Checkpoint: yay! kind of..

Yay! Finally completed and uploaded my first piano cover! :D
Although I'm glad I finished one, I'm still far from satisfied with the result...(lol it sounds ok in the beginning, but once you get to the second half of the piece- its just bombs exploding all over the place! [leastwise that's how it felt through my head >_<"]) I think what I was really challenged with this time was actually finishing the piece to the end! Normally when I play just for myself, I like to do run throughs where I may make plenty of mistakes, but I simply ignore them and focus on staying on track with the piece and continue steadfastly until the end- basically I never stop :]. But, when I was recording the piano cover, since I knew it was a video, and if you make a mistake, it stays forever embedded in the video and people viewing it can always go back, rewind and hear it again T_T, whereas if you're playing live, who knows what will happen next time you play it?
I think that perspective of thought added a lot of pressure to myself, and partially contributed to my inability to continue and make it all the way to the end on the many retakes I did...I think I only made it all the way to the end once or twice? Its b/c what always happened was I would make minor mistakes but be able to keep going but would be weighed down by the memory of those mistakes and think I should stop and do it again since they were just careless mistakes; or I'll make a big blunder (wrong key, sharp instead of flat!, out-of-tune stumble) and be unable to continue with the rest.
But in terms of pros, what I liked the best was probably my beginning ^^- very steady, calm and clear...anyway hope you enjoy it :]