Keyboardist is an English word with synonyms like musician or instrumentalist. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Keyboardist meaning
Someone who plays a keyboard.
Synonyms of Keyboardist
Using Keyboardist
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who plays a keyboard.
- Useful related words include: musician, instrumentalist, player.
- In the example corpus, keyboardist often appears in combinations such as: and keyboardist, keyboardist and, the keyboardist.
Context around Keyboardist
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Keyboardist
- In this selection, "keyboardist" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, additional, main, jazz, filling, garth and billy stand out and add context to how "keyboardist" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include an additional keyboardist to cover and and violinist keyboardist billy currie. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "keyboardist" sits close to words such as abingdon, aborigines and abrahams, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with keyboardist
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He then performed two rock songs with a keyboardist and guitarist. (11 words)
The co-founding keyboardist was the band's last original member. (11 words)
Journey's original keyboardist doesn't even appear on the track. (11 words)
Chris de Burgh goes on tour next February to celebrate 50 years in the music business, but it’s safe to say Andy Richards, his keyboardist on hits including The Lady In Red and Missing You, won’t be accompanying him. (41 words)
The iconic track, penned by keyboardist Garth Porter and bass player Tony Mitchell, drew inspiration from the cricket field, with its title a reference to the question bowlers ask when passionately appealing for a wicket. (35 words)
Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Pause For Thought, the former keyboardist said: ‘Valentine’s Day, roses and chocolates, dinner for two, a carefully chosen card, with a carefully worded message, awaiting. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Larger bands may include either an additional keyboardist, to cover or replace horn and melody lines, or the main keyboardist filling these roles on two or more keyboards.
Almost three decades later, Alessi asked the widely loved jazz keyboardist and composer Chick Corea, who was enmeshed with classical music throughout his life, to create a trombone concerto.
He then performed two rock songs with a keyboardist and guitarist.
Smile High, keyboardist from R&B-jazz-soul fusion band The Main Squeeze, will release his highly collaborative project “The Vibetape” on Nov. 24.
The co-founding keyboardist was the band's last original member.
The iconic track, penned by keyboardist Garth Porter and bass player Tony Mitchell, drew inspiration from the cricket field, with its title a reference to the question bowlers ask when passionately appealing for a wicket.
And Zac (Rae, Death Cab’s keyboardist) and I, we switch clothes to white and we all come back at the end.
Chris de Burgh goes on tour next February to celebrate 50 years in the music business, but it’s safe to say Andy Richards, his keyboardist on hits including The Lady In Red and Missing You, won’t be accompanying him.
Cross was one of Vienna’s founding members, forming in 1974 as Tiger Lily with singer Dennis Leigh, guitarist Stevie Shears, drummer Warren Cann and violinist/keyboardist Billy Currie.
Festival organisers called the gig in 2025 a "final goodbye" from the band, which was founded in Birmingham in 1970 by Lynne and keyboardist Roy Wood.
Gordon also toured with Clapton, bassist Carl Radle and keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, the core of what, in 1970, became Derek and the Dominos, one of rock’s greatest one-shot groups.
Journey's original keyboardist doesn't even appear on the track.
The song also features Foreigner drummer Dennis Elliott and keyboardist Jeff Jacobs.
When the keyboardist kicked off the nightly tradition where patrons hold hands and dance the hora, Ms. Yellen got up and joined.
Band members have also paid individual tributes to the keyboardist, with bass player Jean-Jacques ‘JJ’ Burnel dubbing his friend as a “musical genius”.
But don’t miss his collaborations with R&B keyboardist Merl Saunders.
Keyboardist Page McConnell was largely recorded in November at guitarist Trey Anastasio's barn studio.
Rank 7: American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 1983 includes members: Jon Bon Jovi, guitarist Richie Sambora, keyboardist David Bryan, and drummer Tico Torres.
Speaking on BBC Radio 2’s Pause For Thought, the former keyboardist said: ‘Valentine’s Day, roses and chocolates, dinner for two, a carefully chosen card, with a carefully worded message, awaiting.
The album is set to feature keyboardist Oliver Palotai and guitarist Jeff Loomis (ex- guitarist Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein among a slew of other yet-to-be-revealed guests.
Common combinations with keyboardist
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: