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Summary: While playing an organ it is important to think and look ahead for the next picture chord to play while playing. Discover how this experienced organ player was able to paint a mental picture while playing the organ in order to become a better musician in this free video.
Geoffrey Killebrew is the Music Director for Grace Christian Center Church in Worcester Massachusetts. He has been playing the Hammond organ and keyboards for 8 years. While Killebrew...read more
"Now this clip, I called spot your picture, it's more of an idea for you, an opportunity for you to find something within the keyboard. Some picture here that's going to help you to remember where your keys are or remember where your chord is. Like I said, you can either look at them at the keyboard as being right down here or back on the top or three keys here and two; three black keys, two white keys, three and that can be your basis for your picture. Or if you were to play, be playing a chord, you can remember what it look like, or I know there was a space in the middle, there's a space in between that chord. Or if I was playing something like, something like that or it kind of look like I had a slanted effect to it, that's the way that it look. So use, kind of look at it as a picture, don't get bug down and necessary where the keys are, the note is, but look at the picture, that's another way, another technique of playing by ear. Or using your senses to play, is to look at the picture, create your own picture; whether a picture is suspended or brought down close or if it's one hand or two hand, kind of get a mental picture of what it was that you saw, what it was that you saw somebody else do, something that you felt yourself do as you play, that'll help you play by ear too. Make up your own picture."
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