Let me add my 2cents worth here please....
I'm 65 years old and am teaching myself to play keyboard.....I am not a "MUSICIAN" I'm a professional singer...My voice is my instrument and has been for close to 50 years recording my first record in 1958....
I should have studied an instrument but didn't so I have to depend on other "MUSICIANS" to supply musical backing for my songs....I've sang with "BIG BANDS" with as many as 18 musicians and I've sang with as few as 3 in a Trio...the audience
expects to hear music behind a singer, he can't do it all alone, if you can't get musicians to play the music for what ever reason, booze, drugs or attitude...in my case, there are no musicians down here in this part of sunny Mexico, so what is left for me to do, I use what ever I can to entertain my audience...and YES, sometimes it means using KARAOKE tracks, be it Midi files cd's mp3's or my Tyros or my PSR3000
at least, all the musicians start on time and in the same key.....now some may say that I'm a cheat for using my Tyros as an over priced karaoke machine (I can afford it) or mp3 player or what ever, as Squeak said...there are all levels of musicianship mine is in the beginning stages, however one day, I hope to be able to play like Scott Yee or better if possible but in the mean time, I will use every means available to me to get the job done...that is pleasing my audience....I've
stated in many other posts that I wish I could play and I envy all that can, however,
don't belittle me or others like me that don't have the musical skills to "DO IT ON MY OWN" and have had to travel a different road to get to the same place, "PLEASING THE AUDIENCE" don't be snobbish or critical of us that don't have the musical schooling or the years of hands on playing
that the rest of us don't....that is one reason I bought the guitar for my son and the keyboard for my daughter, I want them to have what I didn't have when I was their age, I pray it makes a difference in their
young lives....I'm on this forum to learn and I have learned a lot, don't chase me away because I don't measure up to your standards, especially if you have never heard or seen me perform to an audience...I respect everyone here and hope for the same,
but if anyone is offended by this post, sorry, it was not my intention...Make Music anyway you know how...any kind of music and
learn as you go...who knows, some day some of you may even be as good as me....hehehe
Tony Rome