Hi Brian,
It was all written out on the music, so no arranging on my part.
Glad you enjoyed it.
Hugh,
I remember when I lived in Africa that there was a snow fall on the Drakensberg Mountains.
My next door neighbour drove all the way from Zululand with her family to see it.
Brian

You have both really confused me, It sounds like God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen to me. In fact I
looked out the music and followed along with Brian's version and it appeared to be note for note correct.
Same with Pentanonix, different presentation but the same tune.
Brian

I normally try to listen to everything and comment. I consider the few people who post regularly as friends in music and so I like to offer a comment or two. I wish more people would post their music but as there are so few of us who do, I prefer at least to acknowledge their efforts. I personally e...

Thank you Brian, It would be easy to lose the timing of this piece so I put the emphasis on the pedals to try to highlight
the unusual phrasing and to keep the timing correct. Keep your eyes on the counter and you will see what I mean.
Brian

I thought I would be first to post but Hugh beat me to it. :) I came across a floppy disc with organ settings by Tony Black and I thought they would sound quite nice for Christmas music so I looked out a Christmas song book and had a quick run through of Ding Dong Merrily On High. N0d9pZiKwxY

Hi Hugh,
A lovely rendition, it sounded like you were enjoying playing that one. It flowed along
so beautifully.
Brian

OK, who's UP for a Knees UP ?

Hi Brian, Years ago, my hobby was writing songs but I usually used a guitar as I found strumming out a rhythym the most convenient way to do it. The most I do these days is to quickly write out a couple of verses for practicing blues in different keys. underneath, G blues and Bb blues. LbXoJMWzJ60 6...

Hugh and Brian,
I think it is some kind of tarantula. They eat crickets and locusts.
My son says it won't need feeding for about another four months.
He used to keep snakes and they ate mice.
You buy them frozen which he used to call "mice-icles"

The things we do for our children, even the adult one's.
We are looking after four of his spiders.

Over on the Musical Observations board, in the theory section," Peter A " has put an excellent post "How to transpose your music into another key" using the Roman numeral system: Do a right-click to open this up in a New Tab http://www.tierce-de-picardie.co.uk/viewforum.php?f=322...

Hugh has asked me to redo the above video as it is poor quality, I will get round to it soon but I want to press on with the following. I am putting a tutorial together to demonstrate how position1 and position 2 can be used to make left hand accompaniment more interesting, I am looking at 12 bar bl...

Hi Ken, Very interesting article, auto accompianiment or not, it doesn't matter. Infact, most of our members play keyboards or play organs in a keyboard style. I sometimes like to use my Ringway's auto accompaniment but along with the pedals. I have heard a fair amount of the KN 7000 and I like it a...

A little more on your excellent post Peter. Of course you are perfectly correct when you state that Upper case = Major, and lower case =minor. FOR CONVENIENCE, I normally just type the numbers in upper case. I will try to clarify my reasons. In many tunes, not all chords are diatonic. If the chord i...

Hi Hugh, A good article, I do in the main go along with Andy's post but I think that you are right, you have to experiment to get the sound you want. There are no hard and fast rules. I think pop tunes generally are better with triads and dom 7 chords other than that, I normally play four note left ...

Hi Peter,
A very good opening contribution, very informative.
I can only think of two occasions when a tune doesn't end with the key chord.
1, Tierce-de-picardie, when the last chord played is a major chord when the tune is in a minor key.
2, Tango usually finishes with a Dom 7 chord.
Brian

Hi Peter, The GA 3 is a fantastic organ, just listen to John Bowdler on his. I find travelling very tiring these days and I look enviously at a lot of bargains on ebay. Most of them are just too far away. It costs around £400 to move one up from Southern England to Scotland. Not only that, I would w...

Hi don,
very nicely played, lovely waltz.
Brian

I never had a good method of counting crotchet triplets, they always gave me trouble.
Here is a very good video on the subject.

Hugh, I dont know what happened, I was sure that I had embedded it. maybe just overtired
If you would rather embed it, that is fine.
Brian

Keyboard Skills Pro. Tom Horton, one of my favourite organists. (Lowrey Demonstrator) has a new series about Theatre organs. Here he is showing us how to set up theatre registrations. If this is of benefit to you, please subscribe to his channel. http://www.ar-group.org/Files/TomHortonTutorial1.jpg ...

Hi Hugh, I saw Julian Bradley's video and although I like him, I avoided looking at this one. It takes years to learn to read music. Think of all the keys, major and minor and all of the the different key signatures etc. There is reading and there is what could be described as decoding. I do a bit o...

Back in 2015, I filmed a couple of tunes at the Blackpool Tower Ballroom and posted them on You Tube. I just recieved a very blunt message from one of the organists. I had not seen any signs requesting not to video. I answered him back with a similar tone to the one he used to me. I did however writ...

I found this on English Idioms.
When the words, “Rabbit, Rabbit” are spoken to any person on the first of the month, for the rest of the month the speaker receives the luck of all who heard the phrase.
Brian

Hi Don,
Great classical organ, superbly played.
Brian

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Hi Ken,
a lovely piece performed with skill and feeling.
Brian

Hi Ken,
Chopin. Nocturne in E Flat. Very well played, very nice.
Brian

Here is Chuck Leavell explaining how it's done.

When I get calls from firms at odd hours, I tell them that I am busy but if they would care to give me their home phone number
I will call them later on in the evening. Just trying to make a point.
Brian

Hi Hugh, An interesting topic, I have a few things I would like to say on the matter. I think some tunes definitely sound better in some keys than others. I think some keys are brighter and some keys are darker. I can't tell what key of a piece of music is in but if I hear it in a couple of differen...

Hi Ken,
Very nice a beautiful piece of music. I think it was by Chopin though.
Brian

I got a Hammond organ to day, I have all of the sounds I want now.
Here is my music room.