Ragtime Piano 101 ft Postmodern Jukebox’s Scott Bradlee (Piano Lesson)

What a treat to have such a tutorial from Scott Bradlee.

I bought Scott's book Ragtimify back in 2013 (I still have it in my Google Drive). It helped me land a job at a local piano bar, because I came up with some stride covers of a couple of pop tunes on the spot for the owner. That bar kept me afloat for probably 3 or 4 year.

I've been playing my scales with a stride bass for over a year. It's getting better...this is the type of video that gives me inspiration.
Merci.

Awesome 🎉

I giggled with glee while watching this. A clear and straightforward explanation, and I could feel my fingers moving. I can't WAIT!

❤Loved the tutorial! ❤ Thank you so much Pianote and Scott!

If only I had a piano teacher like him in second grade….

He's the coolest!

Definitely going to incorporate this style and approach into my practice, Thanks!

Scott is excellent at explaining what he does. However he makes it seems easier than it is

This is such good info, thanks Scott/Pianote.
Being able to play several ragtime pieces is my dream. I only know the poor man's Entertainer and at the moment working on the easy winner...

Thank you💐 This channel helps me a lot. Please, don't stop sharing piano knowledge 🙏😊

Thank you

Sheet music fir this

Now I know I just have to throw my piano out because I'll never be able to do this!! :-) Just kidding - I love Scott Bradley and PMJ, and can entertain myself on the keyboard.. I can make myself think I sound great after a few beers if the accompanying MP3 is loud enough..

Great vid. Makes me thinking about making time to doing piano and guitar as hobby again.

A complete ragtime course in just 8 minutes 🥰

Roland Digital Grand, interesting. sound really good on my computer speakers. So, premium acoustic upright or this Roland Grand which one based on sound ?

L o l this is nice.. That LA sound.. Orchestra and other melody

Syncopation: "Just play out of sync, but make it cool" 🤣

He's a great teacher! Ragtime seems like a super intimidating genre, but he made it easy to understand and still fun! Now let me go give it a try and see what I think... 😅

If you are a brand a new piano player

More 👏🏼

Who's here because of the Cuphead Tutorial music? Lol! 😆 🤣 😂

It doesn't get better than this: Pianote and Scott Bradlee. Wow.♥

Great video. I have been trying this style and playing some ragtime pieces from books. My right hand feels very relaxed and comfortable. However, my left hand feels a lot of strain and tension. How can I avoid that? Thanks in advance.

Partituras pls

I'm in shock that no one else noticed this guy shoots laser beams from his fingers

Scott Bradley and Gunhild Carlind are the best things that happened to music after 2010.

Wonderful ❤❤❤

I'd like to comment on the bass part of the music as instructed on "Ragtime 101". As a totally amateur Ragtime piano player of about 45 years, I have found that for the bass notes in the left hand, it sounds so much better if they are arranged into a semi-melodic line. If you just go back and forth, back and forth, oom-pah, oom-pah, oom-pah, that tends to get old in a hurry.

I don't know how I can explain this, but I'll try. In the key of "C", if you hit an octave C in the bass, then a C triad in first or second inversion, then go back down and land on an octave E then hit E-flat then D then a G7 chord then go down and land on a B then G-A-B and back to C, you have formed a bass line.

In your demonstration of the second strain of Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag", that can be heard there. Not necessarily the notes that I suggested; there are many possibilities in creating such bass lines. In "Gladiolus Rag" (a rather difficult piece to play), he gets into even more of that.

Another trick in creating a bass line is to keep that oom-pah left hand going but move the octave notes in the bass down (or up) stepwise.

So, you can go octave C – C triad chord, octave B-flat – C7th chord, A – F triad chord, A-flat – A-flat 7th chord (actually an “augmented sixth”) then down to G. This forms a bass line that moves slower but is still highly effective.

Joplin did this near the end of the second strain in his classic piece “The Cascades” – another very difficult piece to execute successfully. Then when he goes to his third strain, the bass notes in the left hand get absolutely nuts. I practiced that for YEARS and I’m not sure I ever fully mastered it so that it sounds good.

The secret is to practice it slowly. I once had a piano teacher who was an outstanding, professional Ragtime piano player and he told me, “if you can play it well slowly, you can play it fast” or, more accurately, “a tempo”.

Please don't take my comments as any sort of criticism. I was just trying to share some ideas - that's all.


Regards,
Fred M. Cain,
Topeka, IN

Way beyond my current ability but I absolutely love it

Love this! Please do more videos with Scott! Such a talented artist.

I've been looking for a lesson like this for a long time! Thank you Professor Scott! I love everything you do!

“GREAT SCOTT!” 😅

Very clear explanation and demonstration. Thanks!

This dude is a legend.

These are really well put together, shout out to the editor with the red highlights, I'm sure stuff like that is a pain to do but it really makes the video 👌

Play Super Mario Bros 2 theme.

I don’t even play piano that was dope

Why left hand pattern is called stride if stride appeared after ragtime?

any tips for the jumps for the stride? as well I know we shouldn't look at the keys whilst playing which is still very hard for me I admit !

I first heard ragtime on a BBC childrens televison show called Ragtime from the 1970s. I still have that song in my head and me and my dad used to like it alot. Great tutorial and I want to get a keyboard and have a go and what you've done. Thankyou!

jeffy

Thanks man!

Master Scott! Great!

If only this had existed when I was young enough to learn.

Thanks: the future may not be entirely f**ked...

cool i love ragtime style

This is a great lesson, but please, I thought that disconcerting editing approach of constantly jumping to side cameras (so it looks like the person is talking to somebody else) went out of style years ago...