A Thousand Miles Guitar tab video
Vanessa Carlton
Make your own A Thousand Miles tab video, freeNo editing. No card. 10 minutes free.- Instrument
- Guitar
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Tuning
- —
- Key
- Si maggiore
- Tempo
- 85 BPM
About this riff
Important! Place the capo on the 4th fret. This is a guitar adaptation of the song's famous cascading piano ostinato, so the challenge is voicing those flowing broken-chord arpeggios cleanly on the fretboard. It's a fingerstyle-friendly part built on repeating patterns over a diatonic chord progression, demanding steady right-hand timing at 85 BPM and smooth position shifts to keep the notes ringing into each other. Worth learning as an exercise in translating a keyboard riff into a lyrical, arpeggiated guitar line.
Did you know?
Vanessa Carlton wrote the song's signature riff at her parents' house and originally titled it "Interlude," but she got writer's block and set it aside for months. She only finished the song after a record producer heard the opening and told her she had to complete it, then wrote the rest in about an hour once she returned home. In its early form it appeared in the 2001 film Legally Blonde under the title "A Thousand Miles (Interlude)" before its 2002 single release.
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