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A Thousand Years Course
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NOTE: The sheet music extract below is for preview purposes only. Sheet music is not included with your course purchase.
A Thousand Years Course
Value: USD$195
Price: USD$45 *
Members Price: 1 Credit SAVE!
This love song has a breath-taking, magical feeling to it. The original recording by Christina Perri has a prominent finger-picking guitar part which seems to be begging for a harp version! Christy-Lyn’s arrangement maintains the beautiful simplicity of the song while making it really comfortable to play on the harp.
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Difficulty level & Skills required
Early-intermediate: The right hand has some slightly more complex rhythms, and often plays more than one note at a time. The left hand has a variety of shapes and patterns, and the overlapping bracket sequences take more concentration than the late-beginner pieces typically do.
Type of harp
Lever harps or pedal harp. This arrangement can be played on small harps (22 string C to C harp or larger).
Range
Lowest note is E below middle C. Highest note is C, two octaves above middle C.
Levers/Pedals
It is in the key of C major, with no sharps or flats. There are no lever changes during the piece.
What‘s Included?
Video Course with multiple lessons to learn A Thousand Years (early-intermediate).
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Jane Linstead (verified owner) –
A beautiful piece and well taught. Definitely still a work in progress for me. Great practice for placements of 4-2-1 chords.
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omshaleem (verified owner) –
What a beautiful harp piece. I so appreciate Christy-Lyn’s instructions on timing and finger placement! I had the sheet music printed, and tried learning the song without the course, and it sounded pretty bad. Now that I’ve completed the course, it sounds pretty good. Next, I’ll practice a thousand times, and it will for sure sound beautiful! Thank for your pleasant instructions and encouragement!
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Jewelyn Sims (verified owner) –
Great! I see where a couple of spots that could help with speed. Right hand- on measure # 4-5- set figuring 1, 2,3 as notated but add 4 to first note C, bracket . Then finger 2 brackets alone. The other’ measure # 6 use only one bracket – fingering:2,1,4,3. I found this helped me make the count & speed. Plus decreased hand movement which saves time. One thing, I’ve not played with anyone before so I really struggled. All and all this was great!!! Thank you! Sunny regards, Jewelyn
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Sheila Blaicher (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed this piece. I learned a great deal and felt a real sense of accomplishment. I thought it would have been helpful to explain in the last measures where the music had a bracket around the left hand cords that you don’t play in measure J, left hand, measures 45 and 47. explain why you don’t keep repeating the cord. some people don’t know how to read music and this would have been helpful. Thanks for asking.
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Elizabeth Platt (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed learning this piece. It’s frustrating to find that I still make mistakes when playing along with you! So I keep practising with the full speed recording. Thank you
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Kathleen David-Bajar (verified owner) –
I’m a senior, new to music, and with vision, hearing, and joint challenges. Timing and rhythm have been very challenging for me, but this course has been a real breakthrough for me in that area. I’m so very grateful for your gentle and very skillful teaching which has given me a wonderful late in life gift!
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Sheila Krenz (verified owner) –
I love the structure of the instruction very much
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Michaela Blosser (verified owner) –
Great instruction for all levels of harpists. It is a beautiful stand-alone, or accompanied piece. I do wish it had a bit more of an intro, to add atmosphere to the beginning of the song, but both hand parts together build and compliment each other to create such a fantastic story. Very well written musically to encompass all the loveliness of A Thousand Years. 10/10 Instruction, encouragement, and ambiance. Thank you!!
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Mayra King –
I just finished the lessons and I feel confident in playing it. It’s such a soothing song as well, I really enjoy playing it.
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