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Just wondering if there was a technical name for the keyboard "slap" technique found here at around 4:00ish:

Thanks!

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Not really. Organs aren't touch sensitive, so there's no effect to the sound, it's just this guy's way of getting extremely short staccato notes.

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    Thinking about this again, I still agree with you although I think there is an important distinction -- his "short, staccato" notes aren't necessarily intentionally selected notes, they're somewhat random hits on the keyboard without regard for the notes, which creates a more percussive, rhythmic sound to me. An analogous concept to this I think would be guitar damping/scratching. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damping_%28music%29 and a sample: youtu.be/Prh2Jkt1nLE
    – ccnokes
    Commented Mar 4, 2015 at 0:18

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