Audio Keyframes...adding and adjusting

Premiere Pro CC 7.1...how can I add a keyframe to an audio clip on the timeline with a keyboard shortcut? Can I? I search shortcuts and cannot find a way to do this. Gotta use the mouse. How can I adjust multiple keyframes at the same time, across multiple audio tracks? I've tried everything. Can I? Reasoning...I want to dip the audio on multiple sources at once. Start at full volume, and then dip all down under VO, or other soundbite. So far it's VERY cumbersome...keyframe each track separately...adjust each frame separately...and mousing ALL the way.

Editors need to do a LOT of mixing during the edit. I can't have the music up full when people are talking...or a sound effect hit full volume. I need to have the music at full volume for a little bit, but then dip it down when someone starts to talk. Also have the b-roll dip at the same time. Perhaps I have a background sound effect (ambience of some sort) and I need to dip that too. This isn't stuff you leave until the final mix. This is basic editing.
Someone on the Cow suggested that I keyframe and lower the audio on one track, and then copy and paste the keyframes onto the other tracks. That's helpful. And this might just be an issue of me needing to learn how to use the tools Adobe provides. But the fact that Avid, FCP 7, FCX can do this and it's normal and easy and PPRO cannot...well, Avid didn't use to have keyframes. We had to splice the audio and then adjust the volume levels on the mixer and add dissolves. THAT was a pain too.
No worries...just need to go back to that, or doing it one track at a time.

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