J-Doug Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Hi guys, here's a ragtime tune I've been working on. Scott Joplin's Original Rags from 1899. From an arrangement by David Laibman. https://soundcloud.com/tripleohdoug/original-rags I hope you like it. It isn't perfect but heck neither am I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Wow, I loved it! Keep up the good work. Many hints of Chet in that performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ponty Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 Awesome! Sounds like a complex piece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 Wow, I loved it! Keep up the good work. Many hints of Chet in that performance. Awesome! Sounds like a complex piece. Thank you so much for the kind words guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lars68 Posted May 16, 2015 Share Posted May 16, 2015 That is excellent! Really good. Lars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 16, 2015 Author Share Posted May 16, 2015 That is excellent! Really good. Lars Thank you very much Lars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buc McMaster Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Bravo! Well done! Many, many hours went in this........very good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaiser Bill Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 While listening, I realized we had the exact same shirt on. I liked the tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Doug... Awesome brother. I really appreciate everything about it. It took me so long to get alternating thumb down, and only now am I able to get more intricate. What you do? Another level. I could listen to it for hours. As an aside... What makes a rag... A rag? Why are they called rags? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 Bravo! Well done! Many, many hours went in this........very good! Thank you Buc! It's true that it did take me LONG while to learn. Almost too much time. While listening, I realized we had the exact same shirt on. I liked the tune. Thank you Bill! Unfortunately my evil cat destroyed that shirt. Doug... Awesome brother. I really appreciate everything about it. It took me so long to get alternating thumb down, and only now am I able to get more intricate. What you do? Another level. I could listen to it for hours. As an aside... What makes a rag... A rag? Why are they called rags? Thanks so much Sal! As for what makes it a rag wikipedia puts it better than I can: Musical form The rag was a modification of the march made popular by John Philip Sousa, with additional polyrhythms coming from African music.[5] It was usually written in 2/4 or 4/4 time with a predominant left-hand pattern of bass notes on strong beats (beats 1 and 3) and chords on weak beats (beat 2 and 4) accompanying a syncopated melody in the right hand. According to some sources the name "ragtime" may come from the "ragged or syncopated rhythm" of the right hand.[2] A rag written in 3/4 time is a "ragtime waltz." Ragtime is not a "time" (meter) in the same sense that march time is 2/4 meter and waltz time is 3/4 meter; it is rather a musical genre that uses an effect that can be applied to any meter. The defining characteristic of ragtime music is a specific type of syncopation in which melodic accents occur between metrical beats. This results in a melody that seems to be avoiding some metrical beats of the accompaniment by emphasizing notes that either anticipate or follow the beat ("a rhythmic base of metric affirmation, and a melody of metric denial"[23]). The ultimate (and intended) effect on the listener is actually to accentuate the beat, thereby inducing the listener to move to the music. Scott Joplin, the composer/pianist known as the "King of Ragtime", called the effect "weird and intoxicating." He also used the term "swing" in describing how to play ragtime music: "Play slowly until you catch the swing...".[24] The name swing later came to be applied to an early genre of jazz that developed from ragtime. Converting a non-ragtime piece of music into ragtime by changing the time values of melody notes is known as "ragging" the piece. Original ragtime pieces usually contain several distinct themes, four being the most common number. These themes were typically 16 bars, each theme divided into periods of four four-bar phrases and arranged in patterns of repeats and reprises. Typical patterns were AABBACCC′, AABBACCDD and AABBCCA, with the first two strains in the tonic key and the following strains in the subdominant. Sometimes rags would include introductions of four bars or bridges, between themes, of anywhere between four and 24 bars.[2] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vacamartin Posted May 17, 2015 Share Posted May 17, 2015 Sounding good Doug! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 Sounding good Doug! Thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 22, 2015 Author Share Posted May 22, 2015 Thank you to all who took the time to listen. I really appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted May 23, 2015 Share Posted May 23, 2015 Really nice. For some reason, if I close my eyes I see a bunch of kids at Wrigley Field, in black and white. I loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Doug Posted May 23, 2015 Author Share Posted May 23, 2015 Really nice. For some reason, if I close my eyes I see a bunch of kids at Wrigley Field, in black and white. I loved it. Thank you for the kind words Murph! Playing Joplin's music really does evoke a bygone era. Heck this song is from 1899! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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