Queen of Ragtime

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johnrosencrans9962 ::: Favorites Get ringtones at RINGTONESET dot NET 07-09-11 16:07:32 __________________________________________________
sonicpets3 ::: Favorites i really agree with you there, but you have to admit, that would be cool tobe able to play! without the pauses. 07-08-27 15:51:53 __________________________________________________
Keeper1st ::: Favorites Heh, but that said, I have heard Tom Brier switch to 3/4 time signature while playing a rag, for fun. He and Frederick Hodges have done a duet of Peacherine Rag where the repeats have changed rhythm -- tango, waltz, 6/8 march, and one-step. It's astounding. Alas, I only got it on poor-quality audiotape, but can send you a link to hear it. 07-08-25 08:42:18 __________________________________________________
leopoldmozart ::: Favorites Oh, wow, sorry about that. I was misinformed as to the meaning of 3-over-4. By the way, you've got some great videos on your channel. Thanks! 07-08-25 06:17:53 __________________________________________________
Keeper1st ::: Favorites "This person" is Mimi Blais. She and Tom both will be performing at the West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento the weekend before Thanksgiving -- along with dozens of other outstanding performers (and seminars). Don't miss it! 07-08-25 04:36:48 __________________________________________________
Keeper1st ::: Favorites Of course she added a lot of improvisations on the repeats. That's standard practice in ragtime performance -- always has been. (Well, it's standard practice to improvise a lot on the first time through too -- just not as much!) 07-08-25 04:32:42 __________________________________________________
Keeper1st ::: Favorites Who said anything about waltz rhythm? 3-over-4 refers to a syncopated pattern -- not a time signature. It's the playing of a repeated three-note figure over a rhythm with four-note groups. Thus your 16ths are grouped 1231-2312-3123 etc. It was first used in "Dill Pickles", and taken to extremes here in "Black & White Rag" and in "12th Street Rag". Thus by "simple 3-over-4 piece" I mean that this rag is mostly that pattern, with no real melody. 07-08-25 04:21:51 __________________________________________________
leopoldmozart ::: Favorites I didn't mind her speed, but the long pauses bothered me.They were silly and sucked out all the energy. Also, as with most musicians, her reinterpretations were more or less harmonies to the written melody which only make sense if you are hearing the melody in your mind while she busts out those arpeggios etc. Well, no one in that newbie audience was exposed enough to the written song to be able to do that, so to them her playing just looked like finger gymnastics without any musical content. 07-08-24 14:42:14 __________________________________________________
leopoldmozart ::: Favorites First of all, for intermediate-talent ragtimers like me, there is no such thing as a "simple three over four piece". In any case, I listened closely and didn't hear any 3 over 4 in her performance. In fact, virtually no one plays Black and White with the left hand busting out the waltz rhythm. It sounds goofy. 07-08-24 14:31:08 __________________________________________________
aaron12345432 ::: Favorites This person's the queen of ragtime, but Tom Brier is the king of ragtime 07-08-23 21:51:07 __________________________________________________