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I Found a Million Dollar Baby

This old-time favorite is played on an old-time Hammond B-3 Organ with no reverberation effects, no digital upgrades or modifications just the organ and an old-time Leslie speaker. Play a basic organ like this and keeping it from sounding choppy is part of the art expressed by mel and this unique craft. I was taught by one of the last great original theater organists of the silent motion picture era...the famous Bill Dalton. Bill Dalton used to make me practice without ant gimmicks, shortcuts or cheats. No reverb, no rhythm units, no sustain, nothing that would make you sound better than you actually are. It required lots of practice to make a very dead sounding instrument like one of these B-3's sound very smooth. Smooth playing has always been my primary goal. It is more difficult than playing rapid riffs and licks like so many B-3 players. Bill always told me not to rush. It is more difficult to play slowly, deliberately and with no mistakes, than to rush like you are in a horse race. I challenge you to find B-3 players who play like I do. I strive to hold down common tones and always keep something sustained with either fingers or feet. Sustaining common tones, means that chords don't jump around but are played with minimal movements, often only moving only one or two notes. When one hand is adjusting drawbars or changing the speed of the Leslie, the other hand is playing smoothly so that no unwanted staccato occurs. Bill Dalton used to make me practice songs so that I could play melody, harmony and rhythm all in one hand. I still often practice new songs this way. Now that I am in my mid-seventies my arthritic fingers don't always cooperate. My purpose is to not let this smooth style of playing disappear. I want to inspire and challenge other organ players to continue the tradition of playing smoothly without any artificial enhancements.