Playing Organ With Hands & Feet: Balance in Gospel Music

Series Summary

Because of its creative uses of verbal and written communication, music is one of the most interesting forms of expression that exists in the world today. Music is unique in that it facilitates a special conversation between the musician and the audience that exceeds mere words. Music creates a connection between people that is not limited by time, distance or relationship; a song can speak to anyone, anywhere. That’s why music continually changes and grows, is still loved and still proliferates. Music is a living language as well as a crucial part of church music in countries all over the world. And no instrument is more important to church music than the organ. In this free organ lesson video, an experienced organ player explains how to play bass lines as well as chords, progressions and bounce tempos with hands as well as feet. He demonstrates various versions of chromatic bass lines and how to play the chromatics of each of these versions. This expert also demonstrates how to experiment to come up with unique bass lines for the organ.

Video Transcript

"So once again in this series we are going to be combining the right hand and left hand the feet altogether to create the Gospel balance. Now a lot of these clips, you can translate to just piano if you wan to but on the organ man it is such a dynamic sound and it takes a lot of coordination so that is why I want to take this time and go over with you and just show you what I know, okay. So here we are in the key of A-flat, some of your combinations will sound like this."