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Playing the Church Organ™Using the music for manuals in books 1-4 works to quickly get an organist who is new to these organs, or a pianist who’s never played the organ, up to speed - in fact, halfway through book 1, they are ready to play a church service.

An organ teacher’s biggest influence on a student may be the ability to select stops for the student that sound good together, and to play for the student to inspire them to want to learn to play the organ. Our books 1-4 take a differ-ent approach to learning to play the organ. Instead of a teacher pulling stops for the student, the student does this for himself, pressing 10 preset piston buttons and quickly playing the full range of registrations needed for church services, including memorial services and weddings. Instead of hearing a teacher play the music, with Book 1 the student can sit back and listen to the organ play the music. Today’s organs are design with large banks of piston memory, and the capability to record and play back. Books 1-4 introduce students to all of this, with both music and registrations, in a way which was not possible until now.

Requirements: Ability to read music and play piano or keyboards.

Designed for self-teaching but may also be used with a teacher in private lessons or a class.

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Using Preset Stop Combinations Shows them how to recognize which keyboard they should be playing on, how to use the expression pedal, operate the cancel piston and ten preset pistons, followed by more than 30 pieces of music that use these ten pistons.

Adding Stops to Presets They learn to add and take away stops from the ten presets to create 19 more registrations, and shows them how to use the Bass coupler.

Building Stop Registrations They find, select and play Voice Palette™ stops, as well as learn about organ technique.

Operating Organ Controls & Devices Explores the USER or Organ Library stops on the organs, and includes music that explores all families of stops in these stop libraries - expanding the organist’s knowledge of organ registration quickly and easily.

Using MIDI VoicesFocuses on using the Roland Integra-70 MIDI Module with music examples. Book 10 was created for recent organs with PGM, MSB and LSB. Book 10A is for any earlier Rodgers with MIDI, even those that only transmit PC or PGM. Price includes 1 year support using Frog Music’s Integra-7 Church Organists Forum. [Book 10A contains the complete Book 10]

A Playing Guide to the Roland, Rodgers and Infinity Organs Supplements the organ owner’s manuals, using simple drawings and clear explanations to speed up their understand-ing of the organ, its controls, and devices. Music examples included.

The Parish Organist* Registrations for the Roland, Rodgers and Infinity Organs.100 hymns with 100 chorale preludes and 70 different preset registrations for them. Book 1 of this Concordia House Publishing series, parts 1-4, with registrations, is available from Frog Music. Additional sets from later issues of The Parish Organist are planned.

The Catholic Organist’s Hymnal™ - A new approach that has long been needed.*The Parish Organist is a trademark of Concordia House Publishing and used here with permission.

For a pianist or organist new to playing the organ.This book has been written for the pianist who has never played an or-gan, or an organist unfamiliar with the Roland, Rodgers or Infinity or-gans, 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 useful for the experienced or-ganist 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 match the stops you choose to the music you are playing.

This innovative teaching system works backwards - the goal is not to teach you all about playing the organ, it’s to get you playing the organ with confidence, and sounding professional from the first day you play. Even if you have never had an organ lesson, and just know how to play piano or a keyboard.

All that you need to learn to get started are three things:

When you press a piston button, the organ is ready for you to play. We have picked music for you that only uses the keyboards. This isn’t simplified music - there has been a lot of organ music written for organs without pedals - in fact, even during the time of Handel, many organs only had keyboards. You will find the number of the piston to push at the top of the music - then you just begin to play.

We mark every piece for you so you know which keyboard you play.

You’ll be surprised when you realize that the organ is easier to play than the piano. You will be able to focus more on playing the notes, instead of also making them loud or soft, or somewhere in between.

“But...do I have to play the pedals?” You will find organ music written without pedals in books 1-4 that is of easy to medium difficulty. As you play through the music, you will be using 10 preset sound combina-tions that are enough to play services, weddings and memorial services.

This book also shows you how to use the Bass Coupler to play the ped-als automatically on some of the music - we do this to get you excited and interested in actually playing the pedals yourself.

Playing the Church Organ™

-ful music for you to enjoy playing the voices you are learning about.

complete course in music for the organ, as well as exploring the stops of the organ.

you through lots of interesting music that is playable and that your congregation will appreciate.

a teacher.

Rodgers and Infinity Organs, is a good com-panion guide to this series of instruments.

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Using Organ StopsLearning 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 has to hire players just like you choose stops, to be able to play the music as the composer intended. That’s one reason organs, with their wide tonal palette of stops, were and are used in halls and theaters, to replace the orchestra in an affordable manner - one person playing instead of many.

Today with the organ you are playing it is possible to match almost any organ specification using the Voice Palette™ stops and the USER Library of stops. We can even choose them and hide them in piston settings, ready for you to play on a moment’s notice, which is what we have done here in Book 2. In Books 3 and 4, we’ll show you how to search out and select voices. But in Book 2 we’ve already been done that for you.

For those of you who are not quite ready to play pedals, we show you how to let the organ play the pedal stops for you, and mark the music for you where this is effective, further satisfying your congregation by letting them hear you play the whole organ with strong, supporting pedals automatically sounding from the organ.

The book includes useful drawings to guide you in understanding the operation of its controls.

The music, 29 pieces, all for manuals only, and some with optional ped-als, is almost exclusively written for the organ. Stops have been chosen that the composer would find faithful to the music. As you play you will think of music you already know that will work well with the stop settings under your fingers and that’s what this book is all about, blend-ing your musicianship with this new organ.

This book, just like Book 1, is designed to quickly and easily get the great sounds of the organ under your fingers, encouraging you to learn even more about the organ and its music through the possibilities found in your Roland & Rodgers church organs.


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play it back, allows you to go out into the sanctuary and hear yourself play, helping you to judge volume levels and tempos in the building.

-comes natural to you, making it easy to write down organ registrations for future use.

-pany explanations of how pipes work and sound.

Elert, Clerambault, Purcell, Brahms. Franck Mendelssohn and more fills out the book.

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Playing the

Church Organ Book 2

Using Voice Palette™ Stops

This book goes into depth about not only using more stops, but how to use them. We investigate techniques of combining stops, as well as how to develop 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 or-gan is one of the few instruments that makes this possible. While pia-nists play, bringing out the bass melody, then echoing it in the treble, it’s all using the same sound. Pianists must work hard to produce a dif-ference in the tone while playing - an organist just chooses a new stop!

Here we play music that echoes itself, music in which the organ ac-companies itself, using two different “instruments” playing against each other.

You will also learn about choosing tempos, stroking the keys for spar-kling playing, using our secret weapon - silence - to accent notes, and how to choose stops by analyzing the music.

Coupling - playing stops on two keyboards at once from just one key-board - is used to build up the chorus sound of the organ, sort of like combining two choirs for a special performance. More clues to match-ing registrations are accompanied by music that makes it easy for you to see and hear how this all works.

Pedals remain optional - and much of this music was written for organs without pedals. Some organs did not even have pedals, so composer wrote music, with optional pedal parts. There is quite a bit of organ music written in this style.

We dig deeper into what the stops are and how to use them, and give you all sorts of ideas for creating your own stop settings.

By the end of this book you will understand the Voice Palette™ stops that are behind the engraved stop tablets or drawknobs of your organ. They are like having the ingredients for making not only an Italian pasta dish, but also German and French, and even for American maca-roni and cheese.

Today’s organs have stops representing many nationalities of organ building. With these organs you are able to dip into each style of or-gan building, experimenting easily with registrations to make the music sound just as you expect it to.


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3 fugues, three settings of the choral “Jesu, Meine Freude” by Pachelbel, Bach and Böhm and four settings by Walther.

combinations including the “cornet” are a lots easier when you can actually play and hear them.

play when you are using the stops the com-poser would have used. Hear Bach how Bach heard it.

church congregation for many years.


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Playing theC hurch Organ Book 3

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 who does tonal finishing for your area.

stops on Infinity Organ are available for you to choose, play and ton-ally finish as well. When you select them, you will find a menu that gives you the opportunity to make them sound exactly as you wish. And these changes may be saved to pistons. You may then voice it dif-ferently for another piece and save that to another piston.

Trying stops could become boring, but we’ve eliminated that possibil-ity by including music that you will want to play. This book prepares you to play not only church services, but also recitals if you like, as we explore these stops with music by Pachelbel, Franck, Dubois and J.S. Bach. To conclude the book we’ve included showpieces by two Vi-erne’s, Boëlmann, Lefébure-Wély - all for manuals only, with optional pedals.

Pachelbel may be known for one piece, but we are beginning to dis-cover that his music may even rival Bach’s for variety and depth. As we try a variety of stops we play variations on a theme by Pachelbel.

Throughout, we offer advice and guidance on playing the organ - choos-ing tempos, registrations, techniques, and more, that will make your playing shine. The organs also include some useful orchestral sounds - the Orchestral Oboe is absolutely lovely - and we cover using them as well. Playing the organ State Trumpet with the Orchestral Trumpet at a slightly lower volume level is also uesful.

Theatre organs are different than church organs, as they are winded at a higher pressure (around 10”) than that of church organs. The Tremulant works by let-ting a little air escape over and over again. On theatre instruments a lot of air escapes, so the pitch drops and the volume drops, giving the organ a “sobbing” sound. These tremulants are built into the USER/Library Access theatre stops. You may enjoy experimenting with these while using our Playing Silent Movies book lessons.


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pieces by Pachelbel, Franck, J.S. Bach, Vi-erne, and Elgar.

their families opens your ears and fingers to possibilities up to now impossible except for those playing very large organs with com-prehensive stoplists - which you have now in your organ, all available immediately at all times.

techniques of “deconstructing” pieces to un-derstand and make them playable.


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Using the Roland Integra-7 MIDI Voice Module

Using the Integra-7 is as simple as dialing your phone and saying hello. Our book and software make MIDI simple and logical to use, as MIDI is intended to be.

USING MIDI VOICES is a simple, step-by-step guide that uses music you will enjoy playing to make it easy for you to learn to use the Inte-gra-7 from the organ display window.

6,000 Voices at your fingertips.

All 6,000+ voices in the Integra-7 may be played from the organ. How am I going to find the voices I want to play out of 6,000 choices? Just like our earlier books it has a long list of voices you’ll find useful for playing church services, including the ever-popular wind, thunder and rain.

The Forum

With the book you receive a 1 year subscription to our Integra-7 users group with searchable forum. You may find an answer by searching. If not, you’ll get a response from us, or a forum member, to the questions you post to this forum. You or your church may extend the subscrip-tion if you like.

Our Integra-7 Church Organists Users Forum is also the place to find new ways to use the module. Those who had the MX-200 were disappointed that drawbar organ sounds could not be triggered to spin up and down in vibrato speed. Well, the Integra-7 has that ability. But it could not be triggered from the organ until we discovered a simple,

this great sound. The first thing we did was to post this to our Integra-7 Church Organists Forum and we will continue to listen to your ques-tions and come up with solutions just like this one.

But I don’t have one of the new Rodgers Organs, can I use the Inte-

Yes, order Book 10A. It includes Book 10 but also has clear instruc-tions on how to use the Integra-7 with even the earliest Rodgers organs with MIDI. Order the book from our website and you’ll get a 100% refund if you are disappointed in any way. Contact us with questions at: [email protected] or 423 887 7594.


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playing the voices you are learning about.

Lyndell Leatherman give you an opportu-nity to learn about playing from contempo-rary music lead sheets.

and showing this book in draft form, they all said, “Make sure it teaches how to find and play the strings, guitar and timpani. And don’t forget rain, wind and thunder.” It was great turning to the pages, and showing them music already in the book which cov-ered those sounds, making them feel com-fortable and excited about this book.

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Using MIDI Voices

Roland & Rodgers Organs

Integra-7 SuperNATURAL Sound Module

“Music has forever been intertwined with technology.”

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Rodgers & Infinity OrgansQuestions 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 both 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 organ stops that are ready, like a dictionary or a thesaurus of organ stops, to give you the sound that you need for the piece that you are playing.

This book concentrates on working through the organ controls and features not by telling you what they are but by showing you how to use them and what they can do for you.

We write these books after meeting with people who are new to the organs and spending time helping them get started. Based on our notes from those sessions, we then build the books. For the first time, we have then invited owners of these organs to review what we’ve written and this has been extremely helpful when doing the final drafts. Their help has improved this book and we are very grateful.

The index to the book lists all that is covered, from using the trans-poser, selecting stops, using the usual couplers and the unusual - Bass & Melody couplers - as well as working with multiple memory levels

As this is about playing the organ, you will also find organ pieces to play, which help to explain the features.

Careful attention is given to the differences between the organs. All of these organs share the same tonal generation system, which makes it possible to cover all the organs in the same books.

who are new to playing the organ, as they tell us how our books have helped them as musicians, in their playing of the organ.

Special thanks is due to owners of these organs who participated in the edit-ing of this book, and whose work greatly improved it.


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the controls on the organ and practical ad-vice on their use.

-gans. The first four books in this series are a complete course in organ registration on the Roland, Rodgers and Infinity Organs, exploring the stops, the Voice Palette stops and the USER & Library Access stops.

10 years experience in creating guides to Rodgers Organs as well as more many years experience working in church music in the USA, Germany and Italy.

have sample pages on our website for you to examine before buying.

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-tionsFor many years Lutheran Organists (as well as organists from other denominations) have been blessed by a series of books based on hymns from the Lutheran hymnal. The Parish Organist™ series is published by Concordia Publishing House, and used by both organists and organ teachers.

Background on the The Parish Organist™ series.

More than 50 years ago this series of books was created. There are more than 10 books in the series. The first four books are classics and have been issued as one book, The Parish Organist™ Parts 1-4. Parts 1-4 contain 100 hymns, each being written in 3 voice rather than traditional 4 voice hymn scoring. Hymn playing in the traditional scoring can be difficult for the pianist or keyboard player. Writing them in 3 voices gives two parts to the right hand, and the bass line to the left hand. These easier versions help to give new organists confidence while learning to play a church service. The tradition from even before the time of Bach was to do more than just play through the hymn from the hymnbook, but rather to perform the hymn in such a way as to help set the mood of the text that is to be sung. This is the art of composing and playing Chorale Prel-udes for the organ. Organists, both today and in earlier times, often improvise their own versions. It is to our great benefit that many organ-ists, including Johann Sebastian Bach, wrote them down for teaching and performance purposes. Within Books 1-4 are works by Bach, as well as by contempo-rary composers who were challenged by the editor to compose works which could be played on a modest sized organ, with a specification of stops included in the book.

That’s where Frog Music Press enters.

Rodgers Organs over the past 20 years have introduced a unique ben-efit to organists, expanding stoplists beyond just the stops that appear on the engraved stop tablets and drawknobs. Every organ has a tre-mendous library of stops in its computer memory. We’ve created more than 70 stop registrations for the music for the 100 hymn chorale preludes in Parts 1-4. These registrations draw on the engraved stops, the Voice Palette™ stops behind the engraved stops, and the 100+ USER or Library Access stop library. Our goal in this series is to get the organist playing from the entire list of stops without having to spend years studying registration and, in the process, encourage them to get creative building their own registrations.


Chorale Preludes in Parts 1-4, suggested reg-istrations for all 100 hymns in addition to registrations for the 20 Preludes for general use at the back of the book.

for the remaining books in the series.

organists with who have served congrega-tions in Germany, Italy and the United States.

1-4 and Book 13 of Playing the Church Or-gan to further their understanding of regis-tration.

The purchase includes a list of the registra-tions plus data to be loaded to the Roland Classic, Rodgers 500 series or Infinity organs by USB drive. Prices may be changed at any time without prior notice.Roland and Rodgers are trademarks of the Roland Group and are used by permission. The photo and trademark The Parish Organist™ are copyright Concordia Publish-ing House and are used here with their kind permission. Books from this series may be purchased from Frog Music Press, your local Lutheran Book Store, Concordia Publish-

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