Organists (B3) Help a Brother Out.

I'm hoping someone might be able to chime in and help me out with an organ technique question.

I'm a piano player who has been playing more and more rock organ over the past 4 or 5 years. I'm reasonably good but and experienced organist will pick me out as a piano player pretty quick.

Anyway....I'm trying to make that organ chucka-chucka sound that you year a lot (helpful description eh?). The two most obvious examples I can give is Deep Purple's hush (about 20 seconds in - mainish organ riff) and the intro to wacha want by the beastie boys. It also shows up in most steppenwolf songs. Usually a few chuckka chucka type sounds followed by a chord.

I have been trying to reproduce this sounds with the swell pedal but have not had much luck. I have also tried to reproduce it but cutting out the sound with the drawbars with no luck.

Am I even remotley on the right track?

FWIW I'm using a Korg CX-3.

I'm not to familiar with the others but Steppenwolf and Deep Purple was a distorted B3.... a "rock organ" patch has that percussive attack that you might be looking.... I haven't really used much organ since returning to recording over a year ago.... but I remember that was a patch in the GM sound bank.... and getting that sound also probably includes a few organ player tricks like slapping the keys...as mentioned above.

That's a two-handed technique, either playing the same chord an octave apart or playing the same chord in the same octave on upper and lower manuals, and alternating between hands.

A major difference between organ and piano is that with a piano you get the same attack for each note, even if it's a sustained arpeggio. With the B3 percussion effect, you only get it when it's preceded by silence, so those classic chords and lead lines are all distinguished by discrete pauses before each note. Think Green Eyed Lady.

ORGANized trio + Amplitube = instant Deep Purple!

or if you actually have a Hammond B3, run it thru a Marshall tube combo.

I'm no keyboardist but I sure like the chunking stuff that Jimmy Smith does...not sure it's something you're talking about but felt like mentioning him to ya.