As a long-time rock and pop pianist looking to expand my jazz chops and repertoire, I have to say this is by far the best series of instructional videos on the subject that I've found.

every day im wathcing this video and all video of you mister kent , its all nice and best

Kent - Thank you for yet another great piano lesson. I know that I speak for all of us that are learning from you in these videos, but please keep up the great work. You are a gifted educator and performer, and you are making the world a better place one lesson at a time.

My mother played stride piano at home not professionally . And piano and organ in the church .That was of course in the 50"s and 60"s, Fun stuff.my dad played Banjo in the Minstrel shows in Ohio and produced.

This stride lesson is just what I need. One of my 2016 goals was to learn "enough stride" to be dangerous..... and I'm headed down the path you just explained.

kent, you are a legend, so much to learn from you

A man was walking home from the liquor store and fell down....he had a broken fifth.

Thanks Kent for the descending scale stride exercise. More interesting than cycle of 5ths and easier to improvise over.

Hi Kent, these exercises are very helpful, constructive, easy to understand. Thank you so much to make pianists aware how stride is built and has to be constructed. Greets from Belgium

Think I found my new favorite genre of music! Thanks for the left hand!

I have a shortcut to this lesson on the desktop of my computer, so I can practice daily! Thanks so much, dear Kent!

What a nice PRACTICAL game plan for building a stride piano technique! I honestly think I am going to WOW myself in just the next 365 days! Thanks.

Thanks so much! I've been trying to do what amounts to just playing the most difficult levels of stride with lots of mistakes. Your method of taking it in stages is exactly what i needed. Thanks especially for the printed out versions of the exercises on your web page.

Not only was it helpful, it was brilliant! I appreciate this both as a music teacher and a student at the RCM of Canada. The way in which you layer the development by building upon increasingly more complex harmonies while supplementing the melodic development is inspired.

Very nice piano technique tutorial. I Love it. Thanks a Lot for sharing your ability in playing the piano

I though i had big hands...

I've always loved and wanted to learn to play stride. Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson and Tom Brier have inspired me since childhood. This is my first ever stride lesson and I'm already starting to get phase 1 muscle memory down! Thanks for this great lesson!

This is really helpful!! I cannot thank you enough. God bless you!

I like it. I have used a Stride style since I was 15, 50 years ago, because that was the root style my Grandmother played( a product of her learning from the 20's). Thank yo for showing me alternatives...showing my Granddaughters now!!!

Thank you very helpful I'll put my my best effort to get it to play some of this at 63 I know I won't be easy I'll give it all my whatever I have left thank you

Pretty much the most amazing lesson I've come across for stride piano. I've learned so much from Kent's videos but this really takes the cake. Especially while I'm reading WAIL, the biography of Bud Powell. This video really adds a lot to my practice times where that book leaves off!

Thanks so much Kent! This is a super helpful practice...may take me a year but am determined. You're a wonderful pianist, no doubt about it.

I just discovered this and am happy at the work that lies ahead. Many thanks

I like this , going back and learning stride technique

Best jazz KZfaq tutorials out there. Especially for beginners like myself Who have been playing for less than two years.

This sounds great. Thanks! Can't wait to get home and try it out

This is how i'd like to be able to play, yet never has it been explained so carefully. Your passion and ability instills confidence to learn how it's done. Thanks so much.

I love practicing techniques that sound great thanks for composing this beautiful little piece!

I love this video I've been wanting to learn some Chico Marx style and I think this is a good foundation to start with i play by ear so hearing all the chords really helps because I relate to guitar chord progressions as far as reading music thank you I appreciate your video and I would love it if you have any Chico skills to post one of those lessons

Wish you a blessed year, Maestro!! Many thanks from Italy.

Wow best tutorial ever I've improved my skills in just a few hour of practice

This is great! I think it's a helpful, and useful exercise to get everybody, "getting those sounds!"

I've played classical piano for 20 years, I'm just starting teaching myself jazz! This tutorial was a great intro to stride, thanks for making it!

This is so awesome. My personal favorite kinda jazz. It’s the closest thing to a time machine

The very best teaching on stride piano, you aren not only a talented entertainer b=ut generous and gifted teacher. LOVE YOU. THANK YOU. I totally understand now I just need to PRACTICE! Practice Practice..... Thank you again for blessing so many of us out here!

All you lessons are producing growth and motivation ,i will be ordering some of your materials as a way to show appreciation for your non soliciated labour of your love of teaching Thank you J C

Kent, this is a great exercise. The right hand melody, the steps which build upon the previous steps (but are complete in themselves), and the neatly written free download sheet music all combine to be a very useful high quality lesson.

Your style of teaching is just how I like it if only I could figure out the chord voicings==Jane

Thank you very much Kent…! I loved this video…! My Great Grandma played stride piano so well, I’d love to learn this style as I love it and I have a very fond early memory of her playing our very “honky tonk” but beautiful piano. Could you expand on pieces or repertoire to play in stride style…? Could you give a list of one or two pieces besides Scott Joplin and rags…? Or great stride players to listen to…? Thank you so much…!!! Love from 🇬🇧😊

Thank you Kent! this was a great exercise

My dear and most favorite teacher, thanx to you, i finally, after all those years of hardship - thinking that it was a lack of talent that i couldnt play jazz, find it now easy and understandable....and to be more pathetic ...You saved my Jazz life :) :)

Nice stride exercise, great melody.

Beautiful lesson Kent! You give such a clear demonstration of how you can progress starting from one note to building up harmonies and octave/tenths stride movements. For me as a beginner, its a really slow process and it’s hardest to wrap my head around inverting chords, dropping notes, removing notes, altering notes, or just shifting the basic structure from 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 when building notes and thinking about voice leading. I still feel like I’m at a point where I need to shift my pinky down a half step to find the b9, and it’s already too late. I feel like I’m making too many calculations! Starting with a simple line cliche like in this progression, it helps to understand the voicings and that they shouldn’t always be with a root as lowest note in bass. You also had me an enlightening moment going from the C chord to the E7. I tend to automatically think of octave or tenths relative to root note. If I see E7, I think E G# B D / 1 3 5 b7 voiced in that order, right now it takes too much time for me to then rearrange or alter those intervals. It started to make sense seeing the chromatic movement in your excellent progression that a 10th could also start from the 3rd or 5th relative to its root. 🙈🙌❤️

Hi Kent. Amazing material. Thank you so much for sharing. Regards from Buenos Aires

Love it...you always take every exercise to the next level. my learning ear has grown tremendously more than ever. I'm so blessed to have you as part of my passion

Thanks, Kent, for this tutorial. I have been playing Classical and Ragtime piano for years but have not made the leap to playing without notes. This helps me get started!

hey this video is amazing! I love your teaching style. This video is very well thought out and organized. I appreciate the fact that you give a progression for people to practice their way up. Thanks for the video and thank you for the sheets

I play this style by ear and often use other styles because it is by ear..seeing it wrote down allows to analyze and reinforce my note reading..great vid ..I read along and mentally play it.

Thanks for this Kent! This is literally what I've been looking for recently. Hows about a more indepth look into jazz turnarounds for another lesson? Thanks a bunch Kent, you're a godsend!

Thank you so much for the detailed and clear lesson. I really liked it despite the fact that I am from Russia and do not know English.

You are the best instructor.Thank God for you..Great playing and lessons every time....pure consistent performances.

That's a fabulous tune you wrote for the exercise. Very nice.

Good lesson. Very helpful. Thanks for your effort.

This is really great! Thank you very much for not showing that you can play jazz but for explaining how you do it. Big difference!

Hi Kent,,,,sending you a BIG hug from Brazil...Thanks and Congrats!! you are A huge Master!!!

Some of best jazz lessons on KZfaq! Excellent work.

Kent, I am not a pianist (sadly), but I found this tutorial immensely instructive in helping me understand the importance of stride as a musical innovation--something I needed to understand better for a small exhibit on the Harlem Renaissance that I am working on. Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial!

I wish i had a teacher like you when i was kid man that was a very good break down of stride!!!

Man this smells like a Sunday morning coffee 🤩

Thank you Kent for sharing these beautiful lessons. You are THE teacher!

A million thanks again Ken you are a blessing and great guiding light...

You're video lessons are a great supplement to my piano teacher.

You wow’d me again Kent. Your stride piano tutorials and exercises are What I’ve been looking for. Actually, all of your tutorials are excellent. Mike

7 years later and it’s STILL a great tutorial

Hi Kent, great lesson, I have been messing around with stride for about a year doing the octave 4 note chord thing, new to jazz, finding it hard to understand. This lesson has helped immensely and I would appreciate more lessons like this on stride. Thanks for all the great lessons.

I absolutely love the turnarounds in the left hand.

Thank you so much, Kent, for posting this. I wasn't really looking to learn the style so much as to just find an example of it, but your video motivated me to make strides to learn stride! Thanks for the print material also.

Thank you very much! This step approach is very helpful and inspiring!

Thank you for the stride tutorial

A great starting point for someone like me trying to learn stride. Thanks for the video.

I've been wanting to play music in this style for a while now, but I didn't know what it was called! I just saw a video that referred to the style as 'stride' and so I searched stride and it led me straight to your turorial. Thank you very much!

As always, clear as water, thank you much Kent for this step by step lesson. Really like the melody you used as an example.

Yeeee this is great stuff ! I learned guitar pretty well via KZfaq tutorials so I like to think I have an eye for a quality bit of learning material, anyway, I started playing piano this year in much the same way and I think your lesson here is solid gold ! 🍻

Hi Kent, what a great way to learn how to get left hand independence. Thank you.

Great exercise! The melody is catchy so it's a pleasure playing it over and over to learn better. Thank you.

This video is incredible thanks a lot. Obviously it will require tons of work, wish me luck.

I love how you broke this down!

Thank you very much. This video was very helpful.

I love this style and looking for a new challenge on the piano and this is it. It looks so interesting. Thank you very much. And I'll start practice tomorrow and let you know.

Dear Kent, thank you very much for this exercise. It was very helpful, in particular to see how one can develop the technique from the simple version to a fuller one. Also, I think the exercise is the right length (not long) to keep one motivated and focused.

This is an excellent tutorial, thanks for posting this - the level is just right for me. I've wanted to learn some stride piano after dabbling with some Scott Joplin rags as a kid. The sheet music download is also great, although I feel I should learn these by heart to really benefit. Thanks again!

This was fantastic, and exactly what I needed at this point in my progress. You are a great teacher and musician, and you write some beautiful music, it was really amazing to watch you explore the idea in different ways and degrees of complexity. Thank you so much!

A guy listened to so much music his ears started ringing. It was a Major pain!!

Aux Champs Elysées, Aux Champs Elysées, à midi ou à minuit, haha, it sounds like it .. great vidéo.

For all who are keen on learning the technique of stride piano, you gotta first know that this requires a very good understandingof harmonic principles. This technique starts off like swing but it doesn't end there. Instead, it progresses on to subtly obscuring the rhythm style but yet supporting time signature & harmony. Also, this requires broad left hand chords to keep the changes. I must say very very few players use this technique nowadays. Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, Hank Jones are some of the authority in this technique. Go search their solo recordings on this technique.

Great lesson and really nice progressive exercises! Thank you so much! :)

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Kent thank you for your wonderful gift and for sharing these lessons.

The opening of the exercise is reticent to the 'Bach Air' IMHO.BRILLIANT!

Really helpful, breaking down the possibilities for improvising in a stride style. Also, it’s a beautiful tune you’ve written there.

I found this very helpful. Thank you and bless you for sharing. I have wanted to play like this for years and now l will do it with the help of your video.

That was a wonderful tutorial.

Ken, you're an amazing instructor. Very much appreciate your lessons.

Merci beaucoup for this. Your lessons are very helpful.

Thank you so much for this! My piano vocabulary just opened up almost overnight!

discovered your channel a few days ago, and i just needed to see this exercise to know that i'll be learning a lot from you, great content and great teacher, thanks for doing this

Love it. I've learnt so much just watching you play. Your videos are excellent! Thanks for sharing. God Bless you

Thank you for such a great lesson on stride piano Kent! Your videos are very well thought out. Wish I had a teacher like you when I was learning piano in my younger years.

Very good I am doing the exercises now, many thanks.

This looks like it's a great lesson! You can bet I'll be trying it out later today. :) Thank you.