How To Play Ultra-Fast Stride Piano

In this Jazz Piano Lesson, we break down 3 unique and interesting jazz piano patterns in the form of runs that you can directly apply to your playing. Even more importantly though, in learning how to play these, you should also see how they are structured and be able to use that skill and knowledge to create your own patterns that are similar for different jazz and neo soul chord progressions.

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Noah Kellman is a musician and teacher known for his unique approach to modern jazz piano. In this video, Noah shares several highly-useful left-hand bass lines that will help you improve technique, rhythm, hand independence, and more.

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[jofinsky]

Art Tatum: "I'm going to do 12th stretches in my left and big jumps at high velocity."

[tpxchallenger]

Stride puts a nice low bass in. Nothing replaces practicing it properly.

[GDsJazz]

Good for starting out, but if you intend on being a true stride pianist, you gotta use those big jumps. It may be tough at first, but trust me your practice will pay off

[kevinbissinger]

That's it! Super easy! Barely an inconvenience!

[toronado]

Great technique! I like both styles of stride that you demonstrated. 🎼🎵🎶🎹

[claudevieaul]

Nice seeing that Roli on top too - amazing gear!! 😎👍

[willboese]

hazel scott: 'im going to do the huge jumps'

[nolank]

That sounds so cool!! I’m curious, is there any piece that uses that specific fast-stride. If so, please let me know!

[ZZubZZero]

The one and only secret for speed is much simpler than this. You can play anything you want as fast as you want, if you just practice it slowly.

Start slow, make no mistakes, go faster. Rinse and repeat. Simple as can get.

[JoshMaxPower]

goes directly to Art Tatum's "I Know That You Know, " throws my grand piano out the window

[Aaron-mdeo]

This certainly is a good tip. However, I would not rely solely on this to play fast stride. It's been dubbed faux-stride and has also been used by the stride greats but never for the entire piece. For very fast tempos it's cool to play in that style but then break out into "real" stride. Of course these big jumps are very hard to pull off when playing really fast but it's possible with enough effort and time and of course starting out slowly at first and then building up.

[drewmfie]

teddy wilson and art tatums signature technique

[apersunthathasaridiculousl]

i am going to play piano 24mph now >:)))

[PinkDiamond-]

This is not stride, rather a "micro-stride". You cannot replace those huge jumps.

[aditaggarwal]

now play bob omb battlefield at that tempo