Cutover Blues - Nord C1 Hammond B-3 Organ Clone Clavia
Channel: rounder2u
Date: 10/12/2011

This is my composition 'Cutover Blues'.
Intro: Four bars of the bass line pattern.
Chorus 1: The main riff/melody riff.
Chorus 2: Riff rhythm chorus. Last four bars with inverted power chords.

Chorus 3: The main riff octaved.

Chorus 4: Riff rhythm chorus with pedal tone. Last four bars with inverted power chords.

Chorus 5: Rhythm chorus with anticipation.

Chorus 6: The solo starts, deep down. After a while a deep 'machine gun' tremolo, and a two manual slide (up on the upper manual and down again on the lower). Using triplets during the last four bars.

Chorus 7: A chorded chorus is the main idea here. The chord is an inverted Dm7. I start the chorus with an upwards 'fingertip' slide. The next slide is a palm slide, down and an U-turn and up again to the inverted Dm7. A cross-rhythm figure on the sub-dominant. Last four bars of the chorus is built with syncopated phrases.

Chorus 8: The solo switches to the lower manual. Kind of melodic solo chorus.

Chorus 9: Call & response during the first four bars. After a few phrases all the way up to the highest note.

Chorus 10: Rhythm chorus with anticipation again.

Chorus 11: A four bar phrase repeated three times. Quite low in the register to get a full tone.

Chorus 12: A few phrases. Non-tonal slides and 'thumps' added.

Chorus 13: Two small phrases alternated during eigth bars. During the dominant, the trademark jazz organ triplet tremolo.

Chorus 14: Cross-rhythms and triplet tremolo. A diagonal slide from the upper to the lower manual. Last four bars with a pedal tone. Ends with a long downwards slide.

Chorus 15: Calming down with the rhythm chorus (the third time). The one with anticipation.

Chorus 16: A short riff, repeated. First four bars with a middle finger slide downwards between the riff. I'm using only one finger and a light touch on the keys during slides, to be sure to activate the Percussion effect for most of the keys. During bar 5 to 8 I'm doing a slide from the upper to the lower manual. During bar 9 to 12 I'm doing non-tonal keyboard 'thumps' on the lower manual.

Chorus 17: The same riff as in the chorus before, but this time with a pedal tone. First four bars with slides between the repeated riff. Then two chorded variants.

Chorus 18: Returning to the melody riff.

The ending: I can see that the ending takes over a minute... After a few rounds of the dominant, sub-dominant and tonic (bar 9 to 12 in the blues progression) the left hand rests on the low D, and I slowly build up a Cmaj9 (over the D bass). I keep the bass and change the right hand to a, well, let's call it a 'Dm6sus4add9'. I'm open for another chord name suggestion here :-) Then I slide the 'Dm6sus4add9' to the lower manual. The left hand is playing a repeated phrase deep down on the upper manual, and finally the song ends with a low D on the upper manual and an inverted D power chord on the lower manual.


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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. Chorus C2. Percussion On, Soft, Fast, Third.
Lower 80 8000 000. No Chorus.
Bass lower manual 80.
Leslie simulator Stop position.
Equalizer Treble -5dB, Mid -5dB, Bass 0dB.
Overdrive/Drive Off.
Reverb Hall, Soft, 40%.
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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