Hey Hivers, how are you? I hope you're doing great. Today I bring you my cover and interpretation of "Hopeless" on piano. A very beautiful melody with a unique meaning for me. And today I not only share with you the video but I also tell you my story with this song and its meaning for me.

Without further ado, let's get started...

Besides how important it is for me for being the first song that I manage to get through, as I said in the video and I will deepen a little here, the meaning of the melody is based on its beauty and how beautiful it is but at the same time the name with which I knew the song. Hopeless, a melancholic melody with its particular name. But something more interesting is that "Hopeless" is just the English translation of the original name of the song. "Hoffnungslos" is a German word meaning "Hopeless". It is the same name in different languages.

Hope is the last thing to be lost, as the saying goes. For me the name is closely related to the melody because both have in common the melancholic context or background. It reflects the feeling of emptiness that is losing the last thing you can lose in life, hope. A deep context that to my way of thinking gives a unique meaning to this song.

Moving on to the transfer of melodies, I want to go a little deeper on this point. As I mentioned in the video, transposing a song is moving it from one key to another, which is simple but it was the first time I did it so it was complicated to do it. But that didn't mean it was impossible.

The first thing I did was to find out what the original key was, and I found that out by looking at the notes and chords in the song. Analyzing what chords the song has I realized that the melody starts with the Am chord (A minor) and ended with this same chord. The next thing I did was to look on the internet for the scale of Am (A minor) and I saw that the notes that belong to that scale are the same notes that the song has throughout. From there I concluded that the original melody is in Am (A minor)..

Once I knew what key the song was in, what I did was to find the key I wanted to transpose the song to. What I did was to take the first notes of the melody that starts with the Am chord (A minor) and play the same melody with different chords until I tried it with the Ebm chord (E flat minor) and just by listening to that melody in that totality I knew that I had to transpose it there.

I searched the internet for the Ebm scale (E flat minor) and wrote down the equivalent of notes to the note of Am (A minor).

What I did once I knew this is to write down all the notes of the original key, look for their equivalent in the key I wanted to transpose it to and write down the equivalent notes.

This method is slow and there are other faster and easier methods to transpose a song, but this is how I did it. With patience, practice and effort I managed to transpose the song.

This experience for me is unforgettable, I learned and enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed recording, editing and writing this post. It is incredible for me to think about the time and dedication I had to achieve this, and to be able to see the result of it all and be able to say that it was worth it.

I am grateful to myself as well as to you for seeing and reading this post.

I hope you enjoyed it and I'll be here for more soon.