Compliments from Cristiane the English teacher

Name: Cristiane Bucci Godoy
Comments: Andrew! I hope you read this, for I want you to know how much your videos helped me and how important it is to me to thank you from all my heart. I\'m from Brazil, 43 years old, and I have been studying the piano since 2000. Unfortunatelly, I didn\'t get good teachers, so all that time was kind of wasted. All I could do was to memorize some simple songs. I could not play and read at the same time, I could not really understand music. This has changed a bit since I\'ve started to study the violin, one year ago, for my violin teacher is great.

Two months ago I found your videos at YouTube and started to watch them - now I\'ve just finished watching lesson 33. I know now that I knew a lot of things, but I didn\'t know how to use my knowledge. With the help of your lessons I could learn a lot more than just practicing exercises. The techniques of relaxation and movement of the hands and arms and the techniques of reading the score were enormously helpful. Well, I love all of them, they are all very interesting and helpful. What I really want to say is that what you are doing must mean a lot to a lot of people and this is something. I mean, you are teaching all of this without any payment... For me, it was one of the best things in my entire life, for playing the piano is a dream that I have had all my life -and I was getting so frustrated!

Now, fortunately, I have also found a new piano teacher and she is better than the others I\'ve had, so I am hopeful about getting ahead and become capable of playing the classical music I love so much. I know now that I must be patient and practice a lot, but I have set a goal of ten years to become a \"real\" pianist. Of course now I\'m getting better results and faster, but I\'m still far from playing the music I love to hear. Another thing that I would like to say is that you are not only a generous person, but really different and very intelligent. I love studying about how the brain works and all the process of learning, and when you start talking about that I really think \"This is my kind of person\" - because it\'s so difficult to find people that are really focused on learning and focused on learning how to teach other people! You are a great teacher, Andrew! I am also a teacher, an English teacher here in Brazil, and I know that teaching is an art that most teacher s don\'t master. Most people teach for money, but a really good one teaches because it\'s a pleasure to do it. It\'s a pleasure to see other people developing skills and be a part of it, isn\'t it? This is what I see in you that is so rare and I know for sure that you will have a great career in the art of teaching as much as in the art of playing the piano.

(There\'s one book that helped me a lot in teaching, and maybe it could help you also. It helped me to understand that each person is different from the others, and so I\'ve learned how to look at each of my students in a different way and help them accordingly. It\'s \"Frames of mind: the theory of Multiple Intelligences\", by Howard Gardner. It\'s a psychological theory, so there are some boring parts in the book, but you skip those and go directly to where he explains about the different kinds of intelligences. There\'s a chapter about Musical Intelligence and at the end of the book he writes a little about the Suzuki methodology on teaching the violin - which I\'ve found worth reading.)

I have not enough words to thank you, really. The one thing I believe is that all the thoughts of gratitude are going directly to your account in heaven, so that you are going to receive from there all the things that you wish in life. I still didn\'t have the time to go over the site or watching all the videos, but I will be always visiting.

I should be in a German class, now, but I took this time to write a lot to you because it\'s really important to send this vibrations of gratitude. I hope it was not too much. Cristiane.