About to give up on learning piano...oh no :( but not now!

Name: Glendaly
> Comments: Andrew, I found your you tube video by absolute chance! I was
> about to give up on ever really 'learning' the piano, even though I had
> first been introduced to it at 5 years old by my musican father. I was told
> numerous times I was 'gifted', being able to hear a piece and play by ear,
> yet without someone showing me notes, I was lost. I lost touch with the
> piano and my natural talent. After finally finishing grad school last year,
> I thought "hey, you know what, I can learn the piano...I want to play, but I
> need to learn the basics from scratch!". No money for a teacher, and my dad
> being trained in other instruments NOT the piano was hard. I've taken
> classes in school and the best I learned was Mary had a Little Lamb. I was
> very distraught that I hadn't found someone to teach me the way I know I
> naturally learned. In my last hope I bought a book with a dvd on learning
> the piano and was so overwhelmed I told a friend of mine, "forget it....i
> suck at this, i'm not meant to play". Then I you tube'd "how to play the
> piano" and found your videos and this website. It gave me the inspiration to
> KNOW that I could learn, since everything you taught and the WAY you taught
> it made perfect sense to me. You'd show something, I'd have a question and
> the next thing you'd say was "so, you're probably asking yourself why...blah
> blah blah" and I thought "YES! I am thinking that right now!!" then you'd
> explain. I went back to my keyboard (borrowed since I don't have access to a
> piano now) and taught myself to play the Entertainer, one of my all time
> favorite pieces. I went home and played for my dad, who lit up like a
> Christmas tree to see I was 'picking it up' again, this time, not because I
> was being 'forced' to, but because I have a total love for the instrument. I
> honestly never thought I could find a teacher to inspire me and make me feel
> 'smart' in this way. I have learned so much from you and I've become
> addicted to watching your videos when I can. I make notes, I google sheet
> music, and I find great joy and pride in setting my goal to learning
> something and then doing it. I know I'm one of many that send you emails,
> but I just wanted to tell you that you have completely changed my life for
> the greater and openend up a world I thought was never going to be mine! If
> your first video had been anything else than you just being yourself, I
> would have turned it off, and perhaps given back the keyboard....it was
> absolutely your 'real' sense and genuine quality that got me hooked. Your
> videos totally make me smile and I feel like it's a friend teaching me, not
> a stranger. I look forward to watching them all, learning, and hopefully one
> day reaching the goal I have set for myself of playing pieces for my family
> and friends, and for myself. I never had a teacher - but now I feel like I
> do. So thank you!

Admin Andrew wrote:
Then I you tube'd "how to play the
> piano" and found your videos and this website.

> If your first video had been anything else than you just being yourself, I
> would have turned it off, and perhaps given back the keyboard....it was
> absolutely your 'real' sense and genuine quality that got me hooked.

I never had a teacher - but now I feel like I
> do. So thank you!