Hello From Texas

Hey everyone, my name is Alex and I'm 18. I've always wanted to learn to play the piano but never really had a good site or teacher to help keep me focused on it.

Brief History:
Years 1-15 - My parents never signed me up for piano lessons or any musical instrument for that matter. I eventually went and learned guitar for about a year and a half but stopped once sports became stressful. I'm still mad that my parents never forced me to learn an instrument as a child (nor another language...).
Years 16-17 - At about 16 I went to the piano and wrote a song for a girl. It involves using all white keys and just the same finger position as a C major chord all over the keyboard. I actually like the sound and it's simple enough that I can sing and play. I used this song for a while as my piano piece that I could play anywhere to impress people. Eventually I wanted to learn how to do the real thing.
Year 18 - A little bit after turning 18 I really found the desire to learn a new song when I watched the movie "Once". There's the song "Falling Slowly" that's played and I thought it was so amazing that I just had to learn it. I got the beginning down in about a week (I learned a modified version that plays the vocals and piano and guitar kinda mixed altogether so it sounds good so it was a bit harder than just C D E, C D F E) Anyways, I then found myself at the pre-chorus thingy and in this version it had the left hand on one beat and the right hand on the other and I for the life of me couldn't figure out how to play it. I almost gave up but I wanted to learn the song really badly so I practiced everyday. Eventually after about a month I learned that part and the rest of the song became a lot easier the more I played it. I know the song was out of my difficulty range and it felt really good to overcome that. I then learned the beginning to "Welcome to the black parade" which also alternated hands/beats.

After learning these little songs and things I decided it was time to go to Andrew (or happen to find him luckily) and learn more about the piano. I still don't know all those weird names he uses for notes and stuff (chromatic? aggregion? I don't remember...) but I now understand how scales are formed and inversions and so much about playing (and I'm only on lesson 4).

So thank you Andrew and hopefully you can teach me to become the pianist I've always wanted to be

Awesome, welcome. You can learn all you need to know here.