stride piano

noun [U]

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› a style of jazz piano playing in which the right hand plays the tune while the left hand repeatedly plays a single note and then a chord (= group of notes)Jazz and blues

(Definition of stride piano noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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