I might be wrong, but I believe the vibrato of an actual Hammond
organ is made by a horn inside of an accompanying Leslie speaker
spinning at a different frequency than a rotating chamber that bounces
around / amplifies the sound...like a guitar body. You can use the
keyboard's turnwheel to activate or deactivate this effect.
I've wanted to learn how to play accompanying organ with the volume
pedal for a long time, so I figured instead of learning another song I'd
just make up my own - finally. I thought writing my own song would be
this big occasion, but really I just had to learn an organ song within a
week:
- guitar - 30 seconds
- melody - 30 mins
- harmony / counter melody - 1 hour
- lyrics - 2 days?
- organ - 5 days
Lyrics were annoying because its just hard to decide on the what words
to use only to later discover that the natural stresses of the syllables
wont quite gel with the stresses of the melody you're fooling around with OR
you begin changing the melodic idea to accommodate the foreign sounding
words - then I get stuck going back and forth forever. I mean
eventually you can get away with mumbling a word here and there or just
saying fuck it they're gonna go where I want them to go, but I just
didn't want to do that - I wanted some kind of natural gellingness. Then I kinda
realized how certain cliche phrases and rhymes just sit easy in the
mouth - and thats what actually propelled the work forward because I
knew I had serious heavy lifting to do w/ the keyboard part. I can
kinda see how outsourcing lyrics to someone else would be useful because
its just freaking hard to argue with yourself.
Take aways
- Mixing Pro tip - recording with effects live is way more fun than
adding reverb and stuff afterwards. Messing with EQ while you're
recording and seeing how the compressor works live are good lessons.
You
also don't need to sing as loud to get a good capture - I recommend it.
Songwriting Pro tip - Its hard to reinvent 5 wheels at once, so just
choose one thing to accomplish and don't feel bad about leveraging
cliche / familiar ideas at first
- The videos were loading too slowly, so I exported at very low quality in order to avoid buffering hell online
- Lyricism is an entire field of its own - being sensitive to all the
syllables and rhymes and fricatives and even just the attention grabbing
nature of uncommon words really demands significant mindshare...in my
opinion.
Ishida