Oh yes, music is medicine! I don’t write often something here on Skool. But today I have to tell you something. Piano and guitar are helping me out of my depression with wonderful sounds. Another, great kind of therapy! You, dear Mat, and you, dear classmates, are helping me with so many positive mental suggestions almost every day, even far beyond the topic of music. Touching my soul. Another, great kind of therapists! I am so grateful and happy to have found you all here on Skool and to grow with you and the music! 🙏🫶🏻 So, and now back to practice! 🙌🏻 🎶🎹🎸

Billy Joel “Piano Man” Michael McDonald “Sweet Freedom”

Hi Mat! I‘m Conni from Berlin, Germany (sorry for my school English 😂) I‘m very interested in your method, (and thankful for the algorithm of Insta😄) because I always try to sing and play, what I FEEL. I grew up in the late 1960s in a family of house musicians (only the mens, rarely🤔), than typically for the decades after the war. At the weekends and at family parties always they played music together. My both grandfathers played Accordion, Acoustic Guitar, Violin, Double bass and Bandoneon (one of the old Bandoneons I own today 🙌🏻, but the notation is totally different and playing it is very difficult for me; BTW, I love Piazolla!), and so did my father and my uncles (originally our ancestors came from France, maybe they were Gypsies😉) As a little child, my very strict grandpa teached me me playing the Violin and a little bit Sheet reading for a few months, sometimes my father and I were playing for Seniors in a Home for the Elderly. Later dad teached me the acoustic guitar without using notes, only by ear, and I loved it! We played and sang old fashioned songs with accordion and guitar., whenever we had time. Now, beeing retired, I have more time, and half a year ago I fulfilled my dream, bought a simple and used E-piano and began learning to play piano. I can read notes, but I’m still searching and trying different methods, where playing chords and chord progressions by using Cheat Sheets are more important. And in the meantime I’m always using what I have learned and I’m trying to improvise. Now you know my musically history and the reasons why I’m here, and I’d like to learn more about your method together with mates of this community!

@Mathew Creedon Thank you so much Mat, for your very kind reply!🙏 I wish all of us here in these restless, disturbing times to feel a little more positive emotions every day, to save them, share and spread them with the help of music, no matter what genre. Music is an emotional language that everyone understands. And making music, listening to or dancing to it supports our mental health so well and is a deeply rooted part of our humanity. There is a very old rhymed saying in German: „Wo man singt, da lass dich ruhig nieder. Böse Menschen kennen keine Lieder!“ (Where you sing, settle down, bad people don't know songs.)