when your hands are long enough for stride piano

Transcription of Jake Silverman's (a.k.a Buttonmasher) demo of the wing upright from Spectrasonics' Keyscape Pianos. This is one of the most satisfying stride piano playing I've ever transcribed.
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[nabsaux]

2:27 my man jsut combined the mario kart licc and the defgecd licc, what a legend

[bkgangstapianist]

100% big Erroll Garner influence right here. Love when you really laid back on those ascending eighths!

[BobJoeman]

Hell, if I could play tenths that easily, I would too

[RC_Cola]

He also goes by “Button Masher” and arranges video game music

[theophilusmartins]

My goodness! This is fantastic! I think I can hear a bit of Erroll Garner in his playing. I enjoyed every second of this!

[bill]

His hands are MASSIVE. Some of those stretches are Rachmaninov level!

[kharimarquette]

2:04-2:14 is a Gershwin reference ("Nice Work If You Can Get It")

[zacharyspigle]

Love the videos you post, keep ‘em coming!

[Reuben_]

‘On the street where you live’. Nice! 👏

[jazzman]

Love the sound of that piano "clean"

[DenkyManner]

Rare to see him not dressed as Timmy Mallet

[luissubia]

amazing! thank you, have a wonderfull day !👍

[itamarbar]

It's like a Kapustin etude but easier! Maybe i need to learn jazz piano to be able to play Kapustin

[qpm]

Can’t stop thinking bar 8 and 9 are from Rach piano c. 2 and I love it

[monikamasker]

Großartig! Wenn ich mir etwas wünschen Dann DAS!

[rileymerino]

He’s improvising “nice work if you can get it”

[REPS-kbup]

I can just barely reach an 11th…. And I can’t pound them out with quickness. Eighths (octaves) yes…. This guy also adds a lot of chord structure and flourishes that don’t require exceptional reach….

[christianlow]

Great stuff, I love what you do and watch every video!
There's some harmony missing in the (I think first and) second note of the A♭m6 bar (first sheetmusic screenshot). Which I find sad because this is the sweetest harmony of the whole thing. Could you find it?

[vulgaraszleandrosz]

It must've been hard to transcribe this

[marianfricke]

I am jealous of bis big hands. :D I would love to be able to grap 10th that easily. My hands are so small I cannot even reach a 9th from Eb to F properly.