Fingering is BOTH the curse and blessing of keyboards!First, the Curse then the Blessing!
If you want to not worry about fingering, then you need to play an instrument that doesn't use the fingers so much, like a kazoo or something. One of the "lies" that abound right now is that you can use any old finger you choose. Do that, and you'll soon run out of fingers! Don't buy it. It ain't real.
The "curse" of keyboards is the fact we simply don't have enough fingers to cover every key. Thus, we simply must move sideways and this is the real problem. If it was just a matter of playing a few keys that are already under our fingers it wouldn't such a curse, would it?
However, as I've been trying so hard to tell you, working on fingering can be very rewarding. For one thing, it keeps the mind young as you have to figure it out using your brain. For two, you CAN save time and money cause you don't have to learn all those other instruments. Just buy a keyboard that replicates them well enough for your ear.
Here's an interesting sidelight to that point. I did a video awhile back in which I played on a keyboard every instrument. In the video you can see me (it's on youtube.com) playing a digital piano. However, then comes a lady who "lip-syncs" a flute part, followed by strings. It's all ME! Using that first keyboard. I caught some flack from some folks who only guessed that I was playing a piano. They thought I should have used a "real" piano (as if my 180# digital was not "real!) but nobody called me on the flute solo nor the strings cause they couldn't SEE those. I guess their ears weren't sensitive enough to detect the digital piano in it.
The is how fingering is a blessing to you. If you can use it (fingering, that is) you don't actually have to learn all those instruments in reality. Nor do you have to buy them. Now that can get very, very expensive. I'm sure that some folks (almost certainly professional musicians!) will try to "set me straight" on this point, but most folks are NOT pros. Nor do they wish to become such. They only want something to help them relax from their hard days work.
This is how I like to teach - not as some sort of "expert" who knows it all but as a person who keeps the wishes of my students in mind.
