Snarl and Bark Blues - Nord C1 Hammond B-3 Organ Clone Clavia
Channel: rounder2u
Date: 2010-02-14

This is my composition 'Snarl and Bark Blues'. This 12 bar blues is about a dog grooving around and doing it's thing.
Intro: Eight bars of the bass line with added lower keyboard non-tonal 'thumps' to get the groove going.
Chorus 1: A Snarl and Bark rhythm chorus. The first right hand single note in every bar is the snarl. The short percussive chord that follows is the bark.
The chords I'm using are in F a F6/Eb, in Bb a B9/D and when in C a C9sus4/E.

Chorus 2: Sixteenth notes riffs with a few non-tonal slides added, from the upper to the lower manual.

Chorus 3: A chorded variation of Chorus 2. This time the slides are downwards glissandos on the upper manual.

Chorus 4: The Snarl and Bark rhythm chorus.

Chorus 5: A sixteenth note riff repeated during the full chorus.

Chorus 6: A phrase of 12 eight notes repeated 8 times in a row. Eight times during twelve bars gives the effect of a crossrythm.

Chorus 7: The Snarl and Bark rhythm chorus.

Chorus 8: A sixteenth note phrase repeated and octaved lower and lower. I throw in a short palm glissande with a two-note tremolo before going to the sub-dominant (Bb), and a short 'machine gun' one-note tremolo before going to the dominant (C).

Chorus 9: As anticipation before the chorus I do a downwards and upwards palm staccato glissando. A two bar offbeat phrase is repeated during the full chorus.

Chorus 10: The Snarl and Bark rhythm chorus.

Chorus 11: The chorus alternates between chords with a slide to the lower manual, and pedal tone soloing. I play both 'over' and 'under' the F pedal tone.

Chorus 12: The Snarl and Bark rhythm chorus.

The ending: The left hand is doing the work here as I'm holding a F6/Eb chord with the right hand all the time. 
First I switch the Leslie sim to Fast with the left hand little finger. When the Leslie is picking up speed I play a little phase that ends with a downwards index finger glissando and a two-note tremolo. Then a downwards glissando turned to a long upwards palm glissando sliding from the lower to the upper manual, ending with a two note tremolo in the highest register (the C note). Then a slide to the highest C on the lower manual, then a long downwards palm staccato glissando that changes to a slowing palm glissando. The song comes to a full stop with an octaved F.

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The organ is a Clavia Nord C1 - a Hammond B-3 clonewheel organ.

Nord C1 Registrations and Settings:
Upper 88 8000 000. No Chorus. Percussion On, Soft, Fast, Third.
Lower 80 8000 000. No Chorus.
Bass lower manual 80.
Leslie simulator Stop position, except for during the ending when it is switched to Fast position.
Equalizer Off.
Overdrive/Drive Off.
Reverb Hall, Soft, 50%.
Tonewheel mode Vintage 2 (high level of tonewheel crosstalk and cable leakage artefacts).

The sound is recorded line out from the organ. No additional external effects, external amplifiers or speakers are used.
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