Silent Practicing

NOV 17, 2012:  This would work with any electronic keyboard.  Keep the keyboard turned off.  Then go to a desk and memorize a portion of music.  It can be only a few bars or a few lines---however much you can manage.  Then go to the keyboard and, without turning it on, play the passage at a playable tempo for you.  You might start at half-tempo and slowly work your way up using a metronome.  While you are doing this, imagine how the music would sound---not only the notes but the tone quality.

Then--after getting it up to tempo---turn the keyboard on and play the passage the way you would hopefully play it for a live perofrmance.  You might be surprised at not only how many notes you got but how close you were as far as the tone quality and the nuances.

The quickest way to learn would be to go straight from memorizing the passage at a desk to playing it at tempo, but this is another way of accomplishing close to the same thing.