Toccata & Fugue in D minor
I have been playing piano for about 5 years, mostly self taught & with only 2 years of formal training. I had my first experience w/ the Hammond organ in 2004 @ a church I used to attend (I have since been playing @ another church for what will be 3 years this Fall). After having a solo piano album on Itunes U.S. store ("Memories of You", which is all original material), and not having any sales for a year, I emailed tunecore & had them take the album down, but a thought occured to me: after finishing re-recording the album the way I should have in the first place and not rushing things (this time I'll try selling physical CDs), that I would love my next project to be an album mix of hymns & classical organ music.
To this point, I was listening to the track "Toccata - Carpimus noctem" from Trans Siberian Orchestra's CD (I think it's their newest), Night Castle. Is this tune of theirs not based on Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D minor? Whether yes or no, it's the piece that when I hear it the organ makes me think of Halloween night.
Getting back to my afforementioned Hammond experience (sorry to be all over the map tonight)... I know I'm probably gonna incur a lot of flack from most here, but I cannot stand traditional pipe organs.. in fact, the Toccata Halloween tune is one that I can actually stand listening to & forget that it is most likely a real pipe organ playing the tune.
This is one that I would love to include on my next project. How difficult (or easy), is this Toccata tune to play on a Hammond? The part where the organ seems to have only a few notes pressed and go up by octaves, from 16' to 1' and everything (or so it sounds) in between at first sounds rather easy to duplicate on a Hammond, but how about it, really? I know that the drawbars mix the tones of the organ and that the footages refer back to a pipe organs pipes -- I think of it as generally going back to octaves.. 16' being 2 octaves below whatever note(s) are played on the keyboard.
If not the Toccata, how about most all other classical repertoire? Keep in mind that my experience has so far been on the C3 Hammond but I aim to someday own a Hammond Pro XK system (XK3c & lower manual w/ 1 octave pedals, plus some extras.. basically a B3 without the weight... easy to transport).
Any advice on all this would be greatly helpful... especially if there would be differences between playing the rep. on a C3 versus the Pro XK system -- I already can guess there'll be differences between playing the rep. on a pipe organ vs. ANY Hammond.
Sorry for being so long winded.
