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I play keyboards and bass and I'm better at bass but can definitely work my way around a tune on a keyboard.
Having been to a few auditions and worked for a couple of bands as a keyboardist, I actually think that a lot of the ire that keyboard players get is quite unfounded!
No-one is ever happy with the sounds that you select. Even if you're just using a grand piano sound, it'll be too tinny or too bassy or too much reverb or too jaunty or too bright or just generally wrong.
When being directed, people always use terms that no keyboard player would ever understand. "Maybe try some long stabs in that part", "can you kind of play less but we want loads of pads UNDERNEATH everything else", "don't you have any Skrillex sounds?", "could you sound more Elton John-y but not boogie woogie and more jazzy?" and people always mime to illustrate how they think a certain part should be played. Doesn't work!
It's constant! No-one is ever happy with how the keyboard player sounds because everyone has different ideas of how the keys should sound in a band context and I think we genuinely get less respect than other band members. Like, keyboards somehow aren't an integral part of a bands sound and apparently anyone can pick up in a few minutes.
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I'm quite lucky, in my current project I get quite a large say on the whole soundscape so I fundamentally avoid that
Here's a song in progress
https://soundcloud.com/made-in-madness/evolutionevolved