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Caption: hey everyone my name is Ben and you&#39;re listening to a daily dose of English this is a short simple podcast that you can listen to every day to improve your English you can find the transcripts for all episodes and more on benl language.com I&#39;m glad you can make it today in this episode we&#39;re going to be talking about rag time music which is something that I briefly mentioned um a while ago as one of my favorite genres of Music in general and specifically for the piano because it&#39;s um I think it&#39;s only a piano style of music I guess you could do it on other ones but there other instruments but there are some specific things that make it really interesting and sort of only really applicable to the piano um so first a quick I guess just definition actually let me look up rag time music that&#39;s rag time I did not spell that right okay rag time music um so it is on Wikipedia it says that it is a music style that is from sort of the early 1900s so from 1990 1890s to 1910s um that sort of thing and it was um popularized in the early 20th century so the early 1900s um by some composers like Scott Joplin James Scott and Joseph lamb um who are some well-known artists of of the genre um it is known mostly for what&#39;s called a syncopated or ragged Rhythm um so syncopated is something that is um uh so it&#39;s not like all exactly uh how do I explain this so syncopation is when things are timed together but they&#39;re different right so one two one two it&#39;s hard to explain so there&#39;s like this offbeat nature to it so I think the best thing to exp is through like a um an example and one of the most famous uh Ragtime pieces of all time is the Entertainer which if especially if you&#39;ve been to the US you&#39;ve probably heard um but it&#39;s the the Ice Cream Song and it was also uh used in uh the film The Sting which is a pretty old movie at this point um but it&#39;s this um um right that that song if you&#39;ve heard it if you haven&#39;t look it up it&#39;s it it&#39;s a good song it&#39;s a fun song but you can hear clearly this syncopation because the there is this Baseline and the other sound that are not quite exactly the same right so it&#39;s not like 1 2 3 4 2 2 3 4 right there&#39;s this sort of back and forth um right so I can I can play parts of that song and your left hand is sort of bouncing Bo right there sort of this back and forth with a lower note usually one or two notes and then a chord on the left hand which so you have this sort of back and forth on your left hand doom doom doom doom doom doom something like that and then your right hand is usually doing something that&#39;s not exactly in time with the left which makes it hard but also gives it that interesting syncopated sound um that is the best I I can explain it because there&#39;s I think you just has to listen to it if you don&#39;t play music um because it is not the easiest thing to uh explain um but that that syncopation is also called ragged sometimes like a ragged Rhythm which is where that sort of term rag time comes from the timing of the song the time is often what it&#39;s called in music is ragged right so rag time um and that is generally where you get the um the name and the the feeling and the vibe because there&#39;s not a strict definition necessarily it&#39;s usually more like okay it&#39;s this Vibe these kinds of musicians that sort of thing um I really like it because it has a very I almost want to say like happy sound to it but also like um vibrant sound so there&#39;s a lot of like movement to it and there&#39;s this this really interesting just sort of back and forth that I really like but then it&#39;s all with within one instrument right I think um I actually don&#39;t know this for sure but I&#39;m I&#39;m I think that a a really important part of rag time is that it is just a piano one person one musician playing um a a song and however it does sort of sound like a bit more um um oh I&#39;m actually seeing here that so you can also play ragom on a banjo um but it does look like it is played mostly by one person um and so that that also gives it another really uh or I just said that yeah that sort of unique like it sounds like almost like a band playing however it is just the one person um and not only that do I just like the sound of it but also the old pianos that&#39;s usually played on have a specific sound that I really like as well and so you get a nice mix of like a a an instrument a version of an instrument that I like plus sort of a sound that I like and then add to the fact that it&#39;s a very difficult and Technical thing to play it&#39;s hard to do but it also requires um precision and flow in a lot of ways you can&#39;t just study your way to being a good rag time musician I mean honestly for a lot of music you can&#39;t just study study your way to doing it but for some things you can be a little bit more precise um I think even with like classical music there is a bit more softness to it right there&#39;s a lot of technical skill in classical pianists um that can I guess basically do more interesting things can do more impressive things that are that often take more skill than it does like Good Vibes if that makes any sense might be just completely pulling stuff out of my ass but that&#39;s what it sort of sounds like and feels like to me um I I don&#39;t remember when I first like heard and like learned rag time because like the Entertainer is such a a famous song in the US um but I remember that it was one of my early things that I learned to play on the piano because I was in piano lessons since I since I starting when I was pretty young um I must have been what like seven or eight I have no quite young um and I started to learn to play the piano and one of the first songs that I I tried to learn on my own was the Entertainer was um that song um and I and I remember really trying to learn it and uh kind of I wasn&#39;t very good because I was so young right and I remember that um my parents were quite um one to really help me keep going right that to give me some external motivation and I remember specifically being offered um $10 if I could learn the the introduction to the song um and it was because it was one $1 for every finger and $10 is not that much money which like but but to a child right like like an 8-year-old it was a lot so let&#39;s see um um but that must have been I also like doing totally aide but infl inflation calculator sorry I when I like to look up in inflation rates and see like how much something might be worth so like almost whenever I&#39;m watching a movie and like they mention a dollar amount I&#39;ll be like oh okay so this was this uh was set in the Year 2007 let&#39;s say um and they said $10 right so how much is that in today&#39;s money right that&#39;s equivalent to like $15 today um so yeah my parents didn&#39;t actually offer me that much money right it was like $15 today which is um for a but for a kid like it&#39;s a decent chunk of of change right I probably hadn&#39;t had that much money maybe ever um but it was it stuck in my mind and um yeah so I I tried to learn it I use that money and I can still play it today um I do it is one of the things that I wish that I would put more time into at this point I don&#39;t have a piano or else I would um but I I don&#39;t I prob I do want to get like a a keyboard of some kind just to have more to be able to practice um but they are relatively expensive and yeah anyways because yeah that is definitely a goal of mine is to be able to play more and complete rag Time songs and be and know them better and be able to either read music or or I don&#39;t know I&#39;m not exactly sure what my goals are there but that is something that I&#39;ve always wanted to do ending here I also want to quickly mention um one of my favorite pianists and rag time musicians whose name is Tom Breer um who is um he&#39;s technically alive still he had a um I think he is uh he&#39;s still alive I think but he had a very um bad accident a couple of years ago and um I think is like completely in the hospital for since like eight years ago or something which is terrible but he is a very very talented and gifted um pianist and plays rag time and lots of other things and lots of his videos are on YouTube um t o m b r i e r and um he&#39;s also done his own own original things that are more modern than the 1910s that I also think are really good um and so uh yeah that is my episode here on rag time I hope that you try out some of the the the music and just see if you like it or not it&#39;s not for everybody I&#39;m not expecting you to go oh my God this is the next thing that I&#39;m going to listen to all the time because that would be ridiculous not very many people listen to Just piano music but if you need a little bit of piano music for when you&#39;re you&#39;re cooking or uh working or something and you want a little bit of a nice upbeat uh nice sounding sound um check it out but yeah that&#39;s everything that I have for today thank you all so much for watching and let me know down in the comments what you think and I will see you again in another episode tomorrow have a good one bye [Music]
Title: Daily Dose of English 184 - Ragtime Music
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