Rialto Ripples Rag

[rockhammer666]

this is one of the tracks ...everytime i hear think about an old black and white movie

its great tune

[THECAROLLO0513]

I like your piano loool

[zypp33]

great playing....do some more..please!!

[Lightning828]

Wow you're realy good. I wish I was as good as you.

[BlueBat101]

Two bad 4 people here are jealous old farts :(

[stupidstuffviv]

nice piano

[Bananeboot]

shit is this bad

too much fauts

[CLASSICAListheWAY]

By far the best video of this online, bravo! And I'm sure by now you're even better. Upload some more videos! :)

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

EXCELLENT! that's one of the best performances i have heard so far =) BRAVO!

[143AC]

Ernie Kovacs would have loved this rendition..thanks Evan!

[hijiki1221]

dry emotion is classic today currency, i think.

i like this performance, applause. faster go faster.

[WSenator1]

Well played. Ernie Kovacs would be pleased!

[interestingandrew]

The eighth notes should not be swung. I know it's Gershwin, but it's a rag. And metronomes don't hurt either.

[P1anoYC]

Great rendition. I enjoyed it muchly!

Never knew Gershwin composed a rag, but I am definitely going to play this piece in the future :P

[justlooseit8567]

Amazing my friend! I play this rag and I'm modeling my interpretation after yours become i love it so much! I did the same with the maple leaf rag cus I love your interpretation SO much!

Can you please do the Charleston Rag by Eubie Blake as well as the Chevy Chase Rag by Eubie Blake?

Thanks! Amazing work!

[Sims3TheChannel]

such a COOL rag!!  love it!! amazing! I agree with DalrockCountry...can't wait for your next piece (:

[aerogrl87]

U were accurte on ur jumps!! too fast 4 my taste.. It's a rag, when it's so fast it doesn't sound carefree

[Beeshonpoo]

i love this song. i did a ballet dance to this 2 years ago.:)

[enoup2]

good!

[juliekwan]

Nice work :)

and i like your piano

[Serberus08]

nice starting tempo.

Good job throughout nice work man.

[Edhallick]

I have a photograph of New York city Broadway 1916 when this song came out, and EVERY single dude in that pic is wearing a straw hat. I mean EVERY single one for like 3 blocks. You know those small hats that are flat on top and have a flat rim? It`s really bizarre because the way a lot of guys today wear baseball hats, back then it was these straw hats and they all wore bowties as well. It`s the same hat were the cliche guy you see on cartoons comes on stage with the cane "Give my regards to..

[ItsNoelDur]

Nice.

:)

[KawhackitaRag]

Also, nice piano! What make is it?

[KawhackitaRag]

Terrific playing!

Dude, if you want, there is a sheet music transcription of Gershwin's hand-played piano roll of this rag that you can print out from Benjamin Intartaglia's "Ragtime France" website... just go to the english version and click the "Bonus" sidebar on the left.

There are TONS of rare rags and especially great piano roll transcriptions available here! (the ones of tunes still in copyright are not free but available for sale via email)

[coolmamac]

Thanks!

[rockhammer666]

@KawhackitaRag hi i cant find rialti ripples on that sde?can you please show me ive searched 3 times ;)

thx

[TheBlackFlute]

Sounds like something you'd hear on a video game if the PokeMart were on fire.

[woolters]

yeah, and laurel & hardy come tumbling in as firemen, and they find a lovely lady inside the house.

[ziggydamaestro]

Great playing - one small point: surely if you are playing a rag, then the quavers SHOULDN'T be swung? Otherwise we're getting into the realms of stride and boogie-woogie.

Nice playing though!

[DrKorn5]

true point. like this it sounds more like 1920s jazz then rag from the teens and earlier. either way im a fan of both

[KawhackitaRag]

dude, this is a fox-trot rag from the 'teens, it is written dotted, and by about 1916, as evidenced by contemporaneous piano ragtime recordings and piano rolls, the dotted notation MEANS to swing (that is, effect a swinging triplet feel).

For example, compare two of Charley Straight rags (he was the quintessential 'teens ragtime composer) that he made on roll for QRS just two years apart.

"Humpty Dumpty" from 1914 uses a dotted rhythm PLAYED dotted, while "Lazy Bones" from 1916 is SWUNG.

[KawhackitaRag]

and, if you don't believe me, listen to Charley Straight's piano rolls on Imperial circa 1917-1922, and/or the rolls of Max Kortlander and/or Victor Arden on QRS from about the same time.

These gentlemen were editors-in-chief at their respective companies and thus had ABSOLUTE control over what happened with the final roll master, including rhythms, added notes, etc. They edited their own performances and in many cases created a performance on the master without touching a piano.

[justlooseit8567]

Incredible job on this man!

[depoty]

This guy must be the reincarnation of Gershwin is all I can think !

[AznDDRhero]

I remember i played this song when i was 11 for my festival :) Haha. I thought it was the HARDEST song ever. Oh how things have changed..

[justlooseit8567]

Thats cus it's an ARCT piece :P

[Jakhun]

hahahah

it's not ARCT

[weirdo50]

it's a grade 10 piece in the RCM

[joannexoxo]

I'm only in gr 8 piano but I want to play this :$ ps. I'm digging your old school metronome, overall this is intense! good stuff :)

[lolly99pop]

Wow, great! Do you have the sheets (notes) for this song?:)

[SIMPFANN]

Nice job! I always associate this tune with Ernie Kovacs, as it was his closing theme and I remember watching tapes of Kovacs when I was a kid and loving the tune- but it wasn't until a few months ago that I found out the actual name of it (and that it was composed by Gershwin!)

[JamesPriceJohnson]

really great

[19lfm12]

Wow - that was great! Never heard of the piece, though I should have realized that Gershwin wrote ragtime:)

[bakafolas]

Ragtime is more like jazz than all other kinds of music

[loon65]

wow

great job

wow

wow

wow

[h3ll0chutney]

how hard is it to get left hand accurate?!?!

[OwnandPawn]

I played this for the grade 10 RCM exam 2 years ago :)

[neovirtua1]

This is fantastic!

[spamspaz]

Not that hard of a song, but nice variations. The use of octaves in part is not in my version of this song. Nice work on the B section btw, it's the intense part of the song.

[stone412]

You are a prodigy! I started at a very young age but haven't pursued it in a great while. :-) Keep up the good work!

[happymadan]

VERY NICE!!!I use this piece for my grade 10 piano repertoire.

YOU ROCK OUT LOUD!!

[2bninja]

rcm?

[happymadan]

Yes. I am doing grade 10 RCM.

[Fearghais]

Very nice. I watched this and Maple Leaf Rag and wanted to say good job on your tempo control. I notice your metronome in both videos - it shows if you worked with it in practice! So many people get off tempo with Maple Leaf Rag - good job once again!

[143AC]

Now..!

This is the way to play George Gershwin's

"Rialto Ripples!".

[DalrockCountry]

I could sit and listen to a whole collection of your playing. I just love what you do to the numbers. And on that wonderful old upright piano, they're full of life. Don't know about anybody else, but I'm wating for a couple more tunes from a VERY talented player.

[Evanissimo]

Hey thanks. I ordered another rag in the mail. I'll put it up in a few weeks.

[violettavalery16]

that's good news! thank you, I'll make sure to listen to it.

[frbjoernLA]

@Evanissimo Please upload more of you playing the Piano.

I'm one of your newest Fans!

[Cakeh123]

Amazing!

Me & My partner will be performing this piece in the next festival.

We just picked out this piece today.

[weemill]

DUDE , you da bomb shizzle! hahahaa nice playin man keep it up

[monroe444]

Awesome! I'm learning this for my grade 10 exam and it's tough! I'm impressed.

[hmmmeh]

Grade 10? Which country do you come from? I think I've heard in America grades go to 12...is that true? They only go to 8 here in England. Then you can do a 'senior' performer's certificate. I say 'senior', because there is a sort of foundation one that slots in around grade 5 but I never did it. Nice playing to poster btw!

[monroe444]

I'm in Canada. The Royal Conservatory of Music goes up to grade 10 and then you can do your ARCT (certificate of teaching) after that. I'm not sure if the US is different.

[hmmmeh]

Ah riht, thank you, that enlightens me as to Canada's working on it lol. there's a teacher's certificate you can do here as well, but I didn't mention it ebcause I don't think I'll be doing it :P

[capachina]

ok, so basically i love it, i'm doing this song right now and i heart it!!!, there's only one thing is in bar 18 when you have the b, a#, b, c, b, a natural and the next bar, there is no pause or rit, but other than that, good show. How long have u been taking lessons?

[Evanissimo]

Thanks, bout 10 years but I started real young.

[capachina]

impressed, i started when i was 6, so i suppose thats....12 years....meh....pays off when you get accepted to laurier for music!

[cheekytintin2]

i started when i was 4. so i've been playing for bout 8 yrs but not as good as you

[cajunbraille]

What joy! You make the piece sound like it's fun to play. I got the sheet music and will learn it too.

[es76]

How very entertaining and what a splendid and distinctive upright! Never seen one so ... architectural! The perfect tone to carry off a rag? Fabulous! (I really must make room for an acoustic piano!)

[bkgangstapianist]

im not in love wit this song but im sure if i had the sheet music i might give it a try

[billhill83]

Damn...I wish I could play rags like you. I still need practice to play with your level m of confidence.

I can play the maple leaf Rag pretty well but I still feel a slight sense of terror when playing it. I hope that I can play it as free of fear as you do.

[Evanissimo]

Thank you very very much!

[TayZonday]

More videos please!

[TabbLand]

*smiles*

Always astounding and amazing.

Oooh, alliterations. *laughs*

Cheers,

Tabb

[dalrockRD]

You're so good, I am requesting "Alexander's Rag Time Band". PLEASE!!

[jamiefoley15]

holy poop your good

[ronupnorth]

Shades of the Nairobi Trio

[emtube]

"Nairobi Trio" -- heh, heh. Brings back my ill-spent childhood nights sneaking out of bed to watch Ernie Kovacs' program, and especially "Silents Please", the silent film show he hosted with this piece as theme music, if I'm not mistaken. Wonder how many of us are around who still prize the humor of Ernie, the old Mad magazine, Bob & Ray, Stan Freeberg, Tom Lehrer, etc...

[oldbanjoman]

Ernie Kovacs... YES! THAT's where I've heard this song before. Man, that really brings back memories (all good). And count me as one who STILL prizes the humor of those you cited. By the way, GREAT piano playing, Evanissimo.

[WSenator1]

@emtube - Count me in!