I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.
The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.
My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech.
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.
You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.
The human voice is the organ of the soul.
At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.