How to play A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton Piano Tutorial
- Filed under: Song tutorials
- Date: May 18,2008
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This is the main riff of the song. It was one of the first songs I learned ever on the piano and it sparked my interest after hearing it on the radio.
127 Responses for "How to play A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton Piano Tutorial"
hi! you’re super!
after watching it a few times, its easier than i thought!
thank you sooooo much!
XX
Thanks Ryan!
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I just wanted to let you know that you have a HUGE contribution in my learning to play the piano. And I’m sure that I’m speaking for a lot of people here
THANK YOU !
This song was one of my favorites!!! im so going to learn how to do this one too! Thanx for doing this!!!!!!
So true Aksha.
Thank you very much Ryan!
that was awesome i just started watching your vids today and learned 4 songs… well not quite good ill practice tho keep it up man. your awesome
whAt iS It HaNd PoSiTiOn I CnT SeE It!!
Good Job =D Hehe, you messed up at 00:14 xD
Hey thanks this is a really fun song to play. But I wish I knew the rest. Do you think you could show the rest of it. Watch David Archuleta on you tube playing it. I dont know if he added stuff or if that is how the song is supposed to be played. It sounds really good. Thanks sooooo much. I could’nt do this without you!
thanks i love this song. it would be great if u finished it
it would be great it during your tutorials the names of the notes ur playing would pop up on top of the screen!
ok soo keep going
your amazing
but…..
you make it easy
because you have
the keys letters
on it. my keyboard doesnt
and maybe try saying how many
is inbetween..not octive..not roman
numerals either 8 or eight or how ever
many…and your going too fast
and your hand is usually in the way
i know your trying
and yes it is tricky
but this perticular
song isnt good
for a tutorial
but thanks!
god bless
ok, ive learned alot of songs fro you and im learning this one
if you could remove it or something that would be amazing
but……………icant really see it, your banner saying free piano tuorials is in the way
Thank You
i LOVE this song but its hard to play because i cant move my hands that fast =( i was really hoping i could play this song… but thanks to you ryan i can play alot of songs i thought i couldnt play before!!!!!! Thanks a ton!
can you teach the chourus? plzzzz =]
hey!!
can u do cry by mandy moore…….
by the way..
you are awsome at teaching piano!!
hey.
do u have the music sheets for that “a thousand miles”?
can u send it to me if u do plz?
thanks.
:]
&&
ur really good.
i can never stop in the middle to teach or tell ppl what to do.
i’ll lose my place or something and have to start over.
can u teach Because of You by Kelly Clarkson? i would absolutely LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i learned it!!!!!!!!!!
than you
i want to learn the chorus now!!
can you
PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
SORRY I MEANT TO SAY
THANK YOU
well u kindA OF MESSED UP
ALOT!
BUT IT WAS STILL GOOD AND HELPFUL!
THANKS!
=))))
dude you seriously know how to teach man and ive learned a lot of song from you keep up the good work and if you can id really like if you did out of my league by stephan speaks please and thank you!
You should host your videos from Meta Cafe on your site, You would earn a shittt load more ..about 1000$ per vid
hi Ryan,
i’m a girl from the netherlands and because i wanted to learn piano i came on this site..=)
U are really good on the piano/keyboard..
thanks for teaching me this song
possibly could you teach the rest
UR AWESOME!!! this song is hard but i think i will get it, thnx 2 u! thnx again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In the verse, the left hand is different. It’s E and B together, then F# and C# together and then E and B together twice.
he did finsish it people. it’s basically just that over and over again in the song if you actually listened to it.
anywhoo, you are so amazing! thanks so much!!
-maddie
ive been so desperat to learn this song!!!!!! ever since the first time i saw it. i thought id never learned it :(( because i thought it was hard! but thanks to you. you’re sooooo awesome! you’re helping alot of people and inspiring them
may God bless you :)))) p.s. i’m still ltrying to learn it right now hshahah. so pls pray that iL be able to learn it! wee thanks :))
REally nice! i love this song! I like to listen it when i was 6 jears old, but i cant play the whole song because my hands are to smal to reach 2 B`s
OMG!! YAY!!
This is the one song that made me want to learn piano and this video is helping me learn it. It’s not hard at all and it’s easy to learn. THANK YOU SO MUCH! <3
Thanks! it was really really helpful!!!! Aaah! Can’t wait to play it!
thank you so much… i thought this song was hard so i gave up on it and then the next day for some reason i could play it… so then i learned both hands and now i can play this song!!! thanks
hi ryan,
great work bro i really appreciate your contributions your awesome dude..
god bless and keep up the good work
ok well i started watching you on you tube and i must say i enjoy your new site very easy to navigate..hopefully this type of feedback heps you enjoy teachign the piano more and more..all the negitive comments are just jelous people dont take notice thanks for your efforts and i hope to spread your teachings
aww come on dude, we need the rest of it here :(!
thanks ryan…
it was really helped me.
i will learn more about piano.^^
Omg! that rly helped me! its been my dream since i first heard this song to learn to play it on the piano! and now i can!!! thanx ryan! u helped me acheive my dream!!
<3 ily <3
This song is why I decided to take piano classes, but we’re going too slow for my own good. I’ll easily get bored if I don’t get to do things like this…
Hi, It’s hard for me to understand the left hand notes. Can you email me the keys of the left hands. xD.I can’t really get it. tatin2k4@yahoo.com
Hey ryan your awsome! I just learned how to play this song thanks! and can you post how to play Mad by Ne-Yo please?
this is really helpful
thank you
dude you rock!!!!!!!!! thx soooooooooooooo much
THANKS SO MUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) *^_^*
thanks you are so freking awsome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can you do a video on how to play cancer by my chemical romance
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
heeeey dude
ive been trying to learn this song for ages !!
could you please try and get the right hand keys for me
i cant get them thank youuu
Thanks so much for this! I learned it really quickly and it’s really fun to play
I wish you’d have a tutorial for the couple other parts of the song, though. I can’t figure it out myself haha.
lovew love love the song!!! omg thankyou sooo much!!! if it wasnt for you i wouldnt have been able to learn it for my talent show!!! me and my friend are singing it and im going to play the paino on it!!! any tips on playing the piano?? well tell me!!1 i jsut started geting lessons at the begining of the school year(august) and i really good(well thats what ppl say) sp yeah thatnkyou!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
sana naman merong piyesa ng a thousand miles na pedeng i-copy.. plzz
i luv ur songs ,can you make a toutoral on mad by neYo:]] id really apreciate it
it’s a really great song, and when i saw it on this site, i was really happy, but then i saw the video, it was the part that i already could play.. so i would be SO glad, if you will make a video where yoy play the rest of the song
thanks 
merci, je t’aime <3… ^^
heyaa.
ur really good,
could i have the notes with the letters at the bottem of each note please? it would be soooooooooooooooooooo helpful if i couldd!
thanx.
xxxx <3
About rotate on 2 min. it was confusing me ALOT. But you teach me really good in the beginning. I can do 1000 miles for talent show! Thank You! But plz do it slower.
HEY
thank you man
it’s awsome
when i heard the original music i tough it’s camplicated
and after watching it seems easy
thank you
now i can play it when ever i want
hey your amazing….could you possibly do fall for you by second hand seranade??? i know the intro but the other tutorial i was using wasn’t too great after the intro…and after watching your videos i think your gonna be my main source lol: )
This is great love how you play wish I could like that. Could you make a tutorial for (keep holding on) by Avril laviegne from the eragon movie
Hi. Thanks for playing so nicely! Rotate? Don’t get that. I am Selena’s sister. Would you play love story on youtube? That would be nice. Thanks.
You could give the notes too….
like a , b, c, thing…
that might encourage the viers to play it
Hi! Your tutorials AMAZING! When i first started to play i saw your love song video and that was my first song! lol. You should do Mad by Ne-Yo! I really want to learn that!
Dude, you’re awesome! I just found playing the piano fun again after a long break. I wonder if it wold be possible for you to please send me the chords/scores/sheets for this piece. It would be very appreciated.
Thanks again for your siite, it’s awesome!
My e-mail: diddan__@hotmail.com
WOW!!!!!!!!! This is amazing I have never played the piano (except for twinkle twinkle little star) and today at school my friend was telling me about learning this song so i dicided to try it. i went on youtube, and wiki how then I found your site and now I am VVVVEEEERRRRRYYYYY happy. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are the best pianoplayer EVER. I first had lessons, but my teacher was mean… Now i can finally show people what i can play! My compliments.
DONT STOP MAKING TUTORIALS
PLEASE POST SHOULD’VE SAID NO OR CHANGE BY TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!
wow this sonis so amazing,, youv made it so easy for me,, i learnt this surprisingly quickly, you are ana mazing player thankyou, and thats coming from someone who doesnt doesn’t know what note each key plays !!!,,x thanks,,,xx
You’r Good rly. Thx for that film.
Good luck with playing.
hey Thanks for the tutorial its helped me ALOT ^_^
super… could you make a tutorial of tonguetied by faber drive… i’ve ben searching for the notes and chords of it…but i didn’t find one…:[ plz do make tutorial of tonguetied…thankies
UR GREAT
super
ilove your tutorials….
OMG!!! Thanks a lot ryan!!! i so have learned a lot!!!
THANK YOU !
thank you so much for this is really helped
Thanks so much for making this look so easy!
hi
learnt this in the time of 3 hours any chance you could please do the rest of the song for us
Hey, this is an awesome song. i have 2 learn this for a performance, singing and playing : )
i was having so much trouble for the start and all you did was make it easier
THANKYOU SOME MUCH WHO EVER YOU ARE
YES! after watching this…I can play it…on my iphone piano!
This song was too wonderful. I wonder how long could I practice this to completely memorize the notes
I have learned so many at this piece…I have wanted to practice more about this.
I thought that the last time i`ve practice this was i really noticed that there is something wrong maybe you`ld miss the F-Clef notes and that was destructable.
hei !!..that was great !!
can you please send the chords on my e-mail ?..
jheri-09@yahoo.com.ph
thank you
Hi Ryan..I havent see you in our school but your name was always heard.. may I ask who is your adviser? at culinary arts? I wonder that you`ll reading this.
Hi Charmaine..do you know that your my crush? just kidding. Do you miss Harvard? or I just thought how Harvey read this. He might be jealous.
u r the best ever !
if you take requests, i think you should do a video on how to play “Fly With Me” by the jonas brothers.
thanks man i appreciate what you did
thankyou
GAH my hands are small, they’re too small to reach the Bs without hurting D :
poke mo kantot tite pepe pekpek titw ko malaki
goo slower
Where do i find part 2? i already kno this part.its the second one i dont kno
i love your piano tutorials but they would be so much better if while you were playing the song the notes would pop up! please think about this suggestion! it really would help..but other than that your doing an amazing job :]
that was great! now i can play it!!
AHHHH my hands are too small for alot of these songs.
doesnt the left hand play 2 octaves? i see her in the video playing 2 of them on the left hand
yea on her left hand she plays two octaves in the music video
SIR PLEASE FINISH
THE THOUSAND MILES!!
^_^
Thanks Ryan! Sooo MuCH love you! Lol^^ Hehe But I mean’et Thank you so much ha? from the philippines Aww! HGodspeed to ya’!!!!!
I absolutely thought this song was going to be really difficult but seeing you play it incouraged me to try it.-You are so good!!!!! THANKS!!!
Thanks, its really cool but too faster… (sorry for my bad english, i’m french :/)
that was so helpful. i watched it once and i know it good now, your so great! thanks so much
mad props to you man
thanks i nearly got it but you do it to fast!!!!!
Really Great Tutorial, it’s just getting both the hands playing at the same time that’s tricky - because I’ve never played piano before. Slowly getting it though, thanks so much
Your awsome at piano!! Got any tips for someone with small hands?
Im getting a piano for cristmas and this is gonna be the first song i learn will that be hard
How far are thos 2 notes apart????????????????????
wow!!!i love this song and i want to play the piano
Whoa.. Your so Good..!!
Love this song, you can performance so good !
this song is great by the way ! thanks Ryan
thx but sorta NO help 4 me trus me its not ur fault ur like a expert jus not what i was looking 4 and wht im looking 4 is jus a vido slowly showing the letters on the screen like ex g c x y r e a a
not saYING THTS how u play this song but i need letts like tht to sho up on the sreen not jus sum1 telling me but ur amainzing thx though
^ jillian, what notes are you talking about? x, y, r? what’s that?
REALLY GOOD…IM GONNA LEARN THIS!!
THANKS!!!! Its really easier than I thought after watching this video!!! But I still want a favor.. Can u post it on YOUTUBE??? Plzz and send back the link.. Thanks again and I already learned it!!
wow gud teacher of tat song I LIKED IT
that was sooooo helpful, it’s a lot easier than youtube because when you look things up on there, they’re all covers and this actually sounds like it, thanks
i wanna screw your brains out thats how much i loves you
DUDE I CANT GET IT!!!!!!!!!!!
it’s really nice but too fast.where did you get the notes anyway?
i think you need to put some latters in the kaybaords because i’m not that proffesional i’m 11 actually…
thanks a lot , i hope u apreciated my greetings i can now play thousand miles
Could you PLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ play when I look at you by Miley Cyrus, thats a rele good song and my friend and i are having a contest to see who can learn it first, and ur like my secret weapon. I would really appreciate it dude. You’re really talented and i wanna be to. SO PLEASE DO WHEN I LOOK AT YOU BY MILEY CYRUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANNA WIN MY CONTEST!
-dopey
LOLZ!!!!!
LOL- Dopey from snowhite! Not my real name, just don’t wanna release that on the internet. I’m not pointing fingers at anybody, like a lot of people who responded.
ps: ur good
pss: doc says hi
psss: grumpy says I hate you
pssss:sneezy says “ACHOO!” LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All I want to is to play that song and I looked almost everywhere but I didn’t get the chance to find , but I found it in here, thank you buddy
wowowowowowoow!!!
coooollll!!!
u make it easier
hey nice
Thank you so much! You make this song a lot easier. =D
I can almost play it, accept from the part with the F# and the B.
You said that is has to be F# B F# B F# B F#, but that sounds pretty weird when I play it. Just like it doesn’t have to be like that!
Could you please write the notes down or something?
Well, I’m not a very good at playing the piano, so I may be mistaken about the F# - B part.. :$
Down jay sean slow version
Sorry Down (candle light remix) by jay sean. Great song i would love to learn it on the piano
can you just give the letters to it??
as in the ABC kine!??
hey its an awesome tutorial
bt was wonderin if u cud put up a piano tutorial for “leavin on a jet plane” by chantal
i really need to learn it
its for a stage performance so PLEASE put it up…fast!!!
can u mention by wen u can post it online??i kinda really need it prettty fast so…
I love you!!! I’m been wanting to learn this for a while now.
Thanks so much for this! This was real quick and easy to learn, you are a great teacher.
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