Revisiting old favourites

[nyankoframe]

After a hiatus of a few months, I decided to play some old rags which I'd neglected for a while: Kitten on the Keys, Peacherine Rag and Ragtime Nightingale.

It was somewhat harder than I thought, and my fingers were at first unused to some of the jumps required. But after the first time, it got better and I was able to play them almost at the same level/standard as before.

And amazingly enough, playing Kitten on the Keys no longer makes my elbows ache tremendously! Perhaps that's a side effect of learning the Seabiscuits and Graceful Ghost rags, or maybe all the arm manipulation involved in practicing Bamboula, but it means that I can now play the piece faster without having to suffer for it afterwards. ^_^;;

I don't feel comfortable enough with any of them to make any public recordings yet (and since my piano's unlikely to get tuned unless I pay for it, who knows?) but perhaps in the future I may.

Comments

[itsacz.livejournal.com]

As they say, practice makes perfect. Same with guitar... after playing enough the fingers get used to pressing down on the metal guitar strings. Or maybe it's due to the calluses on the fingers. ^^;;

[testing4l.livejournal.com]

It occurs to me that of my friends, you're the only one I know who plays ragtime.

That's something I really ought to correct. =/