I started playing piano (keyboard actually) when I first came to Nottingham. Life here really requires me to learn things to survive. Nothing much I could do here except for football and occasional night outs. That of course inclusive of clinical routines. I was looking to learn to play a musical instrument. Guitar certainly topped the list but I'm not really a fan. Then I realized my new housemate plays a keyboard. The idea struck. I browsed the internet to check for basic tutorials and bought myself a book. My housemate also helped me to learn some simple songs.
I realized it was something I want to make as a hobby and bought myself a keyboard. New problem arose as my interest grew. I no longer want to play by fingering or by songs, I wanted to know the theory. I couldn't really grasp the notes in my book and having piano class was just not the alternative with the hectic clinical schedules.
I checked around youtube for luck and luck was what struck me. I came to know 'Lypur', the nickname for Andrew Furmanczyk in youtube. I thought its going to be basic tutorials like what I expected to find out but I was proven wrong. He taught almost all the theories and hands on in staggering 40 videos.
He has a his own teaching website: http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca they are all for free! the videos were of course in flash youtube format. He teaches how to read piano notes all the way to putting emotions into your music. His motto is simple "give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish, you feed him for life". In the context translation, it means: he's trying to teach people how to play piano and to the extend of how to compose music.
He started to play piano at the age of 5 and compose his own song 4 years later. He won several piano competitions. He youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Lypur boast over 25 thousands subscribers. He teaches 30 students at his place beside supervising ice skating and ice hockey and he's 22.
Check his full biography: http://www.howtoplaypiano.ca/bio/
I am now 23. The best thing I have in my hands is the fact that I'm studying Medicine, full stop. His life story is really a slap to my face. I've been living with nothing to prove and nothing to be proud of. Just happy with my own tiny world. Being happy with enough money and good family is not the way I want to die. There's more to life than that.
