### person | entertainer | performer | musician:

Jazz musician
* Every jazz musician composer.
* Most jazz musicians play a mixture of bebop and swing.
* Some jazz musicians smoke.
* are artists who use melody as a foundation to create new works of music
  - their music
* continue to practice, perform, record, disagree, improvise and jam.
* make music with their instruments and musicians create music with their voices.
+ Composer
  * Some musicians are very good at improvisation. Some church organists are good at improvising. During a service they may need to play some organ music to fill in the gaps while people are collecting money or taking communion. Jazz musicians are usually excellent at improvising. Improvisation is not written down, so each time it is different.

Organist
* Most organists play in churches.
* are musicians.

Percussionist
* are musicians like everyone else in the band
* invariably are more musical performers if they start on a wind instrument.
* know that gongs are slow starters.

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Pianist
* Most pianists suffer terrible tension in the jaws, neck and shoulders
  - teach the instrument as some part of their career.
  * can play music for piano alone or play together with other musicians in an ensemble or orchestra. Pianists also play along singers, solo musicians, and other performers in their leading performance
* generally perform using both hands.
* have a special love-hate relationship with singers.
* includes arms
  - body substances
  - cell membranes
  - cells
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - heads
  - human bodies
  - legs
  - material bodies
  - necks
  - nuclei
  - personality
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
  - vacuoles
* study piano literature, keyboard skills, accompanying and ensemble playing.
* work in collaboration with singers and coaches in the Opera Studio
  - coaches in the concert studio
+ Piano, Piano parts
  * The damper pedal - this pedal is on the right. When the pianist holds the right pedal down all the dampers come off the strings so that the strings are free to vibrate. When a note is played, that note will continue to sound. It will make the sound smoother and richer. Pianists have to learn how to use the pedal well. This will depend on such things as the style of the music, the size of the piano, the size of the room and whether there is a lot of furnishing there
  - Playing the piano
  * Pianists have to learn many things. It is important to sit comfortably with a straight back so that hands can reach all the keys. The hands should be shaped like a ball so that the fingers are curved. They should be able to control the sound they make with the weight of the arm and fingers. Lots of practice is needed to become a good pianist. Playing the piano helps people to understand harmony because the piano can play chords
+ Sight-reading: Musical performance techniques
  * Some pianists are very good at sight-reading. The pianist John Ogdon was able to read extremely difficult modern music at first sight.

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Advanced pianist
* can practice scales in octaves.
+ Octave: Music theory
  * Young children who learn the piano will not be able to stretch an octave with one hand, if their hands are too small. Advanced pianists can practice scales in octaves. Violinists can play scales in octaves, too, playing on two strings at once, but this is very hard.

Piano player
* can use drugs, also.
* don t just play tunes, they play styles.
* visualize keys, guitarists see fretboards.