Pineapple Ragtime Guitar/The Wellerman Ragtime Piano - Pi's Original Bassline - Smith/Bradlee

I write all my own basslines. They are totally original. Please listen with earbuds or headphones as mobile phones do not produce the right frequency to hear the bass line. Frontier Fretless Bass Yamaha B100-115 Bass Amp Tascam DP008 Porta Studio Logitech Streamcam Plus Logitech Capture Software Cyberlink Power Director Dell Ispiron 3892 Windows 11 Soundblaster Audigy FX Ring Light Produced with CyberLink PowerDirector 21 Premium

Is it just me or does Pineapple Rag sound very similar The Entertainer?

What I find really interesting about your Pineapple Rag bass line is that it both fits the treble lines really well, but doesn't have the Stride feel of Joplin's original bass line. Joplin's approach (as well as that of Stride) is for the bass line to push the treble line along in a way modern bass playing doesn't do (it sets the beat, along with drums, but doesn't push the beat). This is part of what makes Ragtime and Stride hard to play: the time sense of the left and right hands are slightly different, though in some fast pieces, like Jelly Roll Morton's Fingerbreaker, it's so fast you can't always hear that.

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