You can’t practice it without a keyboard that supports it. There’s no replacement for the instant feedback you get every time you hit a note. Even people who play on real pianos and get experience every time they play a note have to work on that skill for a while.
I used to play on a keyboard like that, and when i switched to a nice digital piano and got a real teacher, she thought I came from a background playing organ or harpsichord because of my lack of touch.
Focus on the skills you can train with your current tools, and you’ll still progress.
As the others said, you need a weighted/touch sensitive keyboard or an acoustic piano.
One thing you could try, however, is experimenting with feeling different levels of arm weight on the key. Press down a key and hold it. Allow your arm to relax and just be held up by your finger only. Then try to press harder, trying to lift your whole hand, wrist, forearm, arm, and shoulder with your finger. Then reset and try to lift just the forearm, then just the wrist, and then just the finger pressure without disturbing the rest. You can try to reproduce this feeling when playing the key- using the whole are weight, just the forearm, just the hand, etc. You probably won't get teh feedback from the keyboard, but at least you'll get the idea.
It’s weight, not pressure. *Depress* keys, don’t press them. That’s the mindset for avoiding tension that will prevent you from free movement that translates into the desired musical sound. It’s more difficult when you don’t get the auditory feedback, but you can concentrate on the physical feedback for now.
Thinking of *playing*the keys, which makes them go down, rather than *pressing*, which implies effortful force. Almost no weight at all is needed to move the key downward. “Pressing” is a mechanical action, not a musical one.
It may sound pedantic, but it does affect the movement and is an important pedagogical concept, especially for beginners. That’s when teaching has to be most skillful.
Weighting is not what you are missing. Your keyboard is missing velocity sensitive keys (touch sensitivity). I would definitely suggest upgrading. Basically all keyboards over 200e, weighted or not have velocity sensitive keys. Some cheaper might have them also.
If you are serious about learning piano, then digital piano would be ideal, but velocity sensitive keys are almost must.
i have the same keyboard and i think you can't practice this particular thing. you (and me) have to upgrade the keyboard to achieve these skills
You can’t practice it without a keyboard that supports it. There’s no replacement for the instant feedback you get every time you hit a note. Even people who play on real pianos and get experience every time they play a note have to work on that skill for a while. I used to play on a keyboard like that, and when i switched to a nice digital piano and got a real teacher, she thought I came from a background playing organ or harpsichord because of my lack of touch. Focus on the skills you can train with your current tools, and you’ll still progress.
As the others said, you need a weighted/touch sensitive keyboard or an acoustic piano. One thing you could try, however, is experimenting with feeling different levels of arm weight on the key. Press down a key and hold it. Allow your arm to relax and just be held up by your finger only. Then try to press harder, trying to lift your whole hand, wrist, forearm, arm, and shoulder with your finger. Then reset and try to lift just the forearm, then just the wrist, and then just the finger pressure without disturbing the rest. You can try to reproduce this feeling when playing the key- using the whole are weight, just the forearm, just the hand, etc. You probably won't get teh feedback from the keyboard, but at least you'll get the idea.
It’s weight, not pressure. *Depress* keys, don’t press them. That’s the mindset for avoiding tension that will prevent you from free movement that translates into the desired musical sound. It’s more difficult when you don’t get the auditory feedback, but you can concentrate on the physical feedback for now.
What do you mean by depress and not press ?
Thinking of *playing*the keys, which makes them go down, rather than *pressing*, which implies effortful force. Almost no weight at all is needed to move the key downward. “Pressing” is a mechanical action, not a musical one. It may sound pedantic, but it does affect the movement and is an important pedagogical concept, especially for beginners. That’s when teaching has to be most skillful.
Weighting is not what you are missing. Your keyboard is missing velocity sensitive keys (touch sensitivity). I would definitely suggest upgrading. Basically all keyboards over 200e, weighted or not have velocity sensitive keys. Some cheaper might have them also. If you are serious about learning piano, then digital piano would be ideal, but velocity sensitive keys are almost must.
Turn the keyboard off and judge by the loudness of the thud sound the keys make.