Books for Hammond Technique?

[MrPillow]

The title is pretty self explanitory. I've never dabbled in proper organ technique, or any proper technique for that matter, but I'd really like to learn at least the basics of good organ playing.

[ElwynJ]

Two books to get started:

i) The Hammond Organ: Beauty in the B by Mark Vail

ii) Hammond Organ Complete by Dave Limina (Berklee Press)

i) Gives a full history of the Hammond (+ Leslie) but has chapters on Hammond Technique with notated examples. Unfortunately the links to MIDI/MP3 files no longer seem avialable.

ii) But this one comes with a CD of around 30 sets of tutorials each consisting of track 'a' (has organ) track 'b' (no organ - you play along) - its a structured hammond course.......

Hope this helps....:biggrin:

ElwynJ