STRIDE

Stride

Harlem Stride Piano, stride piano, commonly abbreviated to stride, is a jazz piano style that was developed in the large cities of the East Coast, mainly New York, during 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats. Occasionally this pattern is reversed by placing the chord on the downbeat and bass note on the upbeat. Unlike earlier "St. Louis"-style pianists, stride players' left hands often leapt greater distances on the keyboard, and they played in a wider ...

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stride

Noun

  1. A long step.
  2. The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.

Verb

  1. To walk with long steps.
  2. To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
  3. To pass over at a step; to step over.
  4. To straddle; to bestride.


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