i hope ur not getting bored of me posting on here, but i do not have a music teacher or anything (just in case u thought i did).
My question is:-
I always see these people playing songs with real expression in them and complex chords, and they sound really good. Then, I go to my keyboard and all the songs i play are flat, boring, and sound like nursery rhymes or someting.
Do u know any songs which have real expression in them and don't sound like nursery rhymes (thats the best description of my songs that i can fink of). bear in mind that im only level 4-6 if i stretch it. I guessed them levels by the songsi can play as i havent taken any exams.

It's not the piece that has expression, it's you that has to put the expression into the pieces. I'm sure that a good player could play nursery rhymes with expression. It takes practice and lots of experience don't forget that as well as practising your own playing to listen to others too and you can learn from them: if you can feel the expression in someone else's playing you're part of the way there to putting it into yours. Some people suggest trying to picture a scene whilst your playing; or making up a story for the piece and trying to tell it through your playing. Other than that it's just something that takes time: keep practising.

You have to be able to play a piece very well / fluently before you can express yourself through it - the mechanics of playing have to be transparent.

I know Im probably going to get shot down for this but here goes....

Imagine an arrow going through every short phrase in you picec of music, and that your only aim is to get to THE END OF THE ARROW, not the end of the piece. You instantly concentrate on that phrase, rather than thinking of it as a small, insignificant part of one big piece, and your music takes far more body and substance.

I tend to find this works for people about to embark upon grades 6 - 8, but don't seem to have a great sence of musicality. They, with practice, create expressive and impassioned music, but also develop there own sence of musicality, and so eventually, providing a piece of music with body and substance comes naturally.

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I was told on every one of my grade results report (21 practical in total) that my scales lacked musicality.

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I tend to find this works for people about to embark upon grades 6 - 8, but don't seem to have a great sence of musicality.

Hmmmm......

LOL!!!! Sorry! I just don't really understand, and neither does my teaher how you can seriously make scales musical. You can understand the emotional impact of a piece of music, or at least attempt to. If you can tell me how to do this with a scale please enlighten me.