Playin the Maple Leaf Rag

[@AlexParr]

quality 2006 youtube vids right here

[@girl-in-a-treehouse]

I've been enjoying this for 16 years! Since it was posted!

[@Islandargh]

God everyone commenting that the piano is out of tune get a life. It has a beautiful old Saloon feel to it. Played fantastic!

[@physicist88]

I think having an older piano like the one you have makes the piece have a more authentic quality; it gives it that old ragtime sound. Good job!

[@Random-Things]

Really enjoyed your rendition. It felt like I was in a saloon drinking a whiskey.

[@Derekisbest]

I love this clip. Everything about it is soooo right. The sound, the musical performance, the look--it's all so good.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

What a great rendition of Scotty Joplin's"Maple Leaf Rag"..Thanks for performing this classic..Evanissimo.

[@7travelguy]

This has to be the best playing of this song I've seen yet with precision timing. Great job!

[@helenbailey8419]

And wonderfully relaxed whilst playing.

[@MrBenlus]

i wish my piano were that old and sound like that. it's perfect for ragtime

[@PC_Surveyor_GA_FL_AL]

2 minutes 33 seconds. Probably take me a decade to play it like that.

[@tetyanachorna8139]

Well done!! Friendly greetings from Odessa, Ukraine

[@lvham4]

I love your work! I hope you are still perfecting your piano skills for you are very talented.

[@msscott73]

I love that he used that type of piano it almost sound like a harpsichord. Great job, guy!

[@TheGeezzer]

One of the best renditions on youtube, practice and a keen ear equals 100% payoff

[@karimalaz]

this is the exact speed with which ragtime needs to be played. Not too slow and not ridiculously fast like some others do. Wonderful

[@timcostello9]

Outstanding rendition of a real classic played at the correct pace! I have listened to the rest and you are the best. Congratulations again. Tim in Dublin.

[@LeeShiwei]

wow nice job!!... the best maple leaf rag ive heard here.... and the piano is also awesome, it feels like your in 70's

[@Lockemeister]

I was in a restaurant and I asked the lady playing the piano to play this. she was Ok, and some 25 yr old made a crack that "it sounded like Charlie Chaplin was gonna walk in". This made me feel that YOUNG PEOPLE are DOPES and can't appreciate anything other than their own current pop music crap. Well, you sir are a young person who is GREAT in piano and "GET" Scott Joplin. You have the syncopation down, ever during the low to high note flourish. Tremendous talent. There is hope for all of us!

[@star417]

i didn't go through 360 comments to check if anyone had mentioned it yet, but the two times you slow down are amazing. i have never heard that before, but it fits perfectly. kudos.

[@feedoggie]

Great technique! Smooth and flowing without any "pounding," playing a song that almost requires "choppiness." You've got superior touch, and played the entire piece without nary a misplaced finger!

[@rupepill]

Really enjoyable to hear and foot tap to your great, bouncy version. I couldn't understand why so many Canadian musicians chose to play this catchy tune until finally the flag caught my attention. Scott Joplin deserves to be posthumously given Canadian nationality and appointed as The National Composer for this most joyful of rags.

[@aartie]

Nice one! I wanted to see someone playing this piece and picked yours because you just looked like you knew what you were doing. The piano itself is perfect as well.

[@tikigolf]

Absolutely excellent! I never get tired of watching this video. This is my favorite Scott Joplin song and this is the best version I've seen on You Tube. I'd love to be able to just sit down at a piano and crank this out like this. AAA+++!!!

[@ToastyTheToastMan]

What a fabulous Piano, Really awesome, Excellent Piano Piece, your really excellent, you will go very very far.

[@AnarchyAlisha]

This is amazing. I am so envious of your fantastic talent!

[@leconciergeus]

Like it -- specially when you slow it down in introduction to a new sequence: well done sir.

[@ragtimejohn]

Wow I haven't watched this video since 2007, when I was in High School, learning this piece. Great performance. Hope all is going great for you in 2020. Thanks for the inspiration

[@matty_ice_]

Love the old fashioned metronome on top of your piano. Great job!

[@9jea1]

dude i think this is the first maple leaf rag's performance i see that is WELL played! it sounds great! =) honestly i think it IS the best performance of this piece I've seen on youtube ;)

[@jamiexxxx147]

Evanissimo - you have inspired me to learn the piano - this is truly beautiful. I have just watched/listened to it 10 times consecutively and it has brought tears to my eyes. I can't play a single note and don't know where to start learning, but somehow I will. My goal is that in 5 years time I will be posting my version up here. I only hope it does some kind of justice to your magnificent rendition. Thanks so much for sharing this...it is truly inspirational. Right...now to find a piano teacher

[@rondroid]

Good job Evan. I sure wish I could learn to play that. My mom used to have an old stand-up piano like that when I was a kid.

[@heartsongsKat]

Very nicely done. Congrats. Someone I used to know would play this. It's a great tune. You did a very good job.

[@helenbailey8419]

This always makes me smile.

[@rdefranz]

Just started learning this song and got the first two sections. As a mostly classical player (until becoming my schools jazz pianist) I find the "bouncy" left hand challenging. Anyway, you are a great pianist and did a wonderful job, keep playing!

[@TheGeezzer]

Well played ! You have captured the Ragtime sound superbly. Skill man skill !

[@jelly3299]

Nicely done! LOVE the decreased tempo in just the right spots!

[@ddanze]

this is fabulous! very few folks have ever been able to play this at that speed clean!

[@frbjoernLA]

This Kid is a Master Pianist! Hope he uploads more.

[@vhalen1]

wow you're really good. im just starting to learn this, and its really helpful listening to you

[@ditdot151]

Loved it! I really like the sound of your piano and your a great player.

[@thcook87]

Woow, you play incredibly good!! 5 stars for you. Especially the third part is really good. Respect for you

[@stovokor1]

Awesome! Love those old player pianos!

[@azulHYDproductions]

Best homemade performance I´ve seen so far! Favorite, pal!

[@latibes]

Technical mastery is excellent, and nice even bounce on the whole

[@jackbuddha2002]

Great job man! Love that piano too!

[@lilypremier]

great playing you're piano sounds great -a real beauty

[@colmwn]

Nice job! And nice piano too! Enjoyed it.

[@buddydog1956]

I like you interpretation! and nice piano too! the right kind to play "Jop's" music on!!!

[@IWYVideo]

Awesome job man. I loved the emotion you put into this. :D

[@davik42]

I really like your version. Not only is at the right tempo (or atleast the tempo I like), all your notes are very even. With this song, its easy to fall onto the notes too quickly in places. Well done. Love the old sound of the piano, too.

[@musicisrubbish]

Having dedicated my entire piano 'career' to playing this song half as well as that.. Jolly good show sir. Yes indeed.

[@erasmowitz]

gorgeous! the best one at all. an entire stadium watched you playing it guy. enjoy your public :)

[@Mr40tt]

The mind of a piano player that can play like that is just shear “Genius”

[@rhecoy2007]

I was really amazed with your talent...Your great pianist. ..u

[@rans471]

Out of all the people that I have heard play this one, I like yours the best. I cant explain it , its just right. Very good . I am learning it my self. I am afraid of that last part. I t looks impossible.

[@OpticFalcon]

I love the sound of this piano

[@nymfzig]

wow, that's really awesome. you really got this light and bouncy sound, as selander62 said. I always fail trying to play Scott Joplin. :D

[@fleecyboy]

The 'pie-ana' may be old, but its great! and its in tune, and so are you!! Nice job!

[@tigerwarner]

You are a damn good player and that is a bad ass looking piano.

[@michaelling0405]

you did a great job playing this song. i really like it.

[@stickfigureguy24]

i have to say this was really well played. i think was perfect

[@0276boy]

Perfect tempo and balance. Don't let any negative comments get to you. Plus the piano is perfect. This ain't Beethovan!! Go for it Evan!

[@MrSteve0148]

Awesome! This is my favorite to play, but I can't hold a candle to you !!!

[@AirplaneFoods]

are you kidding me? the old fashioned out of tune piano makes ragtime so much better! :D

[@48cocoaboo]

You play very well. You have really nice piano. The style is classic for Ragtime. What make is your piano

[@k6musicteacher]

Wow, fantastic! I've got to hear you play the Pineapple Rag - record it immediately please! Thanks for posting!

[@timochy37]

Nice job man. I just learned this version and still a tad shaky at the very end but you really nailed the trio. Not sure how you can play those octive jumps that fast. And as far as i heard, no mistakes...very good job.

[@Coyotalia]

Wow! That's amazing! I've seen a lot of people on KZbin play this song, but I specifically like the way you play it. I'm not sure why, but I think you play it very well. I don't mean to sound weird or anything, but you have such angelic hands...they just glide over the keys.

[@cebukid70]

@Evanissimo Fantastic job! You combined grace and speed nicely. :-) I didn't know this was a grade 8 piece.

[@scotto40]

Great playing and a cool piano too.

[@OlympicClassDandy]

But how? This piece has no words to it... Sounds very interesting!

[@martesco]

Sounds better at this speed. Congratulations!!

[@edziomy]

Ye, that's pro! I liked that you varied it by subito slowing down and accelerating.

[@Reeal15]

Yeah, its beautiful! I like the tone.

[@scissorcut6349]

I always get so tense playing this piece.

[@kksd2]

Excellent job! Who needs a player piano when you can play as well as you did !!!!

[@ludvigarwidsson]

not far from perfected, I'm amazed by your playing!

[@joeleytrick]

I think how it's played on a slightly out-of-tune piano. Makes it sounds more authentic

[@ybastiand]

That's the perfect piano for playing a rag, it sounds just like if it came straight from the 19th century ;-). Nice interpretation very clear and articulated sound. I love the slowing rythm surprises you make at 1:25 and 1:48. How about a little more of such surprises, for instance using power variations? ...although I have no idea whether Mr Joplin would be happy with using power variations. I am from France, w/ amateur piano degree from Lyon music school. I played this piece in bars.

[@cebukid70]

Great job! Your piano looks like it's from the Ragtime era and sounds good too.

[@arnoldlayne1991]

Very nicely done. It had speeded up quite a lot by the end, but the touch and style was spot on.

[@manu974aimwill]

NICE JOB!! je suis sur ce morco aussi en se moment , c'est vraiment le meilleur exo qui peut avoir!

[@Inquiescent]

I believe your fingers will get more and more endurance the more you play! I have a keyboard myself and never require alot of strenght when I play. However, when I, once every two weeks or so, decide to play on our regular piano, I get tired fast. I only tried Maple leaf there once, and definately couldn't handle it without alot more training.

[@Kam3loth]

You have a really nice piano, and respect to your piano skills! ;) ;)

[@TheGeezzer]

very nice, very nice indeed, right sound, right piano...another youtube virtuoso. 10/10

[@samdajellybeenie14]

me either! I just played a piano competition and after 7 or 8 years playing piano, I can't play it perfectly either! I find the B section endings (1st and 2nd ending, but more 2nd ending) to be difficult. When I first started playing this piece, I thought the coordination between the two hands was really hard and really took a lot of practice!

[@papboer16]

wauw that piano has some sound. awsome. nicely played to :P

[@Cr3ativity]

That was AWESOME! Perfect timing on every note and the sound of an old piano is far better than the new ones that are sold today......garbage.

[@Catt967]

We need to get you to one of the ragtime festivals in the US. Talk with Max Keenlyside in PEI if you haven't already....he'll be here in St Louis this summer on his way to Sedalia. I can get you a gig here in StL, if you'd want.

[@sweetart208]

That was great. I'm in the midst of learning it...hope it turns out as well as yours.

[@F0NZZ1E]

Great performance, very good left-hand!

[@danedaworld]

harhar har.....i listended to the 3rd part like 50 times from other players.....its getting me sick and dezzy....but when i listen to u play ..... thats a tottaly different story and song.....^_^ (that was a compliment)

[@schymbros]

Well played - I like this piece

[@b1ak3m]

Great job! Sounds awesome!

[@b1ak3m]

I still think this is the best performance of the MLR on KZbin.

[@laketahoe333]

GREAT!!! Love the changing tempos. JWB - Fair Oaks, CA

[@lbchan]

I love this song. I'm in the process of starting to learn it. Hopefully I'll get it to sound as good as yers. =)

[@NavinJohnson90]

That piano is perfect for ragtime

[@HelloKwak]

Ah. I love this song. I learned how to play it about 2 years ago, and i must be getting rusty, because I still make mistakes playing it. Such a nice catchy tune.

[@cahartley7]

BRAVO dude! I love Joplin but I'll be darned if I can PLAY Joplin....... Again........BRAVO!