Do you play pedals, left hand bass or both?

[hbquikcomjamesl]

If you think Barbara Dennerlein is good on a Hammond, you should catch her on real pipes.

Why is it that pedal skills that would be considered perfectly normal for any competent classically-trained organist are regarded as extraordinary among jazz/pop/rock organists? (That said, Dennerlein's chops are extraordinary by any standards.)

[myorgan]

I play the pedals with both feet. The left hand is then left to do more as the style requires.

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Some years ago, my student recital piece was a prelude on the hymn tune, "Wondrous Love," in which the pedal part was utterly trivial, and yet the "Left-foot Lindas" and "Left-foot Lennys" would find it utterly impossible:

The pedal part consisted of standing on an open fifth, for the entire duration of the piece.[]

[graeme]

Andy, please write a whole batch more on playing with two feet on a spinet. It seems to me that for most organists that would be good information. Just walking bass lines on 13 notes with one foot seems to be limited to quite minor patterns (say, always descending from B flat if you start with the root of the chord). I know this is an old thread, but all my reading of "footing" has been for consoles or pipe organs, and I do wonder how a player uses just one foot to play funk bass lines, for example. So, using two feet on a spinet is an "opportunity". Thanks.