Stride Piano Exercises, Jazz Piano Tutorial

[@markandersen2566]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm glad to hear that and I particularly appreciate that you are telling me. Otherwise I would know. Thanks!

[@j100xtra]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Hi Doug, that's a beautiful comment and greatly appreciated. There's always mixed feelings about one's efforts.... and your affirmation is very helpful and appreciated. Keep watching, writing to me, and swinging!

[@allanhenderson7145]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+Allan Henderson Many thanks, Alan. I'm glad my videos is helpful to you. I'm coming out with a new video soon that will break down the stride techniques in more detail and hopefully will help you to become a better (more dangerous) stride player. Thanks so much for the support! Kent

[@deepdive1338]

Great way to put, enough to be dangerous, I'm gonna use that

[@Stafmans]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You're very welcome!

[@KRISNAMUSIK]

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

[@ds-nb4ln]

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[@zacharykoplin6543]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you like it!

[@pandow1]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me, Paul!

[@philburpalooza8]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Such a cool statement...you just made me very happy...thanks!

[@colorred5383]

philburpalooza8 aaand?? How has it gone? Have you made it?

[@canefan17]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me...please check my playlists for more Beginner lessons and easy piano lessons: kzbin.info/door/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists

[@rogerparkhurst5796]

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!!!

[@MrRichulan]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm glad you liked the video. That's a great idea...I have many shortcuts on my desktop...now finding what I want takes some searching.

[@bethechange2024]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Hi Glenn...thank you for your astute comment and I really appreciate hearing from another music scholar. You help me to make what I do really worth all the effort . Thank you!

[@jepmaster8283]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's awesome!

[@codecoderedred3013]

Man this smells like a Sunday morning coffee 🤩

[@KentHewittpiano88]

It is!

[@ArtRodent]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm very happy that you told me that...and it helps me tremendously...to know that I'm on track. thanks!

[@ArtRodent]

@@KentHewittpiano88 Yes, your site is 100%. Faultless and full of hidden gems to this newbie. Best regards.

[@LokeyeMC]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's the best comment yet, Lokeye (love the handle). This is not authentic stride or ragtime like Joplin. There's guys doing that better than I ...but I tried to make this practical for people learning a style...and hopefully they will go on to study the masters.

[@DuncanAppleby]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for the comment, Duncan, and I'm glad it is helpful to you.

[@davisgloff]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You are so welcome!

[@teegees]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You're very welcome!

[@fiklonz]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Happy new year!

[@julianingendaay7695]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You're very welcome!

[@mkrznar]

Some of best jazz lessons on KZbin! Excellent work.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Much appreciated!

[@codetech5598]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me, Code, it's very helpful to me to have the positive feedback.

[@AstronoGeek]

I though i had big hands...

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I only have a good spread in LH. My RH pinky is bent , so I can't do what I used to be able to do.(duputren's contracture)

[@vt2788]

Kent Hewitt Hey,I am a doctor and I think that is managable with a minor procedure!

[@thelordofducks3496]

Astronogeek ici ? :o ich bin suprised

[@boidoh]

And you know what they say about small hands.

[@syncopated]

My dad had the same affliction and would get it snipped every once in awhile. Good as new. Comes back slowly, though.

[@gulfmountain]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks so much for the nice comment!

[@terryalvarado1754]

Nice stride exercise, great melody.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for listening

[@mt-nv4jd]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks, that sort of thing is easy for me, everything else is difficult. Swing loose!

[@legoguy23451]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me...very helpful!

[@elizabethlee8539]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

It will bring joy into your life!

[@randomvideowatcher]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I dig you, my man!!

[@elreyfederico]

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

[@jimjmcd]

I know what you mean--I was 63 once myself. Just a kid with a dream. But at 73, I've pretty much gotten over the idea that that's old or that age, per se, is an obstacle to anything. Sixty-four is a really good age to knuckle down and start getting on with things. Like Music! Yeah! When you and I were kids, we didn't have anybody like Kent to help us out with this stuff; now we have. Talk about lucky!

[@pattynorcisa3352]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Sweet...without you and others this would all be futile...so I thank you.

[@seatedabove]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for watching and taking the time to write. I enjoy what I'm doing and I also learn a lot through the process. So I expect that I'm growing too. But without comments and feedback like yours, it would be all fruitless. So many thanks! www.kenthewitt.com/id31.html

[@albertolapiz6669]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Great comment...thanks so much!

[@johnmartin6823]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

John, I have a few more lessons on stride on my playlists. kzbin.info/aero/PLFuMibnl_h5ZTgWWA7reUvigMFfZJw4qP Start with All Of Me

[@pioter91]

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 :) :)

[@francoranieri3589]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I really appreciate the affirmation...very helpful!

[@jazzutako]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+jazzutako Many thanks. Comments like yours are appreciated very much!

[@giannagiavelli5098]

Kent is the KING

[@stevepethel6843]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Wonderful comment and compliment...this keeps me going. Many thanks!

[@michaelpisani5538]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks so much, Michael...please write to me again and tell me how you're doing!

[@TjEdwardz]

I like this , going back and learning stride technique

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad to hear it!

[@ejohnsondebaufre]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks, Eric. Please send me a link so I can check out your exhibit...I'd be very interested in that, and will pass on the info to friends in NY. I can also recommend watching anything by Dick Hyman....he's one of the greatest stride/ragtime players still living today. Also check out this seminar: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3_Jp6l8h7qciKc

[@noblenotes27]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm glad to hear...it's a privilege for you!

[@paulakellyrogers]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

My Pleasure and without your generous and positive feedback, I would be nothing!

[@patrickdevlin8553]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@dietrichrei4672]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You're very welcome!

[@flintlong2937]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you think so!

[@dangfd551]

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. 🙈🙌❤️

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Hi...it seems like you have the right approach to learning jazz piano and improving. You might want to check out my playlists, and start with the beginner series. You want to master the basics first and then move on to other subject matter that interests you the most. You have to "self teach".....that is always the best way, www.youtube.com/@KentHewittpiano88/playlists

[@garekbushnell3454]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm glad you found me. I'm not an authentic stride player ...there are a few on KZbin. At one time I could play Joplin. Glad you liked it.

[@Eoinh90]

I absolutely love the turnarounds in the left hand.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Explain them to me... so I understand!

[@Eoinh90]

@@KentHewittpiano88 Hi Kent, It's mostly in your wrap up at the end, where you improvise a bit. For instance at around 12:42 and 12:56. The right hand is also interesting for sure, but those left hand turnarounds are just gorgeous. Would like to learn more about those!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I see what you mean now, the chromatic approaches to the 3-6-2-5-progression. Thanks!

[@macantoParis]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+Antony Farsy Antony, thanks a lot, your comment is very helpful as I am trying to get better at this and I don't use a script so clarity is an important point to me.

[@spinelldete]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I think you've nailed what I'm about. So thank you for the affirmation...I can't tell you how helpful that is for me!

[@gusgas4122]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks so much!

[@uncleric3797]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks!

[@benroman2075]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+ben roman Hi Ben . You're welcome.! That's a perceptive comment and I appreciate very much that you are letting me know. You are absolutely right! Kent

[@jadonclifton]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Great comment...much appreciated. If I had a time machine I would have lived and played in the 40's and the big band era.

[@francescocorvi1458]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's so great to hear! Thanks for telling me and keep watching!...kzbin.info/door/dmjw5sm9Kn83TB_rA_QBCwplaylists

[@calebraysilcott9471]

I love how you broke this down!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thank you!

[@retrocool]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I wish I could have accomplished more as a composer, so your compliment is deeply appreciated, retrocool. Thanks for the comment and It's cool to be retro.

[@mainemanayuh]

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.

[@pterraff]

Thank you Kent! this was a great exercise

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@ceroth5625]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks so much for the affirmation...that's helpful to me, and I'm grateful.

[@jedzulaybar8761]

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!

[@maymeltother2818]

Good lesson. Very helpful. Thanks for your effort.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me!

[@nicolanuzzo7106]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad you like it! It's my melody, I used to compose a lot over the years, but not in recent years.

[@stevepethel6843]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks and many blessings.

[@pianojazztustin5811]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's Mark, I appreciate the compliment!

[@neilmacgregor1623]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'm happy that you wrote to me and that this videos has been well-received. Thanks!

[@pastaboinch]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's great feedback and support for what I'm doing and very helpful to me. So thank you and Christmas blessings!

[@laura_whittle]

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 🇬🇧😊

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks, write to my email for more detailed info. Also watch this video on a stride lesson I made. :kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKbXgoycm8ukbtU

[@glopetegui]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+glopetegui Thanks for the positive feedback. It is very helpful to me to know that my pacing is good. This turned out to be a more popular video, I'm not sure why. I've done other step-wise videos.

[@marcosromerapiano]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Great comment and hugs to you!

[@Aupheromones]

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!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for the great feedback...it helps me to know I'm on the right track!

[@thirsima]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I appre4caite the comment and affirmation.

[@b.i.s.o.n.bristolscreenwri305]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+B.I.S.O.N.: BRISTOL SCREENWRITER NONSTUDENT That's great to hear. Thanks for telling me and I'm glad to know that my videos are helpful!

[@davivify]

Very cool exercise. Very full and satisfying sound. Thanks so much, Kent.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I appreciate the compliment!

[@yvonneormsby9786]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Great...thanks so much for telling me...good luck and enjoy practicing!

[@JAKENMK]

Yeeee this is great stuff ! I learned guitar pretty well via KZbin 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 ! 🍻

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Awesome, thank you!

[@angelsolis2211]

Thank you for the stride tutorial

[@KentHewittpiano88]

You’re welcome 😊

[@mongkutTube]

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.

[@JOUA1400]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

I'll have to check that out...thanks!

[@ИльяКузнецов-ш8в]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks very much for your comment! I apprecaite that! Write to me if you don't know how to, use the translator in sub titles.

[@a.dselinger9291]

Kent, your videos are most helpful and entertaining; they are a mine of information and inspiration !! Thank you.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+A.D Selinger Thanks so much for taking the time to watch and make a helpful comment. Comments like yours affirm that I am on the right track!

[@derrickboatman1560]

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

[@deyanmatos567]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Deyan...Much appreciated comment...please subscribe and check out my playlists, (go to channel page) for content that interests you.....and a sincere welcome!

[@chrisSkordPiano]

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

[@chrisSkordPiano]

really enjoyed the wrap up at the end made me tap my foot!! thats what stride is !!!!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Yes, I played in a mall... free style, but when I started playing in rhythm, I saw people tapping their foot!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Playing by ear is superior to playing by reading notes!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

since the ultimate goal is to play I would agree with you....but unfortunately my ear is not perfect... reading music opens up that missing element

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That's how it works for me too...because it is an intellectual process as well...although Erroll Garner had no problem with that!

[@tomarmstrong1281]

That was a wonderful tutorial.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me!

[@guitarguy42394]

Just found your channel Kent - I’ve been looking for a good place to start on stride technique as it’s always been a goal of mine but despite having a strong jazz background, I’m self taught and don’t have as much left-hand discipline as I want. Love the way you broke down something so daunting into manageable levels-even someone with just a year of studying theory could pick up what you’re putting down. Now I’m eager to sit back down and get my left hand into shape and I’ll be checking out your other videos as well, since it seems you have a knack for teaching! Thanks a bunch!😁

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for the affirmation....I'm glad this video was helpful to you...keep watching!

[@leongfongonn6968]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thank you for the comment and God bless!

[@petetee1292]

Great tutorial, Kent. I know when the view of that Mason n Hamlin appears, there's something worth spending time seeing. Thank You.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+pete tee Hi Pete tee. Thanks, I'm glad you liked it...keep listening...more new ones coming this week. Happy New Year to you and yours. Kent

[@kevinsykes7395]

Kent- I love your playing on this. Really nice melody.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for listening

[@guillermoyt89]

Thank you very much. This video was very helpful.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rayhill516]

Thanks very much Kent you are a gentleman of the highest order. Cheers mate.

[@Buckleupbucko]

7 years later and it’s STILL a great tutorial

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thanks for telling me!

[@jurbanek2704]

Hi Kent! This has to be the coolest exercise I've seen in a while! Sounds like an old timey jazzy song. I'm gonna try all the steps and will let you know how much it helped. My stride piano is very weak at this moment, so I really hope this will help. One thing is certain - I will enjoy playing this exercise! Thanks!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

+Jakub Urbánek Jakub, thanks so much for letting me know that you like this. I'm going to put up another video on stride techniques breaking it down in closer detail...(please see Johan Wiman's question above), so that may be of further help. Keep in touch!

[@haden6713]

Great lesson! I love the levels! I'll be happy even if all I do is play the broken 10ths but will be thrilled if I can go on to the advanced levels. Thank you so much for coming up with this and providing the sheet music too!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

It's my pleasure...and it's all worthwhile when I hear from folks like you. Much appreciation.

[@mgtnlouis4940]

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

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Thank you!

[@leongfongonn6968]

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.

[@KentHewittpiano88]

That is very gratifying to me ...so bless you for telling me.

[@mcswing2001]

Hi this is extremely helpful! This is so well explained and also in a way that allows to advance in sophistication but keeping style in all levels (making it very rewarding to study at any level!). I downloaded your exercise and look forward to get your book and printed as you suggest. Thanks!

[@KentHewittpiano88]

Glad it was helpful!