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Vanessa Carlton => General Vanessa Carlton Discussion => Topic started by: Emmyspiano on September 02, 2006, 10:04:03 am
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I have a google homepage and on my homepage there's google videos and I noticed it was a how to play "blackbird" on piano. So I clicked it cause I thought it would be fun to learn and on the page there were other videos you could watch and learn to play a certian song and I saw A Thouand Miles. here you go...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8665573476816315877
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I've seen many other websites having a particular video of this one guy showing us how to play a thousand miles....(like youtube and viewdo)
first time I'm seeing this one...
And by blackbird you mean the one by sarah mchlachlan..?
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the beatles
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thats abosolutley not how i play it
its not even in the right key..he adds to much "fluff"
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He's not playing what Vanessa plays because what she plays is too boring for solo piano. He's not singing along, so he needs to jazz it up a tad.
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i agree with whitehouses....that was very "fluffy" :-P
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I don't really like the way he plays this song. I'm embarrassed to even watch it. He didn't play it in its original key. I had to stop watching b/c it was torture to my ears how they were playing and how that guy was explaining it. I learned most of the song by ear, too. I play it a little different from VC chord-wise, but I don't take away from the riffs or rhythm. When I get to, 'If I could fall...', instead of using the ususal Gb/E chord that VC does, I start out on the B chord, but play the same riffs, just different chords. But it sounds just as good. I wish I could show you guys. The ironic thing is that B is a more difficult chord to play in b/c it has 5 sharps/7 flats, but ATM is easier to play in this key. But White Houses is easier to play in C Major, though [I play both versions].
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That is scary, i'm only just learning Piano.. ATM is a while off for me i believe.
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i thought it was quite a nice take on "a thousand miles"
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That is scary, i'm only just learning Piano.. ATM is a while off for me i believe.
V's version is much easier than what you saw on this video.
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Yeah, it's fluffy, but it sounds like how it would be played at these "parties" he was talking about at the beginning.
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Why does anyone care whether or not he plays this in the same key that Vanessa does?
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Wait a minute. I thought she did play it in C (as well as B), though I don't remember which is on the record and which is live.
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it's b on the record... i wasn't aware of a c version
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I've heard some people say she often plays it in C live.
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it's b on the record... i wasn't aware of a c version
she plays it in C on the album, and B live.
i've never heard her playing in C live though, but would love to :)
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this is where I slap myself for being so dumb about music.
so just for clarification... does the sheet music match the album's? as in does the catchy little riff start with that B octave?
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this is where I slap myself for being so dumb about music.
so just for clarification... does the sheet music match the album's? as in does the catchy little riff start with that B octave?
in the official book, it starts with C and that's the album
but i know there's some sheet music around here that people have transcribed in B, which isn't on the studio version, but, however, vanessa plays it in B when she performs the song.
hope that helps lol :P
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I haven't watched the whole thing... I don't really enjoy that style...
It is a song, so it needs the vocals to be complete... so the extra "fluff" he adds might make it more "interesting" as an instrumental... but to me it is like the equivalent of a singer like Mariah Carey taking a perfectly good song and over-singing it with way to many "oohs" and vocal acrobatics...
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The music book has it in B. The album version is in B. I know it's in B because I played it in B and it's in B. :D
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The music book has it in B. The album version is in B. I know it's in B because I played it in B and it's in B. :D
THANK YOU!! GOD!!! My entire life almost fell to pieces of insanity! uh.
*cue huge sigh of relief*
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The music book has it in B. The album version is in B. I know it's in B because I played it in B and it's in B. :D
The album version of "White Houses" isn't in B.
The music book has it in 'C', and you can clearly tell the song is written in the 'C' note. She also plays it in 'C' in the video!
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Well, she plays it in B, I've play the album, and I play A 1000 Miles in my piano together with the song, and it's in B not C.
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well on my copy, it's in C and you can clearly tell it is.
go on your piano and listen to the intro to white houses
the
C-C-C-C-C
play it on ur piano and it'll sound exactly the same.
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HOLD ON JUST ONE DAMN MINUTE!
:?: Just what song are we discussing here? :?:
A Thousand Miles is in B. White Houses in probably in C, though I don't really care right now. :razz:
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Sorry, for some reason I thought you lot were talking about "White Houses"
*Goes and hides*
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Oh! :D Lol! :lol:
So, everything's worked out now?
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B, C, F#, Ab.... why should we care? IT'S STILL THE SAME SONG, EVEN IF SOMEBODY DOES TRANSPOSE THE THING!
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It really doesn't; you're right. If you're playing together, then you should be in the same key, but if you're by yourself, it doesn't matter. People with absolute pitch must not apply.
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wow, this is all making so much sense like I never thought it would. damn! But yes, white houses is in C on the album. I know for fact. I've only heard v perform wh in B live. I think changing the key of the song actually changes the mood just a little bit.... but I think v sings white houses in b because she doesn't want to sing those high high notes. (which are really only one note higher... but you can imagine.)