stride piano

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noun

a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in Harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing.

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Origin of stride piano

First recorded in 1950–55

Words nearby stride piano

strictly increasing function, stricture, stricturotomy, stride, strident, stride piano, strider, stridor, stridulate, stridulous, strife

How to use stride piano in a sentence

The gunman hardly broke stride as he nonetheless shot Merabet in the head, killing him.
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I sat down at the living room piano and started playing this.
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On piano was legendary session man Billy Preston, who co-wrote and recorded the original version one year before Cocker's.
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Seth, Joe, and [Anthony] Mackie reenacting the scene from BIG on the floor piano at FAO Schwartz with KANYE WEST.
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Gil turned and saw Muhammad Ali stride out of the stage entrance, smiling and scowling at the same time.
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He really seems to care almost nothing for his piano-playing or for his piano compositions.
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A splendid grand piano stands in one window (he receives a new one every year).
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At an early hour in the evening the Farival twins were prevailed upon to play the piano.
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The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column.
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She sat perfectly still before the piano, not touching the keys, while Robert carried her message to Edna at the window.
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