whistle up top. And of course who doesn’t love Billy Preston. I do love crowded house as well . The organ on “ Dont dream its over “ is legendary .

Just what I needed. thanks.

Best explanation I’ve heard. THANK YOU!! This is gonna help this newbie utilize her Nord better.

Loved the video.

Thanks for this tuitional video, so informative. Now i'm going to be working those draw bars at my next gig !

Thanks, that was a good way to illustrate how to use drawbars in a song

Thanks for the great master class! As a pianist, I thought of the registrations as setting the instrument and leaving it like that for a whole song. Was I ever wrong!

I needed this I am a Church Organist and I am in the market for getting a Hammond you cleared a lot clouds in my head love it thank you very much

Such an awesome video! I'm not an organ player but I use the B3 all the time in my songs with simple chords and fills. I've never actually thought about using the drawbars with more finesse like this. Being primarily a guitar player I've had a habit of adding more drive to the amp when I wanted more energy, but this is also an excellent way to going about it. Thank you!

I just got a yamaha reface yc thanks for explaining the drawbar. Have subscribed you're a great teacher

Very cool to share.

Thanks I occasionally play a Korg cx3 and Gregg Allman was good with drawbars to go along with his understated playing with the guitars in the Allman Brothers Band

Mike, I think that was the best example of the drawbars I ever seen! Thank you so much!

very helpful, thanks.

It's my dream to play the Hammond! I really like your videos! Thank you so much, my friend!

Beautiful

Nice!

Terrific

Thanks, Great video !!! 😎😎😎

Excellent, seeing you demonstrate your intuitive way of using drawbars is really helpful. Lately, I've been just staying on first 3 or 4 stops all out and trying to use the volume pedal, but honestly, the way it responds to the volume pedal is really uneven and hard to get right (especially for a lapsed player like me--also on a clonewheel, btw). Using the drawbars instead for dynamic control was actually the way I used to do it when I started playing, because it just felt easier. Your playing really validates my original method! I also used to cut out my 16 and 8 by half to try for an almost e-piano type sound for rhythms. We had a really great bassist, so I often felt like I was just muddying things up with my 16 stop all out.

That was great. Thanks!

Dude. Thank you.

I love the way you explain drawbars, thanks for sharing the video

That was cool thank you.😎

Wow man, I absolutely loved this. This is exactly what I want for my pop-rock band. Too bad that you don't live here, and that I... don't have a band, but when I do (hopefully soon) I really would love to have a keyboardist like you. Loving what you do man, congrats!

What got me into the Hammond was Boston´s first album which has some absolutely amazing organ work, with some dynamic changes that are not of this world. After many years playing in bands I finally managed to get the original, analog Korg CX-3 which I use to this day, through a tube pedal, Danelectro Spring King reverb and a Neo Ventilator II. It gives a pretty badass sound which is perfect for the classic rock covers I do with my band but the keyboard feel is lousy, impossible to do fast, precise solos or palm smears, so I´ll probably upgrade to something more modern when I can. I feel that using the drawbars is pretty intuitive. I usually use the first 4 pulled out, when there is a guitar solo I just use the 16 and 8 for a warmer, full sound that does not get in the way, and when it is my turn to solo I add a bit of brightness with the upper drawbars. Using just the odd-numbered drawbars gives a very sharp, eeire sound, almost like that of a transistor organ, which is useful for some Sixties´ stuff.

Great tutorial. Although I only have a Yamaha reface YC this is really useful. Thank you.

Already loved the organ before (and got a digital clone), but wow again, that was awesome :D

Wonderful, More please

Man I learned this when it came out…unfortunately pre-A100…. Wow what a difference!! Thanks for this. Beautiful!!

Wunderbar!!

Great.

I can't improve on the accolades of this uber helpful video. I've been to organ school this morning.

simply awesome what I have learned today from your video. Respec to the max

well done my friend.. thank you. Using a cx org plug in on a kronos and while it's not "the real thing" it's close enough for me!! fun!

Great info

Thank you

simply beautiful ~ nice swell pedal work as well ~ any chance of a camera insert of that as well? I'm always learning how to extract even more expression out of the volume pedal.

Thanks

Increíble

The church I used to go to as a child had a huge pipe organ. A Clele D'Autrey (1973) .... but it is really a refurbished Wurlitzer Opus 42 from 1914. " originally from Seattle's Liberty Theatre, is Wurlitzer Opus 42 from 1914, the 42nd organ made by the factory. It is currently a 3/25, although it will most likely be a 3/30 or 3/31." gorgeous!

Excellent video. Did you use the volume pedal at all during this song or was all the dynamics done with just the drawer bars?

Best use of drawbars and Hammond organ in rock IMHO is on Steve Miller's Fly like an eagle. Who was that? Oh and BTW thanks for the online stuff Mike, you have a great teaching approach. I learnt Riders on the Storm through your video, a very generous share!

Just found your channel, watched this video and immediately subscribed to your channel. Great explanation of using the drawbars. I’m gonna search on my XK5 how I can get that nice warm overdrive. There’s an overdrive potmeter but it sounds to synthetic/electronic, or how should I tell you. Maybe I can try the valve sound settings in the menu but I still think that I won’t have your sound. Fyi I don’t have a leslie because my room is to small (I have too many guitars and a Kurzweil PC3K8). Question, are you using a 122 or a 147 leslie ? Best regards from Belgium.

Does anyone know the drawbar registrations, used in either Eric Clapton's "Give Me Strength" (organist was Dick Sims), and/or Janis Joplin's version of "Me & Bobby McGee"? I've been playing Hammonds for almost 37 years... different models & clones, but I've never quite gotten THE sound on either song... and to me, they both feature some of the most beautiful organ registrations I know...

Nice nice nice. Got any tips on blues comping Hammond?

The master in the use of drawbars was Marián Varga from group Collegium Musicum!

What was your left hand playing with when your right was adjusting drawbars? Something "clicky"?

Bought my Hammond Commodore in 1981

What’s the switch on the left you keep hitting? Is that the fast/slow rotary?

Smokin

Well I know that certain drawbars add 5th or maj 3rds from the note you’re playing. Does this clash when you’re playing minor chords? For example.. you add the drawbar that adds a maj 3rd and you’re hitting a G minor chord but it’s adding that B.

I have limited times playing a real B but have played many clones. One thing that happens is that with a certain drawbar pulled out like the 8th, the second highest G note will be mega loud and if I'm on the ball I will push it in a couple of clicks while I'm playing that note. I never see a lesson on this and would like to see how a pro handles this. Or maybe it's only a clone issue.

what were you clicking back and forth with your left hand. Keep em coming

Thanks for this video! Quick follow up question: why are there multiple sets of drawbars? Do they all do the same thing, or are they different in certain ways?

What's that on the front edge that you keep hitting

What was the song/ artist?

That Hammond has a great sound. In comparison, my C3 sounds terribly dull :-(

I notice you make no mention of the Leslie speaker which I can see you are manipulating with your left hand.

UHL XV4 :-) Best clone!

In my opinion you're a little too rough on the organ sliding like that. Maybe you should check out how Nat King Cole did it, and he slid on piano keys waaay more. smoother.

You never said who the band was that you were playing the song of. So who is that?

Mr Little. You have and continue to teach a dumb drummer so much about this. Thank you.

cool so more drawbars more prescense , less drawbars more subtle , some drawbars give more bass and some more trebble , thanks for the simple explanation mate , cheers 🥸