We identify areas where it’s appropriate to apply a left-hand stride and also areas where a simpler voicing configuration is more suitable.
In this lesson we will create the major 251 progression with a left hand stride and rootless voicings exercise and drill.
We will now introduce the melody in our right hand and explore some different techniques for outlining the harmony in our left hand.
We explore the unique left hand stride style of the New Orleans pianist James Booker using the famous tune “On The Sunny Side Of The Street”.
We play the harmony over 2 hands and then we play both the bass and harmony in our left hand to create a basic left hand stride style.
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 analyse the C section of the tune to internalise the harmony. We cover 2 useful exercises to create a basic left hand stride.
Learn how to arrange lead sheets using spread voicings and create a stride style in our left hand for the tune “Georgia On My Mind”.
We start this lesson by applying a stride style in the left hand with some bluesy licks and riffs in the right hand.
We play the original melody of the tune in octaves to command a bigger range of the piano and add interest to repeating sections.