Let’s keep it real..

..that ‘cup-beat’ is definitely awesome, but try and do that with a cup, not a piano ;).

What I WILL teach you in this tutorial is how to play that awesome intro which, on the record, is played by multiple ukulele’s (“what the heck is that?” you ask? A tiny guitar.) by showing a cool pattern over the ruling harmony at that moment in the song: the extension-chord C6add9.

Furthermore you’ll learn the electric-piano part of the verse and chorus, and an alternative way of playing it all, by adding some rhythm using a breaking-up pattern to simulate those tiny guitars in the rest of the song.

‘Cups’ consist of some very easy chords (C, F, G, Am, course followers.. recognise those?) and a nice Jazz 2-5-1 progression (very common in Jazz) at the second part of the verse and the chorus, holding the spicy Dm9 and G9 (and then going back to ‘C’ the 1).

All in all: the whole song and I’ll be handing you some different inversions and -options for playing. All pop-piano skills that can be learnt in ‘Hack the Piano‘.

There’s something in here for everybody I’m sure, so as always:

Have fun playing!

Cheers, Coen.

Cups.

All skills, tricks, tips, techniques and knowledge from this- and all other lessons @ this website are taken and can be learnt from my book / course ‘Hack the Piano‘ – The unconventional shortcut method to truly understand music and the piano.