Scott Joplin - Magnetic Rag

[PeteraBunny]

Awesome playing! :D You have inspired me to make this the 3rd ragtime song I will eventually play in my lifetime. I'm still working on my first favorite right now, yup, Entertainer: Then Ragtime Dance and then this (thanks to you)! Keep it up. :3

[PianoFreak1994]

Its so beautiful! But here in youtube theres nowhere a tutorial...:D

[sonomabob]

Nice left hand.

[voiceguy100]

Very nice!! I have played guitar for 25 years and now I want a piano!!

[Somuchcooleronline1]

@Mauvegroove: Lucky you. I'm unfortunately(?) exactly the opposite.

[Mauvegroove]

i'm currently learning this, and your rendition has been invaluable to the process :D thanks very much! absolutely fabulous playing, by the way!

i see we share a similar playing style - not so hot on the sight reading, but can recite things from memory without breaking a sweat. i'm yet to decide whether this is a blessing or a curse! :P

[Kakabeblen]

Well done, and you managed to pull some nice sound out of a baby grand, which usualy sounds quite bad.

I'm learning that rag myself now =) Of all of Joplin's rags this is among the hardest ones.

I enjoyed listening!

[tacsandamps]

Well done Ouirv, you are as good as I knew you would be. Lol Daphne

[ninni660]

best part 0:55 - 1:42 :D... love it

[Starkesz]

Awesome!!!!! I like it really much!!!

[HColorist]

LOve it ! THank's!

[PTR131]

I refuse to believe this music was only played in brothels, it is too good for that.

[vladinho7]

Vey well played, you are a brilliant pianist. What is the difficulty of this rag?

[ouirv]

@vladinho7 — Thanks so much for your very kind comment. I have heard that Magnetic Rag is supposedly fairly difficult to play, but despite that fact that I am a terrible reader and take forever to learn new pieces, it was actually easier to learn that I expected. I feel that I'm able to play it better than anything else in my tiny repertoire.

[Thunkful2]

@vladinho7

IMHO the difficulty w/ the rag is to play it w/ great sensitivity, use of rubato, & bringing out the underlying pathos which lies beneath a superficial smile on top.

[sigurjonv02]

Well done!  Bravo!!!

[888murali]

Easy to let the tempo get out of hand on this but you managed to reign it in well :)

[TNTtankFTW]

High five! I'm a self-taught ragtime player as well! :D

[cjhwth81]

Perfect tempo...Fabulous touch ....Thank you very much for this posting.

[forastico]

I appreciate Your interpratations of Scott Joplin's ragtime! Five stars for You!

[MrLedington2]

Learning this at the moment and its very good , an inspiration to amateur joplin players, im also learning weeping willow rag and know a simplified version of maple leaf rag at only 15 :) i hope one day i can play this as well as you

[MrLedington2]

age 15 that is :)

[tacsandamps]

Why is such a good pianist in ragtime so unpublished. You are really good. Anymore to post? D

[lilataubenei]

i ll play this one too, - and the only thing i can say is, that you inspirate me! thank you! great done!

[JoeyGoose]

I like your interpretation of the piece very much, especially the choice of tempo. As illustrated by other posted performances of this rag, even very accomplished players miss the mark by playing it too quickly and turning it into a dull demonstration of technique. You gave it a little room to breathe, so to speak, and let us appreciate the unique, almost melancholy, nature of Joplins final published work . Thank You!!!

[ALex4815162342]

2:58 - 3:50... God, this is my favorite part it just sounds soo serious, like greatness, i like to put high my chin when I hear this, specially when 2 like worrying scales come together. Oh so fantastic playing my friend!

[scottg4life]

hey! this is the best version of this piece i have ever heard in my life!! please take a look at my tutorial and the real version please. comment and rate! thank you

[cebukid70]

Nice! 5-stars. I like this rag. I am also a self-taught adult beginner Joplin player. :-)

[AtheNoZz]

Bravo !!!!

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[betsycorbett]

excellent work! this is one of my favorites to play

[TheNerdify]

wow ur good! i can play this too!

[westfield90]

Superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aknabea]

Very nice and the Knabe sounds real good also. Keep up your playing and put some more videos on for us.

Thanks!!

[mikura3173]

all the i tunes recordings done by professional musicians are glossy and fake, you performance gave the piece some liveliness.

thankyou :)

[ThePaolobasket]

più preciso...!!!!:!::!:!:per il resto..ook...8

[ddanze]

nice going on a tough number!

[templarus1000]

kmish213, yeah I meant that.,,.

[kmish213]

lol i'm just being a scott joplin fanboy

[bruckner1]

This is my favorite Joplin rag too. Thanks so much for catching it's essence!

[ragtimeguy1868]

Excellent interpretation. It's lively and yet very tempo conscious.  Most people play this piece WAY too fast. The song should always tailor out to a MINIMUM of 5 minutes in my opinion, but really not more than about 5:35 or 5:45 otherwise it's too slow (assuming the song is played completely through including all repeats. Great job!

[pasmoressj2]

Best video ever, you should make a How to video :)

[templarus1000]

Listen to this, 0:20-031, and 0:44 -0:55 it's like toy story or Randy Newman's "You've Got a Friend in Me"

[kmish213]

you got it the other way around, randy newman's shit sounds like scott joplins, but ya i hear it

[AirplaneFoods]

Thank you for posting this - absolutely loved it.

[pasmoressj2]

if you listen to the rag it has some parts that sound like others from diffrent songs, i like this one the best of all rag time :)

[aardvaark069]

This is a natural and unforced tempo for this wonderful piece.

[pivamal]

C'est très joli. J'aimerais bien l'apprendre mais je ne sais pas si j'ai la main assez grande pour les accords

[IDrawGibsonGirls]

You were playing that, with NO music?? Wow!! You, my friend, have a memory like a steel trap!

Also, I disagree with the people who've said that you were playing it too slow. Scott Joplin himself had said many times, "Notice: Do not play this piece fast. It is never right to play 'Ragtime' fast." Plus, it just sounds better when it's slow. :)

I believe Mr. Joplin would be very proud.

[cueshark]

Very very nice!

[jak10987]

Very Nice! I have listened to it again and yes i do confirm it to be a tad slow. But its still very good!

[jak10987]

very slow and clear. I love it. Thanks for playing it. I have been wanting to hear this one. Its not widely known your right.

[Mongo1940]

I have listened to Magnetic Rag at least 1000 times. Mostly, New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble. Yours is pretty good but maybe a bit slower. Just my opinion but this has to be the most difficult Joplin rag. Good job.

[millyandbuttons]

This is probably my favourite of Joplin's rags and you play it brilliantly.

Thanks.

[lisaviktorya]

You've got some kick in your playing, which I'd like to see more of! I adore this song and am in the middle of learning it.... good job! :)

[ouirv]

Thanks very much Lisa. I really do like playing this with some "bounce" in it - just sounds right to my ear. I hope you have a great time learning it, since it's so much fun to play.

[ms2333]

how's the rag coming along Lisa? If you have it in your hands you should post it up!

[lisaviktorya]

Ah, man... sporadic practicing since I've been running all over the place lately. Incidentally, I've been playing guitar more than piano lately, which is unfortunate because piano is what I'm better at. Once I get a bit more motivation, I'll throw it up!

[S3InF3LD]

Some parts are a bit too fast as what asc11artist said but other than that very good!

[asc11artist]

sometimes a bit too fast

but anyway..

a really great job!!

[kwlamoure]

GREAT JOB!!!!!!!

[pakuapete]

Dementia from syphilis. Too bad Treemonisha hasn't held the stage. He yearned for its success, an all black opera, and had he had more time, would probably have done it. Don't be shy, dude. You played a complicated piece very smoothly and Wonderfully! Don't take this personally. The more pianists I find on you tube, the more I notice bad pianos, not bad playing. The Knabe needs work, but you played well! Back in college, this piece was more common with piano majors & not well known by others.

[mopalia]

Beautiful job. This is also my favorite rag. Max Morath would like this performance, which is the highest praise you can get. Thanks for sharing.

[fredanderssen]

Better than the Virginia Tichenor version found on Youtube. Tempo is fine. You need to loosen up a little and play it with a little more feeling.

[bure68]

Great job playing that. I liked that ending too, haha. Nice job.

[FREEASTHESTARS]

excellent!!!

[storms991]

Fantastic, your parent's have a great piano and a great pair of hands to play it for them. Beautiful song.

[theloniousmonk81]

Bravo!!!! Excelente maestro!!!

Una locura!! Me volvi loco amigo!

Gracias!

Desde argentina, buenos aires

flaco

[InspectriceGadget]

*Ragtime!!!!! #___b

[InspectriceGadget]

WOAH ! i would like to "learn" Eagtime too...

i actually play more Nightwish (at the piano) (Ever Dream etc) than other !...Loads of hurrah for you, i apreciate a lot the way you play here, and more generally this style of music.

(sorry for the English mistakes...^^)

[Pianoman1770]

very very impressive! i think this song was published in 1917 (plz correct me if im wrong!). I wish i could play that rag like that! keep it up!

[ouirv]

Thank you (and everyone else) for so many nice comments. Everything I can find about this piece indicates that it was published in 1914, so I'm pretty sure I got the year right.

Joplin died in April, 1917 at only 49 or 50, after a somewhat long illness. What a shame his career was cut short so soon after creating such great work like Magnetic. Makes me think of Mozart or the Beatles... we'll never know what fantastic work might have been created with just a few more years.

[Pianoman1770]

yeah... and another great rag you can learn by him is his crash collision march! lol i would recommend it lol its a great song! good luck! and keep up the good work!

[sodazzpopzzzzfizzzzz]

AWESOME!!! 5 Stars! Way better than me.

I just started learning and I can only barely play the left hand like that.

[sodazzpopzzzzfizzzzz]

Whoops i mean the right hand

[1ucasvb]

This was EXCELLENT! Very impressive. :D

[Austile]

man, there's no reason for you to be camera shy... you've got some real talent.

[elmojone1]

Yeah, bravo!

[IcedmanFrozenKing]

GREAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

you're a really good pianist *applaudes*

[Telekon5]

Ragtime has such a wonderful intoxicating charm. I'm currently learning how to play this and you've provided great inspiration. The tempo and feeling was spot on.

[orgelbear]

Great playing and a handsome pianist---YouTube at its finest!

[GreenHat9]

Bravo, BRAVO! 5 stars! A tour de force performance, and a joy to listen to. Both technically and musically, you've got this one nailed. And your piano sounds fantastic, too. I do hope you're going to post more of your playing on YT. -Paul

[philuhhh]

wow!!

[hmmmeh]

This is a very good rendition. It's hard to find a good version on Youtube, and it's obvious that you really enjoy playing through what I hear. You do exactly as I do at point £:22 though when playing, whihc is look away from the keys. Well done on the playing though!

[kyleelgin]

Yes indeed: BRAVO!

The Magnetic Rag is my favorite Joplin composition.

To quote my Dad: "You did real good!"

[ejk88]

wonderful stuff !!!