As for your situation, I agree with you 110%; forget about becoming Franz Liszt and break out your "Learn To Play Piano From A Fake Book". In fact, that is probably the approach that will have the side benefit of improving your arranger playing. Another tip; play a recording of the song you're working on and just play PIANO along with it (using whatever approach you've decided to take).
chas
basically what I decided to do also except not from a book, but online lessons.
Some of the students are in their 60’s /70’s /80’s,
I can read Treble and Bass clef , but learning to play something note for note is a mind numbing exercise for me nowadays. The memory isn’t all that great.
Having far more fun learning tips and tricks and doing my own simple arrangements ,
which can be built on as I progress.
I find it so much easier being shown what to do, rather than reading it.
Bernie,
not sure if this might help, but, Chas suggested recording the song , and then playing
the piano part.
While I was playing around with the notation feature in Band in a Box the other day,
I discovered something I hadn’t realised before, I was aware the the individual tracks show up as notation for the “midi style “songs, but I hadn’t realised the notation also shows up for the “audio style “ songs.
Thinking maybe piano track could be muted, and piano part could be played live.
One would get a rough idea of what the left hand pattern could be , even if not , note for note.
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