Smokey Mokes - Ton van Bergeyk

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

hahaha hilarious dancing. I wish I could dance like that heheh. This song is quite the challenge to learn...but once I can finally play it clearly and to speed I will be a happy man, and what a genius of a guitar player to be able to put scott joplin's music into 6 measly little strings.

[JustSimplyJason]

its sad hes not recognized by many people he is truley one of the greats of guitar playing but i guess with all the garbage they call music these days nobody cares.

[dethije]

Nice tune ... great dancing. Thanks for the video !

[0ldfinger]

@dethije my pleasure! He's a great guitarist.

[Pwecko]

I got Stefan Grossman's Ragtime Guitar book many years ago. It had this in it and a few others by TVB. I can just about play this one at about a quarter of the proper pace. Everything else of Ton's in there is unplayable as far as I'm concerned. This is a really nice tune. I'm going to try to play it again.

[0ldfinger]

Hi Pwecko, I totally agree. I can play this at normal speed, but it will eventually break down as the bass comping that goes on is subtly different from what I normally play. Kills em every time!

[RobbinHoet]

Great video, thanks!

*****

[potatoepeter1]

;-)

[ddanze]

The dancing chap is great! - who is he?

BTW, I am GLAD you posted TVB's tune

here - I hope we can all carry out a revival

of his fabulous arrangements.

[0ldfinger]

I just thought it was such a great piece that I wanted to give other guitarists who may never have heard it, the chance to enjoy it. Maybe they'd then go and buy a Ton CD. So it's all good.

[daddystovepipe]

Wonderful pickin'!

[fanoguitar]

That is a good tune. Would be a challenge to play. So you haven't been able to work it out?

[0ldfinger]

Hi Ed - great wee tune isn't it. No, the problem is not that I can't work it out -I have a tab for it, I just can't play it! I can play all the melody OK, but when I try to to that along with the bass part, something Bad happens. I can send you the tab if you want a shot

[fanoguitar]

If you can't play it, I probably can't either! I can't even dance as well as you. But I've got a bigger river!

[0ldfinger]

It might be bigger, but my river has more shopping trolleys in it :)