Stride Piano explained by Canadian Virtuoso Jazz Pianist and Composer, Oscar Peterson 🍁🎹
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Stride employed left hand techniques from ragtime, wider use of the piano's range, and quick tempos. 🍎

The term "stride" comes from the idea of the pianist's left hand leaping, or "striding", across the piano. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass notes on the upbeat. 🎶

Unlike performers of the ragtime popularized by Scott Joplin, stride players' left hands span greater distances on the keyboard. 🎹

Stride piano is highly rhythmic because of the alternating bass note and chord action of the left hand. In the left hand, the pianist usually plays a single bass note, or a bass octave or tenth, followed by a chord triad toward the center of the keyboard, while the right hand plays syncopated melody lines with harmonic and riff embellishments and fill patterns. 🙌🏻

Proper playing of stride jazz involves a subtle rhythmic tension between the left hand which is close to the established tempo, and the right hand, which is often slightly anticipatory. 🎙️

Unlike ragtime pianists, stride pianists were not concerned with ragtime form and played pop songs of the day in the stride style. Ragtime was composed, but many stride pianists improvised. Some stride players didn't read music. Stride can be played at all tempos, slow or fast depending on the underlying composition and treatment the pianist is performing. On occasion a good stride jazz pianist might have the left hand shift into double time. 🍁🎈🎹🔥🎵💎



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