This study is intended to assess the preschool piano educator's comprehensive capacity development in the era of intelligent keyboards. Consequently, the impact of learning to play the piano on a child's development has begun to be studied. However, not all keyboards are created equal, and there is reason to assume that the discrete control provided by standard MIDI keyboards puts unwanted constraints on today's digital instruments. The distinctive sounds of most of the instruments listed in this article would be impossible to achieve with discrete onsets and releases. This study utilized the Descriptive Correlational method as its design and methodology that describes the phenomenon, condition, and situation of preschool piano educators' comprehensive capacity development in the era of intelligent keyboards. Moreover, the quantitative research method uses statistical, mathematical, or computational techniques to investigate observable phenomena systematically. The results found challenges in the preschool piano educator's comprehensive capacity development in the era of intelligent keyboards. There is no significant relationship between assessing the preschool piano educator's comprehensive capacity development in the era of intelligent keyboards and when grouped according to profile.

Li Meizhuan, Li Jia. Preschool Piano Educator’s Comprehensive Capacity Development in the Era of Intelligent Keyboards. Frontiers in Art Research (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 8: 46-60. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2021.030810.

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