PianoLand Tales: Ink Splotch Rag: I Give Up.

I've been trying to learn this song for a while now and it's just not happening. Here's Bryan Wright playing it well:

I'm kidding really. I'm not giving up yet. But it's going to take longer than I originally thought. Debussy's Clair de lune is coming along however much to my surprise. But that Ink Splotch is a hand killer. There's this part where multiple chords use every single finger and my hands hurt just thinking about it.

For now I'll just have to drive family and friends crazy by playing The Entertainer over and over again. I've got that one down pretty well. Some day I'm going to take Willy to the Scott Joplin Festival and dork out with a bunch of other ragtime fans. If I see Bryan Wright there I may just have to dork out over him too. He's crazy good. Here he is again playing the song from the bar scene in Star Wars as ragtime:


In other news - it appears that Willy and I are getting an Organ! Because we need at least one type of each instrument in the world in this house.