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Complete Rags for Piano: Piano Solo

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These rags are fun to play and sound great. They are of intermediate difficulty, but a few are more difficult. Some of them have interesting instructions for the performer, such as tongue clicking (like a snake), foot stomping, etc. The only gripe is that the binding makes the book hard to keep open. You have to get some sort of clasp to keep the pages from closing. It's maddening, when you're trying to read a passage, and the book closes. It can be overcome, though. Overall very fun, original, beautiful rags. Highly recommended!

This is a collection of piano rags -- some difficult -- that date back to the 1970s. Even though they were written long after the Great Ragtime Piano Era they still stand up to the classic rags published by John Stark: Joplin, Scott and Lamb.

This is a collection of all the Rags that William Bolcom wrote for piano- I purchased this book to work from in my college level piano lessons. The rags are quite interesting, but usually in difficult keys. They are fun to play once you learn them though.

Not much to add to Seurat's review, except that a few more suggestions for fingering would have been helpful to this intermediate pianist. Some of the compositions are very challenging indeed, others more approachable. I recommend 'Grateful Ghost' and 'Last Rag' for the less-skilled; both are beautiful. Amazon's price is excellent.