Sugar Cane - SCOTT JOPLIN (1908) Ragtime Piano Legend

[jomynameisjoe]

awesome beat



[Rusticky]

The ghost piano at the pumpkin patch used to play this...

[neviton1992]

a fascinating music. but living in 1908 .. i am not sur thats funny ,.in certain parts you are right. anyway this music is top of piano music. i like it wery much

[javacartoons]

i wish i did't always had to hit replay

[isaacduqueisaac]

I love ragtimedorianhenry's uploads.they sound good

[yadek8]

Thanx RagtimeDorianHenry for uploading this, and thanx youtube for makin our lives happier !! long live Scott Joplin !

[streetphysician]

it sounds like i should be watching a silent comedy, like Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle or something. but that wouldn't be 'till about 1914.

[Najobajo]

@streetphysician fact! thanks 

[PandoraLeigh]

when music was worth its weight in gold!

[toadsEATbugs]

This sounds waaaaaaay too much like maple leaf rag, but I think it's actually better

[Doug19752533]

@toadsEATbugs he used the Maple Leaf as a template for several other rags - Leola, Sugar Cane, and Gladiolus Rag. Gladiolus Rag is perhaps Joplin's finest work as a rag (although Fig Leaf Rag comes very close to it also). his earlier rags from 1900 to about 1904 (with the exceptions of The Entertainer and The Cascades and The Chrysanthemum) are good but not masterpieces... all his works from about 1907 on are ultra crafted works, you can see how he blossomed as a composer in this period.

[Grouchy2day]

In response to one comment, Joplin reworked the Maple Leaf a number of times in many of his compositions.  Nothing wrong with that. Sugar Cane is one of his masterpieces.

[MrBenlus]

is there a way to buy such old images like that one in the vid ?

[Abandonthepotato]

sounds similar to the maple leaf rag, dont you think?

[Mrtim592]

@Abandonthepotato i think so too

[Doug19752533]

@Abandonthepotato yes, Joplin used the formula from the Maple Leaf in several rags - Leola, Gladiolus Rag, Sugar Cane Rag, and he was able to vary it enough so that you recognize the pattern but each is very distinct. interestingly, Maple Leaf, Leola, and Gladiolus are all in A flat, where Sugar Cane is in B flat

[Idaho278]

This is one of those lost masterpieces. Mr. Joplin was one of the last of his kind, now we've got, Hanna Montana, and Justin Beiber. Songwriters needed, no talent required.

[wolfdoglizard]

yeah, it is very similar to maple leaf...

[jonathanskurtu]

Thank you

[jonathanskurtu]

Thanks

[jonathanskurtu]

Jonathan Skurtu,  Thanks for the awesome music.

[pierreppaxel]

Yes i'am ok it really sounds like Maple Leaf Rag...similar harmony and chords...but it's also nice, it works in another way...

[nevergoodname]

This is pretty much maple leaf rag. 

[lightitup29]

@nevergoodname

There is certainly a noticeably similarity between this and Maple Leaf Rag, but that is like saying your mother is pretty much your father because they're both human.

[geneward101]

@lightitup29 yeah. I mean it has a similar bridge to the intro of maple leaf rag, but the similarities end there.

[Doug19752533]

@geneward101 3 other rags (Leola, Gladiolus Rag and Sugar Cane) follow the Maple Leaf pattern of an opening arpeggio line (maple leaf doesnt use it though), a form of ascending melody over 2 bars, then a melody an octave up over 4 bars repeated again an octave lower, although Leola doesnt go up the octave. 3 of the 4 are in A flat, with Sugar Cane being in B flat. interesting how he could take the same basic pattern from one rag and create 3 others totally different, yet similar

[assassinsu]

Does anyone else think this sounds very similar to the maple leaf rag?

[22013]

Scott Joplin's the shit. His music are always makeing poeple feel happy, like Sunflower slow drag. RIP Joplin.

[futoncat]

It's weird how there's an ad for guitar lessons on a caption on the video...

[beakt]

I love the third part particularly... 1:40... and especially how it goes into the finale.

[ragtimest]

The ending dies a bit ..=(

[ragtimest]

very pleasent

[voodootabby]

His songs kick trash!!!!

[leniebabe44]

@voodootabby ....what does kick trash mean?

[RedAtariButton]

@leniebabe44 It's a nice way of saying it kicks ass I'm assuming, which I'm sure you know means is absolutely amazing. (I agree by the way.)

[leniebabe44]

@RedAtariButton thanks for clearing that up for me :)

[beakt]

@leniebabe44 I think he also might be making an allusion to the fact that ragtime was derided as "trashy" when it first came out but now, of course, we all know this "trashy" music is a significant and beloved part of American music history.

[darthkiller14]

i wish i lived in 1908

[RMNCOfficial]

@darthkiller14 Nah, I prefer modern dentistry, sanitation, and civil rights a lot more than nostalgia.

[RainbowBoi95]

@RMNCOfficial Ditto lol

[smsteve888]

@darthkiller14 I sure as hell don't.

Great music, though.

[WinterwolfFFM]

@darthkiller14 well than ;D find or start a reenactment group - contact me if you like infos about the subject.

[AnerStroz]

@darthkiller14 no you don't. life was shit back than. awesome music though.

[ThaRemco]

@AnerStroz it depends on if you are white or black,

i you are white and wanna go back, the black people don't want you :P

they would accept me instead..

[xSilentRecon]

@darthkiller14 u'd probablly be working in the coal mines lol.

[fonephat]

@darthkiller 14 ; look up streetcar ride on market street San Francisco 1906. {On you tube}

[sexyfatbastid]

why is the sound flawless, when the recording is 100 years old?

[chkjns]

The song was written in 1908, the info box explains this is a piano roll.

Thanks to RDH, this is the first 1908 entry in my music playlists for each of the last 100 years. Each year will grow to play at least 2 hours as I keep adding uploads.

Time travel is now possible through my playlists and your mouse . . . . .

[AimlessWeek]

that's a question :D

[nikknightmare]

@sexyfatbastid its played by a piano roll its not an original record

[aybns]

sounds lie the cascades

[SplitTeR000]

genial

[GreenGre3n]

The greatest ragtime-composer there ever was!