Red Pepper - A Spicy Rag

A hot 1910 rag by Henry Lodge.

I wanted to learn this after hearing 5-string banjoist Fred Van Eps' ferocious 1911 recording, which is hard to image ever being surpassed. The recording is available in the "Collected Works of Fred Van Eps" at archive.org:
http://www.archive.org/details/FredVanEps

I learned this from sheet music from the University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/cgi-bin/sheetmusic.pl?RagRedPepper&Rag&a...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ragtime
• rag
• ukulele
• uke
• Martin
• 3K
• 1910

[oldcremona]

Do you know of an online source for the sheet music to this?

[heftone]

You can see a link to online Red Pepper Rag sheet music after clicking on the "More Info" link in the box to the right of the video. Enjoy...

[blackprealis]

lolz loook at his expresions

[mooniemoney]

That's how its done!

[rodalward]

it's always great to watch you pick

[guitgrl]

Wow!  This is fabulous!! Great work!

[howlinhobbit]

First the tobasco, then the red pepper. At least, that's the order I caught them in. Both very hot. Straight onto my faves list with *****.

[oldcremona]

Thanks! I was looking at the music as you were playing it- which will facilate learning it for a somewhat sight-reading challenged person like me. Many thanks for all your amazing music.

[Keeper1st]

Damn!

[idasynco]

You r getting more musical...nice curls, and sustaining of the notes make this red pepper rag full of spice. thx for learning!! and of course, 5*!!