Categories

Archives

Cool Stuff

advertising

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

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.



74 Responses for "How to play A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton Piano Tutorial"

  1. ^^its-me^^ May 30th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    hi! you’re super!
    after watching it a few times, its easier than i thought! :D
    thank you sooooo much!
    XX

  2. Aksha June 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 am

    Thanks Ryan!
    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 ! :)

  3. Cokes94 June 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm

    This song was one of my favorites!!! im so going to learn how to do this one too! Thanx for doing this!!!!!!

  4. Romy June 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    So true Aksha.
    Thank you very much Ryan!

  5. Drew June 9th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    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

  6. charmaine June 11th, 2008 at 1:28 am

    whAt iS It HaNd PoSiTiOn I CnT SeE It!!

  7. Tori June 12th, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Good Job =D Hehe, you messed up at 00:14 xD

  8. Chelsea June 14th, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    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!

  9. Anonymous June 18th, 2008 at 5:20 am

    thanks i love this song. it would be great if u finished it

  10. Anonymous June 18th, 2008 at 5:27 am

    it would be great it during your tutorials the names of the notes ur playing would pop up on top of the screen!

  11. me June 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    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

  12. Dannielle June 23rd, 2008 at 7:19 am

    ok, ive learned alot of songs fro you and im learning this one
    but……………icant really see it, your banner saying free piano tuorials is in the way :( if you could remove it or something that would be amazing

    Thank You

  13. PianoPlayer June 28th, 2008 at 2:59 pm

    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!

  14. Jessica June 28th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    can you teach the chourus? plzzzz =]

  15. Doodle-Kins July 3rd, 2008 at 6:49 pm

    hey!!
    can u do cry by mandy moore…….
    by the way..
    you are awsome at teaching piano!!

  16. Brenda July 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm

    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.

  17. Diedre July 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    can u teach Because of You by Kelly Clarkson? i would absolutely LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

  18. jenny July 15th, 2008 at 9:31 am

    i learned it!!!!!!!!!!
    than you

    i want to learn the chorus now!!

    can you

    PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

  19. jenny July 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am

    SORRY I MEANT TO SAY
    THANK YOU

  20. jenny July 16th, 2008 at 1:06 am

    well u kindA OF MESSED UP

    ALOT!

    BUT IT WAS STILL GOOD AND HELPFUL!

    THANKS!
    =))))

  21. Rogers July 21st, 2008 at 11:24 am

    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! :)

  22. Swiminpro July 26th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    You should host your videos from Meta Cafe on your site, You would earn a shittt load more ..about 1000$ per vid

  23. Nathalie July 30th, 2008 at 9:12 am

    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

  24. Brian August 6th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    possibly could you teach the rest

  25. Avery August 7th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    UR AWESOME!!! this song is hard but i think i will get it, thnx 2 u! thnx again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. Krystal August 7th, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    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.

  27. Maddiekinz-again August 18th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    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

  28. AJ September 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 am

    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 :))

  29. Silke September 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am

    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

  30. Jade October 6th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    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

  31. Maria October 14th, 2008 at 12:53 am

    Thanks! it was really really helpful!!!! Aaah! Can’t wait to play it!

  32. shelby October 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    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

  33. jeremy October 27th, 2008 at 2:36 am

    hi ryan,

    great work bro i really appreciate your contributions your awesome dude..

    god bless and keep up the good work

  34. will October 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

    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

  35. Sara October 30th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    aww come on dude, we need the rest of it here :(!

  36. cutie pie.. November 1st, 2008 at 8:58 am

    thanks ryan…
    it was really helped me.

    i will learn more about piano.^^

  37. Rene November 17th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

    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!! :D <3 ily <3

  38. Amy November 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    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…

  39. Faustine December 16th, 2008 at 4:38 am

    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

  40. Steve January 4th, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    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?

  41. isamyi January 26th, 2009 at 4:25 am

    this is really helpful
    thank you

  42. sk8er boi January 29th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

    dude you rock!!!!!!!!! thx soooooooooooooo much

  43. rocker -GIRL January 29th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    THANKS SO MUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) *^_^*

  44. *^_^* January 29th, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    thanks you are so freking awsome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  45. *^_^* January 29th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    can you do a video on how to play cancer by my chemical romance
    please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  46. sarah January 31st, 2009 at 10:06 am

    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 :)

  47. Leah February 2nd, 2009 at 5:32 pm

    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.

  48. ErinP February 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm

    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

  49. kingking February 12th, 2009 at 7:22 am

    sana naman merong piyesa ng a thousand miles na pedeng i-copy.. plzz

  50. mccartney luis nkocVy February 12th, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    i luv ur songs ,can you make a toutoral on mad by neYo:]] id really apreciate it

  51. Stine February 14th, 2009 at 7:19 am

    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 :D

  52. Maxime March 9th, 2009 at 5:01 am

    merci, je t’aime <3… ^^

  53. Angel March 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

    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

  54. Selena March 15th, 2009 at 5:28 pm

    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.

  55. STEEVE March 17th, 2009 at 6:20 am

    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

  56. jamila March 20th, 2009 at 12:16 am

    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: )

  57. Zeke March 21st, 2009 at 10:22 am

    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

  58. Emily March 22nd, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    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.

  59. anonymous March 26th, 2009 at 9:10 am

    You could give the notes too….
    like a , b, c, thing…
    that might encourage the viers to play it

  60. Anonymous March 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

    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!

  61. Didrik April 23rd, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    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

  62. Amy May 7th, 2009 at 9:26 pm

    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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

  63. Anonym May 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm

    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

  64. taylorswiftlove May 14th, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    PLEASE POST SHOULD’VE SAID NO OR CHANGE BY TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!

  65. JemmaR34 May 19th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    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

  66. FlameHase May 24th, 2009 at 5:57 am

    You’r Good rly. Thx for that film.
    Good luck with playing.

  67. star:] May 28th, 2009 at 12:43 am

    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….

  68. angel May 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    OMG!!! Thanks a lot ryan!!! i so have learned a lot!!!

  69. Anonymous May 31st, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    THANK YOU !

  70. rosiee June 13th, 2009 at 7:09 am

    thank you so much for this is really helped

  71. aina June 13th, 2009 at 8:42 am

    Thanks so much for making this look so easy! :)

  72. Thomas June 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    hi

    learnt this in the time of 3 hours any chance you could please do the rest of the song for us

  73. anon. June 23rd, 2009 at 2:44 am

    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

  74. David June 23rd, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    YES! after watching this…I can play it…on my iphone piano!


Leave a comment


Custom Search

Recent comments

Meta