--- title: Channing Tatum Plays Piano Song VIDEO, Channing Tatum Tweet description: The actor is taking his New Year's resolution to "learn new things" very seriously, starting with teaching himself to play the piano. canonical: https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-23T20:14:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:23.054Z og:title: Watch Channing Tatum Serenade Us With New Piano Skills og:description: He's taking his New Year's resolution to learn new things very seriously. og:url: https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Channing Tatum Serenade Us With New Piano Skills twitter:description: He's taking his New Year's resolution to learn new things very seriously. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Channing Tatum Is Learning to Play Piano, and He Wants You to See His New Skills > Sponsored content. 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He’s started by trying to teach himself piano, and decided to share his progress on Twitter over the weekend. “Two and a half weeks in to learning how to play the piano,” he explains in a black-and-white video posted to his account. “Bear with me, this is going to be brutal.” Viewers are prepped to hear him hack away at some seriously elementary notes, but of course the [exemplary Tatum](http://time.com/4382086/channing-tatum-jenna-dewan-youtube-step-up/?iid=sr-link4) has plenty of tricks up his flannel sleeve, instead launching into a pretty impressive rendition of Beethoven’s “Für Elise” (for a novice, at least). While he does have some hesitations throughout, there’s no doubt that his playing is far from “brutal.” Imagine what a few “legit lessons” will do. > [](https://twitter.com/channingtatum/status/823324923552731136) His fans are here for it, too, appropriately providing him with the Twitter version of a standing ovation. > [](https://twitter.com/M%5FNightAndDay/status/823341351798456322) > [](https://twitter.com/jennifernido/status/823347905511596032) > [](https://twitter.com/ElusiveTraum/status/823325468652871681) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/"},"headline":"Channing Tatum Is Learning to Play Piano, and He Wants You to See His New Skills","datePublished":"2017-01-23T20:14:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:23.054Z","description":"Not so \"brutal\" after all","url":"https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4643567/channing-tatum-piano/","name":"Channing Tatum Is Learning to Play Piano, and He Wants You to See His New Skills"}}]}] ```