I often take a song I know well and play it with different styles. Possibly a Jazz style than a Latin style and then s lounge piano style -- making sure that I do not play the song with the same feeling as I change from style to style. This is a way of you expressing according to the feel of the keyboard.

It also improves your perception of the effect of each style in your playing. I love playing a ballad style and changing to a Bolero style and then back like in the song Tangerine.

John C.

Roger Mepstead is absolutely right when he says that feeling (not the song) is the most important characteristic. I know many musicians who read the notes as part reads a newspaper. And sometimes it becomes almost like a jukebox. Now of course music is a huge variety concept, but listening to Ray Charles or Elvis to name a few. They have that little extra that can not be written into the notes, but must come from the soul.
Lindoz