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My Favourite Organ Improvisation I’ve Ever Played (story in description)

Dear reader, I have recorded hundreds of organ improvisations, I play them all the time. I find it so freeing, so expressive, evocative of my world within. Playing the organ is like having an orchestra connected to your limbs, and I feel a deep kinship to the instrument. I only started learning about two, three years ago, initially out of necessity. My local churches needed organists, and I thought it would be a fun challenge to learn it (I already play several instruments, primarily guitar, and studied music, mostly composition and harmony, at University). Therefore, I started teaching myself, and quickly fell in love with the instrument and its potential for expression. For these reasons, I have chosen to primarily score my photography videos with my organ improvisations; they just marry so well with the feelings and emotions I am trying to convey with my photography: my perspective on the world. This particular improvisation is my favourite, it feels deeply special to me, as if I tapped into an energy from some higher power that guided me through it. It’s from a little over a year ago, a very interesting and deeply important time in my life. Whilst I do not wish to go into too much detail, I was experiencing deep love and excitement in this moment, almost unbelievable luck. For whatever reason, during that night in the cold, dark church I felt compelled, almost urged to light a candle, to turn off all the lights in the church and to play almost blind, letting the dark quietude of the hauntingly empty church guide my inspiration. Musing on an ascending chord progression in E major, I just ‘let loose’, and this was the result. And this is how I improvise on the organ. I am by no means the most technically gifted. Far from it, I am still very much learning and, if anything, I should be practicing more. Nonetheless, this is how the music comes about for my videos; I channel a feeling into what I feel to be corresponding harmonies and melodic ideas, and just ‘let loose’. If this was interesting, do let me know and I will happily discuss more of my love of the organ :) perhaps I’ll even post some of my compositions at some point. Kindest regards, Harry Coates P.s. the thumbnail is a photo of me on a disposable cam playing a lovely little chamber organ in one of my local churches 😊 . The organ in the video is the basic 2 manual electric I practice on. #organmusic #organimprovisation #improvisation