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Poor Buttermilk
Solo piano · recorded 1921MIDI file
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Poor Buttermilk, published in 1921, the same year as Kitten on the Keys, is prime Zez Confrey: novelty piano at the height of its brief, glittering craze, cascading figures and sly harmonic twists tumbling over a steady ragtime pulse.
Confrey knew exactly how to make two hands sound like a player-piano roll, and this transcription of the composer's own performance shows every trick in place.
With the hands separated and the tempo yours to choose, its improbable runs become plain, learnable shapes.
- Artist
- Zez Confrey
- Genre
- Ragtime Piano
- Recorded
- 1921
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 3:14
- Tempo
- 120 bpm
- Key
- Channels
- 2 · left and right hand
- Format
- .mid · Type 1
Zez Confrey
The novelty-piano virtuoso behind Kitten on the Keys, who spun ragtime syncopation into the dazzling 1920s parlour-piano craze.