Let me tell you a story.
My grandpa was a quiet, strong man.
Grease filled the cracks of his weathered hands. Scars covered his forearms and fingers like grenades on a battlefield. Years and years of working with sheet metal, and fixing things.
I loved hanging out with him. Following him around all day long with a wrench in my hand. Laying underneath tractors and cars, just to see what he was doing. Getting dripped on from the sweat band he wore on his forehead and not even caring. Those were my favorite child hood memories.
If we had a good day on the farm we would go for a ride later in the afternoon. And Grandpas ride could last for hours.
I must have seen a thousand Rv stores, hundreds of boat shops, and junkyards galore. Man, what I wouldn’t give to have one more ride with Grandpa. Later on as we got older we used to sit around and talk about all grandpa’s toys. All those things that make the eyes grow big in a boy!
He wasn’t a man of many words. Which was fine. I just enjoyed spending time with him.
But he said something once that has always stuck with me. And actually saved my life one time.
He said, “Tim, never force it. If it doesn’t work one way, try it another.”
At the time he was talking about loosening a bolt.
But later on in life when I was flying from Dsm, Iowa to Bolivar Missouri what he told me saved my life.
I was trying to beat a thunderstorm that was moving in. And I was trying to land on this little grass strip in the middle of nowhere at midnight. I tried 3 times and I couldn’t seem to get the plane slowed down, the runway kept getting eaten up underneath me and I couldn’t put it down.
Then the words of my Grandpa came to me.
“don’t force it, try it another way”
So I did.
I went around the strip again, turned around and came in the other way. Plane slowed, landed smooth.
Come to find out…
…The thunderstorm had completely switched the wind 180 degrees from where it was. And on this strip the light had gone out that showed the windsock. Thanks Grandpa.
Me flying that night isn’t all that different to lots of piano students.
I get a lot of piano students that have tried to learn from lots of different programs. Traditional teaching, online programs, play by ear programs, only to be disappointed, frustrated and scared to try again.
Well..
… I am hear to tell you it’s okay to try another way. That way is the Layer Method of Piano. It’s different. It’s taught by someone who has already failed at all the other way s of teaching piano and finally ended up playing.
It’s step by step and ready to teach you.
If you just haven’t been able to “get it”, it’s okay, chances are they were teaching you wrong.
All you have to do it quit forcing it, and try another way right here:
