Exactly...There is no law that says we all have to be "pianists"
I certainly am not. no lessons no training But I have ears. The rest I can get out of the keyboard.

If Im recodring a song and I don't have the chops to play what i hear theoretically i can just slow the tempo and play the scale or scales i want. Then again Im not a live player and only a studio rat who knows theory but did not spend hours playing Hanon..... I will play with the wife but mostly guitar. NOw SHE is a pianist with the training to sight read AND improvise. Not something you find many classically trained pianists can do. I am certainly not an elitist pianist by any stretch....


[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 10-20-2008).]