We will now expand on the B Section by incorporating a two-handed stride technique that brings richness and depth to the arrangement.
In this course overview, we identify the 7th chords and then move into chord extensions, chord alterations, and stride left hand techniques.
In this lesson we apply everything that we have learn so far to emulate Beegie Adair’s solo piano arrangement of the tune ‘Body & Soul’.
We explore various rootless voicing options that incorporate chord extensions and chord alterations using the tune Body & Soul.
Welcome to this lesson where we will explore various approaches to playing the melody of a jazz standard over a stride left hand style.
In this series of lessons you will learn the essential skills needed to play stride piano confidently and creatively.
A course dedicated to elegant stride for jazz ballads. We use the harmonically rich tune “Body & Soul” to explore stride, melodic embellishment, fills, runs, and improvisation.
Learn the nuances of Beegie Adair’s stride left hand. We explore chord melodies and left hand stride technique for solo jazz piano performance.
We play the original melody of the tune in octaves to command a bigger range of the piano and add interest to repeating sections.
We identify areas where it’s appropriate to apply a left-hand stride and also areas where a simpler voicing configuration is more suitable.