8 Dec
2017
8 Dec
'17
11:55 a.m.
[Cedric Roux]
I'm looking for people playing classic music
(Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, this kind of things).
If you fit, what do you think about midi master
keyboards? Do you use one of them to practice
your piano? And does it "feel" like the real
thing? Do you use it with joy, like "mmm, what to play
today? the piano or the midi keyboard?"
I have practiced a couple of piano pieces from these composers for two
to three hours a day for a while both on a Motif ES8 (Yamaha standard
weighted hammer keyboard) and a Bechstein upright (plus two or three
stints on a Hamburg Steinway grand) and I can tell you it's possible
to play this stuff on any keyboard, but there's no way your output on
a cheap keyboard will be anywhere near the smoothness, fluency and
consistency you'll achieve on proper piano keys.
I have yet to find a digital piano setup that can fully recreate the
close connection a piano gives you to the music, and I'm not sure it's
even attainable with what the market offers at this time. It's not a
major problem though, the brain is quite good at bridging this gap.
As for the joy thing (my apologies for going out on a tangent),
whatever instrument I end up playing, if I don't enjoy it, I've found
it better not to play at all. Practice without joy will form a habit
of joyless performing.
Cheers, Tim