![]() In section D, I default to the alternating bass and wrap things up by revisiting the opening phrase from the A section before ending on a C chord. I put my own spin on the C section by dropping the established alternating bass pattern, which breaks things up a bit. ![]() I play just the first four bars, before moving on to section C. ![]() On the piano roll, the 16-bar A and B sections are each played twice, followed by an abbreviated version of the A section. To make the piece more guitar-friendly-and to reflect my own interpretation-I’ve taken a few liberties in this arrangement of Joplin’s original piano roll (the early 20th-century version of a MIDI file: a continuous paper roll with perforations, fed into a player piano that would reproduce a song without the aid of a human player). Like many ragtime pieces, “The Entertainer” is composed of four distinct, repeating sections: A, B, C, and D. With Apmarking the centennial of Joplin’s death, what better way to celebrate his legacy than by tackling this classic American composition. “T he Entertainer,” Scott Joplin’s 1902 ragtime piano masterpiece, is known the world over and is a great challenge for the blues fingerpicker. From the July 2017 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY PETE MADSEN
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