From gabru@comsec.net Mon Sep 09 10:10:10 2013
Subject:Re: Hammond SK1 or Nord CD2?

Wow Simon, you just described exactly the conditions under which I became a rock keyboardist. There were none in my school and so at 14 or 15 I built a VOX Jaguar from a Heathkit. I listened to a lot of music and copied it, watched Woodstock a bunch of times and was instantly in demand as a keyboard player. It was easy with no competition. I never did take formal lessons. I did take music theory in school which helped. Later on I picked up the guitar (they seemed to get more attention from the girls than keyboard players☺). I was fortunate to have played with a lot of good players over the years and learned a lot from them as well as the other keyboardist I got to know. I was usually nowhere as good as the people I played with but I found that the better the band, the better I played as a result. I don’t really play much these days but had literally decades of fun and some great memories of those years.

Cheers,

Gary

From: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Simon Beck
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 8:08 AM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Re: [CWSG] Hammond SK1 or Nord CD2?


Do what I did when I was 14 or 15 - press down keys until it sounds like the record!

I'm being a little bit glib, but it's what we did 35 or so years ago if we didn't have music lessons. Copy what you hear, and talk to other, more experienced players. At my school there were a lot of guitarists, a couple of bass players and drummers and no keyboard players apart from classical piano students. I was the first rock keyboardist at my school in about 5 years!

Good luck!

Simon "Butterfingers" Beck
London, UK

No, like I said, I know how to work the organ: turn on / off, certain registrations (drawbars), and how to work the Leslie. I do not know how to play the thing!

-Ryan