Practice The Cycle of Dominants as a BassLine - Stride Piano Style
Clip from Performance & Practice, Episode #4.
The below text is a partial transcript of the video.
To advance in the stride piano style, it can be useful to practice connecting all the dominants, going around the 12 keys.
Let's say that every chord lasts for four beats, one bar, and practice a smart bass line by connecting all the dominants. Start with G7, with the tonic on the first beat, and then the chord on the two, then on the third beat, you put the seven in the bass. When you get to C7, you land with the third with E. Then you put the tonic. And then you repeat the same thing, now you go to F7, then the seventh in the base, Eb, to Bb7, with the third in the bass, and then tonic. You keep repeating that pattern. Effectively, you are using the tonic that goes down to the seven, every other bar.
Once you can do that very nicely on a steady, nice tempo with the left hand, then you can try to practice improvising on this cycle of dominants. You can make up a nice little etude, going through all those dominants and using that same pattern in the bass.
There are other solutions that you can use in the bass line, but for now, I think this is enough for you to practice for the next time.