We gotta be realistic guys. From the moment we put our hands on our keyboards (arrangers and synths) we're all faking it. First off..., we're fooling the audience with a digital representation of the actual instrument we currently have selected. Doesn't matter if it's piano, sax, guitar, ect.

If you're at the keys and the sound coming from those keys is a Sax.., well "you're faking it". You're not really playing the sax. You're just using the piano keys as a note reference..., and other real time controls to "fake" other things to make it behave like a sax.

Even if you write your own styles you're still "faking it". You didn't use a real set of drums to record the drum track.., you didn't midi a bass guitar or electric guitar to your keyboard to record the guitar parts.., and so on.

As keyboard players we're masters of "faking it". The challenge is being really good at it.., and yes in an odd way it takes a great deal of skill to fake the things we keyboard players do with our boards. You do have to know how to play.., you do need to understand how the real instrument functions that you're currently faking with your keyboard. It takes a damn good faker to pull off a great keyboard performance.

So rather than use "faking it" as a negative thing..., just consider that it takes a very very very talented keyboard player to pull off a convincing performance from a "faked" back up band who is soloing with (although digitally sampled), but not real instruments. You're also faking your back up singers too. So the hell what..., the point is to put on a good show.

[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 01-06-2009).]