(Electronic music)
- Hey what's up everybody,
welcome to HDpiano, my name is Dan.
In this lesson, we'll learn how to play
Still D.R.E by Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dog
and we'll learn the main piano
riff which sounds like this.
Three, four
(piano music playing)
Alright, so this piano riff
is the only bit of music,
other than the backing
track, the drum track,
in the whole song, okay?
So, with that, I've got a question.
What is your favorite,
piano-based rap backing track?
I would like to know.
I think one of my personal
favorites is Homecoming
by Kanye West and Chris Martin.
I love that piano part, that piano loop.
So what's your favorite?
Comment below.
Alright, so let's look at the chords first
and then I'll break down the rhythm.
And another note, this isn't gonna sound
just like the recording.
The part will be exactly the same,
but you won't be able to play
along with the recording,
unless you can shift the
tone of your piano down
like a quarter step.
What happened in this song
was they sampled it down
one quarter step so it sounds
out of tune in the recording.
I'm not teaching it in the wrong key,
this is the correct key.
But it is slightly off-pitch,
a little out of tune, if you will.
So we start on this Bb minor chord.
Bb is in the left, Db-F-Bb in the right.
We only have three chords here.
Right hand stays the same,
left hand passes through
C on our way to Fsus,
our second chord.
So we have F's in the
left, C-F-Bb in the right
And then the right had
resolves to F minor.
And that's our third chord. F minor.
So we have Bb, left hand
moves through C down to Fsus.
And then right hand resolves to F minor.
Alright, now let's talk
about the rhythm here.
It's pretty cool.
The accompaniment style's
pretty cool in that
they're not playing all three
notes together, in the chord.
What's happening is we're
doing this fast arpeggio.
Almost as if these two
notes were grace notes
on our way to Bb.
It kinda seems to me like galloping.
Ba Da Dut, Da Da Dut, Da Da Dut.
Okay, so that is the accompaniment style
that we're gonna use.
It actually is a bit challenging,
so maybe until you get
comfortable enough with that
you can feel free to play
all three notes together.
But just know, that that's
how it sounds in the loop.
It's looking like this.
(keyboard arpeggios)
Except really fast.
Okay ...
Alright, so let's look at these chords.
What we're doing is we're
pulsing on eighth notes.
So we're pulsing one and
two and three and four and.
And that's our first measure.
Try that with me.
One and two and three and four and.
After that we have one and
two and three and for and.
So we play the Fsus three times.
One, two, three. And
the F minor five times.
One, two, three, for five.
In music, we count that like this.
One and two and three and four and.
So we're playing on beats
one, one and two and.
The and of two.
Okay? So let's look at that
slowly, right hand only.
Two and ready and watch.
One, two, three and four.
One and two and three and four. Repeat.
One, two, three, four,
one and two and three and four and.
So that's it, that's our loop in slow mo,
without the left hand.
We need to add the left
hand, so let's start.
Another Bb minor chord.
And the left hand alone is pretty simple,
it just looks like this.
(piano chords)
(piano music)
Okay, so, now that you see it,
I mean there's not much
else to it other than that.
Why don't we just try to play
it, super, super slow, okay?
I'm gonna do the loop
at, I'll say, half tempo.
So here's record tempo.
So one and, one and
two, about right there.
(piano chord)
Real slow, one and two and ready and play.
One and two and three and.
One and two and three and four.
One and two and three and four.
And two and three and repeat.
(piano music)
Alright, let's find a
medium temp to do that at.
If that was a struggle for ya,
I recommend maybe even
rewinding and relearning
those chords, relearning
that accompaniment style.
Because you can't move on
until you know that stuff.
So here we got at a medium tempo.
One and two and ready and play and.
(piano music)
Alright, at this point I think we're ready
to play this loop
together at recorded tempo
which is 94 beats per minute.
(snaps)
And we're in the key of F minor here,
just as a little theory note.
One and two and ready and play.
(piano music)
Alright guys, that is the main rift
the piano rift to Still D.R.E
by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dog.
At this point we've learned it all,
however if you'd like
to play along with me,
the proper duration of the song,
maybe you even want to, I dunno,
freestyle over it or something,
head to Hdpiano.com.
That's when the second and final video
will feature the whole song run through.
So you can go that way if you
want to continue on with this,
and you want to take it
on as far as possible.
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Alright guys, Still D.R.E by
Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dog.
I'm Dan, this is Hdpiano.com,
the home of the hybrid piano lesson.
We'll see you for that next section.
