Hello and welcome. I'm Joseph Hoffman, and
today we are learning how to play "Can't
Stop the Feeling"
a.k.a. "Dance Dance Dance" as performed by
Justin Timberlake. This is my preparatory
level tutorial for anyone very new to
piano, let's say zero to six months'
experience. If you're looking for
something harder, you can check out my
level 1 or level 2 tutorial. What. Oh, the
hair? I heard this song was from some
movie about trolls or something. Okay
let's come to the piano to get started.
One thing about my piano tutorials is
you're not just going to learn to play
songs, you're going to learn a few things
about reading music too.
Let's take a quick look at the sheet
music. We've got this symbol here which
is called a whole rest, it's a kind of little black
rectangle. Whenever you see that you're
going to count 4 beats of rest. This is
one whole measure. These bar lines show
you where the measures are, so here's one
measure. If you're going to count 1 2 3 4.
Just do nothing, a rest means you're just
waiting, and then right here you'll see
this note head is a D and you tell that
you're in the treble clef you've got
this line right here and it's just below
this bottom line. That note's called D, and
you've got 3 of them, so we'll play D D D.
Alright, so on the piano you'll take your
right hand finger 2, which is your
pointer finger, and on this middle D
after you wait four beats of rest, which
means do nothing, let's try it- one two
three four- you waited and then you go D
D D. So try that with me whenever we rest
I'd like you to count how many beats out
loud that will help you keep the steady
beat and then we'll play 3 Ds. So try this
with me, let's count it, go. ♫"One two three
four, D D D."♫
Good. Now, in the real song what you're
going to hear is Justin Timberlake is
going to be singing ♫"Nothing I can see
but you, when you.."♫ and while he's singing
all that that's when you're counting
those four beats, and then you'll play
♫"dance, dance, dance"♫ with him.
Okay now let's go back to the sheet
music and see what comes next after you
play "dance dance dance" then you've got
this quarter rest, which means "rest" or do
nothing, be silent for one beat. So you
can just kind of think "rest" for that. Now,
well do we have next? Another whole rest.
So once again we're going to count "one
two three four" and then three more Ds,
♫"dance dance dance, rest,"♫ then we do that
again. Four more beats of rest "one two
three four, dance dance dance,
rest" and then four more beats of rest.
and during these rest this is again when
Justin Timberlake is singing and here
he's singing ♫"nobody leaving soon so keep"♫
and then you're going to play ♫"dancing."♫
This is a D as we've seen before, and
this one goes a little bit lower, you can
see it goes off that staff and so it
gets this line through the middle of it
and that's called C or middle C. And then
this looks kind of like a whole rest,
that's a little different because
instead of hanging below the line like a
whole rest, this is a whole rest that I
just drew, and this is a half rest which
only lasts for two beats, one two, if it
sticks up from the line like this. Okay
so after ♫"dancing"♫ then you're going to
go "one, two." Okay so let's try all of that
so far on the piano. When you see the
rest, go ahead and count it out loud and
then we'll play the D D D, which is "dance
dance dance." There we go. Let's try it on
the piano.
Get your finger 2 ready on D, ready, go.
♫"One two three four,
dance dance dance, rest. One two three
four, dance dance dance, rest, one two three four,
dance dance dance, rest, one two three four,
dancing, one two."♫ Good.
Okay now what I'd like you to do is
press pause and try that on your own.
You're going to count the beat out loud
during those rests, and then play your
DDD and that last time you're going to
play DC. Remember to count the rest out
loud that's going to really help you
keep the beat when we add in the
soundtrack in a minute.
So press pause, practice that on your own,
then press play when you're ready to try
with me.
Ok let's try it with the soundtrack now.
So I'll play along with you and here
comes the music ready and
"1 2 3 4 dance dance dance, rest, 1 2 3 4,
dance dance dance, rest, 1 2 3 4 dance dance dance, rest
1 2 3 4, dancing."♫ Nice job.
Okay, now to make it a little bit trickier
this time I'll sing the Justin
Timberlake part. I know I probably don't
sound as good as Justin Timberlake but
bear with me, and you're going to just
play dance dance. So now when you're
counting 1 2 3 4
during that rest, that's when you're
going to be hearing the voice part that
goes "nothing I can see but you when you"
and then on "dance" that's where you come
in. Ok let's try this, here we go. ♫ ♫ Nothing
I can see but you, when you DANCE DANCE
DANCE rest.
Good good creeping up on you, so just
DANCE DANCE DANCE. All those things I
should do you but you DANCE DANCE DANCE.
and ain't nobody leaving soon - so keep DANCING.♫ ♫
Nice job.
Ok in my videos you can always press
pause for more time to practice on your
own, or rewind and try it again.
Otherwise let's keep going and check out
the next part in the sheet music.
Okay at this next part of the music we
get this new theme. First we've got a
rest, and now we've got this part that
goes ♫ "Got this feeling in my body."♫ Let's
figure out these notes. Like I said we've
got that one beat of rest, and then this
note which you can see the line that
bottom line of the treble clef staff
goes right through the middle of that
note head, so that makes that an E. And
then you'll see that's also an E E E. Four
Es in a row, then it steps down to the
same note we had for "Dance dance dance,"
which is a D, and you can see this note
steps down again to C then back up to D
and then steps back down to C and then
you'll see this curved line connecting
this C to this C, which is called a tie.
When two of the same notes are tied
together, you actually don't play this
one, you just kind of hold it extra long.
So let's just kind of ignore that one. We
have E E E E DC DC and that makes got
this feeling in my body let's try it on
the piano
so we've still got our hand in the same
position as before our thumb or finger
one is on c d e f g every finger kind of
on its own white key we're going to
start with finger three on e like this
e-e-e e-e-e-e c and with words that got
this feeling in my body now you try that
on your own good now let's break it down
for ease got this feeling now you try
good then on the words in my try that
good now let's try body which is also
Daisy now you try
good now let's put it all together got
this feeling in my god
your turn good now back to the sheet
music you'll see we have these two rests
in between rest rest and then it does
the same pattern again e-e-e-e DC DC so
press pause and I'd like you to practice
that phrase a few times on your own
until it feels really comfortable then
press play when you're ready to go on
good now let's take a look at the next
phrase we've got another quarter rest
and then e e this time it skips up to
the next line up which is a G so we have
e e G band back to E and then the same
notes we had before dc-dc so all
together e EG e d c d c let's try that
on the piano so in the same position as
before
two E's d e GG skips up
ee g so we use fingers three and five e
e g e now you trust good now let's do it
together
the words are wanna see you let's try
together go wanna see you and then it
goes d e e for move your body can you
play that go try it with me go move your
body now to put it all together
d EG d now you try good notes play
together ready go one see you yah ding
press pause and try that phrase a few
times on your own until you're really
confident with it and then press play to
go on
okay so let's look at how all these
pieces fit together
we've got got this evening in my body
rest rest and it does that again got
this feeling in my body then this
different one wanna see you move your
body rest rest then it goes back to our
original phrase ee ee dc-dc rest rest
and then another one got this feeling in
my body rest rest got this feeling in my
body then it ends with one more got this
seething in my body come on
and with these two notes and you can see
now instead of being on the middle c
line it's an extra line below that is a
below middle C and a G so we end with an
AG let's find that on the piano so we
were in this position but we've got a
skip below middle C down to here AG
you're going to come out of this
position for the last two notes come on
let's try that from got this feeling in
my body come on now you try that okay so
going back to measure nine this whole
section we'll play got this feeling in
my body we play that two times then we
do wanna see you move your body just one
time then we go back to got this feeling
in my day we do that four times and then
we finish with come on that's your part
okay so let's try it all the way through
if you want maybe you should just watch
this time or if you've been practicing
this for a while and you're ready to try
it with me you can we're going to go
through the whole thing now from the
beginning and have some fun with the
soundtrack here we go two three and
nothing not can see but you when you
dance
and feel the good-good creeping up on
you so just dance dance dance all those
things I should do you but you dance
dance dance and they nobody leave and to
keep dancing got this feeling in my body
got this feeling in my body wanna see
you move your body got this feeling in
my body got this feeling in my body got
this feeling in my body got this feeling
in my body come on
great job learning how to play can't
stop the feeling have lots of fun
practicing and see you next time
now this feeling in my body kept this
feeling in my body is feeling in my body
feeling in my body I wanna see you your
body is feeling in my body I got this
feeling in my body