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I'm starting this especially to follow up with cowboys invitation for questions but I hope all would join in. I expect to have a lot more questions and perhaps some that do not fit the title and similarity of the first question. I guess maybe I'm really looking for a "how to expand from a solitary home keyboardist or piano player to keyboardist." I think many might be in this position.
Okay here goes, What do you play in a live performance? In rock, pop, country, it seems many or most songs you don't even hear the keyboardist except maybe a few small portions. What are they doing the rest of the time? If you are doing a cover, for example, do you play the original sheet and just allow the sound man to mix you in as he feels? Do you follow to emphasize beat and go off with keyboard emphasis in the song you know as apparent? Do you just chord most of the time? I never really knew this. I've played with others maybe 5-10 times back in the 80's and I never really knew then.
Okay here goes, What do you play in a live performance? In rock, pop, country, it seems many or most songs you don't even hear the keyboardist except maybe a few small portions. What are they doing the rest of the time? If you are doing a cover, for example, do you play the original sheet and just allow the sound man to mix you in as he feels? Do you follow to emphasize beat and go off with keyboard emphasis in the song you know as apparent? Do you just chord most of the time? I never really knew this. I've played with others maybe 5-10 times back in the 80's and I never really knew then.