I, too, am trying to become a keyboardist... i can't quite believe that your piano teacher had *heard of Bodom* before! It's rare for me to meet ANYONE who have heard them, let alone a piano teacher! That's awesome! I must move to Finland... :-\
Anyways, I played classical piano when I was little until I was 12 or 13 or so, then quit to spend more time on the Saxaphone which I played for a few years. I was actually pretty good at it, but I couldn't get into Jazz, so I eventually quit and started guitar instead. I managed to get decent at guitar, but again, couldn't get into any kind of rhythym and was constantly frustrated... So I decided after 12th grade (18yrs old) to go back to piano. So I started taking Jazz piano lessons and have gotten pretty OK at it... And the theory is useful for any kind of songwriting and especially soloing and such, though I'm not quite there yet... ;-)
And then I got a Roland XP-30 for Xmas...
I JUST NEED TO FUCKING PRACTICE!!! AHHHHH
I haven't played more than once or twice this summer!
Maybe it wasn't meant to be... ?!:zombie:
EDIT: WOW! THanks so much to the people who mentioned progsounds... I've been looking for a resource like that since I got my keyboard!!! I'll be spending some serious time reading all those great articles! Maybe that'll inspire me to start practicing :-D