The

HAMMOND B-3

Fall Semester Class VIII

Tom Brooks - Instructor / Clinician

The
Original
Rock
&
Roll
BEAST

The

HAMMOND B-3

Take it apart:
Start up switches
Swell and Great Manuals + Pedals
Drawbars
Preset Switches
Percussion
Chorus-Vibrato
Volume Pedal
The Leslie Speaker

Great Moments
in B-3 History
Keith Emerson
Hoedown
From Aaron Copland

Take it apart:
S

Spencer Davis
Group
Green Eyed Lady

Siberian Khatru
Yes
Deep Purple
Hush
Magic Carpet Ride

The
HAMMOND
B-3

The DRAWBARS

:60 second Crash Course

on Pipe Organ Theory

:60 second Crash Course on

The Harmonic Series

Now make it RAAWK!

The

HAMMOND B-3

The

HAMMOND B-3

The
HAMMOND
B-3

Rock & Roll

Drawbars

A great place to start

Heres what I do...

EVERYBODY
PRAISE THE LORD
Lincoln Brewster
Hammond B-3 organ

The
HAMMOND
B-3

The DRAWBARS

:60 second Crash Course

on Pipe Organ Theory

:60 second Crash Course on

The Harmonic Series

Now make it RAAWK!

The

HAMMOND B-3

Pipe Organ Theory

An 8 foot pipe is the basic Fundamental pitch
A 4 foot pipe sounds an octave higher
A 16 foot pipe sounds an octave lower
The WHITE Drawbars are the Fundamental and the
octaves above it
The BROWN Drawbars are below the Fundamental
The BLACK Drawbars are odd harmonics
(octave + 5th / 2 octaves + 5th / 2 octaves + 3rd)

Two 61-note Manuals

+ Pedals
SWELL--->
GREAT--->
PEDAL--->
*The SWELL Manual is on top
*The GREAT Manual is below
*The PEDALS are on the floor (removable)

Four Sets of Drawbars

*SWELL - B flat = far left Drawbars

*SWELL - B natural = mid-left Drawbars

(top)

SWELL--->
GREAT--->

2 Pedal
Drawbars
in the center

(bottom)

*GREAT - B flat = mid-right Drawbars

*GREAT - B natural = far right Drawbars

The

HAMMOND B-3

Take it apart:
S

SWELL
B flat =
far left
Drawbars
B natural =
mid-left
Drawbars

(with percussion)
2 Pedal Drawbars
in the center

GREAT
B flat =
mid-right
Drawbars
B natural =
far right
Drawbars

The
HAMMOND
B-3
So how do you turn
this Beast on?!?!?

The Start-Run switches

Start er Up ! !
In the upper right corner find 2
switches labeled START and RUN
Push and HOLD the START
switch for 8 seconds (listen)
Keep holding START; push and
HOLD RUN for 4 seconds
Release both switches, count to 10,
HAVE FUN!

The
HAMMOND
B-3
The PRE-SET Keys
The REVERSE color
keys at the far left of
each manual

These are actually

SWITCHES (not keys)

The
HAMMOND
B-3

Chorus & Vibrato

The dial offers 3 levels

On-Off switch for each
manual

Loud-Soft Volume switch

The
HAMMOND
B-3

Percussion

On-Off switch
Loud-Soft Volume
Fast-Slow Decay
2nd or 3rd harmonic

The
HAMMOND
B-3
The Leslie Speaker
Spinning Speaker
2 speeds
Tube Amp Distortion
Braking-Acceleration

The
HAMMOND
B-3

Leslie switches

Choral = slow
Tremolo = fast
Can be a foot switch

The
HAMMOND
B-3

Volume Pedal

Expression-Power
Leslie foot switch
shown

Heres what I do...

Graffiti Skies
Israel Houghton

The
HAMMOND
B-3

More about
DRAWBARS

The Harmonic Series

If 4 instruments walked into
the room and you closed
your eyes and they all played
the same note...

The

HAMMOND B-3

Heres what I do...

Sing Sing Sing

Chris Tomlin

IF YOU ONLY
GET 1 THING
get THIS!

You can do 98% of everything

you need to do...

on the Top Keyboard

(the SWELL Manual)

using the B natural switch

(the mid-left set of Drawbars)

The

HAMMOND B-3

Start Here:
Swell (top) Manual only
Mid-left Drawbars
Preset Switch B
Percussion Off
Chorus C-1
Leslie Slow
Make it RAAWK!

Heres what I do...

All to You
Love the Lord
Lincoln Brewster

"ALL TO YOU"
Rhythm

Arranged by Tom Brooks

WorshipAlliance.com

BPM = 107 *Driving Rock

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Hammond B-3 Review

Modern Worship / Rock / Gospel - YOU CAN DO THIS!
The Leslie Speaker - Chorale-Tremolo = slow-fast
The Drawbars - Harmonics / Partials
The Reverse Key Preset switches at the left
Chorus / Vibrato dial-switches
Percussion settings
Emulations versus The Real Thing - less $$ than you think
***Everybody needs to play The Beast before you leave!

The
HAMMOND
B-3

The KEYS

Slip-Slidin Around
Gliss up /Leslie accel /

Volume swell up into the

Chorus

Slide off for impact

STOP / Leslie Brake /
Drawbar diminuendo

Heres what I do...

Today is the Day

Lincoln Brewster

"TODAY IS THE DAY"

Rhythm
BPM = 120
INTRO
Rhythm

=FULL DRIVING ROCK GROOVE=

B7

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R.S.

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R.S.

Lincoln Brewster

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VS 1 5
VS 2
R.S.

***2 Bars of
1 Drum build up>>>

Arranged by Tom Brooks

WorshipAlliance.com

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>Kick it up a bit...

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Resource Page:
You can download this presentation from
our website - TomBrooksMusic.com
You can study in more detail using our Workbook THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC (also on DVD today!)
You can download these Music Examples
from our iMix on iTunes entitled,
THE LANGUAGE OF MUSIC
You can email me with questions at...
TomBrooks@WorshipAlliance.com

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Practical Music Theory
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by Tom Brooks

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