8 Best Tips for Being Awesome at Stride Piano

What is stride piano?

Stride Piano is an early jazz piano style popularized by greats like Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and Art Tatum. The Stride Piano Technique involves alternating between a bass note or interval (often an open fifth, seventh, or tenth) in the left hand and a left-hand voicing.

If you're reading this though, there's a decent chance you already know that, so the real question is:

How can you learn stride piano quickly, effectively, and sound both authentic and confident?

The 8 tips in this jazz piano tutorial are based on my own study of Fats Waller, Art Tatum, Scott Joplin, Oscar Peterson, and other stride piano greats.

Check out the lesson below and let me know what you think by leaving a comment under the blogpost or underneath the YouTube video!

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How to Play My Funny Valentine with Gorgeous Solo Piano Voicings

A Minor / Major 7 chord, written min(maj7), consists of a minor triad on bottom with a major 7 above it. It differs from a typical min7 chord in that the 7 is natural instead of flat (b7). It uses the scale degrees 1 b3 5 7 from bottom to top.

This piano lesson will provide you with beautiful new voicings and ideas for the song My Funny Valentine. We walk through a good portion of the song chord by chord, discussing some new and different voicings, as well as classic ways of looking at the chord changes.

It's also important (and often tricky) to get that Cmin(maj7) walk down write.

My Basic Piano Voicings course with video examples will leave you with a much stronger arsenal of voicings. Get your copy here: http://jazzlessonvideos.com/piano

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