♫I can't stop the feelin'! Nothin' I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance♫
♫Feel a good, good creepin' up on you so just dance, dance, dance, come on♫
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 level 1
tutorial which is great for anyone with
let's say about a year of piano
experience. If you're looking for
something easier or harder you can check
out my preparatory level or level 2
tutorial. What? Oh, the hair. I hear this song's from some movie about trolls or
something. Okay, let's come to the piano to
get started. okay, we're going to be
starting in the chorus of "Can't Stop the
Feeling" when Justin Timberlake starts
going ♫Nothing I can see but you when
you♫ but when he's doing all those fast
words, what you're going to do since this
is a simplified arrangement, you're not
going to play those fast words. You've got
here in the music a whole rest and this
symbol right here is the whole rest and
that means to just wait for 4 beats so
you could count 1 2 3 4 and just hang
out and that's while Justin is singing
♫Nothing I can see but you when you♫ and
then on ♫Dance dance dance♫ that's when
you're going to play. This note right
here is a D and you can see you've got three of
them. So let's try it on the piano. You're
going to take right hand finger 2 on D
nearest the middle C of your piano and
just going to go ♫Dance, dance dance♫ So let's try
that. I'll sing the Justin Timberlake
part doing the best I can, and you're
waiting those 4 beats and when we get
to dance you're going to play the three
D's. Here we go.
♫Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance♫ Good,
super easy so far. Then you have another
rest, I'll just put an R for that. That's
a quarter rest so it just gets 1 beat.
Another whole rest, we wait 4 more
beats, 1 2 3 4 and then ♫Dance
dance dance♫ again rest 4 more beats
1 2 3 4 ♫Dance dance dance♫
rest 1 2 3 4 and this time
♫dancing♫ which is D C. Okay so let's try
all of this like I said whenever you
have these rests
that's where Justin Timberlake is going
to be singing
some fast notes and you're
just going to worry about playing the
'Dance dance dance' three times and then
♫dancing♫ So let's try that once.
Here we go from the top, ready and,
♫Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance♫
♫feel the good, good creepin' up on you so just dance, dance, dance♫ Rest.
♫All those things I should do you
but you dance, dance, dance, and ain't nobody leavin' soon♫
so keep dancing♫ Okay, now if you need extra
practice just press pause and try that
on your own, otherwise let's try that
with the accompaniment. So let me turn on
the backing track and I'll sing the
Justin Timberlake part. You're in charge
of the D D D's on 'Dance, dance dance' and
don't forget to count and just wait
during those faster notes, here we go.
♫Nothing I can see but you when you dance, dance, dance♫
♫feel the good, good creepin' up on you so just dance, dance, dance♫
♫All those things I should do you
but you dance, dance, dance, and ain't nobody leavin' soon♫
so keep dancing♫ And stop there. Good, now that's where it
gets really fun, then you know from the
song probably, that it goes up high and we
get ♫I can't stop the feelin'!♫ that's a little bit high for me but
you'll see in the music we jump up to
this treble C before we're on this
middle C was the last note we played and
then we come up to this treble C so
we've got to quickly move our hand from
here on the piano up an octave here and
we have C D D C D E. The sheet music you'll
see those notes C D D C D E for ♫I can't
stop the feeling♫ and that goes pretty
fast. ♫I can't stop the feeling♫
So let's try it slowly once. C D D C D E. Now you try.
Now, see if you can sing the words and
play at the same time, okay? ♫I can't stop the feeling♫
Slowly again, you try.
Good! Now, press pause and
try it a few more times on your own
until you can play it at this speed. ♫I can't stop the feeling♫ This
goes pretty fast but I want you to be
able to play it accurately and
confidently so press pause, do that a few
times C D D C D E until you can play it like this, and
then press play when you're ready to go on.
Okay, now looking the sheet music we just
did ♫I can't stop the feeling♫ and now
we've got all these rests. Rest, rest, rest,
this is a quarter rest so it's ...