For a pianist or organist new to playing the organ. This book has been written for the pianist who has never played an organ or an organist unfamiliar with the Roland, Rodgers or Infinity organs, but may be used by an experienced organist as well. Designed to be used for self-teaching but also useful when studying with a teacher. The Playing the Church Organ series is also useful for the experienced organist as it quickly introduces you to using all the stops on the organ, ones named on the stop tablets or drawknobs, and all that are waiting inside for you to call on them to more perfectly...

Book 2 Adding Stops to Presets Using Organ Stops Learning the locations of the stops (the sound controls) in the rows of stop tablets or drawknobs becomes easy here while you will learn what they do and, while using them, quickly learn where they are. It will become second nature and you will find yourself turning them off even without looking at times. Why change stops? Music is written by composers with certains sounds in their ears, sounds that are common to organs that they have grown up with or heard when traveling. Orchestras are more like organs than you'd think. An orchestra manager...

A new way for pianists and keyboard players to learn to play the organ and operate its stops and controls.

Using MIDI Voices with the Integra-7 MIDI Module.

10A version is for Rodgers and other organs that only have MIDI Program Change controls or Program Change and Variation to control MIDI voices from the organ console and save settings to pistons. Visit our web pages at www.playingthechurchorgan.com to register your purchase and get 3 months free access to the Integra-7 Church Organists Users Forum.

Book 4 Operation of the Organ Controls Exploring USER and Library Access Stops. Here we study the controls of the organ that affect registrations. We fully examine organ stops and their use. As a reminder there are two large groups of stops on these organs, in addition to the stops whose names appear on the stop tablets or knobs, stops that are immediately available at all times to the organist. Voice Palette stops are assigned to stop tablets or drawknobs and tend to be from the same family as the stop name engraved on the face. They may be tonally finished by your technician or local person...

Questions you have now and questions that might come to you while getting comfortable playing these organs are answered here in plain language. Each of these organs is played like other organs. It also has its own controls and devices that reflect the forward thinking of Rodgers, the first to use a computer in an organ, the first to successfuly combine organ pipes in an electronic, and now digital, organ. Rodgers is the rare company today that has built pipe organs, including the 13th largest pipe organ in the world, and digital organs. The organ display window is a window into a library of...

Book 3 - Building Stop Registrations Using Voice Palette(TM) Stops This book goes into depth into more than just using more stops, instead right along with the new stops you will be playing we investigate techniques of combining stops as well as developing organ technique. The organ can have just one keyboard, but this is sort of rare. Organs have two or more keyboards and pedalboards so that the organist is able to play more than one instrumental line and sound at a time. The organ is one of the few instruments that makes this possible. While pianists play, bringing out the bass melody, then...

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