Stride Hanon: 50 Exercises for the Beginning to Professional Pianist (Musicians Institute Private Lessons)

Even classic pieces need stride technique. Chopin Minute Waltz Op 64 No 1 is a typical stride waltz--left hand "Bom cha cha", right hand play melody. Many easy piano arrangement lack of bass support, this may due to technical limitation of the musician. Master stride technique can add bass support for solo piano put the piano to its highest edge.If you want to play easy tunes with full orchestration sound, How to Play Piano Despite Years of Lessons: What Music Is and How to Make It at Home suggest a music skeleton also needs stride technique. This technique enables a beginner play piano like seasoned musician.Unlike classic hanon, Stride Hanon focus on hand movement. How you make your hand jump from chord to chord with confidence is fundamental to play any style. So I buy this Stride Hanon to drill my hand jumping skill. Exercises begins from jump within an octave, then increase in difficult level gradually.

This book really was enjoyable - though I will add I have only gotten to 20 exercises. It is very much a good workout. I love how it does not shy from using flats and sharps helping me to be a better reader along with building up my slide strength and slide repetition memory.

This book is really brilliant. Im a college level percussionist and i play at a late intermediate level on the piano. Let me just say this book is definetly challenging for me but its very well written and like original hanon the melodies are catchy and engaging. This book is about building chops including hand movements scales, arpeggios and the like. It might be boring for some but for the serious piano student this is a must have.

I purchased this product a few months ago and it's been working great. Luckily I wasn't a beginner, but the lack of suggested fingering(even if you personally choose not to use them) for these exercises can cause some confusion unless you're already pretty familiar to the keyboard due to prior training. But overall, this book will definitely improve your striding technique. Being able to accurately run up and down the piano "should" improve your accuracy to the point where learning pieces becomes a much quicker affair.

This is written by an excellent pianist though I don't think he's very well versed in stride piano. His exercises are creative and useful for some of the technical difficulties of stride left hand, but he never once touches on playing 10ths, which is incredibly important. Deneff plays traditional greek and turkish music, classical, and more modern Jazz, but I would say that his knowledge of stride is functional at best. Still useful though, I must say.

My music teacher wanted my Stride book, I said, "Oh no." Came early too!Happy piano student.

I've studied Hanon for classical music, this book's exercises helps the pianoist get used to playing stride piano

These exercises are not stride exercises. They have nothing to do with the piano styles of stride players like Fats Waller, James P. Johnson, etc. Very disappointing.

a real Hanon, step by step progressive in difficulty!! thumbs up

all ok

A lot of work but will be worth it keeps you interested.

Semplice. Diretto. Efficace. Senza inutili teorismi che soddisfano solo i loro autori disoccupati.

I always feel that books, that strive to help with anything technique based, should include fingerings as a guideline. I feel that it's lazy of the author if this isn't included. Sadly, Stride Hanon offers no such suggestions, which makes me doubt the content and subsequent practise the book suggests.