A stride-influenced piano piece that blends jazz idioms with classical structural sensibilities. It stands out for its rhythmic buoyancy and the characteristic interplay between the left-hand stride pattern and syncopated melody.
Focus on the precision and consistency of the left-hand stride jumps.
Comparable difficulty and character — good candidates for what to learn next.
Bach Up To Me is rated Henle level 4 of 9 — intermediate repertoire, roughly ABRSM grades 5–6. In the RCM system it corresponds to about level 5.
You should be comfortable at Henle level 4 — meaning you can already play level 3–4 pieces cleanly. Learning it one level early is possible as a stretch piece, but more than that usually leads to months of frustration.
A typical performance of Bach Up To Me lasts about 3 minutes.
Bach Up To Me is available as free public-domain sheet music on IMSLP — the score is linked directly from this page.
Pieces at a comparable difficulty and character include Aligator Crawl by Fats Waller, Black and Blue by Fats Waller, Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — see the full similar-pieces list on this page.