Dallas Rag - Ragtime Guitar

[NickandSasuke]

Dear lord. No wonder earthbound won't make a VC release.

[petercharles53]

really nice run,beatuifullt executed!!

[rrrrockin]

rat /dog ,,well for me perhaps the most difficult of all youve done awesome man and the sound and speed is really cool ,,,,wickid

[fngrpkn06]

Very nice!

[BaggedGnome]

Looks effortless.

[BaggedGnome]

Looks effortless.

[reprac9]

Nicely played ,, enjoyed it ,, cheers ,, dave :))

[Yeractualpatience]

Nice picking. Nicely paced, too. As others have said, it's too easy to get trapped in the speed thing. I did it way back when in the 1970s, after listening to way too much Grossman. Dave Laibman really had the edge.

[bealtespip123]

Ha ha ha. I love this. I didn't know the drug store theme was actually Dallas Rag!! :D

[TheSingingRat]

Humoresque of a Little Dog = Dallas Rag?

[zacharron]

@TheSingingRat Pretty damn close!

[yoshiroks777]

"Just buy somethin' will ya?"

If you get that, then you win.

[quincydubois]

great stuff !

[NPJPKelso]

<3 ♥ Heart

Love it.

[GlassPike]

So many bum notes. I'm not tryin to take the piss, you are very good, but you can't play this yet.

[riku812]

MUZZAH TOO

lol

[GamerBlueX]

Buy somethin will ya!

[evsynator]

nice !!!!!!!!!!!

[mphlives]

any instructional video on this piece? I'm getting it, but not just yet.

[ianlo93]

braaaaaavo!

[javierahumada]

You are gifted!

[masheysoup23]

Sounds a lot like the Drug Store theme from EarthBound (Also called Humoresque of a Little Dog), which appears in Brawl.

[OfficerJordan]

Yeah, it does. :D

[helmerman]

definitely is

[SHYKOOPA]

Yep, it's awesome how Earthbound includes so many hints to real life

[AgentCDI]

i no really

[synesthesia67]

nice!!..looks tough...

[paganini180]

very good!

[vsalazarsoares]

Very nice and well played!!! did you have the tag to send me?

[Cugino88]

un giorno lo imparerò ankio !

[ZeppelinRochey]

savage man! How guitar should be played!

[tdub1941]

Very Nice! I love it! 5 STARS !

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[AL3AJAY]

im a player myself, i play blues but i love all of this bouncy rag time stuf! xD keep it up!

[syncopater999]

First time I heard this was Stefan Grossman playing this version. It has always been one of my favourites. Well played with the right ragtimey bounce. I liked trying to play this back then but now I just post my own pieces on here as they are easier than learning others.

[ddanze]

Btw: Dave Laibman played this waay before D Miller;

but suspect that lots of other guitarists fiddled

with it in key of C.  Adding interesting bass lines

on guitars got kick started with some early lute players doing things like Couperin tunes from the

1600's! Glad you don't try to play it too fast...

[zacharron]

In the Dale Miller transcription he says that his version was 'based' on the Laibman one. I don't like to play rags too fast (except for a couple like Maple Leaf), since they were never intended to be played that way, and they end up sounding like novelty tunes if they are.

[ddanze]

Bethena: picked up the chords off a piano recording

around 1975; 2nd sec. is just an octave of the 1st;

seemed too boring to play other sections; presently

working on Solace (Joplin...many guit. arrangements,

easy excepting the mildly tricky "tango" bass line).

[ddanze]

Man, I've been playin' Dallas for over 25 years

and never that smooth. Guess I've got some work to

do to smooth out my version!

[llanbradach]

This is great!! Im a secret fan of rag, I play a few rag tunes myself. I think if you did get a thumbpick you would sound better.

[zacharron]

Thanks, like I said, my next guitar will have a little better bass response (or maybe it's just the microphone?).

[zwrdl]

Larrivees are noted for their beautiful balanced middle and high range with the base de-accented, so to speak. From what I have been told, the base breaks in after about 9 years. They're also quirky about what strings you put on them. Oddly enough, I find that GHS Lawrence Juber Signature Phosphor Bronze gives the base more oomph. I would have thought an 80/20 string would have made the base resonate more. Course I have a short scale and use .12-.54s so that might make a difference.

[MultiSteini]

@llanbradach well.. as you can see, he is using one. and sound great but i whould reccomend better sting that response better to bass? maybe ? but sound great aniway :P

[troubleclef]

nice. i like the ending. who wrote the piece?

[zacharron]

It was originally recorded by the Dallas String Band, though I don't know if they wrote it. Found this on it:

"Dallas Rag" is the most well-known tune from the playing of the Dallas String Band, who recorded for Columbia Records in the late nineteen-twenties.