STRIDE PIANO METHODS

Stride Piano is a very basic style but in the hands of a master like Oscar Peterson can still retain some soul feeling.

I think we can make it easy to play yet still sound musical, partly by playing with carefully considered touch and partly by the note arrangement.

The most familiar kind is probably a very deep bass note or even a deep note with octave followed by a very widely spaced chord, much furtheer up the keyboard. Then you have a very deep alternote note, usuallly the fifth of the chord (or dominant) like G if it is a C chord.

And you keep going like that, matching chord changes of course.

However the note and the alternate chord need not be far apart like that. The chord could even be the remaining notes of a four note version of the chord, easily spanned by the fingers with no need for overall hand movement.

Or even the remaining notes of a three note chord.

The alternate dominant note can also be played above rather than below your main note, so that it is within easy reach of the left hand

Your Easy Video Introduction to Stride Piano Is Below

And I might Also Point out

Notice that the chord part of the pattern can be substituted with a little arpeggio which might also proceed further through the third and fourth beats of the bar

The stride technique need not be used by itself. In general the more techniques you mix the better your arrangement and the nicer the sound.

Below I have addie more variations with stride contained both inside the range of the hand and outside with extensions of a few notes by arpeggio up.

Most importantly how it can be used even in three time. 

The Video below shows stride in three beats to the bar as well as four -  plus variations