With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.
I would like to play with electronic keyboards again.
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word.
I'm usually writing in English, and then I'll get the hankering to change channels. And usually I'll do that when I want to try a whole new set of keys, like musical keys.
I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.
Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.
I often write in pencil on paper and then type up later. It's much quicker than using a keyboard.