How To Play “Still D.R.E. (Updated)” by Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg | HDpiano (Part 1) Piano Tutorial
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(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.
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. In the meantime, let's touch base on social media. On Twitter, we'll take your requests @hdpiano, the hashtag is #hdrequests, we'd love to hear what you want to learn.
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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.
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