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Maple Leaf Rag
Solo piano · recorded 1969MIDI file
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When Columbia recorded The Eighty-Six Years of Eubie Blake across sessions in 1968 and 1969, the ragtime pioneer had outlived nearly all of his contemporaries, and the double album became the document of a vanished era; in 2006 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.
Here Blake takes on Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag, the piece that started it all in 1899, and plays it his own way: faster and freer than the printed page, with the swagger of the East-coast school he helped invent.
A free file, transcribed from the recording with separated hands.
- Artist
- Eubie Blake
- Genres
- Ragtime Piano, Free MIDI files
- Recorded
- 1969
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 1:38
- Tempo
- 120 bpm
- Key
- Channels
- 2 · left and right hand
- Format
- .mid · Type 1
Eubie Blake
Ragtime and early-jazz pianist-composer who lived to 100; his Charleston Rag and the hit show Shuffle Along helped carry ragtime into the jazz age.