Originally posted by ianmcnll:
I play an arranger keyboard for all of my gigs.
My audience comes to hear ME.
Am I cheating them?
Nope.
I make MY own styles, write out MY own arrangements of cover tunes(of all genres)and manage to achieve MY own distinctive sound on an arranger.
Are they hearing ME?
Of course they are.
I'm sure there are many other SZ forumites who do the same.
That's what makes arranger keyboards so darn cool!
Ian
Unfortunately, not many persons see the value as we do in using the arranger in that way.
The power in an arranger is making your own styles, having your own arrangement of a cover (and not trying to sound like the original recording) and showing that you can be flexible in a song are ways in which the player�s ability can be showcased with an arranger.
You can tell the ones who really know what they are doing. If you can stay with an arranger for more than 5 years, rather than change every 10 months, you probably are a player.
Unfortunately some person just want to turn on a keyboard, press 1, 2, or 3 notes in their left hand and get a full prerecorded track and occasionally play something in their right hand and believe that they are great musicians and should be compared in value to a real gigging band.
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