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Introduction
Welcome to the Whole Octave Piano and Keyboard Wiki. Here, great ideas and information for all types of keyboard players, teachers and students is just one click away. There are lots of good blogs and wikis on the web, sharing music and information about music, but until now, there has been no central knowledge base where information specifically about teaching, learning and playing piano and keyboard is collected and organized. All over the world, inventive keyboardists are developing successful music programs in concert settings, and in the classroom or private lesson. Many are using new and interesting approaches, or using technology in innovative ways, yet no one outside of their school or performing group knows about it yet.
Have you done something at your school, in your band, or as a solo performer, that you consider a success? Please write about it in our wiki or provide a link to outside coverage. Do you have materials that would be helpful to other teachers, students or keyboardists? Add them to the wiki. Or, do you know of a keyboard teacher, performer or a music school that is doing something with unique imagination and effectiveness? Feel free to include information about it or links to it. Do you know of anything that might be useful to other pianists and keyboard players (including useful websites)? This is the place to put it. I hope this wiki will be a venue where people can share ideas, find answers to some of their questions, and where keyboard teachers can learn to replicate the successful experiences of other teachers.
Any member of the Whole Octave space who wants to add topics to the wiki can do it. You don't need to ask first. Whole Octave members can create pages, news articles and events, and may also upload files. This wiki belongs to the community of keyboardists who use it. If you have any technical questions about the wiki, please contact its creator, Susan Capestro. Questions about specific content in the wiki should be directed to the individual author of that specific entry.
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1.1 Beginners
1.3.1 Why Advanced Level Pianists Seek the Help of a Teacher or Mentor
2.1 Building Blocks of Music, How Young Students Understand
2.2 Composing Helps Build Understanding
3.1 Articulation
3.2 Creativity at the Keyboard
3.2.1 Arranging for Piano and Keyboard
3.2.3 Excerpts and Pieces Composed by Young Students
3.2.4 Excerpts%20and%20Pieces%20Composed%20by%20Adult%20Students
3.3 Dynamics
3.4 Ear Training
3.5 Ensemble and Rehearsal Skills for Keyboardists
3.6 Improvisation at the Keyboard
3.6.1 Free Improvisation
3.6.2 Contemporary Styles of Keyboard Improvisation
3.6.3 Jazz Improvisation at the Keyboard
3.6.4 Structured Improvisation
3.6.4.1 Chord Progression Based Improvisation
3.6.4.2 Melody Based Improvisation
3.6.5 Traditional Styles of Keyboard Improvisation
3.7 Interpretation
3.9 Performing
3.9.1 Ensemble Performance Skills
3.9.2 Learning How to Perform for Keyboardists
3.9.2.1 Comfort Management
3.9.2.2 Yoga for Keyboard Performers
3.9.3 Solo Keyboard Performance Skills
3.10 Reading Music Notation
3.11.1 Challenge of Rhythm in Contemporary Styles
3.12.1 Lead Sheet
3.12.2 Multi-staffed Score
3.12.3 Orchestral Reduction
3.12.4 Three-staffed Piano/vocal Score
3.12.5 Two-staffed Piano Score
3.13 Technique
3.13.1 Injury and Overuse Prevention
3.13.2 Keyboard Techniques Specifics
3.13.3 Overall Physical Fitness for Keyboardists
3.14 Tempo
4 Pedagogy, Piano and Keyboard - Teaching Approaches
4.1 Combined Approaches
4.2.3.4
6 Teachers Well-Known for Mentoring Keyboardists
6.1 Banacos, Charlie
6.2 Chopin, Frederic
6.3 Clark, Frances
6.4 Leschetizky, Theodor
6.5 Liszt, Franz
6.6 Whiteside, Abby
7 Teaching Approaches, Keyboard, and Learning Differences
7.1 Adult Keyboard Students
7.2 Learning Styles
7.3 Young Keyboard Students
8 Technology Used By Keyboard Teachers and Students
9.1 Hardware
9.1.2 Microphones, Pre-amps, and Mixers
9.1.3 Recording Devices, External
9.1.4 Speakers, Monitors and Headsets
9.2 Keyboard Instruments
9.2.1 Pianos
9.2.2 Software Synthesizers
9.2 3 Synthesizers
9.2.4 Weighted Action Keyboards
9.3 Software
9.3.1 Digital Audio and Acoustic Recording Software
10.1 End of Year Musicale or Recital
10.5 Multiple Keyboards Group Techniques
10.6 One Piano or Keyboard Group Techniques
10.7 Two Pianos or Keyboards Group Techniques
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