Originally Posted By cgiles

Personally, I think the sudden (and recent) interest in playing solo piano among arranger players may have to do with the suddenly re-discovered joy of just 'sitting down and playing' (without worrying about 'which style', registrations, playlists, OTS, MFD, multi-pads, split points, etc., etc.).

So, who IS the arranger REALLY marketed to; tech-savvy musicians or ol' coots with too much money?

chas


Hi Chas,
both I think really.
The tech savvy musicians have to keep abreast of the changing technology,
us ol’ coots with too much money , probably don’t have all that much trouble adapting to the new technology every couple of years or so, because we tend to keep changing our keyboards when something new hits the market and changes are usually incremental.

I’ve ended up back to where I was 20/30 years ago.
Piano was my first love. ( not that I was much good at it). I really only bought an arranger in the hope of being able to do some backing tracks.( Midi files in those days were something like $30 ea. and limited in content and availability) I wanted try and fill out my piano playing ie have a fuller sound.
Never really managed to make it happen. I was a total reader, couldn’t work out what to play unless it was in front of me, so never really worked out how to combine the two. Unfortunately my pianos had to be sold and keyboard technology became my passion for next 20 years.

Few months back I became interested in piano again after a post from Uncle Dave. Really only bought my little P121 piano as a controller for my sx900 , and also figured it might be a great way to build up finger strength again ( hadn’t touch a keyboard in over a year after my accident) .
Then up popped one of Donny’s u tube clips from a company called Pianote. The young lady doing the demo was bubbly and quite interesting .Thought I’d give the exercise a go.
Ended up signing up for a 6 months course, learning a heap of stuff, no longer 100% reliant on having to read a piece of music, note for note, teaching me to think for myself. My playing is still very basic , but I’m having more fun playing my crummy little $600 piano than I ever had playing my last 3 Korg keyboards.
Next step , how to do those arranger backing tracks that I wanted to do all those years ago as an accompaniment for my piano ( non ) skills. Haha. Left hand arpeggio chord songs didn’t quite lend themselves to split arranger mode playing.

P.s I have Uncle Dave and Donny to thank for my new musical path.


Edited by rikkisbears (02/16/20 04:04 PM)
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