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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Hand Independence Exercises for Jazz Piano

These hand independence exercises for jazz piano are designed to improve finger speed, hand separation and your overall ability to play with two hands.

As a Brad Mehldau fan, I’ve always been fascinated by his ability to play with two hands at once, improvising with his left hand while his right executes a complicated ostinato.

If you want to learn how to play like Brad Mehldau, this video will really help you build on your hand separation ability, and these exercises are inspired by the jazz piano sound.

You can use these exercises to build up solo piano textures and techniques, as well as increase finger speed and strength.

What is a Diminished Major 7? | Diminished Voicings and Harmony In Context

A Diminished Major 7 Chord utilizes a diminished triad with a Major 7th instead of a double flat 7 (bb7). It is written as º(maj7), or dim(maj7).

For example, Cº(maj7) would be written from bottom to top: C Eb Gb B

In this video lesson, we talk about understanding diminished harmony and using diminished chords in context.

We dive into alternative diminished voicings, as well as the illusive Diminished Major voicing and how to use it.

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