This is what i was thinking. What i was afraid was the case. Just thought I'd check in and make sure something revolutionary hadn't happened that I should know about. Dad plays totally by ear, he wouldn't know how to sequence. I mean, he knows the names of the chords, but he wouldn't be able to tell you that the C chord is held for 2 bars then G for a bar. He just changes when he knows it's time to change. He plays good solid rhythm, but he comes at it from a totally self-trained, no theory, non-technical approach.

If anybody else has any words of wisdom, chime right in. I'm stilll trying to brainstorm.

What brought this all about was a rather ingenius maneuver he came up with. My parents have an old Yamaha keyboard that I used to have back when I was about 10. Has some fairly cheesy rhythms and drumbeats in it.
So dad puts a capo on the end of the headstock; creating a little appendage that he can use to push the key on the keyboard which will trigger the chord changes as he plays. He's only worked up a couple songs this way just for fun, but it is rather amusing. This is when he asked me if I knew of a module he could buy to have his accompaniment without guitar acrobatics.