beginner

[jay20021]

i am beginning to learn the organ. any tips on what i should do? im a director and i also know the natural scale in almost all keys

[Cm9_Ed]

I'm in the same boat! Can anybody help us get started. I need help with drawbar settings. If anyone can give some tips like a setting for fast songs and a good setting for worship songs etc.... It would be greatly appreciated.  

[aljeres]

I'm in the same boat! Can anybody help us get started. I need help with drawbar settings. If anyone can give some tips like a setting for fast songs and a good setting for worship songs etc.... It would be greatly appreciated.  

well i figure i would respond to both of you at the same time! simple is the key to success! keep it simple and the difficult will come along at the same time and over take ya..........lol

play on the lower register for now and just get used to playing with feet and hand or hands first.............this alone is a daughting task for beginners.......

a good setting for fast praise songs is.....pull first four drawbars out; but at a wedge type of way.....from left to right - 8-7-6-5
then pull your first two drawbars out from the right - 8-5...

you can also just pull all the white drawbars out - 8-8-8-8

for slow songs push the first white drawbar all the way in from the right! for both settings.....

now for your foot, just do in the foot, what you do in the lefthand for now!

play on soft mode for quiet times.
loud mode for fast songs.


chk out my site for some more tips on organ!

[Cm9_Ed]

I am getting better at the pedals. I can jam a slow song, but when it comes to shout music or congregational praise (God is a good God, Battlefield, In the moring when I rise etc...) I am stuck with playing the bass in the left hand. I am used to playing the piano, so when I have to do this, the sound is not as full. I think my voicing is the problem.