Talk:Stride (music)

List of notable practitioners
The list of notable practitioners contains Mark Birnbaum. I'm questioning his notability. There was previously a wiki article about him but it was deleted at 02:15, 19 January 2010 (UTC) because "Subject is non-notable by wikipedia standards". I suggest removing him from this list as well. Please comment.

I also noticed that Scott Joplin was dropped from the list during revision 349724410 without any explanation. I agree with this drop because Scott Joplin was a ragtime pianist. Ragtime preceded stride and there is a separate article of ragtime which this article refers to. J-p-fm (talk) 13:08, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I already removed dead wikilink to deleted Mark Birnbaum page but still left his name in the article until further comments. J-p-fm (talk) 13:22, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Let's keep this list to notables with wikipedia bios. Also, let's keep this with a differentiation as to the formative era and the current era. It was improper to include people born in the 1960s or 1980s in the list with original practictioners who were already professional during the 1930s.Dogru144 (talk) 17:35, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 07:09, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Four-beat pulse?
"The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse" -- That isn't right. A four-beat pulse has four even beats, first epitomized in the bass playing of Walter Page. His Wikipedia article states: "Page is credited with developing and popularizing the "walking bass" style of playing on all four beats, a transition from the older, two-beat style."

In contrast, the left hand in stride emphasizes the first and third beats, playing "a single bass note, octave, major seventh or major tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats" as the article quite correctly puts it. This intrinsically generates a two-beat feel characteristic of earlier jazz.

It is the same thing that rock musicians are implying when the speak of "accent on 3" -- it is a two-beat music, especially suitable for dancers, where the downbeat at the beginning of the bar is the One, and the "accent on 3" is the Two. Subdividing the measure by referring to "accent on 3" doesn't give it a four-beat pulse any more than the accents on one and three give stride a four-beat pulse.Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 22:29, 27 September 2020 (UTC)

Example media?
It would be very helpful, especially for readers with little or no musical training, to hear examples of this musical style. Audio recordings would be good, but video demonstrating the technique would be even better. And for readers that have had some musical training, including musical notation would be very good, too. --Mr. Lance E Sloan (talk) 16:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)