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Living on New Orleans, you can't help but love the music here. Dixieland Jazz, Ragtime, Blues, Funk and everything else. Somehow I started looking at the music of Scott Joplin and decided to give it a try. It's not a "hard" piece, but it was a lot of fun, even though I played fairly slowly trying to get the rhythm right. There were a few starts, stops and re-starts until I got it in my head. The piece is called Rosebud Two Step. I think I will want more ragtime. I will continue sight reading Bach Inventions and Sinfonia, since they have so much to offer.

Trying to find my niche. So much music, only two hands and just not enough time!

I'm having fun for sure. And it's good to be with others who understand just how nutty we piano people can be.

You're in good company around here. Whizbang coordinated a Joplin recital here in the ABF awhile back -

ABF Joplin recital

and fairly often there are Joplin pieces in the quarterly recital. Welcome to the club!

Oh! and I went to hear Marcia Ball in Denver a couple of weeks ago.

Jotur, glad you got to see and hear Marcia Ball. She is great. We see and hear her almost every year at New Orleans Jazz Fest.

In case anyone is interested, on IMSLP there is Scott Joplin's "school of ragtime" available. Joplin gives some exercises and explains the importance of certain elements of ragtime. What a nice thing for a composer to do!

I would never have done any Joplin without this site, its all here apart from rap and heavy metal. . .

Be forewarned: there are a lot of ragtime pieces out there. Mr. Stubbie got sucked in and has played over 140 of them.

My favorites are:

Solace: A Mexican Serenade (Joplin) recording
Valse Venice (James Scott)
Graceful Ghost Rag (William Bolcom). This is one of my all-time favorite pieces, period.

All three of these are outliers--they're not played fast, or hard.

Thanks Stubbie. I will check those out. So much fun.

Isabelle my friend turned me on to joplin a while ago and I really like some of his stuff.

Sor, I have always loved Joplin's music. Tried it a couple of decades ago and just couldn't get the rhythms, but at the time I was pretty hooked on classical pieces.

Are you familiar with Louis Moreau Gottschalk? I would almost make a deal with the Devil to be able to play his music!

Isabelle,

I have not heard of Louis Gottschalk, but I will check out some of his work.