Hammond B3 Organ Lesson: Percussion Settings

Video Transcript

"The point of all these, as we may have covered before is to shape the sound. All these different controls. One of the controls that, one of the tools that we use to shape the sound is using the percussion settings, which are over here. To get to the percussion, you push down the first key here, and that brings you to these set of draw bars, and you can shape the percussion sound here. So, for instance, let's say, we start that. That...that's where you hear the percussion. Before you hear any pitch, you hear percussion. You can turn it on or off. That turns it off, now you've turned it on. Normal is...it makes a bright sound. When you turn it to soft, it softens it up. You can make the decate fast, or slow. It elongates the note. And over here, it just....it controls the harmonics, whether you have thirds or seconds on that. (plays)"