(dan hitting himself in the head with a piano) EHEHEHEHEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello Internet, I'd like to tell you a story about dreams
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and how they get crushed and die
(aka a hydraulic press ☺)
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a lot of guys know that i play the piano (such talent much wow and no one cares)
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(plays Twinkle Twinkle Little Star how i wunda wot u r)
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it's not something my family forced me to do when i was younger.( W O A H 0_0)
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i actually decided to start learning myself when i was twelve
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when i saw something so beautiful and inspiring....
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that it changed my life forever....
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an episode of arthur
( the hell |: ')
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i am not joking this is what made me want to learn piano ( pfff yeah right)
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(Arthur playing Für Elise)nyenenenenenenenenenenenenenneennenennenennenenenennenennenennenennennenenennenennenennenen
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i was just so genuinely moved by arthur the aardvark playing für elise.
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and thought he was so damn cool which you know obviously he is. LANGUAGE
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and just wanted to be like him that i asked my mum if i could have piano lessons.
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now, my family couldnmt afford to buy a proper piano or anything generally.
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so i had to wait several months until christmas when i got this shitty keyboard
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you know the one, the one that they had in all the schools that does the (oh no i'm not ready for this)
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and the (mmmHHHH) and the (yeeee)
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yeah, i spent the first few months pretty much just making sex noises. (( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))
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but then it was finally time to get lessons.
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and fulfill my dream of becoming an aardvark
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i spent weeks saving up money by doing jobs for my family and my neighbours.
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and found there was a piano teacher on my street
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a little old lady who had been a tutor for about fifty years
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now you may be wondering why i made out like this was a bad story
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and why this all sounds quite past tense.
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after all if i started learning twelve years ago surely i'm so incredible pianist by now?
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nope bc i quit after eight weeks
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now why would i quit something that i was genuinely inspired to do
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and still love to this day
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easy. my piano teacher was
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an eVIL FUCKING MONSTER LANGUAGE
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WHO CRUSHED MY SPIRIT LIKE AN ELEPHANT TRAMPLING ON A SWEET INNOCENT FLOWER
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(crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
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what first appeared to be a kind grandma teaching children the joys of music
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turned out to be sadistic witch passing the time until her lonely death
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by shredding children's aspirations to pieces
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HAHUEHEUHEUEHEUEHEUEHEFFTRDFRETRFREGFYYUGY^YGUY^&HYUIUY^U(*YU^
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this is an accurate recreation of the first time we met
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i'm gonna learn the pianioooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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and then ill be cool and finally have frengnz
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hi my name is (d a n *war flashbacks* dundidduiyxzozj\8f76e)
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spEAK WHEN SPOKEN 2
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you want to play the piano fo u??
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HEUEHUEHEUHUEHEUEHUEHEUEHEUEHEUEHEHEUEHEHUEEHUEEHjhuujfhdli
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there was something bloody wrong with her jeeeeeeeeeeez
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to this day i have never met someone as relentlessly miserable
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negative and frankly creepy as this piano teacher
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here are some of the various things she actually said to me (not clickbait)
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show me yo hands (( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) i'm sorry)
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um ugly fat fingers that's not promising.....................................
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[Transitional sound effect]
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i teach classical only none of this pop rubbish that you'll want to play
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oh i taught myself how to play für elise
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well let me hear you play it
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*inhales as hard as possible bc oxygen is necessary*
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stop awful i don't know if it's possible to unlearn that
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but it's my fav song!!! i'd love to learn to play it properly
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it's a terrible song i hate it, it is easily the worst thing beethoven ever composed
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[Transitional sound effect]
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(having mental breakdown) piano's still fun
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fUn fUn not afraid or crying at night
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yo are 4 minutes l8.
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sorry i had to wash my neighbour's car to get money for today's lesson
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if you can't afford it then don't waste my time
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im not doing this for fun
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dan having a mental breakdown again
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literally exact quotes that have stuck with me for over a decade
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she was the guy from whiplash except i had no talents to refine
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any aspect that i might have thought would be fun about learning an instrument
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just turned into something that i was doing wrong
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and tbh learning to read sheet music just felt like another piece of homework that i had to fo after school
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i'd actually do math hw to procrastinate from practising piano out of fear
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now i bet you're thinking alright dan where's this going?
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is she gonna redeem herself with a tragic backstory, or maybe you'll both rescue a cat out of a tree together?
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nope no idea she was just a total dick
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i hope you're somebody that laughs at other people's misfortunes
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you're not just sat there with a sad face already
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bc this is just gonna keep going downhill
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the moment she completely lost me though
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was when she went to the bathroom once in a lesson
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and i used the opportunity to snoop around her house
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looking for some kind of proof that she was a super villain or alien
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your son was killed by a falling piano
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no you were married to a piano but then he died
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no you wanted to be a piano but you were born in a human body
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and decided to open her fridge cause you know obviously thats were everybody keeps their secrets
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and i shit u not this was by far the weirdest thing in this whole ordeal
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her entire fridge was filled with meat.
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no vegetables no milk (war flashbacks) no condiments of any kind
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just individual bits of meat in boxes
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nope, nope, nope, nope
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in hindsight she could have totally been a cannibal or something
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i have no idea why i didn't mention this go anyone
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for 2 months twice a week i was subjected to her abuse in the terrifying dusty meat cave
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and paying for it myself
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until one day i had a profound realisation
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wait a minute if i saved my money i could have boughg a PS2 by now
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and i just didnt turn up to the lesson
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i went home, watched an episode of arthur with a bag of crisps
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and didn't do my math hw either
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no related reason i just didn't like my math teacher (same)
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shot op okei r8 todai lads we're going (down down) 2 b talking bout sords.
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i felt like i finally beat the cycle of manipulative behaviour
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and the joy was beginning to return to my life
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when suddenly like the climax of a rly weird movie
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she turned up outside my house
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i never considered that she'd come to me
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i didn't know this bat could walk
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i just assumed that she grew out of the floot by her piano like some weird fungus
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i realised that if i ever wanted to get even w/ her
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i was home alone just me and the teacher with no one around to see what i'd do
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so you know what i did?
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i ran upstairs and literally covered under the bed
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having a mental breakdown yet again
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i was fucking terrified of her
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i didnt care if she wasnt strong enough to open the door by herself
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or if shuffling up the street to my hpuse used what little life force she had left
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from sucking the souls of innocent babies
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i was not confronting her so i hid for about an hour
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and i never spoke to her again
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no more piano no more pianonomorepiano
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i told my parents she moved to scotland or something
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and i decided that instead i would spend my money on something that would make me happy (a PS2?)
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a pet hamster (really m8)
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and we all know how well that worked out dont we
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jesus i had a traumatizing childhood didnt i???
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and there we go my parentd never found out why i stopped my lessons
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i didn't speak to the evil piano teacher ever again
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and i didnt get round to learning how to read sheet music or improving in any way.
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so now i just learn songs that i like by ear
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and play them really badly.
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[plays Mia and Sebastian's Theme from 'La La Land' end]
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[bell sounds, applause]
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but now, after literally ten years
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I think I'm finally over it and I'm actually considering getting lessons again,
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which is why i decided to film this
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and hey, this time, if the teacher's mean to me,
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Instead of just suffering in silence.
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Which I did quite a lot as a child.
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I guess the point I'm making in this video
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is don't let anybody crush your spirit,
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find somebody positive that will nurture your talent and inspire you,
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and Arthur had a bigger impression on me as a child than any adult.
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Well, that was really like a public therapy session, wasn't it?
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Eh, who am I kidding, that's this entire channel, isn't it?
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Leave a comment down below this post telling me any stories that you might have
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about any insane, or maybe inspiring, teachers that have a more just ending than mine hopefully,
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and I will read those later. Thanks.
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which are hour-long livestreams
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where I have deep, philosophical, intimate conversations about things
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which you might enjoy if you want to see another side of me,
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and yeah, Arthur is furry propaganda designed to brainwash our children
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and that is all. Bye!
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