As I also prepare to do an elderly job, I find it difficult to switch from style playing to midi file playing.

I enjoy the exciting on-the-fly playing experience of styles and quite the opposite while accompanying a recording - boring and a notch above karaoke.

The irony is that playing with a midi is very difficult, especially if no chords are given. To top it off, if I listen to the original piano parts (or parts that I should minus one) I feel like a bumbling idiot as I try to mimick that track!

Kind of a two edge sword if you ask me.

Question that's been kicked around a lot I'd suppose:

Is it possible to play a gig, all venues, with just style playing?

Who does it, or what % of styles vs. midi/mp3?

zuki