Well, I do have this really crappy electronic keyboard here that I fiddle with now and again. I was teaching myself majors and minors for awhile a few months ago, but I stopped when I realized it was cutting into my guitar-practice time. But I will probably take it up again soonish.Go for it Uncle Walt! Who needs to sleep right?! I think you'll find that playing chords on a piano is easier than you might think. You really never know what you're capable of and how hard a thing is for you until you try. Where there's a will...
Give it a go. And post a video if you get the inclination. We have a new TG law - if you get a new instrument you MUST post a video to show us how it sounds; especially if it has strings.
Right now, I feel like I'm at sort of an inflection point, guitar-wise -- like there's a hill right in front of me that, once I reach the top, it will represent a new plateau for me. My measure is: once I have "The Last Steam Engine Train" and ""Bouree" fully in my fingers, I will have completed my current phase. Of course, once I get there, that hill will look puny compared to the next one, and the mountain after that. But I feel like I should really laser-focus on the guitar at this point.
I want to post some video, and will at some point. I was thinking about recording myself playing "Don't Think Twice" the way I've been doing it for the past 15 years or so -- which is to say, wrongly. Just to see what Neil and others think of what I think of as my naturalistic approach to it. I just gradually converted from playing the chords to picking out notes, and I think it sounds good, but it's certainly not how anyone else plays it, quite. I do the same with Dylan's "Buckets of Rain" -- it's even more off the map.