Playing the piano, for me, had always been something respectable yet utterly impossible. My fingers felt like massive bricks against the smooth, delicate black-and-white keys. Every time I tried to play a tune with my bricks, I missed a note, then another, then another, until I ended up just banging the keys in frustration and walking away.
But one day, I decided I was going to learn the iconic piano intro of the Beatles’ song “Let It Be”. Unfortunately, I was once again painfully reminded of my piano skills. My fingers were to playing the piano as Jeremy Lin was to being a Stanford student—which is to say a whole lot of nope and not-so-much of yes.
This time, though, I was not walking away. With the help of my go-to educational source, YouTube,