 Hi guys, so let us learn what you do not do, an amazing song, very groovy and the first thing I found consistent throughout the song was a triplet feel, okay. So there are two ways to feel a triplet, one is you can actually count it over 12 beats in a four sequence. So that is 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 3, sorry 1, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, right and I think that is a better way to count it than 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. It is going to go all the way to 12 and that is going to perhaps confuse a lot of you. So feel it as triplets 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. So the entire song is based on triplets 2, 3, 4. So this could be a good practice before you start 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. Get the feel of the song also known as the time feel or the rhythm feel 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1. So perhaps just try to say it with me. Now say it on your own 1, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, right. So that is the underlying feel of the song. The chords of the song are really, really simple. It is pretty much a loop of this throughout except the breakdown where you just hold the chords. It is A major twice, A major again, E minor, 3, 4, E minor, 2, 3, 4. So a good way to start if you are not aware of that original pattern which I played if you feel it is too advanced, you can just play the chords of the song. 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, E minor, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2. And we are going to build from here, right. You can even add triplets. So as you can see it is slowly starting to sound like the song, right. So this feel will be nice to have in the right hand. If you cannot get it, if your hands start paining it is okay, you can go 2, 3, 4, 1, 2 and 3 and 4, okay. So what the keyboard player does in the right hand is not just triplets on A and just static he is doing. So that is C sharp, B C sharp, B C sharp. So I have noted down this part here, do have a look at it. Consistently he plays E and A whereas it would just be A major which would be boring, right. So he goes and this is how he voices the E minor chord. Instead of playing E minor like this, he plays it like this, A D G which makes it very ambient. It is also what we call as a quartal voicing where A is perfect fourth is D and D is perfect fourth is G. So these are actually fourths with a bass being E. So these become very open-ended chords. It pretty much works with any bass. So I think that's why they chose this voicing because you have a very interesting bass line which I am going to show you. So let's recap the right hand once more. E minor. You could now play the roots. Try to play it with these accents. This E minor chord is getting a bit boring, right. So that's where we have the bass part which I have written. E, F sharp, G, B B B E, F sharp, G, B B B and the B B B is a triplet and it's all on the same triplet field. So you go that's your whole E minor component and A major the right hand does a little bit of a change and then E minor the right hand plays A D G and just plays A D G pretty much and the bass climbs. So let's put this all together. The A major chord first, E minor and for E minor you play legato and for A major you play staccato. That means staccato you chop the notes more legato you play longer. Let's see how that sounds. You can even add an octave just for fun. And then there's a build up where you play the same E minor chord and you toggle your bass with B and G. And so on. So anytime we go from verse to the chorus you have that build up which is just a long E minor E minor floating throughout. And then there's a breakdown where she goes A with C sharp, E minor seventh. So it's essentially the same chords but you just hold it. A major, A with C sharp bass, E minor seventh, E minor seventh and then back to the groove. Build up. Back to. And a couple of tips while playing triplets. Since triplets are a bit difficult on the piano it may hurt your hand. So if you see my wrist I am always keeping my wrist very loose. And in some cases in most cases if my hand starts hurting I try to move the wrist up and down to prevent my forearm from getting a lot of the strain. What you want to do is with the wrist you can send, it's a weird thing to say, but you can send pain to this part of the wrist and then send some pain this side. So your hand will pain but then it'll pain everywhere. So I think that's a better thing than it just paining in one point and then it'll get really really excruciating. Since it's a four minute song you need to, I mean you can't give up during a gig. So this is a trick which I follow while playing triplets. So if you see the wrist is floating, the wrist is really, really stiff. In fact if I drop it like this it's almost as though it's not there. It's just very, very elastic and it's moving very, very smoothly. That's how you need your wrist to be and that'll allow you to play this for a lot of time without really struggling. So it's pretty much 3-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3. You may think this is a lot of energy but in the long run we are actually balancing energy and we are balancing it not just till here. We are balancing it across the entire arm. So when playing chords you need to keep that in mind especially when the chords are on the faster side. And try to not slam the chords with your shoulder. If you slam it with your shoulder what's going to happen is the sound itself sucks. It's not going to be as tatted. It's not going to groove. So I wouldn't advise you to use too much of your shoulder probably none of your shoulder because the shoulder tends to lose dynamics while you play. Dynamics is that volume component. So as you can see it's just wrist forearm this part. The shoulder and the elbow is pretty much doing nothing. The elbow is just stationed here. The shoulder is sleeping. So there are a lot of songs like this which have a triplet feel. If you like this song you can also try Toto's Hold the Line. We'll probably put a YouTube link. That's a nice song to also learn if you like this triplet feel. Very piano driven, very guitar driven, amazing lead solo so on and so forth. So hope you guys have fun playing this song and I'll see you in the next video. Cheers. Don't forget to like, subscribe, hit that bell icon for notifications, leave us a comment for any other video you'd like us to do next and don't forget to share the video with all your musician friends. Cheers.