Scott Joplin - Magnetic Rag

[@stevenstowittselliott3192]

OK, it's been 10 years since I first heard chocotiger play this. I still think it is the best recording I have ever heard. Perfect performance.

[@gabegonzalez4002]

I can't describe in words how hearing you play Scott Joplin makes me feel. You play beautifully, man. I first listened to you play this over 10 years ago, but recently, idk, I just got an itch for some Scott Joplin. I remembered your channel and just had to hear you play it again. I see you haven't uploaded in a while, but wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Thanks for sharing your piano playing with the world :)

[@xfg3227]

Nicely done. "Magnetic" is one of my favorite Joplin rags.

[@dulcimerginny]

So glad that you have brought Joplin's tunes forward to the next generations. Your performance was wonderful. Such a shame that Joplin died so young. Please keep playing. I will check back. Thank you!!!

[@minnedanhieux883]

You're Scott Joplin pieces are by far the best on youtube. Thx for sharing!

[@stevenstowittselliott3192]

Excellent. You play with real emotional connecton to this piece. I come back again and again to listen. Wish you had more up.

[@Brandtstifter1]

You are my favourite ragtime piano player and you proof this with every single performance!!

[@BFDT-4]

Sweet, the bitterness and the joy come out in cascades!

[@kevindaroitbortoluzzi5910]

The best version of Magnetic Rag I've ever heard: your interpretative way is very good, thanks for sharing!

[@flordepitanga]

Man, you play wonderfully! I love to hear your way! Thanks for sharing! Compliments from Brasília, Brasil.

[@speechrighter]

I've been listening to Joplin rags for 38 years -- since the days of "The Sting." This is my favorite, and you play it as well as anyone I've ever heard. Many thanks.

[@CampKohler]

Well done! It's good to see (and hear) that you haven't lost your touch.

[@rickjobear]

My goodness! I just cannot stop watching your videos. You are phenomenal...what touch what feeling! Thank you again :-)

[@SynapticChaos]

Great job! I want to learn this one - as soon as I finish the Maple Leaf Rag -- getting there.

[@TheKaredex]

You are amazing you make me want to sit back and hear everything you have on the web everytime I hear you play.

[@1ucasvb]

It's always a pleasure to hear you play Joplin. Even rusty as hell, this was a great performance.

[@mrpreserveourcountry]

You sir are a joy to listen to! Wish I was able to play piano myself. All for Joplin's gems alone... Now to find Paragon Rag.

[@cebukid70]

Dude, when I hear Joplin pieces you haven't covered yet, I often wonder, "how would chocotiger play this?" Seriously! Somehow you use "just enough" pedal and have a great touch which make your interpretations among the best on KZbin, and even better than those most of those "ragtime specialists" and "scholars"..keep it up! Hope to see more from you this year. :-)

[@pacerdanny]

Awesome! Great rhythm on this one.

[@markuspersson2302]

It's not normal, it's exceptional! He feels the music! :-)

[@evanyoung3464]

Perfect, absolutely perfect!

[@jez9999]

I like the pace this is played at, just right!

[@mmmhh99DANONE]

Everytime I listen, I lose myself in the music! This is exceptional!!! =D

[@nickdm14]

Dear chocotiger, I have been learning Magnetic Rag over the past few weeks and your video has been such a help for me to see how certain bits sound and how to play them. I really admire your playing. I uploaded a video a few days ago and have posted it is a video response. If you could have a look and tell me what you think that'd be amazing! Thanks, Nick.

[@alcyonecrucis]

Great repertoire!

[@JbbreadsBlogspot]

Glad to see you back!!!

[@pianorags]

Mesmorising rendition as always, thank you friend

[@GPNYishai]

@toontown721 congratulations on telling on a modern ragtime playing genius to sit up straight. Good job.

[@DarianCohen]

@harmusman He probably plays sections many several times over and sequences them. There are only 4 strains, and each of them repeat twice except for the A strain which repeats three times (once again between last B and first C). The ends of B, C and D strains often have subtle variations.

[@TheGeezzer]

Fabuloso!

[@TheGeezzer]

W💥W! I commented on this video 10 years ago! and it still sounds as magnetic now as it did then!

[@cptsamvimes]

you're a damn good pianist man... Great performance!

[@BrassKnights]

As Wayne and Garth would say, I'm not worthy!! I'm not worthy!!. . . Damn, that is fine playing. The expression, the emotion . . . not just some guy pounding out notes. Really moving and inspiring and filled with feeling. By far the best rendition I've seen on this new intenet thing.  Got to wonder, though, is that bed-head, or hat-head? Just kidding. Chocotiger Rules!!

[@AnotherSchmoe]

Awesome as you've always been!!

[@Ipokem0nI]

your back! you should eventually do all of joplins rags on YT :)

[@bauerb2]

2:58 I like on the repeats you add some slight timing variations. Really awesome here, especially. Great work.

[@stevenmca1]

ONE dislike! Who in their right mind would dislike this?

[@javipk7]

The end sounds like Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody: "Anyway the wind blows..." Great performance man!

[@arrrs4944]

yes, that's what I say out loud at the end when I play it (way inferior in talent to Chocotiger)

[@sgm77lf]

I just found your videos. Excellent!!!

[@animalchic1]

the left hand jumping all the time must have made it hard :) u did an excellent job

[@AngryLoo]

This will be my next Joplin piece >:)

[@pianomasterbrandon1]

You are back!!!! I am one of your biggest fans!! I am not certain if you saw my video on here. It is called robertgetter1 it is the first link. My favorite recording of yours is Bethena. I loved it so much I learned how to play it!

[@rebeccal.3160]

最好听的一版。 优美的旋律，看似快乐却又很忧伤。好喜欢😘

[@洪諒]

這首歌沒有憂傷的成分吧

[@VideoPatrick]

You should really consider recording an album with all your masterpieces, i would immediately buy it and have it on loop in my house all day. Seriously. (If you ever do LET US KNOW RIGHT AWAY PLEASE) ;D

[@zhongyangliu8896]

Maybe we can arrange a kick-start for him;)

[@suzielightning3]

Glad to see that you're back. :-) Excellent! Stil a big fan!!!!!!!!!!! (especially "Solfeggietto" ) Did you finish college yet?

[@oneoleqt]

doesnt sound to rusty to me , great vid man

[@seydlitz89]

When I think of Scott Joplin, I think of the Magnetic Rag. When I think of the Magnetic Rag and KZbin, I think of chocotiger . . .

[@chocotiger]

@suzielightning3 yup! trying to make it in the "real world" now lol. thanks for sticking around for all this time!

[@Noarcs]

Very nice. Gladiolus rag next please~

[@FunkyTaurino]

Bieeen loco, muy bueno, tenes talento!

[@yuop12345]

i like maple leaf rag thumbs up!

[@changethelocks]

Wonderful!!!!! You have some amazing talent. I would love to listen to you play in person. Do you to any public venues???

[@mcdomino24]

Finally A New Video!!!!!!!

[@anzdf]

Maravillosa ejecucion, me gusto mucho.

[@thomaswinter6931]

Awesome! Good job! ;)

[@DerHerrIstMeineStärke]

very good

[@hirojasu]

I've been quite your fan!

[@iishineontheinside]

I love this :D

[@walterrutherford8321]

I hadn't heard this one before but I really like it. There's something non-standard and unpredictable about it, perhaps a heavier classical music influence than most ragtime.

[@mymansatan]

This one was published 15 years after Maple Leaf, and indeed very different. Perhaps this contrast is due to Joplin's changing style throughout the years.

[@MrBenlus]

this one should have 300 k views at least :D

[@poklzhou]

This one sounds more classical sometimes, relative to other pieces of Joplin. Perhaps due to some minors.. Actually it's a back and forth between minor being classically solemn and majors being jazzy blithe~~

[@Fimbulveter]

xD That was awesome!

[@DarianCohen]

@trogfield Not quite. The oom-pah bass varies some, and the melodies have common riffs and themes. If all you hear during that era is Ragtime and you're exposed to all of it plus what you compose, of course the melodies will have similarities. But that's what's nice... It's familiar. I'm quite a fan of melancholic Ragtime, but the compositions are far and few in between the cheery, upbeat, athletic type. Magnetic Rag, Scott Joplin's New Rag and Sunflower Slow Drag are all a little melancholic.

[@Tomasz8822]

i started playing 27 years ago, but am nowhere near as good as you ;) Bravo.

[@cheesecakegirl11]

Love love love

[@MRSUPERWOODD]

Awesome!!!!!!!!!! My only question is where do you get all of your ragtime songs from

[@nonindividual]

Rusty, but still very good.

[@JonJonHuang]

sadly you picked what is probably the most depressing ragtime piece in history but it was still great and you played it quite smoothly even if you "claim" to be rusty

[@BranislavDJ]

Impressive. :D

[@pianomasterbrandon1]

You are back!!!! I am one of your biggest fans!! I am not certain if you saw my video on here. It is called roabertgetter1 it is the first link.

[@TheJessalynn521]

I like the swung triplets :)

[@Banzano96]

how bout Roxas's Theme from Kingdom Hearts ll. could u do that?

[@KaneEvolution123]

I hate to do a 'dislike bar' comment but the original Scott Joplin disliked this guy for showing him up. Figures.

[@reformed_law_abiding]

Can you do easy winners? by joplin

[@PorterB]

@maverickhunterzerox This piece isnt depressing.

[@Poliporri]

wow....yea it sucks i have no good thing to say to this demi-god awesome vid!!! btw i never managed to get my two hands playing at the same time plz help T_T

[@whatthebleepady]

3:51 - 3:55 these 4 seconds slay me.

[@harmusman]

How the hell do you do it, have just seen 1/2 doz of your vids and not a piece of sheet music in sight.

[@TheChosenFoxRider]

Other than you raping the piano, my favorite thing about watching tour videos is I don't have to wait forever for them to load... They're like instant

[@Averymeg10]

God I wish I could play piano!!! I have hands for it I just get very confused with it all

[@andrewszlamp5203]

This music to me accurately represents the lust of a man for a woman of higher power.

[@JoshPearceTheNintendoGamer]

what

[@namarieTonks]

You call that rusty ?!?

[@xuxubelezaa]

Fuck this shit, I'm asking santa for a piano this year

[@joeywomer]

There are people you hear playing Scott's rags that want to play them fast; When coincidentally, they're not meant to be played as fast. It just kinda ruins the point. I don't get it.

[@albertdeng8652]

they first heard it on piano tiles and attempted on the real piano! lol jk

[@SimonPiano42]

groovy, saloon music at its best. but i'd like to see you tackle some more classical music like the mendelssohn :p joplin is entertaining, but a bit one-dimensional in my opinion.

[@ahhADN]

1 dislike was scot joplin (jelouse mutch?) :p

[@BenMader10309]

Stop copying other people's comments such as the one below me". It is really stupid, just so they can get thumbs; if you comment it should be something necessary, not something stupid. Anyway Chocotiger, it doesn't matter how you play neither how you sound; it just matters if you have a passion for the piano, and if you love what you are doing. I enjoy your' music, and i listen to it while I play along on my electric piano. Have a good Christmas vacation Choco. -Blmader 11

[@SaySimonSaid]

very good