how do i go about breaking a habit?
the obvious answer here is to play more, but i feel like if that's done wrong then it might only end up encouraging the habit, since the issue i have is definitely a mental block.
for some reason, my brain decides that i don't need to press down as hard on the keys for certain notes (soft-sounding?), which i guess saves a tiny bit of energy, but it's gotten to the point where i try to press the key but then i can notice myself telling myself to slow that finger down, and it ends up not pressing down the key at all, no matter how relaxed or tense i am.
i don't know the exact cause of it, but it happens a lot at low bpms and so i decided maybe if i played a lot of low bpm songs then it would work itself out, but i don't want to trick myself into think that i'm practicing this because it's a good habit. i don't really want to do a punishment thing where every time it happens i break my fingers with a hammer, either. so how else would i go about breaking a habit?
the obvious answer here is to play more, but i feel like if that's done wrong then it might only end up encouraging the habit, since the issue i have is definitely a mental block.
for some reason, my brain decides that i don't need to press down as hard on the keys for certain notes (soft-sounding?), which i guess saves a tiny bit of energy, but it's gotten to the point where i try to press the key but then i can notice myself telling myself to slow that finger down, and it ends up not pressing down the key at all, no matter how relaxed or tense i am.
i don't know the exact cause of it, but it happens a lot at low bpms and so i decided maybe if i played a lot of low bpm songs then it would work itself out, but i don't want to trick myself into think that i'm practicing this because it's a good habit. i don't really want to do a punishment thing where every time it happens i break my fingers with a hammer, either. so how else would i go about breaking a habit?