Well said Diki! That's an extremely arrogant assumption to make about "playing skills". It's funny because so often arranger players complain about the stereotypes placed on them by non-arranger players, yet you'll find arranger players turn around and do the same thing and assume it takes more skill to operate an arranger.., yet (at least on this forum) you'll find that a large majority of arranger players here barely scratch the surface of their own keyboards.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again. You want to really test or show your skill TURN OFF THE AUTO ACCOMP. Then post something for us to hear where you have to REALLY use both hands. You want to show how much skill you have then actually WRITE your entire song YOURSELF from scratch (including the drums). WS players may have arps but they sure as hell don't have their entire backing tracks running as arps. Most of the time you'll find WS players creating the majority of their backing tracks from scratch with the exception of maybe a guitar or bass arp running.



[This message has been edited by squeak_D (edited 01-13-2009).]