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than I'm sorry, but really.... save on something else and get a teacher anyway.
"keyboard" playing evolved in the last 500 years or so.. "piano" playing evolved in the last 300 years... there are so many detail that no book, no youtube video, no "nothing" can tell you but a teacher that spent the previous 10/20/30 years of his/her life learning what you want to learn... and between teachers you'll find good teachers, average teachers and bad teachers...

you can spend your whole life reinventing the wheel and discovering warm water in piano playing without the coaching of somebody that know the "right way"... at least to bring you at the level you desire.

remember that hitting the right keys is not even that important in music playing... and usually a lot of self learners stops there.

I just wanted to say, as a person who had lessons as a kid 30ish years ago, who is now back in the piano playing game with lots of kids, who just got a nice piano to relearn on and have his kids learn on, I don't think it's appropriate to be bashing on a poster for any reason. During my piano search, I came to the forum looking for honest good opinions (as one would expect from what is considered the pre-eminent forum for piano discussion). My feeling is that there are numerous experts here with years or decades of experience. If you have valuable feedback to provide, then please, by all means, post replies to newbie questions. If you don't want to answer the "same question" again and again, or have a negative opinion of what is being asked, then simply "don't reply" to the post. I too spent all my available funds on my piano, a hopefully wonderful used Yamaha U3. I have no money for lessons, and will be teaching myself and my kids. Possibly I don't aspire to play such difficult pieces as xphotography, but I also don't begrudge him trying to self teach, especially since we are in the age of self teaching, youtube, etc. Thanks again for all the expert advice.

Hi xphotography -- I've taught a considerable number of adult pianists who were self taught, and, to be honest I have to admit that virtually every one of them needed help on their technique. Unfortunately, the more advanced they were the more help they needed because the more bad habits the developed.

It sucks I know.

However, if you really can't afford a good teacher, maybe the best thing you can do for yourself--besides trying your best to watch your technique-- is develop a solid understanding of music theory, intervals, scales, chords, etc from the ground up.

I agree with other posters that the Piano Adventures and RCM stuff is good. Your intentions, in terms of going back and covering your fundamentals, are good. The problem is simply knowing how to cover those fundamentals without a teacher. Finding a good teacher is itself an issue you have to deal with when taking lessons, so imagine how hard it is to sort the good from the bad when you're trying to sort through the issues online.