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Fake stride, part one.
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Real stride.
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And possibly, you've seen a seasoned
pianist playing stride piano.
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Their left hand going smoothly from a low
bass note up to a chord back down to
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the note up to the chord and so on.
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All right.
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It looks easy, but
actually it's very difficult.
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So, the process for that is that the first
beat plays the root of the chord,
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and sometimes an octave.
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Let's play just a C note,
followed by the chord.
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Let's get a C middle.
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Then you're gonna play the fifth,
like you're playing it in reverse.
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And so it's root, chord, 5th,
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chord, root, chord, 5th, chord.
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So, not that easy to being with.
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So let's look at the Fake Stride.
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Fake Stride produces a similar
sound to that Stride, but
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it's much easier to perform.
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So fake stride the object is
to keep the bass note and
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the chord note in closer proximity so your
left hand doesn't have to travel too far.
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So in real stride you're bouncing up and
down.
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In fake stride, you're keeping
everything under your fingers.
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So it's getting a similar type of sound.
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So basically, what you're doing
there is you're playing the root,
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followed by the third and
fifth of the chord, then the fifth,
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as you did in the other stride, back to
the third and the fifth of the chord.
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So you're playing part of a chord in both.
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So you're still playing.
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And on the top you're just
playing that instead of.
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If you transpose that to F, same thing.
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So add chord,
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root, fifth,
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up to G, back to C.
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For the purpose of practicing the next
few pieces, let's make it even easier.
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And we'll take out the third.
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F.
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G.
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It'll allow you to bring
in a right-hand pattern so
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you can get both hands working together
before you try anything more elaborate.