u/Aggressive_Style_179

I am used to listen to various kind of music, the last four months I am listening to his music almost everyday.

I’ve studied piano for 20 years now and have recently started playing organ for a neighborhood church, and I’ve taken to it like a fish to water. I’m thrilled that, on the organ, I don’t have to split hairs over my touch and voicing and shading and can focus on other musical elements.

This is a far-sighted goal, but I’d really like to be able to improvise on the organ in a way that would sound like an orchestra; with interdependent, though individual, musical lines all in my command. I’m starting with some pretty basic elements -

Melody + one harmony line

Melody + consistently figured countermelody

Melody on bottom, harmony on top

Melody + 8th note pedal lines to ground and outline harmony

I’m having success with these approaches - my reading, my ear (I’m transposing everything), my general control of the instrument - but I would feel very reassured if someone farther along than me gave some feedback on it, and maybe had some further steps.

Would anyone in here consider themselves a very fluent improviser on the instrument in this way, or in a similar one? Please leave a comment if so, I’d love to chat. Maybe you have a curriculum in mind that I could use to achieve this goal of mine. Thank you.

Also, I just found out about Sietze de Vries a week ago…..what a legend you organists have been hiding from us