Chords for Booker T - Time is Tight - how to get the authentic tones on Hammond C3 organ

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[G] Okay, this is a tune called Time is Tight, another Buckethead hit in the mid-60s. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ _ That's a couple of verses of that for you.
_ Very cool tune.
He uses _ swell a lot in that.
I'm trying to hold down a bassline on this to give it a bit of context.
He wouldn't have been. _ _
Duck Dunn does a pretty good job of that in Book of Seen MG's. _ _
So on that first melody line where he comes in there. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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What _ _ he's doing together is using the swell [G] and the break switch there on the floor.
So stop to fast.
He's going stop to fast a lot.
And using that width at the same time as the swell.
So he kind of teases in all these lines.
So the melody lines, they come in, they sort of ghost in, and they stay there, and then they ghost out in conjunction with that Leslie thing changing.
And that's a hell of a big part of playing organ, the two things working together like that.
And there's no right way to do it.
There's no right time to change the speed.
_ It's taste.
The whole thing is taste and using your own judgment.
So to give you one example of using the foot switch for the fast and stop in conjunction with the swell pedal to [C] get that effect.
_ I'll give you one of the riffs he uses in between the change, between the one and the four.
He _ _ uses_
_ Sounds alright on its own, but when you kind of tease it in, _ _ _ _ _ suddenly it's a Hammond part.
Suddenly it's got that thing.
_ _ So he uses that a lot with the melody.
_ Maybe on the top. _ _ _
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_ [G] _ _ way we're playing this tune here, we're giving it a bass line.
Mainly I'm doing that to put it in context for you because on the track, [N] the bass player would be playing the bass line,
and the booker T is just looking after the organ.
_ _ But it's a good chance to show you what a bass line setting might be.
And if you are on your own at home, it sounds more like a tune when you play a bass line.
So a classic bass line.
At the minute I'm on this _ B preset up here.
So that's this set of drawbars on the bottom manual.
_ And I've got all the way out there on the bottom one.
All the way out there.
And depending on your taste, _ some degree of that.
I'll just give it a little bit.
_ _ Very simple bass line on this. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Yeah, obviously what you can't control is if you're intending to swell in with a melody or a riff or a lick or whatever,
_ your bass line's going to swell as well.
_ And that's not ideally what you want.
So that kind of really expressive playing is best done when you're not doing a bass line.
_ _ _ You know, _ _ _ you don't want the whole thing swelling like that.
You really want to be able to do that separately.
_ But in terms of playing on your own, that's the [F] compromise you're going to have to make. _ _ _ _ _
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