Organ Lesson Memory Aids: Watching Others Play

Video Transcript

"Now in this clip I'm going to be talking about using your sight. Now just the other day I was at a concert and I was watching my friend play the organ. I was actually on the key board and he was playing this chord and I was like man what is that and I couldn't really hear his organ because we were in a concert setting and it was in a big large room so I couldn't really hear what he was doing. So I looked over to see what he was playing so using your sight on what a chord looks like on what someone is playing, that's going to help you play by ear too. A lot of times people may not feel like or aren't kind enough to actually tell you what they were playing. Even when I was coming up here at a concert I would stand over them and if they don't want to show me or actually tell me verbally or verbalize what they are playing, at least if you are here I'm going to watch you. So it's o'kay to watch, pay attention to what their hands are doing. So for instance if he were playing something like this and I saw that the chord I wanted was I saw him doing that with his hands so using what you see is going to help you too. So using what you see."