Stride Piano Sheet Music Jazz Transcriptions

STRIDE PIANO SHEET MUSIC
NOTE FOR NOTE TRANSCRIPTIONS OF JAZZ PIANO SOLOS

Learning Stride piano is difficult because it is a very visual style of music which has nearly disappeared today. Even if a natural ear for music allows to immerse in the sounds we hear on records, a sheet music is very useful to learn the basis of Stride piano and play it properly.
There are very few transcriptions of the first great jazz musicians and this is a lack in the musical edition and for people who want to learn this style of music and keep it alive. I have transcribed a number of pieces very precisely, by listening to the original recordings. Almost none of these music pieces have been transcribed or published yet. You can order sheet music book or individual pieces in PDF or folio format :

complete liste of transcriptions

Transcriptions Books :

FATS WALLER		FATS WALLER
VOLUME 1 - 2nd EDITION	17 transcriptions for piano : Blue Black Bottom Numb Fumblin' Love Me Or Leave Me Valentine Stomp I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling Smashing Thirds African Ripples Hallelujah Carolina Shout Honeysuckle Rose ...	VOLUME 2 - 2nd EDITION	17 transcriptions for piano : Muscle Shoals Blues Handful Of Keys Sweet Savannah Sue Viper's Drag Alligator Crawl Keepin' Out Of Mischielf Now Tea For Two London suite Ring Dem Bells ...

FATS WALLER Vol.3 NEW !		JAMES P. JOHNSON
	18 transcriptions for piano Ain't Misbehavin' Gladyse Clothesline Ballet Alligator Crawl E-Flat Blues Zonky Russian Fantasy Basin Street Blues I Ain't Got Nobody Saint Louis Blues Georgia On My Mind Martinique ...		17 transcriptions for piano : Carolina Shout Harlem Struts Riffs Jingles Modernistic If Dreams Come True Mule Walk Stomp Daintiness Rag Keep Off The Grass Twilight Rag Liza ...

DONALD LAMBERT		WILLIE "THE LION" SMITH
	15 transcriptions for piano : Anitra's Dance Pilgrim's Chorus Sextet Pork And Beans As Time Goes By Trolley Song Tea For Two Save Your Sorrow ...		15 transcriptions for piano : Concentratin' Sneakaway Echoes Of Spring Morning Air Finger Buster Fading Star Rippling Waters Passionnette Cuttin' Out Portrait Of The Duke ...

ABOUT TRANSCRIPTIONS :

This transcriptions will help you to understand many characteristics of the stride style, but they are not supposed to be played with a great accuracy. It's nearly impossible to play as the great Stide pianists used to do. Every piece must be performed with the genuiness and the freshness that Stride piano demands. In our own way, we can give a second life to these pieces. The game of the left hand demands a great skill that you get with practice : it is useless to play tenth with your left hand (especially in quick tempo) if your technical level and your morphology do not allow it, or do not allow it yet ! Play only the low note then. Do not forget that Stride piano is part of Jazz and is mainly improvised, by opposition to classical music and this music has to keep his improvised and spontaneous character.