If being a stride pianist is your dream, or even if you’d like to add some stride spice to your playing and soloing, this fun-filled book of exercises is your perfect piano companion. Filled with the kind of right hand arpeggios and figures the great stride players employ, plus the left hand “swing bass” stride style, this volume is ideal for improving piano technique and dexterity. Peter Deneff presents the exercises in a logically sequenced order: he begins the stride left hand style by not requiring leaps between bass notes and off-beat chords, but keeping all within the span of the hand. The right hand begins with a straight arpeggiated style. Bit by bit the left hand expands its reach, and slightly more complicated right hand licks are slowly introduced. In all of his books Deneff urges practicing his exercises very slowly at first and always with a metronome, with which we heartily agree. That technique quickly drums perfect time into the hands and fingers, as well as an evenness of tone.

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