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What's Jimmy Smith's setting for left hand bass?


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How does Jimmy Smith set the drawbars, percussion, chorus, etc. for the sound he uses to walk bass with his left hand?

 

I know the right hand settings from Dasher's site

http://www.thesoundsmith.com/private/hammond3.htm

Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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OK, I found this

http://www.thesoundsmith.com/private/hammond4.htm

 

But what about the "Percussion, Soft, Short, Third Harmonic. V/C" settings for left hand bass?

 

"The Bass Line

Virtually all jazz organists play the bass line with their left hand on the lower keyboard. The registration is 80 8000 000, with the second drawbar sometimes pulled from 1 to 4, for added growl. (Gospel players play bass on the upper manual, go figure...) The pedals are played (on medium to up-tempo tunes) as percussive accent, either on the note being played with the left hand (moving line) or on one pedal matching the key of the music. This is very stacatto, so the net effect is not that of a note from the bass pedal, but rather a chopping, punchy sound which adds grit to the line played on the left hand. Ballads are different, and the pedals may come into play as actual notes."

Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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But what about the "Percussion, Soft, Short, Third Harmonic. V/C" settings for left hand bass?

Are they of consideration, or are they the same as for the right hand register?

Harry was the Technical Editor of Mark Levine's "The Jazz Theory Book" and helped develop "The Jazz Piano Book." Find 850 of Harry's solo piano arrangements of standards and jazz tutorials at https://www.patreon.com/HarryLikas 
 

 

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Originally posted by Jazz+:

But what about the "Percussion, Soft, Short, Third Harmonic. V/C" settings for left hand bass?

Are they of consideration, or are they the same as for the right hand register?

Percussion isn't available on the lower manual of my C3. Is it available on yours?

 

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Originally posted by Jazz+:

But what about the "Percussion, Soft, Short, Third Harmonic. V/C" settings for left hand bass?

Are they of consideration, or are they the same as for the right hand register?

The Lower Manual does not have percussion on it only the upper Bb preset.

 

As far as lower bass goes most younger cats like Joey D and Tony Monaco use 848000000.

Asked him right after a set.

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