Stride Piano

1 Basic Stride Piano Techniques Has Free Chapters This lesson teaches you how to play a basic stride piano pattern along with improvisation. The stretches are challenging, but once mastered with the pentatonic scale, you will have a nice stride pattern that I'll show you how to combine into several combinations to improvise for minutes. Topics covered are improv with the pentatonic scale and 4 different stride progression "options."
Released: December 10, 2011 • Duration: 00:59:38
2 "Ain't Misbehavin" - Vol. 1 Has Free Chapters In this lesson, I will show you note-for-note Fats Waller’s performance of Ain’t Misbehavin. This lesson will be broken into 2 parts. Part 1 (this lesson) will focus on the song introduction and the first 2 A sections. In “Ain’t Misbehavin” – Vol. 2 we will finish the song. This lesson is real fun if you like this stride piano sound then this lesson is definitely for you because you can take these techniques and apply them to other songs in your repertoire.
Released: March 8, 2013 • Duration: 00:54:59
3 "Ain't Misbehavin" - Vol. 2 Has Free Chapters We are covering the B section and the final A section. The B section holds some very nice runs that are quite a challenge! I will also show you how using these runs under different chords will give you runs like Oscar Peterson!
Released: April 27, 2013 • Duration: 00:45:26
4 Jelly Roll Morton "The Crave" - Vol. 1 Has Free Chapters In this lesson, you will learn a transcribed portion of Jelly Roll Morton’s composition, “The Crave,” featured in the movie “The Legend of 1900.” This piece fuses elements of stride and tango and is built upon two main sections – an “A” section in D minor and a “B” section in F major. This piece is indicative of Jelly Roll Morton’s style of performance and features many advanced rhythmic and technical concepts.
Released: September 12, 2014 • Duration: 00:44:35
5 Jelly Roll Morton "The Crave" - Vol. 2 Has Free Chapters In part 2 of this lesson, you will learn a transcribed portion of Jelly Roll Morton’s composition, “The Crave,” featured in the movie “The Legend of 1900.” This piece fuses elements of stride and tango and is built upon two main sections – an “A” section in D minor and a “B” section in F major. This piece is indicative of Jelly Roll Morton’s style of performance and features many advanced rhythmic and technical concepts.
Released: October 3, 2014 • Duration: 01:03:07
Total Course Duration = 04:27:45

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This course will focus mostly on stride piano and features songs by Fats Waller and Jelly Roll Morton.

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