Ok, I’ll go first. I am a rather self-deprecating person, so it’s hard for me to acknowledge my strengths. I guess as far as keyboards go I’m pretty good with chords, scales, music theory, and some of the technical stuff. All that stuff doesn’t matter if you can’t use it musically. Like they say, “it don’t mean a thing if it don’t have that swing” I suppose it will be a life long journey to try to use what I know in a musical way, and to keep expanding my knowledge too.

As far areas for improvement I could write volumes….. But something I really need to address is being able to play with no written music in front of me. I’d like to have a large core repertoire of music I could play from memory. To do this I’m trying to practice more and more along with recording, and no written music. Also I try to analyze the tunes learning and look out for common harmonic sequences like II, VI, ii, V … rather than think in terms of “C, Aminor, Dminor, G dominant”

Also I really need to improve my knowledge of the operation of my keyboard. There so many things
that I want to learn about the operation system. I have very little patience for reading through manuals and that sort of thing. I need to find a very patient person that can basically spoon feed me. Sad but true.

I could go on and on with my weakness but I’ll stop there. I hope to hear from y’all!