Beginning to teach myself piano - Where do I start?

[osu12]

Quick background of myself - I am now in college and looking to learn how to play piano. I do not play regularly anymore, but I have played trumpet for the past 9 years and was serious about it to the point where I almost chose to major in Music heading into college, but ended up not having the passion.

Recently, I heard a piece played on piano that I just had to learn to play myself, so I hacked away for two weeks for hours a day with almost no piano experience and have finally learned the piece, but that's about all I can do. I want to learn new music, but I don't want to have to take baby steps for two weeks just to learn simple pieces!

What books would you recommend I get? I downloaded some technical study books and what not online, but I feel as though I do not have a set path to growth - I am just playing what feels like is helping me improve.

EDIT: I was looking for some books online and came across "Alfred's Basic Adult Piano Course" - is anyone familiar with this and would this be a good start? Or are there better options?

[danhuyle]

I can show you how to get to where I am if that's your goal in piano.

There's nothing wrong with Alfred's basic adult piano course. Then there's my piano courses designed for people to get to my level in 2 years or less bypassing the college route.

I studied music in college majoring in piano and I was forced into self-learning when my teacher only prepared 21 minutes of music (unbeknownst that one of them I used for my audition) instead of 30 minutes. If you know university teachers, they tell you everything is hard and I'm left on my own to figure things out for myself. You won't need to go through what I experienced.

My first 8 years I got nowhere. Sure would've been nice if someone had shown me the stuff I know now about piano. 

[pianootje]

If you want to learn to play piano for free, you should check out www.Piano-Star.weebly.com. It's a dutch site, but i learned everything i know from it!
Bye

[osu12]

Thank you for the responses!

@danhuyle - How could I not want to see your piano courses after you put it like that! I would love to see what you developed.

[pianoyutube]

You could have a look at "Furmanczyk Piano Academy" a free channel in youtube.com

[michellejohnson]

Just visit: https://www.markhansen.biz/Piano/Piano-Chords-The-Easy-Way.html

It has the easiest ways for the beginners to learn piano.