Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Tutorial 

I love your tips for jumps!

Inspiring and very helpful as usual, thank you Josh.

Can you do Easy winners?

Very inspiring 🎉

Wow!!!! I’m teaching myself this piece right now. This is amazing the work you’ve done with the piece. can’t say thank you enough for their awesome teaching video.

Josh, do you have a suggestion for a first ragtime piece for a beginner-intermediate?

Joplin's ragtime is truly America's classical music he can't base anything based on those piano rolls from 1916 Joplin only cut those rolls for the money he jazzed them up he thought that no one would ever hear them widely he did it strictly for the money because Joplin was flat broke when he made those rolls if you want to learn Joplin's rags study Joplin's own School of ragtime Joplin published in 1908 the reason why we know is Joplin's words is because Joplin published it himself Joplin never ever swung his music swung his rags ever there's no swing on the maple leaf rag it can be played as a swing the maple leaf rag but it's was written as a classical piece not a swing piece you can jazz up Mozart and Bach does this mean they were jazz composers? We also know that the Debussy and Stravinsky also wrote ragtime so does this make them popular music composers? So there's a huge difference between the word ragtime and the name Scott Joplin Joplin took ragtime and turned it into classical music and it was Joshua Rifkin recordings no other recordings that raised joplins music from the dead this guy is simply poorly educated if you want to learn Joplin's music for real you study the School of Ragtime time not the Joplin piano rolls in 1916 then you got the music and you just play it if you can't play it just have a music teacher show you how to play Joplin's music is played like any other classical music as it was writtenJoplin was really not interested in writing ragtime anymore anyway but he always plays music like he wrote it according to the school of rag time which goes into how Joplin's music is supposed to be played in detail that's what Joshua Rifkin records are based on the School of ragtime if you want to learn the real Scott Joplin study Joshua Rifkin 1970 recordings

Wow! What's next - some Boogie Woogie maybe? Great stuff!

Recommend listening Tom briers play of this song pretty badass

Pineapple, Bethena , snd Solace are my favorites, great lesson, Josh!!!

some good non classical versions could be Summertime (peterson) and Misty by Errol Garner (absolutely amazing pianist)

Nice ❤

I am looking forward to more tutorials like this (I mean non- classical). The Entertainer perhaps? 😊 Thank you.

I'd love to see more non classical!

Love this piece!

Josh come to Sedalia this summer to the Scott Joplin Festival, you will be a crowd pleaser!

You are a great teacher,all you videos are great

Thanks for the video Josh! I only played classical pieces yet, but I want to extend my repertoire with some more "modern" music. It's great to have a tutorial from you to support this journey! 😄

"Autumn Leaves" by Roger Williams

I did a really “ragged” recording some 8 years ago when I was just picking up piano again after a 50 year hiatus from playing. Took me about a year to get back to playing this at a recognizable level. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_r29ibq_Ys8.html