Hi Carly’s Crew!

Welcome back to my piano journey. I’m currently working on learning how to play A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. I noticed that there are a lot of similarities between this song and my previous song but there are some new things that have been causing me some trouble.

For now, I am just focussing on using my right hand. I have learned about a minute of my song with the right hand so far but I am feeling super confident because the chorus is long and it repeats! The chorus is much faster than I have ever played before. It was tricky the first couple of times but I have been practicing it slowed down which has really been helping. I learned that you can use settings on the Youtube video to slow it down which also helps me practice.

Before I began learning my right hand I listened to the whole song and watched the video with the notes to see what I was getting in to. The left hand is much more active in this song so I know that is something that will be a huge challenge for me. To help me succeed I want to finish the rest of the song with my right hand pretty quickly so I have extra time to practice using both hands together.

The song has a variety of dynamics that I will need to practice as well. I have been trying to learn the dynamics as I work towards learning the notes because I think it will be easier rather than learning the whole song and then coming back to learn the dynamics after the fact.

I think I am definitely on the right track to being successful by the end of semester. Talk to you in a couple weeks so you can hear more about my musical adventure:)