Thanks, Todd. Very helpful. I've been having trouble finding out anything about jazz/ragtime in Brooklyn prior to 1928, and the opening of the Brooklyn...
http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?page=section/civilWar/index.html for some relatively authentic patterns for menswear of the period. Buy the patterns and...
My goal in learning and playing ragtime is to memorize and compitently play as many songs as possible so that I can sit down at any piano without music and...
I am sure that the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper will be of use to you. It is online, but only up to 1902. As I mentioned, the College Inn in Coney Island was a hot...
Rick, I would say "yes" to all that you listed. However, as you become more proficient (and of course this also depends on the difficulty of the piece), you...
Hi Rick. I would first refer you to my article on playing ragtime, which while hardly the last word on the subject does contain a lot of collective information...
Hi, I've tried memorizing the bass lines and the treble separately, but it only had the effect of taking twice as long to learn a piece as should be...
Another important trick once you have reasonable familiarity with the tune is to memorize it backwards - memorize the D strain, then the C, etc. If you are...
With the spate of festivals coming up, I'd like to suggest something. When you're out and about this year at the assorted festivals/ragtime events where other...
... compitently play as many songs as possible so that I can sit down at any piano without music and just play for an hour or more. The ease in playing that...
A practical advantage to learning a piece backwards: If you ever get hopelessly lost while performing, you can always jump to the end and finish. Anyone had...
Good idea, Bryan! Seeing a bunch of people with red ribbons (or whatever) might also draw the attention of people not in the group. They may ask what the...
... Ouch! I respectfully disagree, not only as a performer but a historian. There is a reason that stomps are named as such, and the foot has long been...
Some thoughts: - Another point about learning a piece "backwards": you may hear a voice saying "Paul is dead, Paul is dead…" but don't worry, it's not true....
So what secret badge should we adopt? Carnations in our lapels? Red ribbons? Music-note pins? Or should we just go with an old- fashioned secret handshake? ...
I've heard an *assortment* of everything from foot tapping to full out right jumping around and stomping by everything from Conductors to solo violins while...
Yes, Wesley stomps, much to my chagrin. ;-) I just smile. You're right: I can't stop him. And you are certainly a better judge of the right-ness of it...
... beat. ... stage ... One of my piano teachers was really against the constant use of metronomes; she said that they were a crutch and prevented the student ...
... performing. ... student ... metronomic ... effect, ... little ... those ... I ... Agree with this point. I use a metronome to ferret out areas where I ...
Funny story about tapping feet... When I first started in band, back in 7th grade, trying to make a ungainly French Horn sound pleasant, the director...
If you listen to that Jelly Roll Morton guy in his Library of Congress recordings, he talks a goodly bit about his foot tapping being part of his style. And...
Hi, Todd. I agree. Anyone up for a live broadcast this coming Tuesday? It's been too long, but now that my MA thesis is done (!), I have a little more time on...
I'm up for it! In a major syncopated way... ... From: Todd Robbins <coneyislandtodd@...> To: EliteSyncopations@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, May 3, 2008...
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Yes, I miss the live broadcasts; haven't dropped in on a chat in quite a while either. Tuesday looks good. Barring unforseen events or technical difficulties,...
Every week Terry Waldo has some regular gigs. Each Sunday from about 6 to 8 he hosts a stride piano jam at Fat Cats Billiards on Christopher St. in Greenwich...
