“I have a very demanding job and wasn’t sure if I’d have time to learn, but I wanted to stop myself turning into a couch potato when I got home from work, exhausted. Matej said if I could do 20 minutes fairly regularly I should make progress, so I got into the habit of doing this as soon as I walked in the door if I was going home. I found very quickly that even after 10 minutes I felt completely energised, which was totally unexpected. Sometimes I find myself practising for much longer, and have no idea where the time went. I’m not sure if I’m going to go for grades or not as I’m enjoying the simplified classical and jazz pieces I’m learning anyway, and Matej is happy to leave it up to me to decide what I want to get out of it.”