Gary, you put new meaning to playing a keyboard. You turn on your keyboard on and lead it to where you want it to go with ease. Nothing fancy, few runs, two finger chords, and you have kept it simple, while making your voice/vocal the main thing. I now understand how you stayed with the same keyboard for so long.

I feel you are working your keyboard the way it was designed to work; it’s playing background for your voice. Most players, including myself, are concentrating on special chords, arps, scales, and effects, and somewhere in there is the vocal. People appreciate all the stuff we do, but they understand the vocal.

Let me tell you what is going on my mind while I watched your video.
1-This guy looks so relaxed, he could do three jobs a day, then go home and cut the lawn
2-He knows more about the keyboard than playing the fancy stuff – and it sounds good. He is giving people what they want.
3-He could do a good job with any keyboard.
4-What Gary taught me today: Get into my keyboard, explore every part, and then put together a system that will support my voice and flow easily.
5-Most people understand the meaning of K. I. S. S., “KEEP—IT—SIMPLE—STUPID”. Oh, how true.

Gary, thank you for today’s lesson. I believe the saying; “It is not the keyboard, it’s the player”. And I would like to add: Players go into the depths of your keyboard, then spend time develop an uncomplicated method of leading it to where you want to go.

Great teaching my friend, thanks, John C.