Parabola Rag

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Dedicated to my Pianophile friends!
This is heavily James Scott inspired, you can see measures used in Frog Legs Rag here.
The name comes from my attempt at making the musical notes arranged into an arc that was supposed to mimic a parabola.
Dylan Kerry's sightread:
• Sight reading Parabola...

[@PiotrBarcz]

Impressively good rag for a new generation ragtimer I must say! The parabola title fits because of the left hand phrasing drawing arcs on the score!

[@SquidzYT]

Thanks Piotr!

[@themajesticgeorge]

If Scott were alive to hear this, haha. I'm sure he's laughing up a storm beyond the grave, some pretty awesome stuff in the right hand I dare say!

[@joelwilliammusic]

Super well done! Lots of creativity, but with the perfect amount of repetition.

[@moaiyafied]

I hear so many maple leaf references and the key being the same as well

[@SquidzYT]

Other than being in the same key and having a somewhat similar bass line for some parts of some strains, I wasn’t really aiming for there to be much similarity between these two pieces. Those are very common traits among classic rags though, especially Frog Legs Rag, The Thriller!, Tickled to Death, etc.

[@moaiyafied]

​@@SquidzYT there are sections like 0:23 with the melody that kinda sounds like sections in maple leaf rag but heavily modified (that one kinda sounded like the bar before the chorus part to me)

[@SquidzYT]

@@moaiyafiedKind of. I guess I’m not seeing it. 😅

[@Musicforever743]

I love the name it works so well with the shape of some of the phrases😭

[@SquidzYT]

Thanks! That’s what I was trying to pull off!

[@deadbydebt6859]

Pretty good! i would just add some staccatos on every other left hand beat, it's all kinda blending together now but otherwise quite nice 10/10

[@SquidzYT]

I tried to mimic a classic rag in some, if not, most parts of it and in more classic rags, they didn’t really use those staccatos on every other left hand beat. But thanks! Maybe in another piece.

[@deadbydebt6859]

@@SquidzYT ah yes. Well in that case you did wonderfully :)

[@terrotorotbart8319]

Very nice! This is a fantastic successor to James Scott, I love it!

[@catmacopter8545]

i thought this was a tool reference for a bit LMAO

[@kobybarnes3035]

Yea I was waiting for ragtime tool cover

[@llieiot_ipostatbl3358]

I liked it

[@vittoriopreziosa14]

Nice job 👍

[@SquidzYT]

Thanks!

[@ohzzimo]

Wow, did you write this or play it? 😳😳❤

[@earv6470]

i’m pretty sure they wrote it and is not a live recording.